The Problem With Unicorns 🦄

Do you remember boast busters? In that episode, Twilight said that unicorn magic is based on their talent, the reason Twilight and Starlight and others seem so op, is because there talent IS magic, so while the scale is still tipped on the unicorn’s side, it’s not as unbalanced as it may appear

Remember during Winter wrap-up Twilight only knew how to change things by magic? Because that’s how she was raised. She never really learned things the Earth Pony or Pegasi way.

I believe there's a power balance between the three pony races that's been kept in check for a long long time.
If unicorns are so powerful they would have went to war and won easily. 
Pegasi have the ability to fly at great speeds. Even though we have seen unicorns like Starlight use magic to fly, it's only ever achieved by the most magically talented. And that's not forgetting their ability to affect the weather.
Earth Ponies may seem magically weak, but we're forgetting they are the one in charge of food of the whole nation. Their magic helps them feed all other races in a way only they can.
Unicorns then believed that there's nothing that can be achieved through fighting. However, this won't stop them from interfering with other systems like their status and wealth like you have mentioned. (It's honestly very reminisce to how our real world works)

There's a concept that was mentioned in the Season 8 finale that unicorn magic is the most "potent" magic. So it feels like all races possess the same "amount" of innate magic but unicorn magic is just different and more "free"?

I like to imagine all the ponies have magic, but unicorns can use it directly with their horns.

To be honest only very talented/connected to magic unicorns( like Twilight Sparkle, element of magic or Starlight ) can do crazy stuff like flying. Most casual unicorns only can use magic related to their special talent and use telekinesis. Even teleportation in not so common spell :3

Why Cozy Glow has the funniest expressions in the series??

Hahahaha

I think that shaming unicorns for having more magical powers it's like shaming tall people for being able for reaching objects overhead

I could listen to this person talk about mlp all day—


Edit: WHY IS THIS SO POPULAR OH MAH GOD—

Hmm. Removing magic removes pegasi and earth pony magic too, which would hurt the economy more. Plus, not many unicorns are as powerful as Twilight, like not all Pegasi are as fast as Rainbow. There's a reason Twilight cast the cloud walking and wing spells on her friends, instead of Rarity. Plus, unicorn magic in Equestria makes a lot of things possible, but not all unicorns can do every spell. Rarity's gem finding spell obviously isn't common. A lot of ponies, regardless of species, have unique skills and abilities tied to their cutie marks, like Fluttershy's ability to talk to animals. Twilight's cutie mark is her magic, so her magic is very strong. She still had to study a lot to be able to do so much.

Unicorns maybe the ones with the ones with the magic, but i personally like all 3 of the pony races for they all have their own unique and amazing skills and abilities like i said, Unicorns maybe known for magic but Earth Ponies are known for brute strength and the Pegasi are known for flying and weather control.

unicorns are limited in the magic department unless they're cutiemarks are magic like trixie, starlight, twilight and starswell. So i don't think there's a problem amd seeing how zebras and Earthponies can do amazing things with potions and magic items pegasi can probably do that too

There's a reason why the terms "Unicorn master race" and "Filthy earth ponies" appeared after all.

Okay let’s say that every pony had magic. But not all of them knows how to use it. They are what they are meant to be, what suits them the most. They all have their own unique talents. I kind of liked the theory video a lot. As always, you continue to empress me Sawtooth Waves.

Something I noticed a while ago is throughout the seasons why The first time we see Luna she is young, and has lighter blue main and coat. But the next time we see her she’s older, darker, and has flowing Alcorn main. why did this happen? Nobody else changed why only her? When Luna came out the moon she looked about cadence’s age is the following main because of age or power? How did Luna get it so fast it took twilight like five seasons to get it after being in a alicorn it took her like one! Any ideas?

This.. suddenly makes the loss of magic in G5 sound like it might’ve been planned by unicorn haters

It is possible that unicorns only know two spells; Levitation and one related to their cutie. Some other spells could be learned but power unicorns are shown to be exceptions and not the norm. That could lead to some interesting possibilities. Though other things are also possible.

Oh man, I remember when I was a kid I noticed that society seems to be "built around" unicorns (because the objects are all built for humans not horses, naturally ponies with magic would be able to use them more easily). it kind of links to the social model of disability- earth ponies and pegasi arent weaker, its just that the world caters to unicorns, not them

The thing is, though not EVERY unicorn is skilled in magic (by which, I mean REAL magic.)

Considering that Trixie relies too heavily on parlor tricks and hoof-made illusions, her magical abilities are either lacking or she doesn't have any at all

Personally, I like to think that all ponies have magic and can cast spells. Unicorns have the clear advantage because they are born with a horn that can actively channel that magic much like a wand or staff; however, I'd like to think that the other races could do similarly if they had access to some form of spellcasting focus. Not necessarily an artifact imbued with a spell/power but just an item that can channel their innate magic through it. It would also help unicorns like tempest whose horns are broken or otherwise disabled.

İf everyone became alicorns the whole alicorn=royalty would be thrown out too seems like a win too me

I think the solution would be to limit some of the unicorns' access to magic by law, and maybe a spell if necessary. They have to ask to do some certain things, and the things they ARE allowed to use without asking is picking things up (obviously), finding gems, small things.

I always wondered why didn't earth and winged ponies never got jealous of unicorns because of their magical powers 🤔

I love your theories, you're one of the least problematic bronies 😊

I recently read a comic about the 4th tribe, The Thrace. It seems they don’t believe in friendship and I would love to see your thoughts on it.

I think that the Pegasi and Earth Pony's have more abilities than shown that equalize the tribes more. For example, Earth Pony's probably have an ability to find precious materials, or to transform a stone into a gem through applying pressure.

Watching this i was like: "wow, a brony i really like watching posted a video the same day i did".

Well, remember the episode ‘twilight’s kingdom’ Tirek took magic from all three of the pony kind.

When he took from the Pegasi, they couldn’t fly anymore, so this suggests that them flying isn’t the science of them having wings, because when he did this they still physically had their wings, no, this means that what enables their wings to work is magic.

He also took the earth pony’s ‘strength’ so they can’t tend the the land. This only makes sense if they have a special kind of strength because anypony can be strong but only earth pony’s seem to be able to grow food.

And while he also took all of their cutiemarks, that doesn’t mean to say that that is why they can no longer do those things.

Not all earth, pegasi, or unicorn pony’s are talented or are even good at what they are suppose to do, we see this with flutter shy, pinky pie, and many others.

So why is it, that they disappear in the first place? The answer is simple. Because the cutiemarks magically appear (with a trigger, of course).

Soooo anyways, that means that taking the cutiemarks isn’t why they can’t do that anymore. It means that what Tirek takes is the pony’s actual magic not just their magical talent, the magic that is deeply rooted through every kind of pony, but just comes out in different ways.

( I’m probably wrong about this whole thing but this especially; ) Magic in the mlp universe is all the same. It’s how it’s used or has been used in the past that ‘changes’ it. Dark or good magic isn’t just created from nothing. It’s either magic converted to dark by a dark pony or dark act or even place. That, or made from another source of already dark magic (however there may be exceptions like discord or something idk)

so that being just an example, if all magic is the same, then it’s the same in the pony’s too SO… therefore all the pony’s have the same magic and same amount of said magic, it’s just how it’s projected out of the pony that changes the ability it gives them, whether it’s flying, strength or simply out of a horn. It’s all the same.

(Geez I’m pretty sure other people got to the same conclusion in just a few sentences lol)

First time I've had a reason to (respectfully) disagree with you that I can remember.

1) Pegasii can't cast spells, but they can casually create dangerous weather phenomena, and not every unicorn is a talented/educated enough mage to get that under control.
2) Earth ponies can't cast spells, but if you put the average Earth pony next to a unicorn, there is a good chance the former could knock out the latter with one blow. Plus, some Earth ponies like Pinkie Pie are inexplicably born with reality altering hax.
3) Along the same lines as #1, just because a unicorn can use innate magic doesn't mean that they have the skill and knowledge to do anything with it. If more unicorns dedicated their free time to studying magic in detail, Equestria would be a unicorn-supremacist nation, but the show indicates that most unicorns don't seem to have much ability beyond basic telekinesis and spells that shortcut the need to perform domestic chores or hire someone to do it for them. Very few unicorns are comparable to Starlight and Twilight, or even Sunburst, and Sunburst flunked Celestia's school. Rarity seems to be more representative of the average unicorn, the vast majority of her work using her telekinesis powers. I think we see her shooting off magic lasers only once, but I could be wrong.

I recently rewatched season 1 and 2 of mlpfm.
And I got reminded something that may prove that in current equestria all races are equal and unicorns are not close to be overpowered.
Pulling a Cosy Glow not only flattens the unicorn but all races, because earth and pegasi still require magic to do their thing! In one of the episodes when ponies lost magic pegasi stopped flying (proving that they cannot fly without magic) and earth ponies stopped their crop growing magic and super streinght, so it wouldn't even matter, all of them will be simply normal horses without magic.
So my point why unicorns aren't overpowered is because in season one spike asked Twiling the same question you did, and Twilight replied that most unicorns have enought magic to do their basic things which means that unicorns that can do powerful magic are not common and complex magic must be learned for years just like Starlight did for 1 spell! After all, the only unicorns that are currently known to do this type of magic is Twilight, Starlight, of course the princesses and probably Sunset and Sunburst. Compared to that, unicorns must dedicate their life to be op and this filters the unicorn master race.

Also let me add: Material finding isn't very special even when a unicorn has it as a talent! You can see this as an example when Maud completely destroyed Raritys proud talent when Maud without difficulty found a common gem that rarity tought it was the rarest and hardest to find, with such ease that she even did it with her back leg without looking. Earth ponies with enought extra knowledge can over power unicorns in the material hunt. And pegasi probably too can overpower an unicorn if they did something special. I'm not sure what they can do, but only shows that all ponies are equal and overpowering is only a matter of training and learning!

I think it would be neat if MLP had a villian who resented the unicorns having social/political advantages due to their magic and sought social reform (kinda like Amon from LegendOfKora).

But MLP is still a show with a young target audience, so that kind of stuff would probably be too meta.

Equestria uses Bits as Money,
But there Bits are Round just like a Coin so actually They use Bit + Coin
"Bitcoin"
Ponies Use Bitcoins as Currency in Equestria

I always thought that Unicorns were OP since they can pick stuff up with their hirns at not with hooves. Other ponies would have trouble using mouths, hooves, other tools.
Though, I think spells and magic are just part of a talent. Sure the requirements to use spells are horns (and other artifacts) but like in Harry Potter one must practice magic. We've never seen other unicorns use variace spells and maybe its bc learning spells are too bothersome. I mean look at Twilights life, filled with textbooks.
Besides that, I like to imagine other ponies (and creatures) DO have innate magic, but since they don't have a nagic conductor, they'd have to practice wandless magic.
Look at Zecora, she might be a zebra but she does have traces magic on her

One thing your forgetting is that the whole point of MLP is that creatures with different power levels, personalities and features get along. Also for them to not discriminate others and treat everyone equally. We saw what happens when you try to make things equal power wise when starlight was evil.

When you think about Tirek’s case, I think everyone has magic but the unicorns have a way of using it without artifacts/potions

I’ve always wondered if changelings when in unicorn form can use magic just as well it might seem obvious but I like the idea of them only having a fraction of the power, same for being a pegasus and earth pony. If not I feel like they would be way overpowered

Earth Ponies, and Pegasi can Both Cast the Same Magical Spells that Unicorns can. But Unicorns Just have a Faster/Simpler Access to Cast Spells. Zecora for Example, She Isn't a Pony and Cannot Fly, Cast Magic with a Horn, or Even Tend the Land as Well as Earth Ponies. But she Can still Cast Spells if She Needs to. Basically, all Basic Magic that unicorns can do, can also be Cast by Earth Ponies and Pegasi. Hope this Helps! :)

Edit: My Point still Stands, but I somehow Didn't Realize that he Mentioned Zecora. XD

Yes! Finally a theory on this! Even when I first watched MLP I was like "Unicorns seem so overpowered!"

"We must seize the means of unicorn magic."
– Comrade Starlight Glimmer

I like to imagine that in the Equestria canon, Sawtooth Waves is this (apparently) gray earth pony who runs around spouting wild theories and trying to convince children to join his cult. The sort of pony you don't want your fillies and colts running into...

One thing I've noticed is that it seems like most unicorns have a variety of magical specializations. While some may have been good at alchemy, others may not be so fortunate.
Rarity primarily uses her magic to help finding gems and sewing with minor telekenesis, but she seems to have trouble with levitating larger and heavier items. (Look at how she looked throwing a large, heavy stone at Tirek.)
Shining Armor seems to use his magic primarily for the defense of Canterlot (in the few times we saw him using it), and Trixie uses her's for minor illusions and parlor tricks. Few unicorns are on Twilight's level except for maybe Starlight Glimmer.

Even then, they have to learn to use their magic and practice with it in order to gain proficient enough. (An example of this would be Sweetie Belle, who had to practice basic levitation) but I don't think too many unicorns put in the time or effort to practice a wide-variety of magic like Twilight has, and may even have trouble with certain kinds of spells.

In a way, I'm glad that in the end of the series, Equestria and beyond are seemingly unified by being under the positive influence of the magic of friendship. It indirectly solves problems of races' inadequacies and advantages under principles that guides them in their relationships towards one another. One's advantage is used to serve those without, yet, while having them, for instance.

You know, the interesting thing about this is that most of the pony villains reformed or otherwise that we've seen were unicorns, besides Cozy Glow obviously. But I do think you were on to something with the magical artifacts or using the ways of the old magic to balance out the tribes. But there is something we need to remember about unicorns, the OP unicorns we've seen do amazing feet were exceptions rather than the rule, they had a talent in specializing Magic, while most unicorns only know a few simpler spells to Aid them in their talents like levitation for example. So with those things in mind it kind of balances things out.

A long long time ago I wrote a fanfic called "Pegasus Horns" where through focused control of their internal mana Pegasi and Earth Ponies could manifest a virtual horn to cast with. Of course that makes it harder for them as they have to multitask to do any actual magic, and their magical talents tended to be far different from Unicorns, but it something very useful.

Yo, i love Sawtooth Waves' videos

You're forgetting that a good chunk of unicorn society mainly use there magic for mostly the grabbing and moving of objects and let's say 25% actually go to a magic school to learn multiple spells and improve there magic. It might be possible to train there magical output but even then most unicorns can only do so much

1:30 don't forget Grogar. He was first introduced as a story too.

Please do a video on how astronomy in Equestria might work.
I mean there are stars, comets and star signs, but sun and moon are controlled by magic.

-Is their world round or flat?
-Does space exist?
-Is the sun a ball of plasma like in our universe?
-Are moon and sun bigger than their world?
-Is their world earth-centric or sun-centric?
-do orbits exist?
-how does gravity work in Equestria?
-Why is it said in "owl's well that ends well" that a meteor shower of that size only occures every hundred years? Can't a meteor shower be created artificially?
-Speaking of meteors, can they fall down and cause destruction?
(and of course -Can Celestia use the sun like a death star?)

Okay, hear me out: it’s because of the unicorns’ innate magic and the imbalance between the tribes that caused, or at least had some influence, in G5’s problem, where the tribes are now separated due to mistrust and paranoia 👀

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I remember Twilight explaining (back in season one) that most unicorns only have a small amount of magic that complements whatever their special talent is, except that in her particular case her special talent was magic (the same could be said for Starlight). As for Rarity, in the episode with the diamond dogs it seemed to me that her gems finding spell was fairly unique, as it was Rarity herself who taught Twilight the spell, plus the fact that the first time Rarity cast that spell was when she found her special talent.

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*I also wanted to ask\tell that in the first Equestria girls movie pony sunset shimmer’s magic’s colour was kind of turquoise and more like her eye colour, but then in spring break down and later movies when sunset was shown as a pony her magic’s colour was red. What do you think could be the reason behind this………….???

can you do a video on how celestia could use dark magic in the beginning of season 3? I’m pretty confused unless it was just a part of alicorn magic, but no other princess is shown doing this unless sombras involved.

The thing is, all ponies benefit in some way from unicorn magic: It was stated by the show staff that any technology that looks too advanced for the setting (such as the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, or Vinyl's audio equipment) should be assumed to be magic-powered. Throwing that away would be a textbook case of "cutting off you nose to spite your face".

Though as their technology moves forward, that could make the power imbalance even worse if all the cool tech jobs are by necessity unicorn-only. As you say, it appears the only satisfying solution may be to develop some way to artificially grant unicorn-level magic to other creatures.

I could imagine that there is some sort of Spell Protection or something like that for Bits so they can’t be duplicated and all.

personally, even if there’s no evidence for it, i always headcanoned that pegasi and earth ponies could channel magic through the traits that make them unique the way unicorns do! pegasi channeling magic through their wings, and earth ponies through their hooves, yknow? it would be cool!

"She would have no interest in [creating gold] unless gold had value."

You've run into the post-scarcity that people living in a world where resources are limited (ie the real world) have trouble wrapping their heads around.

The fact that gold can be created from nothing by itself makes it a poor currency. But that doesn't mean gold doesn't have value. In the real world, gold has a lot of value as a conductor of electricity. Unfortunately because of it's history as a precious metal, we dont use it for that and are stuck with the somewhat lower quality copper.

Gold could have similar, practical uses in Equestria. Granted electricity doesn't seem to be a thing in Snowfall Frost's time. Yet. The aesthetic it invokes is actually right around the era in our world when electricity started getting popularized. Perhaps Snowfall was experimenting with that? Or perhaps, as is often in the case in mythology, gold has some value in magic. Perhaps even the creation of artifacts like youd been discussing.

The flawed assumption you're basing this discussion on is that precious metals and gems exist as such in Equestria. Frankly, "precious" gems aren't exactly treated as precious. Rarity uses them for their visual effects, but has no problem giving some to Spike to eat. If those gems were worth anything like they are in the real world, she'd have just given him thousands of dollars of a meal like it was nothing. It just doesn't work.

I absolutely love this video! This is indeed a problem and opens the door for a fanfic writer such as myself. I can’t wait for more!

I’d say that special talents are the great equalizer of Equestria, as not all unicorns are capable of more advanced magic. While unicorns may have innate casting magic, I don’t think anyone will argue that Trixie is more OP than Applejack.

Starlight has a special talent in using magic, and so is an OP unicorn, capable of all sorts of things, from altering history to mind control. This gives true impression of all unicorns having an advantage, but in truth we simply haven’t seen the other groups reach their maximum potential.

Rainbow Dash is the closest we’ve seen to the true potential of pegasi, capable of breaking the sound barrier and creating a magical explosion, as well as way too many other things to name. Her special talent is somewhat debatable, as some could see it as representing flight, others as representing racing, but I personally see it as representing a mixture of loyalty and determination. Loyalty for standing up for a friend, and determination for winning the race, and these traits define her character more than even her athleticism, which is why it feels more accurate to me. The Sonic Rainboom also was able to shape the fate of Equestria, though whether that counts is up to you.

For earth pony potential, I’d say Rockhoof is the closest we’ve seen, gaining strength through force of will, digging a trench fast enough to prevent the lava flow, and generally being very strong, both physically and willfully. His strength itself is pure earth pony magic, so imagine someone who’s as strong through labor as Applejack or Maud gaining an equivalent amount of magical strength, and you’ve got an idea of how powerful an earth pony could theoretically become.

Yet most ponies don’t reach half the ability as these three, because their talents lie elsewhere, even in related fields. Sunburst’s talent is magic, but he isn’t nearly as competent as Starlight because his talent is in the knowing, rather than the doing. Lightning Dust is comparable to Rainbow in ability, but I’d doubt she could perform a Sonic Rainboom, or compete with a truly determined Rainbow. Braeburn is nowhere near as strong as Applejack, let alone Rockhoof, though he can hold his own in a rodeos and does similar labor.

And then you have the anomalies. I can’t think of any unicorns off the top of my head for this category, so they fall short here. Fluttershy’s special talent does not revolve around flying or weather manipulation at all, and she has manifested her own unusual brand of magic: The Stare, which has no real explanation other than an extreme manifestation of her talent based magic. Pinkie Pie’s talent is making others happy, and she doesn’t let small issues like the laws of physics or severe anatomical malfunction stop her; her entire family is odd, but most of their abilities can be chalked up to extreme earth pony magic, whereas Pinkie has manifested abilities nearly on par with some of Discord’s magic.

So I don’t believe unicorns can really claim to be more powerful than the other ponies, even on average, as it really depends on the specific nature of your talent. I’m going to try to define the innate gifts of there different pony types beyond ‘magic, sky, earth’. Unicorns have the gift of knowledge, the ability and desire to learn more about the world, and the aptitude to put that knowledge to use. Pegasi have the gift of ambition, the ability to tame the wild skies and soar above where they were yesterday. Earth ponies have the gift of determination, the ability to simply refuse to acknowledge limitation, punching through solid stone or the walls of reality if need be.

Unicorns have the greatest starting point, and can amass power quickly, but can equally quickly hit their limit when their sources run dry and they are in new territory. Pegasi have the second greatest, as they can always see where they want to be, but the challenge is reaching it when you live for the moment. Earth ponies have the worst starting point, as overcoming your doubts and beliefs of limitation is difficult cause but once they do, they have no upper limit.

Sorry for rambling on so long, but I think I made my point: Unicorns only have the illusion of superiority because they have the most obvious magic, but the other ponies are equally capable.

I love how he always shows the pokemon, farfetched when he says that! Sawtooth does make a good point! I really wish I could just know EVERYTHING about My Little pony so I won't have to go hunting around the world for movies and comics and movies and comics and movies and comics and- you get it.😁

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how much time and effort he puts into EVERY SINGLE ONE of his videos

I’ve been a fan of yours for about a year and a half now, and I have to say I LOVE that you’re still finding theories even after the show’s end! Thank you so much for keeping my love of this fandom and show alive!

I think you should make a video about Gusty the Great because she’s one of those pony’s that we hear a little bit about but never the full story of the character even though they label her to be important or the “Great” but why was she labeled Great to begin with? What purpose did she play in equestria?
Also another thing I noticed was that Gusty appeared twice, and not only when “Grogar” mentioned her, but also when twilight was reading to the sick school pony’s in the episode A Flurry of Emotions in Season 7 this brings up another small detail that also makes Gusty interesting, on the cover of the book that twilight was reading, Gusty appeared to be a unicorn with a similar design from the first ever design of her from G1 Mlp, but in Grogars flashback, she had a curved horn and a shadow like body, which made me wonder if she was a pony from Mistmains village since they were the only pony unicorns we’ve seen with curved horns, but then I watched DoctorWolfs video and he made an interesting point that Gusty may have been a Kiren, but then it didn’t completely make sense that she would have been since she has all the features of a pony and a cutie mark, but then the interesting suspicion of Gusty being a shadow pony started floating around in my head, and I thought that that would make a bit of sense to be her origin since she had wavy hair like Sombras, and that Sombra was labeled a unicorn even by princess Celestina (va season 3 before they went to save the Crystal empire) and Sombra is the only other creature that has a curved horn. But I don’t nessesarly think that Gusty being one of sombras kind made her Evil, because she was eventually labeled as a hero of equestria.

You left out that pegasi have the innate ability to walk on clods and directly manipulate atmospheric phenomena. They're also the naturally most aggressive of the 3 tribes. How many unicorns can do advanced spells and directly alter matter itself? Not many. How many pegasi can walk on clouds and manipulate the weather? All of them.

Pegasus master race confirmed!

I misread this as "The Problem With Alicorns" and I was thinking "didn't you already solve alicorns, what's the problem now?"

I think Celestia is responsible for every major war since the dawn of time. No wonder the Legion of Doom despised them all

Yeah... even my tiny child brain when I first watched the show thought that unicorns were just op. But the show doesn't really go out of it's way to show unicorns are superior so I guess I just forgot about the obvious power difference

i always wondered how earth ponies didn’t get incredibly salty
like, your friends can fly and do MAGIC and hear you are. you can dig a hole in the mud.

I’ve always been wondering why no one in the mlp universe found it unfair that unicorns had so much more more
Even Rarity a unicorn that had the average magic still had more power then Rainbow and AJ yet she never really used her magic and I never understood why not?
The only time the mane 6 asked for her magic was when her horn was on the fritz and Twilight wasn’t there?
Odd

in my head it was always kind of clear, Unicorns>Pegasus>Earth ponies. No wonder that 3 princesses were unicorns and one was a pegasus

though it doesnt seem to be as applicable in the later seasons, season one did establish that unicorns can only use one or two spells that directly relate to their talents, which honestly balances out the system pretty well

Maybe instead of taking away all magic, you limit it, there's a spell that can severely weaken it that's seen in the equestrian games, if you could lower the potency of it then unless there is no reason to limit magic, you could eliminate the fear of the power of unicorns.

I can't help but think that there is a connection between unicorns cutie marks and what spells they are able to cast easier than others. I don't believe Twilight was able to cast the gem finding spell and Rarity cannot cast the wing spell. Not all unicorns are even equal amongst themselves.

You know... I can imagine ponies could try to grow the horns on heads with bit of science/magic. All ponies have to have the seed of horn, just like man can develop breasts after taking hormones.

Also - horns in nature grow all the time trough animal life. So it's easier to develop horn after enable body through genetic manipulation

Ohhhhhh man im so glad this video was made. For the longest time I pointed out the power imbalances that unicorns possess. I could never pinpoint why other than the demographic of villains throughout mlp and the clear economic advantages. So this breakdown was very needed lol.

I believe Twilight said in the episode with the first appearance of Trixie that most unicorns have fore the most part magic connected to their talent
unless your talent is magic in general.

My thoughts:
I find the concept of this video super interesting and he’s definilty onto something
Although we do have to keep in mind that magic is limited to their purpose and cutie marks and stuff, besides basic levitation, twilight (pre Alicorn) has to be though if as around the maximum overpowerd-ness a unicorn can have

Fun note: I think earth ponies have some sort of odd magic where things that go on around them... I don’t know how else to deceive it kinda radiate suspension of disbelief. The obvious example is pinkie pie with everything she does but then there is also her pinkie sense, something cheese sandwich also has. Then Applejack I guess seems to have been able to have some ways that require suspension of disbelief I guess like pouring out soil and having plants grow quickly. Idk this is just my theory
And then there is like rainbow dash who can do sonic rainbooms and then making lightning or something without clouds, idk lol

We have seen magic control akin to gun control in “Equestria Games”, so perhaps unicorns, alicorns, etc. have to go through the same horn disablers as in “Equestria Games” before doing things such as boarding planes or entering other arenas.

Though if we say unicorns alone shouldn’t be allowed to use their innate magic, we should forbid those genetically predisposed to becoming more massive and muscular from becoming sumo wrestlers. Plus, there would likely be plenty of backlash from organizations like the National Horn Association.

I blame Sawtooth solely for getting me back into MLP after growing up, thanks my guy 💕

I love ur vids and I’ve been watching for years. I’m also a MLP fan. But the thing is, I think the producers only made the series as a kids cartoon and only wanted to make money. I don’t think they worked out this much and they haven’t thought of any of this stuff.

Well... You do have a point. Unicorns are one of the most over-rated characters other than alicorns and changelings. Also love this theory!

Here's a random thought unsure if anyone would read this but I think that they have their own magical abilities the races do

Earth ponies can grow crops easily and they also appear to be very natrually strong
Pegasi can control the weather
Now this isn't confirmed or anything but I'm going to guess that unicorns don't have spells to do those things meaning without pegasi or earth ponies they would not be able to grow food or handle extreme weather

Sawtooth, you are an inspiration to me. I am working on a fanfiction named "The Destiny of Flurry Heart". It was created thanks to your theories and stuff. I am a huge fan. You never disappoint.

Three things. One, great video and theory. Two, that last bit about every pony becoming alicorns seems reasonable, however the way you addressed it concerns me ever so slightly.

And three.... can someone explain how rainbow power works?

Cozy glow literally has a very good motive as well as expression. The alchemy and bits theory was also good and earth ponies/Pegasus ponies can use a special ring or bracelet or a brooch to make themselves magical whenever they want, but I think the earth ponies and the Pegasus ponies do get magic after G4 and they go insane with power and thus unicorns have to sacrifice their power to make Equestria equal and each pony race gets divided because of this event and mistrust everyone so..... MLP G5 theory

Obviously, the Unicorns are actually High Society. I wouldnt believe these horses owns, Gucci, Coach and other big expensive stuff.

Also, im so confuse what Sawtooth is. I want a whole video just about Sawtooth Waves.

Sawtooth, please never forget (like 80% of all bronies seem to do) that we mostly deal with rare outliers, unicorns who have extraordinary abilities.
Twilight can basically learn anything, as long as it's written in a book, even before becoming an alicorn.
Rarity's spell for discovering gems is basically her unique ability.
I don't even have to mention Starlight in here.
Snowfall was compared to Starswirl the Bearded, a legend

Unicorns who can do things like teleportations and alchemy, are about 1 out of 10, even WITH Celestia's school for unicorns, using a spell even such as the mustache spell would require weeks of practice to even shoot out the correct spell, much less make it work.

In the show, we mostly see outliers to the rule and I saw this reflected in the unicorn avatars of bronies: They're more powerful than they have any right to.
Admittedly, I shouldn't be one to talk about being more powerful than one has any right to. As a pegasus who can summon arcane fires of different uses at will ...

The way I've always seen it is that unicorn magic is simply the most versatile. Every race has innate magic, which is why I always feel miffed when earth ponies get discounted. Their innate magic is the biggest in terms of raw power. Strength to change the land, connection to the Earth. We see Big Mac pull an entire house without much effort at one point in the show. That's Earth Pony magic, (of which Big Mac is especially blessed). Unicorns aren't the best, they're simply the most varied. They're the jack of all trades race

The banning of alchemy actually does make sense. If we all look to the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, in the anime it was stated that creating precious minerals with alchemy such Gold, Silver, or Platinum was prohibited by law. So I wouldn’t put past the equestrian government to do the same thing.

I think a few others have pointed out that the skill floor on magic is higher than expected and most unicorns don't get much further than telekinesis and their talent. Ontop of that, even those are usually shown to have some limits unless the pony in question is notably good in magic. There's also Starlight's childhood friend (Sunburst i think?) Which proves that even with study and talent, only certain unicorns can be exceptionally powerful. But in the same vein, exceptional pegasi (like RD) can do things that magic just need too much skill to do. Same goes for earth ponies who reach a certain strength.

Good theory and well thought out. But I can counter alot of your claims. Yes SOME might have done that but only if that was their special talent, rarity is one of the few unicorns that would be able to use that gem finding spells, same with alchemy spells, snowfall was considered one of the most powerful ponies in her time and even she had trouble doing it. I think it was pretty balance the whole time, with a few anomalies like twilight who's talent WAS magic giving her a kinda unfair but destined advantage.

You know I actually thought about the unicorns being able to fly. It makes me wonder if alicorns are even necesary....

Making A LOT of suppositions (the franchise lore haven´t been particulary extensive on it), taking in account what we saw in the series and comics, seems that we can consider the earth ponies as the "farmers and artisans" caste with a strong conection with nature, the pegasus as the "warrior" caste with strong conection with teh sky, and the unicorns as the "intellectual" caste with a strong conection with magic. This doesn´t means that your tribe determines you destiny absolutely, but it condicionate it.

Apart from that, I don´t think that the "magic talent" of unicorn can be something unfair (leaving aside that nature is not fair by definition) for some reasons:
-They still need to interact with the rest of the tribes, so the magic is not omnipotent in this world, or at least can suffice all the needs. Sure, you can fly, control the climate or grow plants with magic, but it probably be much more difficult, uncomfortable and inneficient than doing it "naturally".
-Although all unicorns can use magic, the talent to use isn´t widespread. Only a bunch of unicorns can achieve truly powerful magic feats. Most of them only seem capable of use the telekinesis (like sunburst) or some specific additional spell (like rarity).
-I haven´t seen any unicorn achieving any remarcable physical feat, only earth ponies and pegasus, and some pegasus or earth ponies having "magical talents" (like fluttershy or pinky pie).

Probably the idea was that the three tribes have differents talents, and if you analize the separately then it may seem unfair, but you have to see all of them in context.

Could the inequality of magic nd time it takes to learn be the reason why in the MLP there's a lack of magic

Cozy glow is just a bratty little pegasus but still a amazing villain

It would make sense that some unicorns used magic to become rich, but I don't think unicorns are inherently more powerful then other ponies.
Sure unicorns have the most potential, but most unicorns can't use spells to find gold or other valuables only unicorns that are specialist in that area by either having a specific cutiemark or by studying could do that.

I have a feeling your planning on a “What would Equestria be like if all of the pony race were alicorns?”


I’m definitely wrong but I have a feeling..

We need to remember that magic is a learned skill, the amount of magical power a pony has is not inherited. If this were the case Twilight Velvet and Night Light would be exceptionally powerful and they're not. They're just regular ol' unicorns.

Twilight mentions in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" that she poured herself into learning about magic, she had to actively seek out that information and we see that her first attempt at levitation (turning a book page) took quite a bit of effort and concentration. Twilight dedicated her life to the study of magic. We see her attempt to use different spells and practice casting them throughout the series. It's mentioned in Boast Busters that she knew and could use a total of 25 different spells, which must be an exceptionally high number of spells for any one unicorn to know. But we also see that this power is something she had to develop over time. Her first attempt at teleporting (Friendship is Magic part 2) left her dizzy, her second attempt (Ticket Master) left her dizzy and torched Spike to a crisp. With concentration and dedication she could teleport with ease, but once again in Dragon Quest she tries and fails to teleport her friends away from danger, needing a breather and a second attempt.

Sweetie Belle could hardly lift a broom and that was with Twilight as her teacher (Twilight Time); later she had difficulty lifting keys to free Troubleshoes from his jail cell (Appleoosa's Most Wanted). Sunburst has just about as much magical knowledge as Twilight and he can't do ANY of it, he does not posses the skill set required for anything in practice. Starlight Glimmer mentions that she studied a specific spell for years but it was easily deflected by Twilight who learned that magic is best harnessed when you are among your loved ones (or your support system). Starlight Glimmer didn't have faith in friendship or in anything outside of control and bitterness which limited her magical ability. It's only when Starlight accepts friendship, help, and guidance that she fully harnessed her power. Which isn't to say that's all you need to be a successful/powerful unicorn, but it does imply two things:
1) Magical prowess is earned.
2) Magic at it's most powerful when it is nurtured with time and patience.

Looking at "The End of the End" when the unicorns gather to lift the Mane 6 and bring them to safety it takes a small army of unicorns to preform a levitation spell and a shield spell, neither of which last very long.

In the era before Celestia and Luna's reign it took 5 unicorn sorcerers + Starswirl to lift the sun in the morning, which DRAINED all of the magic from those 5 sorcerers (Horse Play). There is a limit to what unicorns can do, how far they can expend themselves, and how much innate magic is within them. There are magic dampening spells (The Equestria Games), magic dampening rings (2, 4, 6, Great!), beings and items that steal magic (Tirek, The Tree of Harmony eliminating the Mean 6, Queen Chrysalis' throne, Staff of Sacanas, Bewitching Bell, the Human 7 can also eliminate magical threats).

I'm willing to say a solid 99% of unicorns do not posses the innate ability to preform immense magical feats. This includes Unicorns who go to Magic School; Minuette, TwinkleShine, and Lemon Hearts do not display the same amount of raw power as Twilight. There are only a handful of unicorns who can use magic in the same way Twilight Sparkle can and for those who can't there are still limitations and boundaries set on them by nature, artifacts, regulation, and perhaps by law as well.

I thought the same thing, but I'm guessing that only a few unicorns have great magic abilities.

I always thought it was a bit unbalanced. While earth ponies and pegasi have their own specific 'magic' and most unicorns are limited with their innate magic (Such as rarity using the spell to find jewels but doesn't seem to have the capability of Twilight or Starlight), those granted the gift of well, magic, are at an extreme advantage. We've seen them TRY and take over or exact revenge due to their inflamed ego as a talented unicorn- Sunset, Starlight, Discord to some degree, etc. Twilight was able to become Celestia's student only because she saw the young filly's intense magic power. The school where Twilight attended was only for unicorns with said immense magic. This could mean that unicorns with the gift of magic are rounded up in these schools so they can harness their magic as well as keep them from becoming Starlight 2.0. Saying this, the school is in canterlot in order to have all the great magic wielding students near the royals- either because unicorns are seen as elegant or elite and tend to be upper class, or because the royals need to keep an eye on them. Could be both. Now, of all these magic possessed individuals- only the most elite seem to be picked as Celestia's student. Never an earth or pegasi. Always a unicorn with potential to become an alicorn. So do you have to be a unicorn for even a CHANCE of gaining power? There may be other ways, certainly, but seeing how the system favors unicorns, I'd say that there's some sort of speciesism or classism going on.

What would you say about alternate theory connected to love-poison?
What if I would say that princess in the book was nopony else but Chrysalis herself. After she was afected by the potion for to long so the spell was impossible to reverse (like happened to Big Mac and Cherile) someone tried to seperate them anyway. Who knows, mabe even Celestia herself had to interfere (that would explain why they looked like if they had known each other for so long and so on...).
Magicaly induced thirst for love that Chrysalis lacked after losing connection to her prince could theoreticaly cause her to need that love for sustain more than food (aslo it explains how both her and prince lived despite ignoring everything around, including food, to look into each other's eyes).
Hope you will like this theory :3

I feel like the actual reason unicorns just creating tons and tons of gold wouldnt be because its abusing magic and is unfair to those who cant use it.
Its because inflation would run rampent. Its not unlikely that at some point something similar to the Great Depression happened in the pony universe because of greedy unicorns.

I always wondered about the magic used by unicorns and the fact that they could make useless objects into something useful. Then I started to wonder if they used this as an advantage in the economy. Thanks Sawtooth for making this video. Love all of your content!

imagine how much more powerful the average earth pony would be if they were taught to hone their race-specific skills just as pegasi and unicorns are. what powers would they have? terraforming? super strength? controlling/manipulating plants beyond agriculture? i’m very interested

Unicorns (as far as I remember) use only a small amount of magic. And few can use many powerful spells. There is the University of the Gifted Unicorn and, as we know, not everyone can graduate from it. Only a few are able to replace other ponies in their work, and why should they? (Variation: Celestia plows the field)

they brought up a pretty good point about unicorns, and it got me thinking if Equestria functions similarly to our world with politics and different classes. Alicorns are all-powerful, near gods, "undying", they rule over Equestria, and from what we've seen- their heir is most of the time a *unicorn*. Canterlot is a unicorn-dominated city, and because it's closest to the castle, that might also be the reason why it's been just unicorns so far. We know pegusi can become alicorns, and for sure Earth ponies, but its mainly unicorns we've seen become alicorns (like Twilight and Luster Dawn) but I digress. What we see in the show is pretty equal, no one is held at a higher status than anyone else aside from alicorns, but just think about it- in further ancient Equestria, unicorns were the ones who controlled the sun and the moon before Celestia and Luna, so they could've been held at a higher status, 1st or 2nd class maybe. Pegasi controlled (and possibly still do control) the weather, so their contribution to society could be held at 2nd or 3rd glass. Earth ponies are the agricultural ponies, they have a green hoof when it comes to any type of crop or livestock (I doubt they eat meat though), and with their involvement with food, they might be 3rd or 4th class, they don't possess any physically magical features like a horn or wings. Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this, I like to apply real-world logic to things I like to kinda experiment with how the world could function if it actually existed. Sorry for the little book in the comments

twilight has specified that most unicorns have very limited magic ability and can only use magic related to their talent, and telekinesis. twilight and starlight have magic AS their special talent, but most of the stuff they do is something other unicorns could never achieve – twilight even says she was the only unicorn in all of ponyville who knew how to teleport. telekinesis seems useful for multitasking, but we see that other ponies have no problems doing things without it (even things that you'd imagine would require fingers, like playing the cello...), so between earth ponies' increased endurance, speed, and strength; and pegasi' flight abilities and extra prehensile limbs, i think the stakes are pretty even.

I personally side with the theory I read somewhere (in a fanfic that I can't remember the name of) which theorized that magic spells (IE uniquely unicorn magic) are extremely energy costly and in the days before agriculture and other more advanced forms of food production unicorns simply didn't/couldn't regularly make use of their magical potential as a race/subspecies. Kind of like how agriculture allowed for the rise of cities and more complex societies in our own world.

Sawtooth:between you and me the obvious solution is for everyone to become alicorns , but I don't think society is ready for that.
Also Sawtooth: Yet
Me : dying 😂

That's why during the flashback of Equestria beginning, unicorns appeared to be more noble and first class. I'm not surprised that those said unicorns also looked down on other pony races.

It's a good thing that these racist traits are no longer exist in the modern Equestria community (as far as I remember) and that ponies are more open to each other. Well, I guess they are still less opened to non pony kind but that's what season 8 & 9 are for. To show that friendship is beyond race and culture. That's a pretty good message to send.

I was thinking about this a lot and I've came to a conclusion that unicorn magic would be more balanced if most of unicorns could do only a few simple spells. And i think this is how it works.
In one of episodes twilight said that a regular unicorn know only a few spells. And most of unicorn characters have only used simple spells like telekenesis. Not all unicorns become magicians because it takes a lot of studying and not everyone is interested in it or don't need it. Unicorns just have a lot of potencial that not all of them use.
Rarity can seek gems because it's her talent. Twilight could easily repeat this spell because she is a magician. Spell that give ponies wings was very complicated even for twilight. Spell that let ponies walk on clouds was used only by twilight and starlight and all of these of spells were never used by any other pony. A spell can't give any pony earth pony abilities. Alchemy was op because animators didn't think of a balance or it was too hard and expencive to use for profit or she didn't finish that spell.
Most of upperclass ponies are unicorns propably because they look fancy so animators used them more.
Most of op spells were used only by professional magicians

i actually ended up making this idea my headcanon for cosy glows villainy- along with a few other things added on.
so imagine. a child (probably not with a good family life considering how cosy came out /j) from the equestria girls world comes through that mirror portal and learns about magic in equestria and wants to learn about how to use it. then she finds out that unicorns basically have an advantage over everypony else and as she came out of the portal a pegasus she gets upset, claiming its not fair. with a bit of research and a bit of teaching (you know, like a school. of the thing thats been fueling magic ever since the beginning of this show.) she collects artifacts in an attempt to drain magic from equestria so everyones more equal like the original lack of magic in the human world (before twilight and sunset happened anyway). she thinks shes doing everypony a favor, but she's still a child, so she doesn't realise that nopony else thinks like she does over the balance of magic in the pony races.

but thats enough rambling from me.

When I was little, I used to think "how they live in peace being such different ponies?" Because, If I was an earth pony I would be SOOOO sad of being so weak close to unicorns that can make MAGIC

When Chrysalis was talking to the firework ponies about using their magic for better things, the firework ponies had never thought of being higher than the other 2 races, and they were already sharing their magic with the other races with their firework show. And magic is used to keep food from going bad, unicorns must have shared their magic for that and probably many other things too. No one has ever shown anything against unicorns in the show except for when The mean three were splitting the tribes apart, I think Canterlot is just a coincidence.

Interesting video once again but, I have a question about something shown briefly in the earlier seasons of mlp. This was when tree hugger was shown this strange alternate universe with puppets in it by discord. Am I the only one who wanted to see what it would’ve been like if tree hugger was ACTUALLY thrown in... lol. Yea, that’s all I have to say and I think maybe a theory video more on that sounds cool.

i think, unicorns have different skills. like in real world there are average people, smart people and a few geniuses, unicorns’ magic varies from simple telekinesis to the power to ruin economy. and it's logical to assume that most of the unicorns have primitive skills.

It would honestly be interesting if this was touched on in G5, since the pony races are divided by then

I actually had a theory on this myself. My theory is that cutie marks balance the overpowered magic out. You see as twilight said in an episode(idk which one) very few ponies have their cutie marks as magic. So that means all unicorns that dont have their cutie marks as magic have relatively less power compared to others. So that means that there would be very few overpowered ones. Those overpowered ones like twilight would become Celestia's students and would be trained to better equestria. And those who chose to deflect from that path(like sunset) would be subdued by Celestia or another student like we have seen.

I hope this made sense i just had a random thought about this

The power of Magic depends on the Pony itself. Trixie is a good example: she is an unicorn but besides a few trix she cant really do Magic. Twillight also had to learn and practise. In the first Season she had Problems with Teleportations witch she later does perfect. And btw. Pegasies also have Magic: the Ability to walk on Clouds and controll the weather is they Part of Magic

I feel like this could have been avoided if it was established that unicorns cannot or are not allowed make themselves fly, control the weather, grow food, and other things associated w/ pegasi and earth ponies. Even if some of those things would be very taxing and only achievable to the more talented and powerful unicorns, it probably would have helped. How they would have explained it, I don’t really know. Maybe it was magic only the other races could perform or there are laws against unicorns using that kind of magic?

Though banning certain kinds of magic might create issues what with forbidden magic seemingly always attracting people (or ponies in this case) who have no moral issue with abusing the system. Also potential legal loopholes...

I like that you thought about this. The Video is great.👍🏽💗
I sort of support your theory.
I think that Unicorns have a big advantage over Earth Ponys and Pegasi, but that has never been a problem in Equestria (except Cozy Glow but that is kinda a different story...), because it is, well a different universe than our world. Earth Ponys and Pegasi also have properties that make them special.

there is an mlp comic were Princess Celestia uses an amulet that changes her into a pegasus so she can go around equestria as a "regular pegasus" so she can see how her subjects think and act when the Princess isnt around

One solution could be to rather than using artifacts that have there own magic, allow no unicorns to use their internal magic

I can see two possible solutions. Well one present solution and one other more direct solution.

1) From a writing perspective a Unicorns magic seems directly linked to their cutie mark talent. Rarity can manipulate objects with her magic at a very fine dexterity since she's handling smaller and more fragile objects all the time, while a unicorn with say a sculpting talent wouldn't be anywhere near as skilled at handling such objects. A pearl diving unicorn would have a way easier time casting spells manipulating water or providing breathable air compared to one with a skydiving talent. Etc. But then we come up with 'generational savants' like Starswirl The Bearded, Twilight, Starlight, who have a direct talent for magic as a whole.

While Pegasi and Earth Ponies all have the same base 'magic', flight and cloud manipulating, and super strength/natural athleticism. Which can then be combined with their talents. While Unicorns basically start and stop with their horns. I would like to see more magic available to the former two in the form of potions and artifacts though yes. :3

2) Make magic learnable for ALL ponies. But with a clear difference in implementation. Unicorns would still have a inherent link to magic so they can just learn the basics of a spell and 'force' it to function. But Pegasi and Earth Ponies could also both learn the same spell but require casting it beforehand to store it in an object for later use, such as a wand, staff, scroll, etc. Which could be keyed to only function for the pony that made it specifically.

Or, humorously enough, I could see an alternative setting in which the Unicorns were actually less magically astute than the other two races. Because they have 'innate magic' they didn't bother digging deeper and learning the twists and turns of 'doing it right'. While the other two pony races could have because it was literally the only way for them to cast the spells at all. Making the unicorns strange outsiders by comparison, giving them a true mystique once more, as they live more in the wild since their basic power simply makes needing to settle down and build a deeper society unnecessary.

Think of how many people would absolutely leap at the opportunity to exist in nature with practically no risk of disease, injury, starvation, thirst, or boredom. Why spend generations figuring out complex rituals when you can just 'zap' your problems aside after all.

Hmm.. I have a question... It's been buzzing around in my mind for a while now..

From where do you think the magical artefacts in equestria come from? And how do they possess the magic? And many more...

But what do you think?

The thing people tend to forget when talking about the power level of unicorns is that we tend to view a biased sample. Twilight was an extremely gifted unicorn (allowing her to attend private school for gifted unicorns as Princess Celestia's personal student), Starlight is similarly gifted albeit less formally educated, and Sunburst, while not naturally gifted, has spent most of his life studying magic. An average unicorn can do a few basic common spells (e.g. telekinesis) plus a few spells related to their talent that come naturally to them (e.g. Rarity's gem-finding spell), but learning other spells is difficult and most unicorns lack the will and/or the power to do so. And of course this means that most unicorns can't master the spells required to fly, walk on clouds, or farm. The situation is still unbalanced, but it's not as unbalanced as people sometimes think.

But either way the question of what to do about that imbalance is a thorny one. It's easier to bring down born to fortunate circumstances than it is to raise up those who weren't, but that kind of fairness is nothing to strive for. We need look no further than the show to see that--bringing everypony down to the same lowest common denominator is what Starlight's cult was all about, and there's no ambiguity about that being a bad idea. But arranging a society where every citizen is free to enjoy their gifts and use them to benefit themselves and society but restricted from using them to exploit others is easier said than done.

(And as a side note, the elite in Canterlot are mostly unicorns because the population of Canterlot is mostly unicorns. Equestria is generally poorly integrated--remember that in "Flight to the Finish" the CMC identified Ponyville's multiracial population as the thing that makes it special--and there's a lot you can read into that, but it doesn't mean anything nefarious has to happen for the elite of a unicorn city to be unicorns.)

A few things I'd like to add:
1. Although unicorns can use magic to fly and walk on clouds, it is achieved only by the most talented of unicorns. And I'm pretty sure that using magic to fly won't be nearly as fast and agile as pegasi.
2. You forgot that pegasi can control weather and ONLY BY PEGASI. We've never seen a unicorn control weather. Although everybody knows that Rarity once tried to control weather, it was never successful. Same goes for earth ponies growing crops. We've never seen a unicorn successfully use a spell to grow crops either.
3. Believe it or not, earth ponies and pegasi can CAST SPELLS without artifacts or potions. You've seemed to miss a small detail in Magical Mystery Cure. When Twilight reads Star Swirl's unfinished spell, it successfully changed the destinies of the other 5. Look closely and you can see that Twilight did NOTHING with her horn. She only read the spell aloud. Such spells can be casted by the other 2 tribes as spells like the one we saw of Star Swirl does not require any unicorn magic. All you'd need to do is to read the spell aloud.

Heck, in the ENTIRE episode Twilight didn't really use her unicorn magic to do something specific. All she did was read the unfinished spell, made the other 5 realize who they are and completed the spell. So if Twilight was a pegasus or earth pony or if somepony else was in place of Twilight, despite someone from the other two races, what only matters is that you need to have a good understanding of friendship.

Case closed.

Not all unicorns have an unfair advantage. Some unicorns' magic is more powerful than others. I think that more laws could be put into place to limit what more powerful unicorns can do. Look at Sunburst and Starlight for example. Starlight is really powerful, while Sunburst....well, like Trixie, he's good with magical illusions. Sunburst knows a lot about magic, but can't do most of the things he knows can be done. Starlight on the other hand is almost as, or even more, powerful as Twilight. Twilight is an alicorn and she was almost beat by Starlight in battle. Some Unicorns are more powerful than others and in some cases, more powerful than an alicorn. If there were more laws put into place that were to limit what unicorns could and couldn't do then maybe that could make things a little more balanced.

Yeah this is a classic case of the writers focusing too hard on one group and leaving the others to fall the wayside. Something similar happened in Naruto where the Uchihas/Sharingan became OP because they kept adding things to it while the Hyugas/Byakugan never got anything important.

That's why I like to make Earth Pony OCs a bit more since you need to get more creative with their magic and abilities. One of the OCs I'm writing a fimfic about is an Earth Pony detective whose skills allow him to sense magic through the Earth and track others easily.

In my storyverse, where "magic in the real world" is a thing, MLP would have been created with a more balanced system to begin with based on the real world's magic system: magic is so ambient that cases could be made that all ponies have innate magic. Also, because there are real clans of people who can turn into different ponies (including unicorns), there would have been incredible pressure to equalize all the pony types humans can turn into so there's no fuel for real-world discrimination between shapeshifters.
That's not to say it's perfectly balanced though. Notice I said "all the pony types humans can turn into" - unicorns are on that list, but pegasi aren't - humans cannot turn into anything that has more limbs than they do. In my storyverse's version of MLP, pegasi are the most magical ponies (when you're not counting alicorns), and you can tell by the things they can just do without even thinking hard: flying and walking on clouds. "Wait, flying? How is that a magic thing, they have wings!" But they're still ponies, and as we see in the show they are still very nearly as strong as earth ponies; by the most technical definition of mass they're too heavy for the wings they have, at the wingbeat-per-minute rate they're shown to use, unless they're getting a boost in another way.

I never saw them as overpowered. Unicorns don't blast magic everytime something happens. Not to mention only ponies with magic as their talent are very skilled. I see it as a scale of professionalism, like how most people couldn't run as fast as someone in Guinness World Records.

Even Chrysalis say Unicorn was powerful in ep. sun setback

You know, this sounds silly, but when I was younger I thought about wether it would be better to be a Pegasus or a unicorn(lol I was young okay?). I decided it was better to be a unicorn because I would be able to make myself fly using a spell

Hmm.. I would like to say, that there are still limits even to unicorns. Let’s say, we only know Twilight. Yes, she is pretty strong, but that doesn’t make other unicorns strong too. There also can be kinds of different unicorns. For example, Mistmane. They are from different culture, have different horns, etc. Even different spells, sources, magics..
Also, in a episode ( Rarity looses her mane ) Twilight and Starlight have said.: “we can’t just appear things out of nowhere. It has to come from something (someone) as a source. (They tried to give her mane, but other pony lost their mane as the consequence.) So even if they might be overpowered, there are still limits to everything. I wouldn’t say, that this also implies to earth ponies or pegasi, that only depends on their physical strength all together..

I like how in G1 the unicorns had powers that fit their names. Like Fizzy could make bubbles strong enough to hold a pony

I think by taking the magic out of Equestria, the unicorns will be at the lowest scale society ( if we consider that there is a hierarchy in ponies culture ), because the ability to cast spells is what defines a unicorn. Same thing will happen if pegasi lose their ability to fly.

The Solution is actually Getting Rid of Magic,
Just like Star Butterfly Destroyed Magic in Mewni to keep the Peace,
Twilight should Destroy Magic 👀

What if the problem goes all the way back to Gusty the Great? As we've seen in Equestria's history, ponies were not always in charge. In fact, we saw that it was Grogar who had first ruled over them though tyrannically. Even further, we see that he mainly did this with the help of his magic bell, one that could absorb, capture and transfer magic to and from others.

Here's an idea I have. What if after taking the bell and banishing Grogar, Gusty used it to give unicorns more power than than their other pony peers. It would make sense seeing as it was able to turn Cozy Glow into an alicorn after all. We also have to remember that the time of Gusty the Great happened long before the three pony tribes came together in unity, so the chance of this power imbalance happening out of potential prejudice is possible. Especially since we don't know all that much about Gusty's true character.

This would mean that maybe Gusty sealing the bell away may have been for more selfish reasons than we first thought. It may not have simply been sealed away to be kept out of evil's grasp, but also to ensure the other two pony tribes (as well as any other "less magical" creatures) couldn't use it to re-level the playing field.

Gusty the Great may have singlehandedly planned for unicorns to become as well as be seen by the others as the "master race" this whole time!

I personally found it interesting that in the show you don’t really see unicorns doing much magic other than levitating objects and finding gems (rarity). So I thought to myself that maybe they have a system where higher class magic like teleportation, and other spell casting things that we see twilight, starlight and other power unicorns do are either mostly classified, or you need some type of License or approval to learn such magic. It would make since to make sure there aren’t too many overly powerful unicorns overthrowing the balance of mostly everything. Not to mention the few that might be corrupted by their power and cause a lot of problems. So that’s why even small spells like teleportation isn’t even a common thing to see with the average unicorns.

The main thing is here is: Twilight, Starlight, and sunburst are magical scholars (with starlight and twilight having graduated (maybe in starlights case) and sunburst dropping out), but we don’t know what the common unicorn is able to do outside of abilities pertaining to the talents tied to their cutie marks. Because twilights (and maybe even starlights) talents were magic, it could be why they were so OP.
Yes, there are artifacts that could enhance a unicorns magical ability (I.E: trixie with the alicorn amulet.), but not much other than that. While unicorns (admittedly) dominate the “magic department”, Earth Ponies seem to dominate the strength department, and Pegasi have flight and endurance since they control the weather.
It’s not so much of an “imbalance”, but it’s more or less trying to figure out how magic works in this world. And with the staff that worked on G4 now turning their attention to G5, I doubt we’ll get any clarification on how it all is supposed to be balanced upon the 3 pony tribes.

I think part of the problem is how the show emphasizes Unicorn Magic, and never really defines the magic of Pegasi and Earth Ponies. Sure, it does partially define Pegasi, but not really Earth ponies.

There could be other disparities and things at play here. Perhaps Earth Ponies are more resistant to magical change, being closer to reality? Perhaps Pegasi, who live in the sky, have resistance to high / low temperature changes (consider the freezing problem in Iron Man 1).

The show NEVER got into how the world works in various situations, and it became easier just to "blame magic" on things rather than go into fuller detail into how each thing works (Which is probably why the starting seasons were stronger than the later; because there was a preset in place that could be taken from-- before the show went off the rails trying to find its footing once the first / old storyline wrapped up).

this take is definitely something and i probably would’ve never thought of it to be an issue. but i’d like to point out that just because they have a horn does not mean they’re all trained in magic. take your average unicorn, they probably aren’t the most stilled with certain spells. i do agree unicorns can and probably are more powerful than all ponies but it does take a lot of practice

They have spellcasting magic because it is their innate characteristic, just like being a pegasus or an earth pony... if they're made like that, it is fine, each pony group has a purpose and is fit for its way of life. Yes, the others can use magical artifacts and the unicorns can have their innate spellcasting magic. Those horns have to serve for something. And also, not all of them are interested in using it to learn highly powerful spells, most of them don't have that talent and use only basic magic like telekinesis. I don't see any problem, if they have that characteristic they have a purpose in it and the other ponies live just fine with their own purposes. If they have lived like that for all their history, it means their social dynamic is balanced and natural. Then of course, fights can always happen and magic does make them powerful - if they have cultivated it - but I like the three races to be each unique with its characteristics and abilities... they need each other.

Lastly, "making all ponies alicorns" sounds exciting at first, but reflecting on it, it would only mean that everyone is overpowered all the time and it would bring chaos 🤔

Well it seems like to me, earth ponies have the most power. They control the food 🤤. Also, if we wanted to be brutal we could rip off a unicorns horn or tear off a pegasus wings. What're u gonna do? Steal an earth ponies legs?? I believe earth ponies were the first type of pony until they got some type of evolution. Because u can't evolve about food 🤤

One thing came to mind about artifacts and potions/brews. Which is; how long does take to make them? Since potion would most likely have to, well, brew for a certain length of time or something might go wrong, or you need a very specific ingredients that might only grow in certain place or during certain time-window, like some plants that bloom only during full moon or something. And does it need to fresh or preserved?
And artifact making would most likely depend on the potential of the maker, or the materials which conduct magic well enough to make the thing work. Iron for example is usually an "anti magical" in some works, being "kryptonite" to fae in some folklore.

But it might be different if all the materials and knowledge are already available, which might also lead to problems...

I always noticed how all the unicorns seemed more upper class and rich than the other pony races, especially the earth ponies

I just love that even friendship is magic and equestria girls are over this guy is still making videos about them

Actually- I'm not so sure about this one. From the looks of it, most unicorns(like trixie) aren't as skilled in advanced sorcery like Twilight or Starlight. I feel like it's not magic that makes it unfair between the three tribes, but the ability to use it. So there could easily be a solution to that. Ponies could evolve so that all types had a source of magic. Or adapt to 'sameness' where everyone had the features of earth ponies but were able to use magic like, let's say, from hooves.

...ya know, I've always had a feeling that Unicorns seemed to have a bit more going for them than the other two
But I never actually thought of it like this

This reminds me so much of the play ‘An Inspector calls’ written in 1945 by JB Priestley. He wrote the play became he wanted a equal and fair society. The unicorns would be upper class like the Birlings and Gerald Croft. I think the Pegasi would be middle class and because the earth pony’s were responsible for all the food in Equestria, they would be working class like Eva Smith from the play.

I always thought the same thing. Glad you discussed this.

ive always thought like..... unicorns could just use their magic to steal things lol. what even stops them??seriously they could just grab something from someone's house without having any way to know they did it

well keep in mind that while all unicorns have magic, that doesn’t mean they all actually use powerful magic. teleportation for example takes years of practice and is done by few unicorns in the show. also keep in mind that earth ponies & pegasi also have magic, just in a different way. and earth ponies are the main food resource, and pegasi do a lot more than just fly around, they control the weather and all that stuff. i think all in all it evens out pretty well.

One thing I didn't like about the magic was that they'd say everyone has it but you have to figure out the outlet or a way to utilize it if you're not a unicorn.

Maybe the 3 types of ponies is to keep the magic balanced for all equestria so their wouldn't be a way to balance out the unicorn magic without the balance being broken 😁

While we're talking about class divides, I think we're glossing over the real issue... The bovines. Cows and sheep are sentient, can speak, have desires, and...examining equestrian society...they are definitely hardly being treated the way they deserve.

Applejack's family "owns" a flock of sentient sheep, and they are treated with hardly an inkling of respect or even acknowledgement. Cows seem to have it better, they're not confined to pens and forced to sleep outside. But still, you don't see boutiques for them, doorways built for their build and etc. It's just not right. What do you think? Are they worth a video?

hey Sawtooth
if we talk about unicorns there's a question: Why some of them have diffrent bodies, more like princesses? Fleur de Lee, Sassy Saddle or Tempest Shadow. is there option that they had a potential to be princesses or they are from royal family? idk but i can't find any information about this and i think that's something deeper. especially when you said abot dominating highest social class by unicorns. Maybe you can make a video about it as You are specialist :)
brohoof and thanks for this material!

The Tirek situation makes me think everyone has magic, it's just that unicorns have a way to use it without artifacts and the like

I just watched an entire video on systemic pony racism... And I liked it.

I like the thought of Celestia making everyone alicorns to maintain balance

In defence of pegasi, while unicorns can mimic their abilities it's rather clear that the unicorn spells are far inferior to the real deal. Even Twilight Sparkle, one of the most powerful unicorns in Equestria, had considerable trouble with the wing spell, and the resulting wing spell was incredibly fragile compared to true pegasus wings. Not to mention that this spell also doesn't give the recipient access to weather manipulation, and the last time we saw a unicorn try that with their magic the chaotic result likely made Discord proud. Earth ponies though... yeah okay, they're kinda screwed. We have as many examples of them being no stronger than the other ponies (Rainbow Dash and Applejack being evenly matched in their competitions for example) as we have of great feats of strength, and their ability to influence plant growth is... extremely vague. Earth ponies have always been the forgotten tribe of the three in the show.

Perhaps the three pony tribes are actually more equitable than what we give them credit for. Pegasus can alter the weather, fly and stand on clouds, something that most unicorns can not. Earth ponies are show to have a much higher physical capability than unicorns and for some reason are the only ones capable of growing sustainable food. Between inherit environmental control and consumers/resource control, having magic seems far less superior. Being able to cast difficult spells is something only a fraction of unicorns can do, so if they have some simple spell casting benefits perhaps it isn’t a problem. Great video thanks sawtooth waves!

Yeah I think you nailed it with the alicorn thing but to become one you have to create new magic and then you'll be automatically boosted with magic that teleports you to the weird place or drain magic from all the tribes (or maybe discord) and then boost yourself with it. But that would require ponies to sacrifice their magic. And make a new magic I think some ponies wouldn't be smart enough or will be too lazy so I think only some would make it (propably Twillight's students and mane 5) But I still think there is a solution is set some limit to the artefacts like grogar's bell to not drain all the magic, but just the right amount to transform a pony into an alicorn.

I think you overrate unicorn magic, after all very few of them, if any, can really match Twilight in sheer raw power and most of them still do regular work like the other tribes and the rich elite are only a small percentage of them. I think you forget the benefits of the other two tribes, and how Equestria is a system of codependency to one another, that brings makes them better the one singular tribe alone. The Pegasus can control the weather which is WAY more then what the unicorns can do, and in the way more massive scale(then entire country ) and helps to makes the climate much more stable to produces more food with little risk to crop failures and making sure that everyone have accesses to clean water. The earth ponies are the work horses of the Equestria they are visibly the most industrious and seem to have an intuitive understanding of their surrounding, especially plants which allows them to produce even more crop then the other two tribes and the pegasus weather control makes it even stronger industry. This in turn allows more ponies having to do less subsistence work and to follow more leisure pursuits, especially the unicorns more of them can dedicate time to learn magic or other academic pursuits which allows them to better improve their existing infrastructures. If anything the unicorn are very dependent on the other tribes to survive. If they really wanted to the Pegasus could easily drown or starve out their droughts the other tribes into submissions, and the Earth Ponies hardiness could easily probably beat the other two and can easily produce their own food way easier then then the others.

Salution to the problem:
Take the overpowered magic away from unicorns give them the power to teleport along with the ability levatate things and others but not them selves
The only race of pony worthy of any other magic are Alarcons in my opinion.

The thing is tho, ALL ponies, and creatures in general, have inate magic inside of them, unicorns are just able to let it out and learn to use it better. We've seen this be true because we've seen teirek take magic from them, hell the magic from pegasai gave them the magic to fly--
We've also seen that magic is what makes a monster, a monster.
If the earth ponies and pegasi used object to let that magic out, they'd be just like unicorns

I disagree for once (with that overpowered) most unicorns have there limits.

Most unicorns can just move Objects (mostly smal Objects)

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The things there talented in.

I think it was telling that one of the first things ol twilight does is completely curb stomp any reason Earth ponies farm, she manages to harvest nearly an entire apple acre on her own and it barely looked like an issue for her. and this was in episode 4.
Later, rarity is shown to be able to repair a wheel in a literal second, so repair jobs are out
construction and Demolition? Magic surpass bare hooves, it can take half a day for more than 2 dozen earth ponies to Build a barn, leave just one unicorn and they could do it in a day or less, and with a team? done in an hour.
Earth ponies... really don't have much. Pegasus at least have the innate power of could controlling.

Another solution is using an external force to limit magic. For example, in the season 9 episode where Rainbow Dash headed up the buckball cheer team, Celestia mentioned rings that, when worn on a unicorn's horn, blocked their ability to use magic.
Alternatively, the shields used by the Storm King's soldiers were clearly made of some kind of magic-resistant metal.
A synthesis of technologies like these could create a system where the innate magical abilities of unicorns are entirely negated.

Well, i don't really think that there's a problem. As far as we know, magic Is Indeed innate in unicorns but, at the same time, we know close to nothing about what the avarage unicorns can do aside from telekinesis. Of course there are the ones like Twilight and Starlight, but there are also other examples, like Starburst, who knows a lot about unicorn's spell, but he's still uncapable of casting the wide majority of them, making more suitable to teach instead of practice the art.

You know what I find interesting
Unicorn magic and any sort of magic couldn’t change a ponies mane easily, it was a hard thing to do
But Trixie turned Rarities mane into another shape, texture and color
Probably just a plothole but I just realised this 😂

I think the extreme sides of magic are exclusive to only very talented magic users like Starswirl, Twilight and Starlight. Most ponies like Rarity and Sweetie Bell only have minimal uses for their magic. I think Pegasus being able to control weather is a HUGE advantage to all the land. And earth ponies are far stronger and more attuned to the earth, thus the food control and why most flower ponies are earth ponies. I think Winter Wrap Up showed that Twilight sucks at pretty much everything BUT magic.

It's my personal head canon that Alicorn magic is a sperate magic powered by eternal principles. There will always be Night and Day, Love, Friendship and Hope. That's why I believe gen 5 doesn't have magic or a kinship of Friendship. The Alicorn associated with that thread of magic is gone. Food for thought.

Maybe with enough unicorns, they can create a spell to turn everypony into an alicorn. But you need magic from all three species to make an alicorn, so maybe you have to have enough unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies in a friendship to cast a spell that can only be cast with all three present, and then they could give alicorn powers to everypony.

Technology may also make magic obsolete.

But I think everyone should stay content whether they are unicorns or not. The real joy of life is friendship (which gives them magic), and everyone has access to that.

I blame Twilight and Starlight for ruining Unicorn powerscaling. In almost all other cases Unicorn magic is relatively mundane and they tend to have to cheat to reach anything impressive (Alicorn Amulet anyone?) - but Twilight is just plain busted and Starlight had to be similarly busted just to compete with her.

I think all that needs to happen is to ban unicorns to have posions or artifacts

That depends on their character .If the unicorns were good and kind then they wouldn't have used their magic in a way to just become rich but if they bad then they might have tried to use their magic for the gold

Why are they literally the matpat of the mlp world-

This is like the exact plot of my own mythical horse story 😳 where my unicorns rose to power and dominance for magic and there's a regular horse and pegasi resistance

I really want everyone to become alicorns to solve this problem I was thinking about that for a while and also wouldn't that rise the population of Equestria cuz alicorns live longer and plus when they get old like Celestia they are gonna be really really tall.

Pegasai use magic to allow them to fly and walk on clouds naturally. But it also allows them to move clouds and control certain types of weather. (The more severe, the less they can control it.)
Earth ponies have a stronger natural magical connection to the ground under their hooves and can even use it to help plant growth, control crop yields, and have a better basic stronger physic than the other two races.
Unicorns do have the ability to use magic more openly, but to match a pegasai or earth pony's natural abilities takes a ton of time, trial and error, to get it just right. Also a deep understanding of just how magic works and a more natural connection to magic is needed to do this.

Most unicorns, though given basic instruction on how to use their magic, never take it as far as Twilight, Sunset, Starlight and Sunburst. (Who is more scholarly than practitioner.)
And all of this can be applied to each race as there are exceptionally gifted ponies, such as Rainbow being able to outfly (at least by word of mouth) an Alicorn in terms of speed. Pinkie being able to continuously break dimensional barriers as if it was nothing and leaving no residual side effects. (That we know of...)
And going back to Starlight, being able to almost match Alicorn magic blow for blow.

Yes, unicorns of the past did exploit there ability to use magic more openly, forcing earth ponies to give them food and pegasai to move storm clouds away.
It was no different than how slaves were used and eventually released from their masters by way of a war of some sort or governing body declaring their freedom.

I'll leave this here as a starting off point.
Thoughts? Opinions?

I literally was thinking about this the other day!

Did Cozy Glow really take away all magic tho? Day-night cycle was still working, hinting Celestia (and maybe Luna) still was able to use magic.

Like that out look. That would make a lot of sense. My OC my be part Nightmare and Changeling. I would have to agree that Unicorns do have a way more powerful position then most others. As for everypony or every creature becoming a alicorn variant. Well that would open up some new and interesting creature looks. Careful a powerful Draconequus could be swayed for just a opportunity to have fun one day. Although if everything had equal access to magic on that level then could true peace be achieved or would it fracture into something worse than we could imagine? Hmmmm... interesting thought experiment. Excuse me I need to find a portal to this alternate universe and explore it a little bit deeper.

Unicorns are the basically the psychic type in Gen 1; virtually unrivaled every way.

I have always been a bit angry when I see unicorns using magic to fly. Like, it's supposed to be pegasus's thing

:(

How to solve the problem: create wands in Equestria that work like a horn

Well, if unicorns can use magic whenever they want, and earth ponies can use potions and artifacts, the one talent pegasi have is probably speed, like the sonic rainboom. So far I don't think there is a possibility for a unicorn, even with a fly spell and accellero, to achieve a sonic rainboom. Starlight has used a speed spell but I don't think it's as fast as rainbow dash can go in a sonic rainboom. And sonic rainbooms are probably powerful because they work like a shockwave.

This first-glance lack of balance in magic is the reason dark magic exists.

Or at least that is a concept behind one of my head canons. Back when three tribes weren't yet united unicorn magic while less sophisticated than today was still great military asset. Pegasi could Counter that by weaponising weather. This left earth ponies with just their hoof and maybe spears. So they started looking into foreign magic, magic not meant for ponies. This poorly understood alien magic then became illegal after equestria former properly and as it has place with poorly understood energy in our universe, those foreign arts become known to commoners as "dark magic"

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1) So you're finally reading the comic books, Sawtooth Waves?
2) All lot of unicorn spells they've shown throughout the series, only "gifted" unicorn like Starswirl, Twilight, or Starlight especially can perform them. The spell that any unicorn can perform is the levitation spell. So, yes, in a way Alchemy, like what Zecora does, and magical artifacts in a way can balance out the magic between magical and non magical creature.
3) Pegasuses in a way actually are magical, because they don't just walk on clouds they can also naturally manipulate what clouds do with their own free will.
4) I think the movie and maybe a few comic books confirmed that having a broken horn or being mentally ill in a way can alter what spells a unicorn can do, but in dangerous ways.

I think most specialised spells are only a thing for unicorns with a corresponding cutie mark. The ones, who got magic as cutie mark, are broken though.
I assume it balanced out in pre-sister times due to their best mages having to burn themselves out to raise the sun and moon. So basically the alicorn sisters are to blame for everything.

Pegasi control the literal weather. We saw what happened when a unicorn tried to do that. It wasn't pretty. Weather control is kinda... big. And don't sneeze at the ability to impact how crops grow with magic. I'm pretty sure without the work that Earth Ponies had put in at the start the whole of Equestria would be in the hunter-gatherer stage and never have left.

I think the earthponys and Pegasus should just find a way how get magic to flow through them like rainbow dash and the sonic-rainbom maybe this is just a suggestion . Or maybe everyone should just get a element of harmony that gives them the power of all four tribes but not turn them into alicorns

Imho (as almost everything on internet is, just not humble or honest sometimes)), this inequality is not as obvious as you show. There are not so many real magicians, not amateurs, among unicorns. The really strong magicians among unicorns are those whose talents belong to the study of magic. But since we are in the field of theories, I can openly state that magic can be carried out through the hooves, as can be seen from the example of hoofokinesis! :D And through the wings, obviously.
So the inner magic (which, I am sure, all three tribes have, otherwise Tirek would have nothing to suck out of the pegasus and earth-ponies) can come not only from unicorns, but also from the other two with the dragon-winged half of the tribes

Although you have already been told this by many other comments, so mine is just a small addition to this already large amount...

I don't see a lot of unicorns punching through solid rock... That being said, manufacturing and selling magical gadgets could be a huge help for anyone who isn't a unicorn.

Well in the world of Equestria it's revealed earth ponies do have a special type of magic unique to them. They have a green thumb. They have a strong connection to nature allows them to manipulate and bend it naturally. The Pie family grow rocks, Which is a natural process that usually take hundreds of thousands of years and they can grow rocks in less than a single life time. These rocks are used for all sorts of things. Sure a unicorn may be able to make a spell but without understanding the material the unicorn's magic will always be second compared to the real material. Pegasi can manipulate and control the weather, Again while a spell can be used for that it's not as effective. We have seen one Pegasus alone take care of a WHOLE kingdom as shown when Rainbowdash cleared the sky. Each pony has it's strength and weakness but if you broke is down any pony can learn magic like Zecora. But the unicorns having their magic dosn't impose any issue in balance as they have to work harder for their magic to be applied. As stated back before the sun and moon became tied to Solestia and Luna it took many a unicorn to raise the sun into the sky. While on the other hand earth ponies and Pegasi have always manipulated the weather and grew crops from the soil. Look at magic now compared to the time before the hearth warming. If earth ponies wanted they could farm metals like gold!

Rant/Idea
Now I wanna make an earth pony named Solidago [Goldenrod], Gold fur and golden main. He is a bit of a stud from moving all the heavy metal, but awkward when it comes to talking to people as he lives alone on his metal farm where he farms gold and silver! He likes to show off his nugget collection.

I’m late to the party and others have already mentioned it, but only very specific unicorns are OP. The only universal unicorn spells are levitation and making their horns glow. All other spells are related to their talents.

In the episode (Boast Busters), we find out that unicorns can only perform magic related to their cutie mark. Twilight and Starlight have magic as their cutie mark

It's just suprising how equestria managed to survive in a such fragile society. It's basiclly the same before and after equestria exist the unicorns are always the nobles while the pegasus are the knights. The earth ponies are just peasants.

I think you're underestimating how powerful weather control is. Also, unicorns are limited by several factors: First that unicorn magic requires significantly more study than the other two tribes, and second that I think you're overestimating how powerful unicorns actually are. It's strongly implied that the vast majority of unicorns are closer to Rarity than to Twilight, only knowing a handful of minor spells, mostly related to their special talent. Twilight and Starlight are the exceptional outliers, not the norm.

I think the fact that unicorn have this much magic isn’t a problem since we saw that the vast majority of the unicorn population only or mostly use levitation spell on objects. When only a few minority uses more than one spell or have more magic abilities.

The 2 good things and bad things.
Cozy’s:
“Everyone thinks Unicorns are so great! What about the earth ponies, the winged, and THE HUMANS!
That’s why there should be know magic!”
Stairlight:
“... .”

Magic: exists
Cozy glow:…and I took that personally

I think this was actually originally intended to be addressed looking at the Faust Bible. For that reason I think this is a fair one to debate both inside and outside of canon.

Yeah as a kid while watching this show I’d always be like: “if I was a pwony I’d wanna be a unicorn bc of their magic!”
But now thx for showing me it in a different lense great vodeo

Aside from that episode, I don't see why it isn't addressed how unfair unicorns have it, with just how strong their magic is.

Well since it seems like Gen 5 is going to be picking up in the far future of where Gen 4 left off, and we know that the synopsis says that magic is gone from Equestria, it's quite possible that unicorns currently don't have magic, and that their horns are just a way to differentiate them from the other tribes at this point. I don't think I understand how magic would just disappear though, but I guess that's something we'll just have to find out.

I'd argue that most ponies DO have an unfair advantage because of their special talent. The average pegasus wouldn't be able to fly as well as RD, and the average earth pony likely wouldn't have the same connection to the land as AJ. Similarly, the average unicorn wouldn't have the same proficiency with magic as say Twilight or Starlight. And we have seen non-unicorns use magic before, via the Elements, Zecora's brews, etc. It's not a stretch to say that ponies who bear a magical artifact and practice magic in a way that doesn't require a horn could be just as if not more powerful than the average unicorn, who can likely only do basic levitation and teleportation.

Interesting vid but it seems it chooses to ignore that the power balance seems to be: all ponies have innate magic, but unicorns are the only ones that could use magic in more than two ways; Earth Ponies are the strongest of the races and they're the only ones that can produce food; Pegasus magic allow the to fly and hover, and manipulate the weather by manipulating the clouds, and are the second strongest race, but they invested in militar knowhow; Unicorns are the weakest race and use to be very prideful.

The average Unicorn can only use techniques (spells) related to her talent, Rarity can find jewels because her talent is beautifying everything with gems, for example, only levitation, telekinesis and producing light seem to be spells that any Unicorn can use, the problem is the unicorns whose talent is Magic, to these ones there's no limit to what they can do since it's in their talent to do so, it's like the case of the Uchiha Clan, they all have an extreme skill ceiling by virtue of their genetics, but not all Uchiha has tapped in that potential, in similar fashion the reason we see Unicorns as OP is because several of the main characters we see in the show are very powerful Magic Unicorns (Twilight, Sunset, Starlight, Sci-Twi, Starswirl, Trixie to a degree) which makes Unicorns look more powerful than they really are in reality

All ponies have inherent magic it is just used in different ways between the 3 races. Yes Unicorns can use spells but there are things that they can't do or can't do as well as Pegasi or Earth ponies. For instance Pegasus can control the weather/ clouds much better and Earth ponies grow crops better. not to mention if you look at it another way each races has something that magic boosts. Unicorns are usually the smartest, Pegasi are usually the fastest, and Earth ponies are usually the strongest.

I think unicorns being the most powerful and successful because of what they were born as is a fine allegory to how much of your life in the real world is determined by your birth conditions. There will always be those who have an unfair advantage in life because of who they were born to.
HOWEVER, since MLP's society is meant to be a utopia that overcomes humanity's greed, they recognize that the people who are born to less are not lesser as people, and so they share their bounty and gifts with all to make things better for everyone.
Sure canterlot is still filled with unicorns and there are greedy ponies around, but the overwhelming majority of ponies use their skills to uplift each other

I love this person's videos sm. just started watching them but I'm so invested already ^^

I think unicorns are inherently more upperclass. But we have seen that, in a sense, ponies are okay with it. Their talents are connected to the kind of pony they are. They live in communities based around their species and you rarely see couples who aren't the same kind. They exist, but are uncommon. In our world, this would be racism. But in Equestrian society, they don't see it that way. Everyone is all friends even if their talents and lifestyles ultimately result in self segregation

Imagine a pegasai who could create mirages anywhere they went, cause air vacuums or create one or more forms of weather like lightning on a small scale by storing that magic in themselves. Earth ponies making stone golems, sneezing powders, or light weight gem armor. Yeah pegasai and earth ponies have passive magic but having more amazing things even if limited by prep time would balance things. The other way is saying most unicorns is cannot learn magic unless it related to their talents, those with magic as a talent would be exceptions.

I agree with everything except the banning of alchemy despite the proof, cuz I feel like they still do until now but with more stricter rules, like maybe you need a licence for alchemy.

Our friends always joked about Unicron's having "the privledgeeeee" especially when they would eat using a fork with their magic xp

I kinda wish different breeds of pony were more different to each other. Like earth ponies are stocky, stronger than the other ponies. Pegasus' are fast but exceedingly light and unicorns are somewhere in the middle

All ponies have a pool of magic in them. What differentiates Unicorns is that they can actively tap into that magic. For Earth Ponies and Pegasi, their magic is passive. Of course, Unicorns have passive magic in them too, but their horn allows them to directly access their pool of magic, and in fact, unlike with other species, their special ability indeed requires them to actively draw on it. Learning to fully unlock that potential through spells also takes much time and study.

I don't think so. . . Unicorns do have innate magic, but I'm betting that most unicorns didn't have talent in the area of magic. Starswirl the bearded (his apprentice Clover the Clever?), Snowfall Frost, Twilight Sparkle, Starlight Glimmer, and Sunset Shimmer are all we know of to have so much magical power and even back then during the time of snowfall frost, it seemed most unicorns didn't use their magic for anything more than levitation spells on things if at all. And rarity's special talent seems to be finding and working with precious gems and metals, something I think not many people have a special talent in. It seems more like unicorns achieved high social status and being richer by working harder at being on top of trends and gaining money through more unmagical means.
Not to mention, if you look at it like this, not many pegasi or earth ponies seem to be interested in gaining fame, power, and money. There are exceptions, The Rich Family and Cozy Glow, but most seem content at being more down to earth or working high up in the clouds and never giving a thought to social status. That being said, who's to say there are not a higher class of pegasi, just they haven't been featured as they prefer to live in wealthier pegasi cities and not "mingle with common ponies."
There are a lot of factors going against any magical way for unicorns to get rich.
1) Unless you have talent in magic or finding precious gems and metals, you weren't likely to succeed if you tried.
2) Based on how most unicorns act over the ages, we can assume they didn't use their magic in such ways.
3) It seems like, especially based off of cities such as Canterlot, unicorns were the only race to put priority on being rich and socially inclined. Most of the other races seem to not care.

I haven't seen the entire video but with only the introduction a know that cozy glow may have partly the right to do what she did ( PARTLY) obviously it's not a good reason for it but still pony magic-based racism is a fact that i hope they delt with

I wish there was a season 10. So much could have been done. So many ideas, no future for them though. I wish some independent animators could continue FIM ... Wait a minute, could sawtooth continue FIM??? 😁 I mean, why not? You can implement whatever theory you want and call it canon!

Even if Unicorns could have advantages thanks to magic, not every Unicorn could do that. An unicorn needs to learn magic and spells, so they need access to that knowledge. Moreover, not every unicorn have a special gift that is magic, Rarity doesn't do magic like Twilight.

"Between you and me, the obvious solution is for everyone to become Alicorns. But I don't think society is ready for that one."

Society, you mean fandom?

Oddly enough I think there is already an answer cutie marks. Society is built on a hierarchy of power. We see lots of nonunicorns using magic with out artifacts or spells. And in a society where your destiny is put most important there really isn't a problem of one pony having an upper hand most of the most famous and successful pony are earth ponys or Pegasus. Like rara or photofinish and thats because of there cutie marks. Yes there good at what they do but without there marks they might have been looked over or not as highly considered. Cutie marks seem to keep them all in line and on the same playing field. Infact that may be what's causing chaos in mlp g5 with a society based on species instead of cutie marks the world wild break easily and quickly. And if ponys didn't want there mark or wanted to be form there own society's bases on race the magic that seams to hold them altogether would be fractured. Leaving pony's with only half there destiny or a fraction of there life's purpose

starlight's evil motive + cozy's evil plan = someone who wants magical equality and is taking from villain's of the past to do so (aka using cozy glow's whole stealing magic plan)
tbh that sounds like a great villain if you ask me

I feel like to actually make all things even things that you can do everyday like growing crops and etc you should take that power of that away from the Alicorns instead of letting them keeps that when I got to wait just what I think

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Sawtooth: Between you and me, I think the most obvious solution is for everyone to become alicorns.
Me: Laughs Hysterically Oh Sawtooth you are so funny!

You also can't forget some unicorns only specialize in magic that their talents come from. And rainbow was able to use a small amount of magic when she does a sonic rainboom, and these are just a few examples of how it makes it fair among the races even if it isn't by much

If I remember the episode and story was using the goo for a potion, it could be that the mane reason that most of the upper class is unicorns because of their cutie marks, think about it:
Cuties marks defined the destiny of a pony, it could be some cutie marks make more money then others. I mean we see all kinds of job in ponyville, not all those jobs pay the same bits, let’s take rarity’s dress making: she may ask for let’s say 30 bits per dress, this is because fabric, gems, needle and thread, and many other things that rarity use added up together is expensive, especially if she was to make mistakes(she’s not flawless.) and let’s take another job for example.
Now let’s take.. the fan and couch sell’s pony(Rarity’s bad man’s day I think)
He isn’t making the couches or the fans(most likely) so it’s more likely less expensive because he’s not making them.
Another pony(quill and inks) most likely the pony got them from another place, maybe ponies who works with quills and ponies who work with inks.
Magic won’t always mean wealth, remember: the oranges?… sorry. I’m kinda just going from one idea to another…

Saw this video and was like YES HE'S FINALLY TALKING ABOUT G5
but no........
But this is great too!
Also I think if everyone would become an alicorn, we could also start fair elections.

I love this video.Tho i have to say that i dont quite agree that unicorns are to overpowerd, after all about 99% of Unicorns only ever perform a levatation spell and only some like Starswirl and Starlight seem to rly stick out of the mass. Even Twilight wasnt as powerful as those two before she became an alicorn. 🤔

(Sry for bad gramma)

The thumbnail is amazing

Hmmm... Yeah I was think about how a Earth Pony can use magic in the form of alchemy and potions. Good thoughts!

every pony has magic, they just dont have horns to use that magic

in theory there magic could be stored up for a long time and once any non unicorn becomes an alicorn, they would have more access because they would have stored magic

Maybe that is why in Gen 5, Equestria has lost all its’ magic. Now that you mention it, I think your theory will make a lot of sense.

Honestly I think the balance of power in the Windigo days was towards the Pegasi. They're the ones who have a strong military, aristocracy, and the most civilised-looking society. Unicorns then had royalty but a shabby looking castle, and all their scholars were peasants. And Earth ponies had so much influence over the balance than them hoarding food almost started a war.

Though Canterlot's aristocracy coming from unregulated alchemy 100 years or so before present day is a nice idea

I agree with that 9said "everyone should become alicorons"

You know thinking back, aside from cozy glow just about all the main villains in the show were either unicorns or had some form if innate magic
Zombra:unicorn
Flim and Flam:unicorns
Nightmare moon:alicorn
Starlight glimmer:unicorn
Discord:innate magic
Terrik:innate magic (also sorry if I spelled it wrong)
Chrysalis: she's a changeling technically but she has a horn
That one dude that was some kind of evil shadow horse cause he was mad at the six hero ponies that were stuck in the shadow realm or something: I'm pretty sure he was a unicorn too
And Sunlight shimmer, alternate twilight, and trixi were all unicorns, let me know if I missed any

You forget something important, it is said in the show that unicorns powers are related to there cutie marks so it makes since rarity who has a gemstone cutie mark can cast a spell to find gems. And this is why twilight is powerful, her cutie mark is Magic. It appears to be rare for there cutie mark to be Magic. Only 3 people are shown I believe star swirl, twilight, and starlight glimmer. You can debate about Luna and Celestia but there cutie marks are the sun and moon so that's that's they are powerful enough to raise or lower them.

It's really more that writers never really DID much with the other pony races magic. Unicorn magic is external and concioussly controlled, it's really easy to do flashy stuff with.
It's also important to remember god damn everything is magic, and spells aren't the whole of magic. Rarities FASHION SENSE is a magical ability.

We also see a lot more impressive feats from background ponies of Earth Ponies and Pegasi, The train pulling scene involves four random earth ponies pulling something like 200 tons each for days, at I'd guess 60Mph. Or Pegasi having an AVERAGE cruising velocity of above the speed of sound.
Or the most terrifyingly impressive thing is earth pony stamina. Most animals die after an hour or two of exertion, not get exhausted, roll over and die, and the show confirms this is infact true for every type of pony...except earth ponies who can run for days, while Big Mac and AJ can run a hundred acre something farm just the two of them. That's HUMAN levels of stamina.
The average unicorn? TK and one other spell.

But again, this isn't explored, or really commented upon.

But let's go to uses for the crazy shit, Pegasi shoot elements out of their butts, why can't they do more with that? bend it like avatar, merge with/become it physically.
Earth ponies just have show what is impressive AS impressive. Aj can apparntly lasso the god damn moon, an earth pony villain could just casually destroy canterlot by taking down the mountain. Actually yeah let's never have an earth pony villain.

Also Magical items don't solve the problem because magic is you know, your soul. Magic items is getting someone else to do it for all intents and purposes, unless you crafted them I suppose, then I guess it's just weird.

It'd actually be an interesting concept if they made an Episode like this. Imagine, Unicorn clearly have too much privilege with everything shown in the Video. If they'd actually made an Episode about this, the Secret message would be about Racism. But knowing how child-friendly MLP is, I'd doubt it, tho they have some episodes that do speak about Racism, like Accepting Changlings and Dragons into their society and that they're just misunderstood. But Imagine tho, that'd be a interesting and great episode to stand for people of Color and Racism in general, like how are they going to resolve that kind of problem.

Me: looks at the video
Me: looks at horn


cries

To be fair, most unicorns don't seem that powerful to me. Sure, both Twilight and Starlight were - but in their case, magic was just their special talent and they were better in it than almost all other unicorns (Similarly to how Rainbow Dash was better at flying than most other pegasi). However, most other background unicorns (such as Lyra Heartstring or Sugar Belle) haven't really been seen doing magic that would be overly remarkable or powerful, and that would give them an edge over pegasi or earth ponies, so I assume that this is the power level most unicorns have.

Most unicorns have really weak magic like they can only levitate stuff. Unicorns that can do actual spells are the ones with cutie marks in magic like Twilight or Starlight. That's shown in multiple examples in the show when only Twilight can teleport the main 6 while Rarity can't do it

ive been saying this! unicorns have so much in their favour its so unfair

4:32 Not Sawtooth sounding like my calculus teacher...

With gen 5 starting without manic made me think... what if there was a radical group agents magic. What if they succeeded?

Unicorn magic does seem like the most versatile, considering the seem to be the only form of pony with a natural conduit for that magic, but I would always remember how easily it can be canceled out, just by pressing on the horn...

There was a somewhat jokey fanfic that theorized that unicorns could use crossbows better than the rest, strongarming themselves into power.

I clicked this faster than Deku could break his bones

Wow you make excellent points. You see I actually was thinking about this for a while. In fact, in Equestria history, you probably don't hear of an Earth pony becoming an alicorn, only unicorns (and probably pegasus). Furthermore, if you ever go into talking about the new My Little Pony movie, I got a theory. I think that an alicorn ruler ruined something to divide the species which lead us to the plot of the movie.

I think the solution can be that using magic for their own advantage shall be banned, until the society agrees...

Just imagine what it would be like if they had Unicorns with Two Horns aka Twonicorns(2-Nicorns), do you think that they could cast two different spells at once, or use the same spell with both horns to make it twice as strong, or maybe use one horn for small to moderate level spells, and the other horn for more advanced level spells, and depending on the nature of their Second Horn, do you think it may be possible for Twonicorns to be more powerful than even Alicorns?

Please make a video about the mirror portal. Like, is it a natural portal like the one on the island? Or is it artificial?? And how did it come to be?

It's a good day when Sawtooth uplaods

I used to thought that unicorns are op. But I debunked that years later because some op spells can be used if you sacrifice something.

Could have the earth pony's and unicorns upgrade to advanced technology, for example mimicking magic, via the use of energy matter manipulation.
Using teleportation tech' to disassemble an object into energy and from energy into data, then manipulate that data so when it's reconstituted back into solid matter its something completely difrent.
A psudo magic if you will.

Sensors to detect materials, cybernetics to quickly retrieve them with out bringing in heavy bulky machinery.

Plasma or other energy based beam weaponry in place of magic beams from a horn.

Inter dimensional travel through time and space through spells, portals and time machines. Yes looking at you Dr Whooves and Derpy.

With tech who needs unicorns and their magic, in short....... We are the Borg, your likeness and abilities will be assimalted to serve the collective, resistance is futile.

Sawtooth: I'd rather give magic to those without

Map new generation: done and done

but remember that unicorns can only use some spells that can help them with their tallent
unless their tallent is magic

Could you do a video about the Storm King next?

You say unicorn magic is innate. Who says that there isn’t hidden innate magic inside earth ponies or Pegasus? In episode 25 & 26 the villain Tirek took not only the magic of unicorns but the Pegasus’s ability to fly and earth ponies strength. How could he take these things if they didn’t have magic properties? Theory: Perhaps there is a way for Earth ponies and Pegasus to even out the magic scales. Magic can also be viewed as a source of energy. Like wizards and sorceress in stories could access their own energy, why couldn’t Earth ponies and Pegasus do the same thing?
Lovely Hotdog commented that magic was based on talent. What if a earth pony got a cute mark that was related to magic?
But then there’s Cozyglow, now she contradicts a lot of things I just said, if her goal was to take away all the magic then why wasn’t the Pegasus’s flight and The earth ponies strength taken as well if they had magical properties? Theory: In three days time all the unicorn magic would be gone, but after three more days the strength of the earth pony and the flight of the Pegasus would also dissipate. I know that theory sounds a little far-fetched but it would match up with Tirek’s ability to take away flight and strength.

I noticed that the Gen 5 leaks portray a world where all the magic is gone and it hints at having a Pegasi empire and Pegasi royalty. I guess without magic, all the pony species really are more even.

considering the future we got after the show, they reeeally weren't ready for everyone to be alicorns. 😂

Interesting you bring this up actually if we go based on magic disappearing from Equestria then G5 is where we're heading since all the magic and Equestria is gone we can potentially see the results or frampumications of unicorns not having magic so should be interesting

3:09 a pokemon pun i love that

I think the ecenomic question is based to much around our world rather than theirs.
Take jewels as an example. To us high value and rare but to ponies an everyday item. Consider how Rarity uses them with much thought in her creations and how it's not the value loss but the effort in gathering more that limit how many Spike gets to eat. Fist sized rubies, to us priceless one of a kind rarities, are the equivalent of dog biscuits.
A gem isn't much more valuable than an ear of corn untill we look at the very top sub 1% of top quality stones in Equestria.

And earth ponies power isn't something with the ground but their endurance. While a unicorn can do something quicker the earth ponies can keep going for much longer, likely outperforming in many tasks when measured over time.

And this is why my OC has an artifact. Wont explain it all here but its an example too. My OC became part Umbrum due to this artifact & became a magic user due to it. If interested in more & how I made it a fair ordeal with magical items hit me up! ^^ otherwise nice vid

What I think is the problem is not the regular, everyday interactions and magic uses of the tribes, but the difference between talented ponies of different tribes. Ponies have different talents, and apparently unicorn magic is based on the unicorn's talent. So magic was Twilight's talent, and other powerful unicorn's talent as well. But what about other tribes with ponies whose talent is their magic?
We will use 3 ponies as an example:
1 = An earth pony whose talent is their tribe's magic
2 = A pegasus whose talent is their tribe's magic
3 = A unicorn whose talent is their tribe's magic

1 is probably very good at farming and/or gardening. They could likely grow large amounts of high-quality plants, flowers and trees. 1 would almost definitely be pretty successful from the sale of these.

2 is probably a good flyer (like Rainbow Dash) and could move clouds quite easily or something. They could likely win a lot of races, and/or create a system something like 'pay me and I will make this beach sunny' or 'pay me and I will make rain water your crops'. Maybe not as successful as 1, but still.

3 is probably good at making/editing/casting spells, this is already pretty OP because... Starlight. Star Swirl was a unicorn whose talent was magic, and he created the time travel spell, and with it, the world is in your hooves. Not to mention all sorts of other things spells can do. They could cast a spell to make things grow, therefore giving them 1's abilities, or to give them wings and move clouds, therefore giving them 3's abilities.



Why am I writing an essay on animated ponies

Magic is like a birthright at this point but you also have to learn spells and learn how to fly

4:06 Exactly! Exactly! I don’t want to spoil my story, but...

For the alchemy point, it said snowfall was almost as studious as starswirl meaning average unicorns could probably not do that

Unicorns are just magical , hearing the word "Unicorn" makes me feel like wow it's so magical but look at Bridlewood tho-

Hm..I have an inquiry.
In the Beginning of the End, Rarity lifted a huge rock and we pan to her panting and tired from doing so.
So I think that yes, unicorns have taken advantage of their magic in the past, but in Gen4, books about powerful magic were probably stored in the Canterlot library, and some of those books showed of in the Golden Oak Library because Celestial might have wanted Twilight to learn more about magic and what she had to learn for her journeys.
Which is also why I think Celestia opened The School for Gifted Unicorns, so that those who showed the great power would use their abilities for good, and the weaker ones have access to simple spells and not those who can let them dominate.
But that’s just my speculations.

I just got out of the intro and I am already hecka intrigued

I do believe that unicorns have a slight advantage, but it’s only a minority that has magic that’s on par with the other tribes/better than other tribes. While the other two tribes are balanced (except for disabled characters like scoots) when it comes to magic, unicorn magic really seems to be luck based as to who has a special talent in magic.

I think that even though unicorns have a higher advantage everybody could become changelings just so it could be fair

"the solution is for everyone to become alicorns, but i don't think society is ready for that one yet..." i agree! (except Pinkie Pie i think you would nerf her by making he an alicorn...)

I think every creatures have some kind of magic. That's why Trek took magic from every pony.

3:17
Awe...
Your new form is actually really good

I was sure that Equestria is a lightly feudal society. The signs of that are obvious. For example, earth ponies represent the peasant class, Pegasus represent the knight class, and Unicorns represent the nobles.

Well think of it this way. Only certain amount of unicorns can perform complex spells. Like twilight, the princess, star swirl, starlight, sunset, and others. But like twilight said. Unicorns with different talents have magic that assist there talent and well for those I said have talents that relate to magic

i think that it should be solved by:

Earth ponies should keep to them selves and by growing crops and building houses and stuff but all should have potions for if something goes wrong and they cant grow more crops when they need it.
Their potion will be able to grow crops out of seeds in an hour or two and that will help them!
But the alicorns will use their powers to make it since we've seen how powerful they all actually are and some little potions wont hurt to make.
Solving the earth pony problems on flying they all can use hot air balloons and if they want to stay on land i guess the pegasus should make roads? cuz we saw that any type of pony can stand on roads while afloat but only for a certain time for these ponies!


ima still edit but i gtg so ill continue writing later :p

How often people forget that Earth Ponies and Pegasi have their own magic. The innate ability to fly, walk on clouds, control the weather IS Magic. Earth pony super strength IS magic. Just because unicorns can actively cast magic doesn't mean that they have a monopoly, and I once wrote a story how Earth Ponies could overcome issues with their innate magic, where unicorns couldn't with their innate casting.

Wouldn't recommend looking it up though :P

Sir what would have happened if Twilight didn't try to steal the pearl of the hippogrifs

I don't think there's a problem here. Because in season 1, episode "Boast Busters", it is said that a Unicorn has little magic and can do simple feats such as levitation or illumination. They also have a spell that relates to their cutie mark. But that's it.
However, ponies whose speciality is magic, such as Twilight Sparkle, Starlight Glimmer, they can do incredible magical feats. Since these kinds of ponies are far more rare, there is no imbalance of magic.
However, I do agree with you that pegasi and especially earth ponies should have more access to magic because I alwys thought that unicorns were pretty OP.

Omg i thought about this back when I was so into mlp and wanted to be an unicorn just because they can use magic to fly and do other things even tho having a pair of wings must be really cool.

Sawtooth: just between you and me the best solution is for everyone to become alicorns
Me who has a alicorn OC: YESS

My only problem with this is that if everyone was equal there would be no reason for most ponies to want to do the hard work like farming which is needed to feed the whole kingdom. A similar problem can be found in real life where as technology advances and more people are given the kind of education to allow them to climb the social ladder through choosing a better job the number of farmers declines and further advances have to be made to even out this problem by using machines that lower the quality of the crops and often cause damage like the episode of my little pony where they have a cider competition with the brothers and their machine. Speaking as a member of the lower class I would like to say that I've seen this happen in my own hometown where the younger generations don't know how farming works. I don't even know what crops grow in which seasons which admittedly is really sad to admit.

I don't think society is ready for that....yet😝

“Everyone to become alicorns.”
Alright, where’s the bug spray

i dont think unicorns have a big adventage. Since unicorns do not have much power unless they go to a magic school or something.
All ponies have magic seen from the tyrek episode, even earthponies contained magic.
I actually made my mlp oc based of this problem of pony society and religions thinking that unicorns are too powerful and have been sinners in their past life, and only way to get rid of the sins is to cut off their horn.

Well, there’s also magic runes, like Futhark, which don’t require a horn to create.

I agree with you unicorns 🦄 seem first class and I agree with you for key to this problem.

Unicorns are most powerful but I like pegasi better

We gotta love the "pull a cozy glow" though.

Depends if null stone effects Internal magic, also unicorn are more vulnerable to magic (Tirek) and just plain less durable

I guess they are OP compared, especially earth ponys are left in the dust.

BUT I believe that is partly intentional by the show and does not need fixing.

Fact is... some humans simply are frail, less intelligent or lack many skills or are just part of the "lower society" and a few are the opposite, that is a fact. Some have influence and power and most others do not.

But in equestria there is a small difference... they might have that huge difference in power but they just simply don't care... twilight for example is basically royalti , but she hangs out with a simple farmer, a simple animal breeder etc. , so does rarity who could be counted as upper class aswell.

Power doesn't really matter in equestria as it is all about the harmony of the whole package , so ultimately it doesn't matter whatsoever what pony-race one is born into, equestrian society is build in a way that sort of balances it all out simply because of the fact that the ponys usually just simply get along and usually don't follow principles of greed or maliciousness.

It doesn't matter if one is frail if one always knows that someone else has ones back if needed and if there isn't really anything that could be cobsidered a big threat to defend against.

Granted there are a few bad ones but even they really aren't that bad.

You are the MLP version of bright side. 🤔

I think the solution (other than everyone becoming an alicorn ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ) is for every tribe to have their own kind of power. For example; earth ponies can have the power to control the earth like earthbenders, pegasi can have the power to control the weather without having to go around and look for a cloud. I think that whould be fair, since i don't think unicorns don't have spells for both of these. Maybe Twilight, Flurry, or whatever alicorn that chould be around can cast a spell that gives these tribes powers.

If you remember correctly, unicorns can only a small amount of Magic. Magic that represents their special talent. Only a few Unicorns would be able to use the spell that can make currency out of a boring rock. Like twilight and Starlight who's special talents Magic itself, they would be able to do that. But Unicorns that have a talent of baking or sculpting would not.

Who would dislike this it's so good

I wouldn't say it's a problem, some ponies are just born with advantages and disadvantages. There's plenty of unicorns that don't maximize the potential of their abilities while there are Earth ponies that can swim on concrete, outrun Pegasus, and have some strange connection with the environment around them. You'll just have to make the best of the situation instead of resenting your body for the things that aren't there.

Making everyone alicorns still wouldn't be balanced intelligent, will power, or even their ambition, now the Pony's Cutie Mark and job occupation will feel like limitations. If you wanted true equality everyone needs to be rocking equality cutie mark, and be jobless and forever limited themselves.

Even the Mane 6 couldn't support life like that.

I mean, not every unicorn is as magically talented as Twilight and Starlight, it is their special talent after all

Just because the legend of the Windigoes was true, it doesn't mean that all stories are true. The Hearths Warming Pagent was always supposed to be considered historically. Perhaps exaggerated and romanticized, but historically nonetheless. Snowfall Frost, on the other hand, there's absolutely no evidence that it's intended to be historical. Nightmare Moon was also a story. I could see the story of Snowfall Frost possibly being historical fiction. After all, George Washington chopping down a cherry tree was historical fiction after all. It never happened.

What you claim as an unfair system is what I could claim as balanced. Because if you took the magic away from Unicorns, the balance would be against Unicorns. Here's the thing. Pegasi use a form of magic to manipulate the weather. Earth Ponies use a form of magic in farming. All three tribes use magic in some form. Sure, maybe Unicorns could have spells that can do what Pegasi and Earth Ponies do. But that just proves that there's nothing special about magic, and by extension, nothing special about Unicorns. The Unicorns' ability to be able to use that magic at will however is what allows them to be balanced. By taking a negative and turning it into a positive. Think about it. If you take the magic away from Unicorns, they can't fly, walk on clouds, or control the weather like Pegasi. And they can't add magic into farming skills and strength like Earth Ponies. And because of this setback, if you include Darwinian evolution, the Unicorns would eventually die off without magic.

Also, the magic of the other tribes is also innate.

In conclusion, in my personal opinion, there is no problem to be fixed. After all, if you take away Unicorn magic, or give magic to other races, it doesn't fix a problem, it causes a problem by creating imbalance.

its D&D logic horned creatures are just sorceress and naturally magical, also with their leaders being Alicorns it would be hard to argue no magic since they need it to live. Also unicorns earned their magic though evolution for survival since that's how evolution works, also if anyone tried they would need to get those specific artifacts which I assume would be a slog and then even if they tried well with enough magic still around they could get get smote by the sun.

When you're early but think if you watch the whole video before commenting you won't be early anymore:

I'm always so excited when he uploads a video

Well, but going by the logic of alicorns being the three tribes magics, don't you think that everyone having 3 ponies worth of magic could have an effect on society? That's assuming magic is infinite, maybe there isn't even enough magic to go around making everyone into alicorns

I believe that there is a power between the tree tribes
If unicorns are so powerful they could just have defeated their enemies with just a spell

The spell casting abilities is part of why i don't have many unicorn or changlings OCs, i just think they're a little too OP

I can already tell this will be good

There is never problems with unicorns, unicorns have been powerful before mlp fim, and some don't even have magic or power. Look what Trixie did with the alicorn amulet, she made herself way more powerful. Unicorns don't have a dvantage at all lets not forget how Ailcorn magic work. Alicorns have the magic of all three ponies, Unicorns, Pegasus, and Earth Pony.

My little brother started watching mlp!
I mentioned to my dad I also watched it last year

He declared me insane :/
And then he wonders why I dont tell him stuff

I think they should ban other spells

making the whole of pony society alicorns is a galaxy brain take thank you

First thing i reaslised was that u have a horn:0

Maybe unicorns doesnt really have that much magical power compare with the other two races, they just can demostrate it in more visual way than the other two races. I mean sure there are some really powerfull unicorns but they aren't necesarry the norm, like until celestia and luna arrive there was necesarry a lot of them to move the sun and the moon and they where using all of his magic just in that, and the other races have feats that the unicorns coulndt do. For example Fluttershy did something that not even the most powerfull alicorns could, reform discord.
And yeah probably there is a spell that can plant food, but the big question is, if an unicorn try to do it, it might the food don't grow as much or get as much nutrients as an earth pony could gather, or if they can probably require a larger ammount of magic.
If you want that any creature use the same type of magic as an unicorn, maybe you can give any one an artifact that allow the creature to take his inate magic and have "horn artifact", but probably would require more magic that an unicorn need to do the same task.
Some what similar to the concept of NEN in hunter x hunter, where there are different specialitions, and if you where born into one you could expand to the others NEN specialitations but at a reduce effectines

Unicorns are too Overpowered,
The Pegasi and Earth Ponies needs to Separate from the Unicorn tribe,
Just like Scotland needs to Separate from England

Wait wait wait-
What if that was the problem in MLP Gen 5? Since we know that magic was erased and all that's left is paranoia and distrust. So what if other ponies realised this unfair advantage that unicorns have and decided to protest against it? Mabey at one point someone was able to erase Magic from equestria for real?

another thing to consider is how the different races are TAUGHT to use their magic. equestria has entire schools dedicated to teaching young unicorns how to harness and grow their magic. imagine if we had similar schools for earth ponies and pegasi. i suppose pegasi have a version of that with strengthening their flight and learning to become weather ponies. but what about earth ponies? they seem to learn basic stuff like maths, history, etc. where’s their specialized education?

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Sawtooth's Concepts or whatever you call it lol is so interesting, they make sense too! I just started watching your channel, its da best concept - making channel of MLP <3 Love your vids so much!

I think majority of unicorn "upper class" is caused more by fact earthponies and pegasy to have actual work to do which is important for society (farming and weather management) while unicorns seem to be more freely to be schollars as they arent as important in chain of life since princess sisters took responsibility with day/night cyrcle from them, and so getting more lead and managing positions or more fancy jobs

I tried to answer as many theories as I can
Discord didn’t have a cutie mark.

Either it’s his chaos that’s not letting him because magic is created by harmony
Or discord never found his true destiny.Of course it may been because of his chaos magic.

Is sunset an alicorn?
I don’t think she’s even supposed to be a pony just look at the lyrics in “My past is not today”

“That's when your friendship found me and it lifted me instead
Like a PHEONIX burning bright in the sky”
She is comparing herself to a Phoenix she even looks part Phoenix. This might give us a chance to see what other creatures might look on the other side of the portal.

It's not that unicorns are over powered. It's just more raw forms of magic. You can have an earthpony kick a mountain into gravel, a Pegasus that can have storms destroy everything in sight, yet it doesn't mean every member of that race can do that. Everyone has strengths and weakness, so it would be unfair to point the blame on solely one race. Odd theory but do you think that if Cozy was successful, that herself and the other Pegasus would be grounded? The Earth ponies unable to grow their crops? So while yes she would screw over all the unicorns, but when a storm comes to tear up the very small amount of land left for growing food. What is she going to do? The sun would remain up, no pony could dream, love would grow stale, and all research would be for something that wouldn't exist. Even if I'm biased here (being an alicorn) it still begs the question, what would happen to her if she succeeded and Starlight is cast to the void? I know for a fact Cozy would be lucky if she could walk after her crimes were made public, which this would be the most public crime you could get.

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While there is a problem here, I think that there is a limit on magic unicorns can use. Let's take the gems example you gave. Rarity's cutie mark is gems, which means she has an inate connection to them, which may help her find them, but it's not necessarily the case for ALL unicorns. Unicorns like starlight or twilight, who's cutie marks are literally just symbolizing their powerful magic, will probably be able to do pretty much any spell, but I have a theory that for regular unicorns, that'd be impossible. Again, if we take rarity, she can use basic magic, but her magic has never been shown to be capable of the things twilight or starlight can do, even before twilight became a unicorn. So there's a high chance that there's different types of magic, and while most unicorns can do basic stuff like pick up objects and the like, to be able to do something more complicated they need to have an innate affinity for it, given by their cutie marks. I think another point that supports this theory is.....Fluttershy. She can seemingly talk to animals, but....how? Is it possible that despite being a Pegasus, it's because her cutie mark gave her magic?

Only the most powerful unicorns can float themselves or cast a spell for walking on clouds. But every pegasus is able to do it, also make rain fall from clouds and so much more. We see earth ponies like Applejack or Maud having such strength at lifting things that only the most powerful unicorns would be able to lift, and we see Pinkie, Maud and Cheese having sences that no pony else has, also Pinkie has a lot other crazy powers. The pegasus and earth ponies I mentioned probably have stronger magical ablilities than Sunburts for example, who is a weaker unicorn.

A couple things for the power of unicorns only specific unicorns can do all the magic. Basically unicorns whose talent is magic in of itself. Otherwise unicorns have a specific spell or spells they are good at and are mediocre or just down right can't do other spells. Pegasi and Earth ponies need each other one can tend to the land and make food then other can control the weather to help with said food growing. We have confirmation that Unicorns have essentially mastered weather more or less but there is no info on their food production abilities and we have seen time and time again however that when earth ponies stop making food everyone suffers. Earth ponies have a special bond with the earth and currently unicorns or at least the majority or normie unicorns can't reproduce that connection. There is also the strength, stamina, and durability portion of it doing the work and all that. I know spells, but that ties back in to the general unicorns only being great at specifics and if they are lucky(or willing to put in insane amounts of effort) okay with others. I the real issue( in the past really less so now) was the seeming education gap between earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns. There was clear imbalance there. Great video though. I'm glad you're making consistent content again.

I’ve noticed that most (or maybe all) pony villains were unicorns (or alicorns).

I smell r a c i s m

Unicorns aren’t as overpowered as you think, back in season one, in the episode when we first meet Trixy, spike says “I thought unicorns only had a little bit of magic for their special talent” only unicorns who’s special talent is MAGIC have so many options for spells, it’s a lot harder for every pony else

I think if magic was removed from equestria, pegasi would have an unfair advantage because they can fly.

unicorns can't really use economics for finding gems, since the only unicorn we've seen finding gems was rarity (adding to the point that it's literally her destiny/on her cutie mark). rarity only got her cutie mark after finding gems

If G5 IS canon to MLP as in "These characters re directly descended from the G4 cast and live in the same world in the same time line...which may not be the case, remember Equestria Girls is also canon... Then it is possible that removing magic does happen. Maybe threw the same spell Cozy Glow tried before? (more theories on that) or maybe from some other use of artifacts in some combination. Lets see if I can think of 10 ways that make G5 the canon main time line of G4 despite the fact that any number of characters would try to stop this .

1. Cozy Glow's sell
2. Some one ate the magic
3. Rise in technology made magic less important and it was given up
4. A threat so bad that the only way to stop it was to get ride of magic ... see also Star Vs.
5. the loss of the tree of harmony
6. a combination of things . Artifacts, technology, nature which not only got ride of magic but also erased the memories of trapped or immobilized those who could have stopped it.
7. a political movement made the public demand it so loudly they could not be ignored
8. some one hunted down all magic users nd it was seen s the only way to survive
9. some thing effected the whole planet so fast no one had time to stop it
10. Stolen cuttiemrks

I do like your idea of "if every one was special no one would be special"

but here are other reasons why G5 has no magic

its a separate time line in the same multiverse just like the human world is
1. its the world where Cozy Glow's plan worked
2. its the world where MLP was just a fictional show
3. When Cozy Glow's plan was foiled a 2nd world lost its magic
4. It simple never had magic to begin with
5. Its an alternate reality from when Equestria was founded and they did it to stop the wendigos
6. Its the world where Tirek won
7. Its the world where Starlight Glimmer won
8. its a fake world, like the Power Ponies comic
9. Its world where Twilight was never born
10 its a world that's just on its own with no connection to G4 other then Twilight opened a portal to it once.

I would love to see What would happen if the reverse happened? If apple Bloom and Scootaloo and Pinkie Pie nd Rainbow Dash and others suddenly had magic?

When you're early as heck but nothing to say -_-

chicken think
most unicorn is using magic like ... extra pair of hands . levitating objects and to some extent teleportation or other smaller spels . Rarity doesn't use magic as a caster in everyday life, only on rock hunts. trixie outright sucks at magic.
therefore i propose an idea that unicorns in general are not overowered at magic at all, vast majority sucks at magic. however those who atended celestia school for gifted unicorns are teached how theyre magic can be used as a tool on a greater scape. and common unicorns just use magic as hands and as a thing related to theyre cutie mark.

That's why ponies in G5 order unicorns to wear weird things on their horns because they are afraid of them. Even when they are in the situation where magic doesn't exist.

sawtooth: unicorns are overpowered
alicorns: am i a joke to you

Methinks that it was said before that during the era of the 3 tribes that the unicorns tried to do that which you said they can do and failed showing that while yes in theory a Unicorn could do the job of either a Pegasus or a Earth pony the effort to do so is more than what it's worth and possibly end up being disastrous, the more proficient unicorns emphasize how focus is important and how an errant thoughts could cause a whole load of problems while casting spells, looking at it all from what little the shows cares on that standpoint.

Also don't care if anyone mentions G5 it hasn't been released and by the end it could just be going on a quest to find the mystical ball of neverending yarn of friendship

I was so invested I forgot I was early
"Omg no one cares"
Yes

Could you cover this one? : " What if ALL of the mlp characters were alicorns, just born as alicorns, every single one.

Don't forget there are diferent levels of magic talent amoung unicorns. And don't forget Pegasus can control the weather, something even unicorn magic can't do. You can see that Rarity couldn't do a thing even when she had a cuty mark for it and Celestia and Luna couldn't even battle the storms in the Cristal empire.

I will admit the magic system is a bit eh. But to be fair most Unicorns can only use the majority of their magic for their specific special talent, only a handful are able to use their magic for a wide range of uses (such as Twilight, Sunset, and Starlight). Yes a Unicorn could use their magic to produce valuable materials, but that Unicorn would have to have the specific talent in order to do said magic.

Ok I might also be biast because I have a changeling OC but I think just finding ways to give non-unicorns magic is the best solution

Hi

not all unicorns can use magic spells, rarity and most unicorns can't use magic, only a few have magic abilities. Earth ponies have the number advantage and the natural strength, pegasuses have the speed and they are shown to be fierce soldiers and adventurers.

with all due respect I also like this video very well, you ask an interesting question in it which I like just so on by making a similar video . :)

I think this is why hasbro put a unicorn in the show Imagine..."whatever race you are,we still and always can be friend with another". This is like the hidden detail Hasbro put in this show on purpose😵

This might explain how in the gen 5 promotion images Izzy has a tennis ball on her horn. They want everypony to be equal in terms of magic.

Hello

I have an oc thats born a pegasus, but can use unicorn magic with his wings, exploring all the potentials like this can make so many cool ocs!

It may be possible, but I think that alchemy trick turning stone into gold was very, very difficult. Snowfall Frost was a powerful unicorn and she struggled to do this trick. Not all unicorns are powerful. In the episode where Trixie comes up the first time, Twilight said that unicorns that have their special talent in other things than magic, don't have powerful magic in them like unicorns that have their special talent in magic. The unicorns who habe their special talent in cooking for example, can perform better cooking magic tricks than turning something into gold. THe amount and kind of magic spells is dominated by your special talent. Not even that is promised, because Sunburst's special talent is magic and he isn't powerful. Unicorns aren't that owerpowered in my opinion. If you have an OC that's a unicorn and you have your special talent in sewing, you may learn spells that help you with that talent. A part of Rarity's talent are gem stones, so she could learn this spell easier than any other pony.

Makes sense. But in MLP G5 movie synopsis, it says that "Equestria lost it's magic", so after watching this video i sense a connection

if it were up to me, i would’ve written earth ponies and pegasi to have their own kind of magic
like, imagine an earth pony learning to cast magic without a horn
doesn’t that sound awesome?
kinda like how in the owl house, luz figures out a way to cast magic despite not being able to physically
i hope what i’m saying makes actual sense

ayyyyye

Hearths warming Eve is a unicorn holiday enforced throughout equestria. The Windigos story is not true. Equestria will be fine without magic, but the unicorns don't want the masses knowing that as that would threaten the power they have and the peace they have accrued.

I think unicorns are just fine. Even though they have a lot of magic. And they also have a job so they stick to their own job. Besides pegisi and eartponys have their own job the unicorn won't care to bother. Besides they do like fashion so they wouldn't want to get their hoofs dirty. And they like the ground better than the sky they like to keep their hoofs on the ground better then falling through clouds and they won't bother the other pony's job

I think the solution is just the fact that we, the viewers, might have a warped sense of how common advanced magic is in Equestria. Most ponies can’t do ANYTHING like what Twilight or the princesses do unless it is directly related to the special talent. Most spells to take over the things other ponies do are borderline impossible for the common unicorn.

Okay... So for your economic speculation, you need to look at how money moves in Equestria. The economics is somewhat fuzzy because it appears to be a hybrid system of economy (goods for money), obligation (goods for favors), with some good old command economy thrown in. Take 'fluttershy's hurricane'. Several dozen pegasus got together, spent days of time training, performed a hazardous maneuver, all to transfer water to Cloudsdale. WHY? We don't see anyone getting paid for their labor here. Did Celestia order them? Did Rainbow Dash pay them? Both? Or is there an understanding of obligation, where in Ponyville provides the water so Cloudsdale will create rain so Ponyville farms get crops so Ponyville pegasus are provided food? Or all three? Or maybe each race of pony has a different economic system?

Well let's consider money. We have bits and gems, but the latter seem to be the inferior currency... like spare change. Valuable for their tastiness or looks, but otherwise sort of cheap. So if we have bits as coins, that means a mint. If we have gold coins, it means a source for gold. Both fit your theory of unicorns controlling the gold supply. However, if the money just stayed with the unicorns, they'd have a lot of problems very quickly. I doubt Unicorns want to spend every second of the day trying to grow carrots in solid rock. But by transferring money to Earth Ponies and pegasus, unicorns have access to goods and services that would otherwise be more onerous to achieve themselves.

So why would Earth ponies even accept bits? I mean, they could use giant stone disks. Rockhoof could probably carry a dozen! Okay, so obviously small gold coins are easier to transport. However, I suspect that it's also because the earth pony economy is far more diverse that it benefits from the efficiency that bits offer. Barter is a pain in the hindquarters. So unicorns provide a steady stream of money, and earth ponies convert goods and services into financial transactions. However, I have to speculate the liquidity of the Earth Pony society. We see all of Ponyville can buy a cup of cider for two bits. But a cherry goes for 2 as well? Meanwhile a rent in Manehattan goes for 50,000. How much money does Rarity HAVE?

A good question is one you brought up: can Equestrians just make gold? If it's possible, then the bit is effectively a fiat currency, gold or not. In that case, how is inflation managed? Does Celestia just pass excess currency to local dragons to horde? I mean, it would counteract inflation temporarily... till a dragon's horde is taken and suddenly cherries cost 10 bits...

Anyway, going back to pegasus, how would money move to them? Are individual pegasus paid for weather work? We see some are employed in logistics, which makes sense, but what about weather (arguably the most valuable service they render.)? In fact, now that I think of it, DO pegasus have any exportable goods? Everything seems to be made of cloud, unless their property is literally enchanted somehow to allow physical wealth to be accumulated in the clouds. Still, I don't think the pegasus DO have any goods to export. There's nothing to grow and nothing to mine. So I suspect their economy is 100% service related: delivering goods or services to earth ponies.

But there's a problem. If pegasus are constantly providing services, what do they do with all their money? Sure, some goes back to the earth ponies to purchase food, but this gets us to a problem of compensation: would you bust clouds for 2 bits a day? Probably not. So why do they do it? If they're paid more, what do they do with all the excess inflation? Well, it could be that pegasi are under some kind of mass obligation. Perhaps celestia pays cloudsdale for weather and all that money is then distributed to all pegasi equally? Certainly explain why Fluttershy doesn't starve. And it would be a reason why Celestia could temporary compel pegasi for the tornado. It could also be that a lot of it is lost to taxes, but I think that trying to tax pegasi would be a nightmare. Hard enough to tax people who can't fly, let alone who can move their homes elsewhere in the sky.

No, I suspect the key is in banking. I'm fairly sure that all that income then returns to banks. The pegasi are paid and excess is deposited in a bank, making pegasi extremely paper wealthy. And if the banks are controlled by unicorns, well then the cycle is complete. Unicorns mint money, money is traded to earth ponies who are producers of goods, and then the money moves to pegasi in exchange for services. The pegasi bank the excess to be lent. For this model to work, I suspect there are many, many, many more earth ponies than pegasi or unicorns.

In reality, I know it's mostly because writers don't care about economics, but since when has that stopped speculation?

First

It actually said that the unicorns magic ONLY to relate to their special talent.

Hi sawtooth! Can you please make a video on why flurry’s eyes are different from other baby ponies eyes

Earth ponies and Pegasus ponies are important too because in the episode of my little pony rarity 's cutie mark switch with rainbow dash she cannot control the weather like rainbow dash did and when twilight tried to pull the machine that helped to clear the snow in the winter wrap up scene she used a spell but it didn't work out so that mean earth pony and Pegasus are also important in their activities Pegasus ponies for taking care of the weather and earth ponies for harvesting plants

technically everyone is balanced but we only get biased because of the magic we the audience see from twilight and starlight most unicorns cant do crazy shields or laser beams most unicorns have magic that relates to there talent and if a unicorns talent is magic there obviously going to be able to do alot more then the average unicorn same goes for pegisia some excel at flying but most are not good enough to make it onto the wonderbolts some may have a talent in weather some may have some other talent earth pony's have talents like baking farming and other talents like music it is rather balanced if you look at the average earth pony pegisia and unicorn

Awesome video, i love it keep it up

I really do love this video❤️

I think they all have innate magic just unicorns have an easier time accessing it and if earth ponies and Pegasi trained they could tap in to magic too and do earth air and weather magic on a higher extent than unicorns

0:00-0:25 um, the unicorns were powerless when the windigos is made it super cold, so I know the Pegasus can do that. And from what we see of most unicorns, they all run away from dirt or garden work, so earthponystuff just saying. Also, as we saw most unicorns are not that good at magic in orticular unless they study it, because we heard Mr Cake say no unicron in ponyville and likely any other NORMAl town is near Twilight and starlights magic.

Alicorns are the ones in power so they can ban unicorns for using potions to do certain things that can be spelled and they have to take permission from Twilight to make potions for some tasks .

Despite how much utility and power unicorns have, more bronies prefer to be a pegasus rather than a unicorn.

I have an idea for your next video: Cadence the bringer of destruction/fall of the crystal empire
How old is cadence? Think about it, she has the crystal heart as her cutiemark yet the crystal empire was gone up until season 3, so she had to have been around before the crystal empire vanished. We also know that cadence was not banished along with the crystal ponies because she babysat twilight. She was an alicorn as far back as we can see and we know they age differently; so she could be way older than we thought. Is it possible that cadence is a crystal pony & that when king Sombra turned bad Cadence is the one that asked the princesses to save the crystal empire? The other theory on the changelings cohabitating in the crystal empire also makes sense because when queen chrysalis was posing as cadence for the royal wedding Cadence seemed to be the one that already knew the most about them. (also Celestia, because she knew queen chrysalis' name before she had to be introduced.)
I would make a lot of sense if the princess of "love" earned her alicorn status (by creating a new type of magic "love is magic") in a society where love is an integral part of existing: the light and love charges the crystal heart, and the love that the changelings use. But wait! is it possible that the princess worthy deed that cadence did to become an alicorn was put the crystal heart system in place? Think about it. If the empire previously used a different system to keep the winter at bay and it failed, then an extraordinary young unicorn who had just realized that love is a magic strong enough to keep the winter at bay. She carved a large crystal into the symbol of love and instructed the panicking ponies that this would work and to be strong for the ponies that they cared about. They could already see how the power their love fed the changelings. Cadence performs a love spell on the crystal heart turning it into a vessel for the strength of love that that the ponies had for each other and the cold wind of the north are blasted back. Cadence floats into the sky be magic not her own and vanished into another realm where she meets celestia for the first time. She gets her wings and reappears in front of the crystal ponies as an alicorn (and perhaps earning her cutiemark at the same time). The ponies celebrate and declare this young pony Cadence is worthy of becoming their leader someday. This puts king sombra's position at risk. But, he has bigger things to worry about: the crystal heart system seems to be working well but Sombra sees a problem. The changelings apatite for love is now a problem because the empire now runs off of love. If the changlings grow in numbers or if their apatite increases it will put the empire at risk. There is only one thing to do banish the changelings. (If my theory is correct: the mere presence of Cadence is the reason the crystal empire fell and why the changelings turned bad. Although chrysalis didn't seem to be hold any particular grudge against sombra when grogar brought them all together, maybe because cadence had a more direct hand in their banishment.)
After all this it would make sense why no one bothers to mention her past, she didn't even tell twilight. Why would she? Its even worse than (more embarrassing) than starlight's past. Think about it; her becoming an alicorn the symbol of leadership caused sombra's corruption (though it may not have changed the outcome for the changelings). This is an example of Starswirl's alicorn creation system causing negative results. If she had not become an alicorn she would simply have become something of a hero to the people as spike did & even more important not a threat to Sombra's position (especially if he wasn't an alicorn. This could've lead to him seeking different means to appear more powerful to the people to solidify his position, via the alicorn amulet that corrupts anyone who wears it)

I think Unicorn Magic is more structured and harder for most unicorns to get amazing at. A lowly Unicorn can lift a object up while Earth Ponies can alter the ground easy and even the lowly peagsus can eventually Fly.

Unicorns can reach the highest highs but using a scale for our world is, I really only thing a few would be "Archmage" or even "Wizard" level of magic skill more like "Adept" or like Rarity with 3 more spells.

So that's why unicorns were worse off in the movie. They relied so much on their magic that without it their society crumbled.

1- I don’t think that all unicorns are OP. They have to first have the ability to to do certain spells and then be able to perform them. If their talent is magic like Twi and Starlight then yeah. But for example I don’t think rarity could make herself fly or be able to walk on clouds like Starlight. I also don’t think that she could teleport like Twilight can.
2- things like making bits are probably physically off limits. Like in the wizarding world, they can’t make money.
3- “pull a Cozy Glow”. Can we make that a thing 😂

for me, twilight looks a little more cool with wings

how to solve it(disolve)?
in Aqua Regis, of course.
On the detail of Magic, the Pegasi will fall to the ground if magic dissapears,
and the harvests will falter as well.

Cozy I know you have strong feelings about magic but please compose yourself, you’re on the thumbnail.

What if they pulled almost a modified version of what cozy glow did draining almost all the magic into something and and using the remaining unicorn magic to give that magic to everyone because we have seen unicorns using there magic to give ponys abilities so they could come together and give everyone some sort of ability pegasus unicorn or earth pony because then theres no imbalance everyone is at an equal power level but still have power

There is a story, on AO3 about the hunt for more Alicorns, and there are Definitely more canon alicorns, just none that we have seen.

I actually have a theory about this that is more than 100% noncanon but i still really want to share it. Maybe unicorns werent born powerfull and just became so through time otherwise it dosent really make sense to be honnest. Maybe in the past they could use there magic just to pic up things and found ways to cast spells and stuff. But not every unicorn in the series seems to have a big knolege in magic,rarity could be an example.
She does know some tricks but still isint at twilights level. In equestria magic knolege just seems more of a tallent/gift if you know what i mean.
Sorry for my bad english

I'm obsessed with his intro lmao

Cozy Glow was ahead of her time.

Snowfall Frost almost made inflation a big problem on top of almost erasing Hearth's Warming

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But some unicorns can’t do extreme magic like twilight before she became alicorn and rarity can do simple magic

This is why magic must serve Equestria, not rule over it.

I am curious about Queen Chrysalis. Is she a form of alicorn? Or a different species altogether? Though there is still not that much info about her Origins.

Well, I don't think every pony should be an alicorn. If they were you would have to check if they have good morals and create new magic. That would take a lot of time, money, and effort. And if all the ponies were turned into alicorns, I'm pretty sure they'll be a few bad eggs, who would be able to hide their psychopath personality. Also, I don't think everyone has what it takes to make new magic, some are stronger magic users than others. (But it would be cool if the ponies who used alchemy would try to make themselves and their children alicorns).

id still remouve magic or limit it forcefully. artifacts are mostly made by unicorns or magical beings from what im guessing so artifacts are a bad solutions.

I still wonder if earth ponies can turn into alicorns...🤔🤔🤔🤔
Is there any evidence?

How are you still cranking out this stuff this long after the shows ending XD

Everyone knows how he's a changeling-but I just can't get over that I love it-

I always thought that since unicorn magic is so op it must be really rare for a for a unicorn to have powerful magic and most unicorns are not that gifted

Getting rid of magic... Hmmm. Doing that would just put pegasus' the upper hand, or hoof, because while unicorns no longer have magic, the pegasus' are able to fly and walk on clouds. Therefore making them the strongest. Right? Please let me know if I missed some thing or got something wrong.

Well. I've been a fan of you for so long and I wanna say I luv ur videos post more! And also I wanted to say that if they take magic from unicorns there gonna be like earth ponys but with horns. 😐

the unicorns should give horns to pony's and creatures

Hi I have a video idea. When I was younger I played the my little pony game so since I wanted to see and relive my childhood memories I downloaded it again and some of the artwork was different maybe an alternate dimension i think you should explore

Unicorns should be banned from learning to use artifacts and potions and should only have other types of pony like pegasi and earth ponies allowed to use them

When I played with my mlp toys before I would imagine that rainbow, apple jack, fluttershy, and pinkie pie had rainbows coming from there hair but Rarity and Twilight (and DJ pom 3) had it from there horns 😁

It doesn't really make sense that both.
1. Gold was valuable and used as currency.
2. Unicorns could easily make it.
It's possible that making gold was relatively hard and so it was valuable.
But honestly, it's more likely unicorns got richer than everybody else by basically offering all kinds of magic-related goods and services, not just creating gold and finding gems.
Gold is not intrinsically valuable such that if you have infinite gold you have infinite riches. Same with gems, in fact, gems are likely relatively cheap in Equestria by how abundant they seem to be.
If you can actually make tons of actual gold with alchemy the bit has to be fiat currency and not valuable because of its gold content but by some hard-to-replicate pattern or enchantment or something.
"By the power of alchemy this lead is no gold" said the unicorn wizard
"By the power of economics that gold is now worthless"replied the earth pony scholar with a deadpan expression.

It would be weird to ban alchemy if that's a thing anyway, it would be ​like if someone banned mining gold.
Or maybe alchemy doesn't really create gold just makes gold-looking counterfeit bits which would make sense to ban.

T hat said I totally approve of the transhumanist(transponist? transcreaturist?) project of turning everyone into op unaging alicorns.

Hmm, I wonder if this could have some bearing on the G5 movie, where Equestria has apparently lost all its magic or something.

I think our opinion of unicorns is skewed. We rarely saw normal boring everyday unicorns. Almost all the prominent unicorns in the show had their special talent somehow relating to their magic (Twilight was magic, Starlight was magic, Sunset was magic, Rarity was her gem finding ability aka magic). Sweetie Belle didn't have a cutie mark for over half the show and could barely use magic, even by the end of the show she can only really lift stuff. So to claim that all unicorns are so OP would be like claiming that all pegasi can do sonic rainbooms, or all earth ponies can blast around and break physics.

Rarity can only really find gems effectively because it's her talent. Plus it has been said in the show that all ponies have magic. Earth ponies have magic that allows them to grow food effectively, while pegasi have magic that allows them to fly and control the weather (they can stand on clouds and the like). Sure unicorns could potentially make money with alchemy, but what good is alchemy if there's constantly tornadoes because the pegasi hate you?
Most unicorns can only really use magic to pick up a lot of things at once, doing much more requires years of study and practice OR having a special talent that gives them that ability.

Maybe there a law or something to keep them from using there powers over limit and becoming to powerful but if they do then maybe the princess will stop them even thought some unicorns are really powerful i still don't think they could defeat an Alcorn unless they used some type of artifact

Unless you are a none unicorn villain
you ain’t gettin that magic

I heard in gen 5 there is no magic and it takes place in the same universe

I used to think being a pegasus would be cool. I definitely would choose unicorn now because as a talking horse you don't have hands and unicorns are the only ones that can grab things LOL!!!

As a Pegasus I don’t care about the magic imbalance as most unicorns are not that powerful I would assume. I also just like how each creature is born different!!!!

Alchemy is a LOT more than turning materials into other materials. That's like saying the field of medicine is a practice of fixing broken legs.

oh cool! if you read the comics in the background you can see why Zicora speaks in rhythm that’s pretty neat

i think theres also magic in pegasi and their wings and weather stuff and earth ponies on their strength and food related stuff... so if unicorns had the general magic then they might me weaker than the otherrs in terms of strength ^__^

i luv how he has a form for every creature in mlp

Actually, if they do the election thing like you said everyone becoming an alicorn would work

There is a fanfic called "Fahrenheit 98.6" or something like that. For the life of me I can't find it, but everyone in that world could get prosthetic wigs and/or horns that work the same as natural ones. I believe that they will be the future of Equestria.

Sunny Starscout, an earth pony have shooting stars for her cutie mark hinting towards her finding a way to use magic despite not having a horn, and so its possible that G5 will try to find a way for all 3 races to use magic in some way.(Making them more equal in power)

But most unicorns have limited access to certain spells like how rarity can't preform certain spells because of her innate talents twilight has the ability to cast such a large variety becuase her innate talent is magic but with most unicorns that's not the case

There is another thing that makes Unicorns stronger. Hygiene. While most ponies must hold objects mainly using their mouths, unicorns can make stuff float around, and are constantly using this ability. This way they can be healthier, and therefore havs another advantage. Think about it.

I think that IF unicorns use magic for themselves or to cause a lot of chaos they could be transformed into a different creature for all eternity, think about the Greek myth of the girl who became the first spider (reply saying her name I forgot it! T-T)... She said she was better than the gods and Athena (a Greek goddess) transformed into an old woman and revealed herself and challenged the girl to a weaving duel. The girl won and jealous, Athena turned the girl into a spider. What if creatures in Tartarus are unicorns who abused their blessed powers and transformed into a creature?! 🦄➡️👹

I think you're overestimating unicorns and underestimating the other pony races not every unicorn is Twilight or starlight or Starswirl or sunset , and most other unicorns are not magical prodigies so they couldn't even do half the stuff Twilight can do and and you also have to consider the fact that the unicorns needed the earth pony and pegasi to tend to the land and the sky because they couldn't do it themselves , which could mean that unicorn magic is not good for dealing with those things. And also both Pinky and Maude have been shown to move faster than I can see and can break solid stone with their hooves and let's not forget rainbow dash the fastest thing in Equestria she could most likely knock out the a unicorn before they could even blink

I agree but I think unicorns can just read a spell for precious Jems coming right in front of their eyes

Some think earth ponies will go extinct. We need Pegasi to control the clouds, and it’s sown it’s a lot harder for magic users to do that. BUT, we saw how easy it is for unicorns to make crops with magic and food. So, If that’s the only earth ponies use, and it’s taken by magic, then they are useless.

In my dream I was jealous because of some people who pokemon can mega evolve and I don't have a mega evolution stone and a part of armour and I did for a hour and I still pissed and a problem grow WAY out of hand and the source was me and I had no chance now and a member of the seven ( remember that the sincetist got flurry heart out) named the balancer showed up and I was the problem source and I saw my ex brother with my mega evolution stone and so the balancer was about to remove it entirely but I got a call from shinning armour saying that there's something crashed at the crystal empire and I saw the thing was a far more powerful version and when the ultra guardian tried to get close but moved away and novamos got hit hard and I was there near the mega evolution stone and I didn't got blasted away but I made contact and it shrunk and I took to zercora and she gave me a mega evolution armour part a shoulder pad and when the stone was installed I instantly mega evolve but rekt zercora roof oops and what cozy glow equestrian magic taking did give birth to my oc after the kaijun drone hybrid were all killed

I been left the mlp fandom but I still love these videos😫

Magic is a tool and tools can be abused so I wouldn't be surprised if magic was abused for personal gain

Also, the majority of alicorns seem to originate from unicorns.

Imagine if the legit MLP wasn't for kids. The non-unicorn ponies likely would have declared a war at some point to cut off the unicorns horns from the base/roots so there's zero unicorn magic or at least not nearly as effective.

Unicorns are also important if their is no unicorn magic than it would be harder to ponies to do their jobs.Telekinesis is used for controlling objects and beams are used for destroying and more

But what if a pegasus became an alicorn?? Is that even possible or if an earth pony became an alicorn cause I mean they don't know how to use magic ✨

Actually bits were used in the season 2 episode “Putting your hoof down”

It's pretty obvious they have a clear disadvantage, they can't hug or else they accidentally stab

I think Canterlot if it has mostly unicorns living there! Then at the Start of the form of equestria! That's where Unicorns came from! Because when granny Smith talked about the foundering of Ponyville it was only earth ponies of I think earth ponies are from there Unicorns from Canterlot and Pegasus from Cloudsdale! Btw I love your content it's so interesting and I'm a big fan of the show!

It could be true but if things are fair it might go south if it did happend, Teirk will be stronger than last time even if the villans will team up, Count Sombra in too. It will be a problem.

i think it's very possible that the other races have magic we've not yet seen. I wouldn't write off unicorns as the only magic users of ponies but they use the ARCANE magic. Where earth magic is done by earth ponies and weather magic is used by pegasi. Let's say an earth pony has a powerful tie to let's say, a certain apple orchard. They're magic over that orchard is likely to be strong and it would take a powerful unicorn to undo that magic. Why are apples ALWAYS in season?

Well this theory seems particularly corny

Ok I'll see myself out

the clear and obvious answer is for everyone to be converted into changedlings!

too many comments to read, buuut:
the horn is only one side of inequacy in Equestria, and "pulling a Cozy Glow" looks awfully like pulling a Starlight Glimmer:
The ability to make magic potions isn't open to everyone. Zecora and Gabby the griffon are pretty good at it, but Applebloom struggles with it. And same with magic, not all unicorns are able to do just anything with their horn (even if you don't count damaged horns). So I don't think just any unicorn could have changed dirt into gold. How much time and dedicacy did it take for the great and powerful Trixie to poof things into teacups!
And to be fair, some cutie marks's related talent are unequally useful.
Now you'd say earth ponies have the loosing end, but I think the whole talent thing is deeper than that, and that if you tested every pony on the farming field, earth ponies would be naturally more skilled, as in maybe... idk, maybe they have a green thumb, or something, and maybe a natural sense of cooking? I mean they were in charge of feeding everypony, so I guess unless your cutie mark is related to cooking if you're not an earth pony you might be less good? I mean I see here and there some counter examples like that pegasus colt who made an anti-mark revolution and his brother but I think it'd be a general tendance.
I suppose talent in all creature is deeper than just a question of cutie mark. For some reason Gabby is skilled in many things, while some others struggle with the one good thing they do...

Hypothetically, if I- someone wanted to turn everyone into alicorns, how would I do it- I mean they do it?

I disagree. Because most magic users have limits Twilight and starlight are exceptions most unicorns can't use teleportation or make force field it takes too much concentration and you need to study extremely hard. Play the other two races have the physical advantages over unicorns if they can't cast their spell before an earth pony or Pegasus is their hands on them the fight pretty much over. One hit to the horn pretty much in a uniform.

The way I understood it is that all ponies have magic, but unicorns are the only ones who can actually directly manipulate it because of their horns.

It would be nice if earth pony’s controlled the ground and pegasuses controlled air then it would be fair kinda

Sawtooth there is an economic unbalance:apple cider,the wonder bolts,guards wait they can be unicorns wait how much
Do they get paid???oh well um ok nvm there only farming and weather jobs that for non-unicorns

I'd say somehow give pegasus and earth ponies unicorn magic too just without the horn

I love all your deffernt accessories!

There is no power balance for only unicorns have the capability to conquer, dominate, subjugate and enslave. Just take a look at Trixie, Sombra, Starlight and Tempest Shadow. All you have to do in Equestria is show brute force and enslave the other pony races to do your bidding. Unicorns are the master race because they have the capability to do so once they are set in that mindset. Just take a look at the four examples.

The only thing I don’t appreciate about this video is Cozy Glow being on the thumbnail.

Is anybody else sad that "My little pony: Friendship is Magic" ended?

"... everyone should become alicorns." - Now you're talking!

Hey Sawtooth, could you maybe make a video about the upcoming MLP G5 movie and its characters? Would love that :D

They technically got unicorn tails wrong to they are should according to lore have lion tails but then again they don't take Pegasus anatomy seriously either they can even bend their feathers as if they have a muscular structure and joints

I think that the main character who is an earth pony by the way in the gen 5 movie will have magic born inside her as her cutie mark suggests

Don't pegasi have magic too? Maybe unicorns have more, but pegasi have some too. I mean when Tirek drained the pegasi's magic, they stopped flying. It's their magic that helps them fly, not their wings. Weird!

Don’t worry, the sequel did like Bungie nerfed the EVERY LOVING F+++ out of Warlocks-
I mean unicorns.

Plus it seems like unicorn spells are there because biologically weaker then the other tribes. Earth ponies are often very strong and weigh more then the other tribes. All the way back to g1 earth ponies were the only ones strong enough to cary 2 people on their back while jumping over cliffs. Pegasus ponies tend to be fast and lighter so they can fly, plus in the past generations Pegasi could cross between worlds thought rainbow. Ever since g1 Pegasus were often tomboys (though flutter shy and derpy really don’t fall in that category) unicorns however in the tails of equestria always start out with the weakest body die of 4.

What I would love to see is that like a type of coven system were basically a family or group of pony would be a coven and one pony in each coven have magic it would creat a system were some covens posed more magic but it would creat equal magic potential in each pony and I would do it like each different type of pony get a easier type of magic like earth pony are easer at using earth magic and plant magic and more thing that happen in nature and pegasus having a power to wield magic like ice water air light and stuff that mostly in the atmosphere and unicorns have the magic with dark fire and more creative type of magic like an example can be that unicorn can make explosive while a earth pony would be able to make flower burst or like vine waves Pegasus would make like light beam and air bomb there magic would be rooted in the pony type there is but they would be able to use other types of magic but it would be a little more difficult for them it would be like a ant trying to learn how to fly it would be hard or another example would be a Pegasus trying to move a rock the could summon wind but it would be harder for them to make the earth there not touching have the rock move and a way to explain this whole thing is that the pony type need some connection to the thing there trying to control earth would have a high connection with the earth the plant and stuff cause there always touching the ground and with the plant and the Pegasus would always be with air there born learning how to use it to fly and to move close there born in air and there high up where it’s colder so they now how to use ice and unicorn unicorn would be different they can use all magic but each one of them is different there magic would reflect we’re they are like if a unicorn is raised with Pegasus up in the air they could use more air magic cause they have a connection of home with air or a earth pony could be raised in a colder area where ice I regular so obviously they would have a water ice connection while ever pony can use any type of magic it just easier for some cause of they connection to it cause it would be hard for some one that alway walking to learn how to fly a case would be twilight where she wasn’t raised to fly she was raised walking so when she got wings she had to learn and that how it would be for ever pony and I love you vids and hope you have a good way my thought for the pony magic problem help you come up with a way to make the magic system more equal for ever pony

You know... this got me thinking about a Pegasus or earth pony ruler.

Well I think there is nothing we can do but not very unicorn can cast spells like starlight and twilight. Unicorns like Rarity only use a few simple spells but that’s because she didn’t study magic she was more of a fashion pony, my point is that lots of unicorns aren’t really study ponies. Most of them are like upper class like fancy pants.

Canterlot was probably full of unicorns just by chance, like how Ireland ended up with lots of redheads.

I think there is no problem because Pegasi and earth ponies can still use artifacts to do magic in someways

i just realized only unicorns can become alicorns bc you need magic to become one and no other pony can do that without an artifact which you can barley use it and you have to make a new magic so thats bad

Me in secondary but still listening to him talking about my little pony-

Here is my Theory! Please hear it Sawtooth Wave! Maybe it can be helpfull.


I think that all type of ponys can access to magic. Take for example Pinkie Pie, I think Pinkie Pie have find a way to use magic been an earth pony using the elements around her just like an earth pony do and like you say in previus theorys.
She can teleport keep things and do all crazy stuff just like unicorn who have train their magic, maybe pinkie find a way and was eable to train it for her use, thats why not everyone can do like her, first they got to know how to channel it, like when we learn to write or draw, we need to practice that skills or we will just grab things, just like earth ponys just use the strength of the earth and pegasus of the wind and air.
Unicorns are eable to use magic cause just like artefacts their horns are a way to extract magic from them or their surroundings. Thats why potions and other objects work, they took magic around them and channel it in a way so it could be use.

while there IS an imbalance, it might not be AS bad as u think, though admittedly its still far from good. while a Unicorn can do roughly anything that Earth Ponies and Pegasi can do, they can never do it quite AS WELL as those ponies. they r versatile, not necessarily OP, ur not getting a thousand Starswirls or Twilight Sparkles. most Unicorns dont actively study magic, just what they need to do in relation to their talents and Cutie Marks, and as a result their magic, outside of common spells, becomes highly specialized. Rarity is no master mage, but she is VERY GOOD at what little magic she practices...still, one would never ask her to say, make a city shield, like Shining Armour, thats not what she does...

I thought it said the alicorn problem!😂

They all have magic, it’s just that unicorns can use them directly.

throughout the whole video i was saying and thats why equestria lost magic in the new upcoming 3D season

Sawtooth: “Pull a Cozy Glow”

Me: dieing from laughter 😂🤣

Edit: Love your vids # best YouTuber in the history of the world

I may have left the MLP fandom a long time ago, but I will forever come and check out your newest videos

there is a problem here and I think they should cut off unicorns from artifacts

This is something I wanted to ask saw tooth in the equrastria girl movies sci twi when she pony up has wings but when she went through the portal in the yacht special she had no wings at all so why does she get wings and not just a long main like rarity pls answer

1:27 looks like physics books exist in the pony world too...


I'm sorry for all of those students o-o

You know what? I guess you're correct.

hmm, I wonder if this somehow ties in with the loss of magic in the upcoming G5 movie..?

I think that every unicorn has mutch magic in them so if we look at Twirghlite and Starlight. Starlight usualy has mutch stronger power even thow Twirghlite is an alicorn. So it doesent matter if we look at all three EPU and saw a problem with unicorns but there must be a way that your theory is also corect.

Hasbro: Finally Someone Thinks About This😑

his voice is so calming, please I want my voice to be like that.

Pls update more I love your content.

Hey sawtooth I have a theory for you the sirens are from mount aris. The theory is that queen novo was originally a siren who married to the very first dragon lord and when novo was pregnant with Adagio Aria and Sonata novo and the dragon lord seperated or the dragon lord died and when the dazzlings were born when they got to a certain age they got their pendants because if you study greek myhtology you will learn that a siren isn't born with powers when they get to a certain age they get them now this could be what happened when they go their power they went to take over equestria and star swirl banished them to the human world because he knew that alternate versions of the mane 6 would finish them off and when novo saw that controlling creatures with singing voices is wrong she gave up her power how does this theory make sense well if you look at a picture of them they look like they are part seapony and part dragon.

Sawtooth is the Film Theory of the mlp fanbase now XD

Are most unicorns powerful? I mean most can’t do magic other then telekinesis.

Watching your video of the friendship games in which you compared at sunset and Twilight but you didn't address something is sunset is the alternate element of magic then what about twilight? So I thought of something just like all crystal heart is said to spread two qualities maybe magic can do the same emotional and physical maybe that's why Twilight has levitation while sunset has the power to look into anyone's mind

I don't think all unicorns are equally powerful though...

Why ain’t anybody talking about the real overpowered creature, Alicorns

If you were a unicorn you would have to study magic to get your magic stronger and if you had a hard time studying like sunburst because he said it’s one thing to learn magic but to be able to cast the spell is another thing so if you can’t do it a unicorn is just like an earth pony

All creatures have innate magic. Unicorns just have the ability to focus it but.... so do other creatures. Example some of the Mane 6. Fluttershy has the ability to speak to animals, Applejack has increased strength, Rainbow Dash has super speed and the ability to ignore physics (ex: 90 degree turns at mach speeds), and Pinkie Pie has....... Oh.... Oh No.......

Pinkie Pie is a godlike being.

Hey I know cozy glow made some mistakes but can you sign this petition for 
COZY GLOW’S RELEASE AND REFORMATION no seriously just said yes

No ones truly evil.

I'm not in the My Little Pony fandom anymore but I must agree, unicorns are so fucking overpowered. It's really annoying, to be honest

dont forget unicorn magic is their talent :/

Well...Unicorns have the most "mobility" because they can use their magic like hands ( Im watching you Lyra ), Pegasi can too with their wings but less precise and Earth Ponies...well they only have their hooves and mouths...being a Unicorn means literally having the most Comfort in Life because of your agility...i my opinion...

Unicorns are so powerful they can control the weather And use magic to fly and stuff and grow stuff

If you think that King Sombra is a Unicorn then yes I completely agree with you

Like that cool twist at the end and as you ARE a changeling I think pulling that off would be pretty easy. Since I think you can do this:Transform into Celestia, then make everyone alicorns then transform back and all is even.

I'm sorry, but I feel the need to comment on something. If she was actually creating gold, real gold and not some kind of 'fairy gold' fake, then it wasn't counterfeiting. It would have depressed the value of gold (as expressed in buying power in, basically, everything else), but it wouldn't have been counterfeit.

I’m sorry if anyone else has a problem with my assessment, but I think that Equestrians have already found the happy-middle in the first 6 seasons of MLP that you are talking about.

one thing that would happen if all the magic is drained is that Pegasus ponies would then have the upper "hoof" as they would be the only ones who could fly and walk on clouds so then wings would have to go as well!

Did u forget when twilight said that there cutie mark reflects on there power but what if your cutie mark is magic. So unicorns are even depending on what there cutie mark is

I think you just hit the main plot point of G5 Pony.

Cartoon I have something to tell you I think they really had reduced to unicorns in the past

"The obvious solution would be for everyone to become an alicorn."
Queue Mitchell Aaron Forga Larson Lorga! XD
Everyone's A Princess

What if we have both?
We give the extra power to unicorns have to earth ponies and pesus

Anyone seem to think this might have something to do with them being divided in G5?

I love all the kinds of ponies I think they have all great magic love your videos

I kinda want you to make a theory on what CREATURE in Equestria is the most powerfull

Unicorns, Pegasi and Earth ponies counts as pne creature to me their all ponies

Your voice is so calm your videos literally make me fall asleep

I literally still have that my little pony monopoly game 😭✋🏼

You strongly overestimate the abilities of unicorns. Over 99% of unicorns don't even come close to the abilities that the main cast has. And don't even get me started on alchemy. It clearly requires a special brew on top of magic strong enough to rival Starswirl. Possibly even stronger as it was Twilight telling the story.

Hold up, what do you use to make your
OC's poses?

The unicorns are actually pretty powerful because first,they can teleport without wings and they are quite like earth ponies but better because of their magic and they also might have a spell fro wayyyyyy more things :l . I'm not %100 if I am correct but yeaaaaaaa. and btw have a nice day :)

I didn’t think I’d be learning about pony racism today but here I am

"Drain all the magic so that we're all equal." Ah, communism!

If u remove Power from Unicorns they will just be a Pony with a Horn..

And then Pegasi will be the Popular one now

I agree we should turn everypony into allicorns🦄🦋🐎

That's why unicorns require spells to make their use of their horn if no one found out about that horns can make magic then unicorns will naturally have no purpose

I think unicorns have to work harder than earth ponies and pigaes in order to get strong magic, so

I think it was unicorns who would make the bits and find gems as a form of them getting jobs they would perduce the money earthponys would make food and pegasi would do things like build and control the weather like some form of economy in trade for money used to pay pegasi the unicorns would make in turn for food and earth points would get materials needed for them to thrive like some form I scratch your back you scratch mine

waiting for the theory on the sirens!!

Me totally not stopping from doing school to watch this bc I'm totally not a fan 🙃

Or use your system but ban unicorns from using artifacts

Cozy glow:who summoned me in the thumbnail?

this might be the ''plot'' in the upcoming movie.

Only some unicorns to levitate, find metals and gems, create the materials (claud can’t do that and he is not from the past). Also if you even it out unicorns are no longer special.

In the begining of the series we can see that cutiebell having problem using her magic

Well my ponysona I made long time can use magic with her hooves she comes from future equestria in her backstory they did something that allows magic using keratin in general

But how would we get rid of magic when Tirek was stealing magic from everyone the princess said that it couldn't disappear into thin air yes we could use a relic but all the th unicorns in equestrias magic Couldn't fit in one and I'm sure unicorns like twilight and sunburst people who love to study magic wouldn't want to give it up and if it was in a relic where would that go if somebody got and took all the magic we'd have an even eveiler discord

Love your videos ^-^

Can I say that sunset shimmers magic colour changes from red to turquiose in a few movies

Earth ponies can buck twice as hard as unicorns and pegasi, Banned from Equestria proved it!

I was studying alchemy while listening to this :0

Unicorns are way weaker than Pegasus that because magic users have to be instructed to use magic and baseline unicorn aka your average unicorns dose not have the same level of the spell ability of the main cast

The feather brains however have real power

They can all magical change the weather no matter skill level which is absolutely op

I think that you are right sawtooth unicorns do have advantage of there powers and all the unicorns should be in one town

Did you plan on making videos on the rest of the E.Q movies, were they canceled, or did you never plan on theorizing about them?

If i was a pony i would 100% be a earth pony villan ☠️ there would be way too many if every human was in mlp LMAO and the mlp charecters just werent there

Oh, come on! Get Celestia and tell to magic everyone to Alicorns!

Thanks for the info on Cadence and Shining armor

Unicorns have all of the power if you think about it they can do magic and fly and they can do a spell to grown food and unicorns are just as powerful as alicorns so like the princess should like make all the magic in a Equestria equal like Pegasus and earth pony's have all the same amount of magic and if you think about it that can cause a lot of friendship problems

if every one was an alicorn than no one would be an alicorn

Could unicorn shapshift like a changling ?

Pfft, who needs a horn when you can fly! Also it's easier to snuggle. lol

Well the kirens have magic to. Even if we don’t see it that often.

Unicorns are easy to become evil.

When Sawtooth said overpowered I finally realized what OP means.....
Plz tell me if I’m wrong idk what it means

But, Filthy Rich, Aunt Orange, Countess Coloratura, Sapphire Shoris, Hoity Toity and more are not Unicorns yet they are pretty rich too lmao.

Sawtooth: When everypony's an Alicorn, nopony will be

I have a theory maybe the kingdom that fell was the crystal empire. And that sombra took advantage of this and became the king then he slaved the cristal ponies and Celestia saved them

WAIT WAIT what would other creatures without magic be able to do and honestly what would they look like?

Clearly you forgot an important part of ponies. Unicorns aren’t the master race…. PINKIE PIE IS

Only me who hates the the new “main six” they are good bc they are different, but I liked when the ponies had it, bc I watched it when I was very little and now everything has changed😩

It's obvious technology. In g5 magic will be gone leading to a rise of technology, and if magic comes back then they can make artificial horns or wands so all can use innate magic.

Earth ponies have magic. Very powerful magic. They just don't do a light show like the unicorns. The outrageous feats Applejack performs are magical manifestations. Earth pony magic seems to come out mostly through their cutie marks, but, once again Applejack, so there are other ways. Horns just seem to be handy ways to channel magic.

I 💜this channel I love watching sawtooth he also makes me laugh I ask like his skits

so twilight
You are the Alcorn A friendship
Former unicorn
Do you know your cutie mark do you
It’s based on magic
Look at starlight cutie mark
Magic based
All your magic is talent
Do you remember when you didn’t have your cutie mark
You couldn’t even hatch a baby dragon
Let alone do any cool teleportation spells
But once you got that cutie mark from your friends more specifically the rain boom
You got that sudden burst of magic giving you your cutie mark for your talent
That rain boom scarred you
In a good way at least
It’s bonding you all together
But it’s helping you twilight to get your magical skill
Other than that you would’ve been worthless
Different cutie mark
Entirely different life
Not everyone’s gift is magic
Not everyone is as special as you twilight
Not everyone can do magic as good as you twilight in store like in star‘s world(starlight and a star swirl)
So be grateful that your gift is magic
Not everyone can do magic as good as some people
Be lucky
Be grateful

I'm a little concerned when you said society wasn't QUITE ready to all become alicorn.

Nooo let me explain. It is entirely fair. The magic is not in their horn. It’s in their heart. All 3 tribes have magic.unicorns are the only ones who can CHANNEL it. Directly.pegasi can use their magic with their speed,rainbow dash for example. He sonic rain boom causing them to get their cutie marks. Earth ponies have a special connection with the earth. They understand jt more. They can channel their magic with their hooves into the earth. Also they are a lot more strong

0:39 but Rarity invented that spell

Hi Sawtooth Waves! My name is Sophia. I'm a HUGE FAN OF YOURS! Is it okay if I give you some theories to talk about? I also put a comment for some answers in your past videos. :D I hope you reply!

unicorns: You simply have less value

Nah make everyone changelings, problem solved. Though I admittedly prefer the old black design.

Sawtooth-This is between you and me everyone being alicorns
The princesses-WHAT THE!!!!!!

I've wondered for so long, why do you say Syannax and Farefallen differently?

I love my little pony and now there are 9 Seasons I love that there has been 9 seasons for awhile now!

I think that draing all the magic is good

Hi sawtooth wave I like you’re my little pony videos they are very interesting.

Okay but all we saw was the horn of the unicorn, what if Alicorns are the reason to this spell? What if Starswirl made this turn things to gold spell? Or what if alicorns can also do this? Who knows o-o

But if everyone had magic wouldnt they have horns? And if they did wouldnt pegasus be alicorns now that they have horns?i just think that having both wings and horns is something unique in my little pony

i do agree and u can also fly using unicorn magic so-

Sawtooth waves i think cadanes make the magic of love to make the elements of harmony stronger did you see shinning armor and cadanes make their spell to elements of harmony

I think there should still be unicorns

Derpy Hooves for top princess start the campaign now! 🐴🐴🐴

I feel like this brings out the truth about capitalism. It's not innately bad, it's just easy to fix for a small set of people to get more benefit. Communism would be the "erase all magic" option.

I think unicorns have more magic than all of the tribes combined us up with magic and the cons are the same power as alikornicorns

The unicorns they show they have so much power and abilities

I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS IT'S SO RIGHT

Im my universe there was a war with a unicorn higharchy, while earthpohys were used as slaves

I always thought that unicorns are op.

Sawtooth have a pride flag in his profile picture 🥺

could u do a clip about what if magic was destroyed in equestria?

I would listen to him talk about mlp all day ...if I didn't have school😆

The bit is also a of tack on the bridle used in the horse’s mouth hence the pun

Wait
Tempis could still use magic without her horn it just comes out of her so do you really need a horn , like friend ship is magic you can make magic with just friendship is that where magic came from in the first place ,

The legend of the wendigoes with Celestia messing history may be true

That pink flowers gives a Japanese cherry blossom effect

I have something for the grogar made discord.Grogar was training discord of his power

i know this is not a discord video but discord's solution may be to give him a empty room so he can do all of his chaotic thing's lol and discord probably didn't made the disaster of the G5 movie maybe it was... GROGAR every villan comes back...:(

Unicorns should turn everypony else into unicorns too! Then everyone is equal.

Starlight: Hmmmmm.... Equal?

Sawtooth I have something a theory of starlight glimmer she is in cantorlot high the human version she is apart the battle of the bands one of the sirens the 3 teenage girls the purple one is similar to starlight if you pay attention ✨

Nah, thanks. I think this show has enough parallels to communism already.

I thought of that when twilight got her wings, I thought they were pretty useless unless u wanna be imortal .-.

Ok so here is my theory-
So This is a BIG problem if you think about it more since Unicorn magic is Powerful tha. The others and i feel pulling out a cozy glow wouldn't be the BEST idea BUT, i do agree about your theory but there's some slight changes in mine i do feel that pegasus and earth pony need a bit of boost of magic ✨ But i don't think the pegasus need it more than the earth pony but pegasus could have an ancient artifact that could control the weather or something like that, as for the earth pony they could have some earth powers that could maybe help the plants/crops/food grow faster but u feel that it is a bit TOO overpowered but i think that it's fair if you think about it and if this didn't happen it would turn fron a Quarrel to an Argument to a fight then to a huge problem and finally...a WAR yes you heard me right a A WAR and i feel that this would end up having...no ponies at ALL 😭🙏👌❤️❤️❤️ btw I'm on the Unicorn Team 👌 🦄 save us 🙏 which team are you in? (Not Judgmental) 😁❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ have some food you must be starving! Choose any which you like! ✨
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I thought this said "the problem with Alicorns"
Given his many theories about alicorns and his opinion on Twilight I understand why I read it as alicorns. You're also starting to sound like an old Starlight Glimmer Sawtooth.

Very cool video, thanks!

Not to mention Unicorns have more of a variety of cute marks. Look at at Rarity she can sew, but that limits her magic capabilities. But twilight cutiemark is magic so she was very powerful. Unircorns can possess cutiemarks for farming, cooking, sewing, baking, basically anything earth ponies can do except having a flying cutiemark (only Pegasus can have that cutie make but they can also have nything earth ponies can do besides magic cutiemark from the unicorns)

Kirins reindeer changelings can cast spell too since they have horns

Sooo... artifacts have many powers?

I have actually never taken advantage of my powers

Hey so something is getting on my last nerves and I need you to solve this mystery for me sawtooth. How come in Episode 24 of season 5 that one pony always is rude to pinky like wouldn’t he show just a little respect to the pony that has saved him several times from doom and disaster... PLEASE SLOVE THIS!!! And why does that pony’s cutie Mark glow you’re the only changeling Ik that can solve this mystery!!!!

Sawtooth can you do a song about nightmare moon or chrysalis that would be cool

Please make a video on how age works because sunset went into the portal before twilight was going to celestial's school (twilight got in when she was just a filly) yet they were both in the same grade at canterlot high. im so confused help.

If the unicorns are over powered then how is there still peace?

Other than ponies and zibras all kind of creations need magic..for flying or other things.

Why are these videos so short I want longer videos so I can enjoy these videos longer

Earth ponies do have stupidly high strength. AJ drags around hundreds of kg in certain scenes without showing any strain. Unicorns may have Alchemy, but earth ponies dominate freight and anything requiring high physical power. Trains in Equestria are pulled by earth ponies, arguably cargo would too, not to mention how pegasi seem to be literally required to make Equestria habitable.

I think technology will one day transcend magic.

love your vids sawtooth waves and a plus this was released on my birthday :D

I think you are the best mlp theory maker

This is a fascinating point!

unicorns have magic abilities
earth ponies have super strength?
pegasus have the ability to control weather

I would love a topic about different Worlds because we only know 3 1 limbo (if u count it) 2pony world 3 Hooman world
Copy and paste it to make it come true
Started by:øther ør another not be here

Yeh! It's not fair that unicorns are better! They have all the magic and if I was a Pegasi or an Earth pony I would hate them and start war! But well, I'm a changling so not my problem! 😎

Wait wait wait...... could a revolution to take away magic... be the cause of g5's lack of magic????

I mean we don't jokingly call Unicorns the Master Race for nothing

i find it funny how you say ponys withought magic as the next series is litterally about that

Ur voice is awesome man 🤩 so much as ur theories

Who remembers when this channel was called “The Brony Notion”

Man why do I feel like your voice is higher. Also this is great

But the real question..why are the rulers of equestria princesses and not queens?



Update: maybe it's bec Equestria may not be the only kingdom

If unicorn can get power from all tribes what is the difference between unicorn and alicorn

I Think gold could also be found in the Ground by Earth pony Miners

Your videos needs to be longer

Love the thumbnail 😂

i don't know not everyone shoots of fire balls mostly are using simple levitation so its not a simple subject per say look at Trixie she's a unicorn with wanting to magic but she needed an evil artifact to do so

Everyone should be alicorns but how can we make someone a princess that way? EZ! The one with the kinder heart will get bigger wings lol that's a stupid idea tho

well after all this,unicors are super powerful

turn everyone into an alicorn or unicorn there problem solved.

ok cozy did you free the cozy in this universe ? good now where is my payment yknow the magic ?

is it just me or am i the only one wanting that mlp monopaly

If i culd beg on my knees for sawtooth to never stop posting i swear i wuld

The background music made the video twice as better

Give earth ponies & pegasi magic to make it on par with unicorn magic

i think before hearths warming day this would have happened

The good thing is that pegasi and earth ponies will be more technological advanced.

can u make a video talking about is the tree of harmony always going to look like twilight sparkles figure?

So, Unicorn Supremacy in Equestria?

In the words of DWK the hierarchy goes
Alicorns
Unicorns
Pegasus
Illegal Immigrants
Convicted felons
Earth ponies

This guy dislikes Twilight to the point he made like
three Equestrian politics theories because he can

Unicorns are the only tribe that can turn into alicorns

Aren’t the mane 7’s geodes artifacts?

Hehehe Lol I honestly find myself making alot of my OCs alicorns because I feel bad for my non alicorn ocs 😂😂

Some earth ponies still have magic like pinkie pie though, it’s not unicorn magic but it sure is something

Unicorn : Big Dmg
Pegasus : Speed
E. Pony : Big health

Any problems??

I would love if they gave powers to pegasus and earth ponies like mabye a magic powerful source in the pegasus wings and a powerful source in earth ponies hoove? Because in generations 5 they showed that this little pony had some magic in her hooves mabye if earth ponies could slam their hoove on the ground then something happens because of it after?

Wait a minute I just thought of something why does zegora have a cutie mark if she's a zebra

Knowing that G5 takes in the same world of G4 I'm not worried about him stop theorizing anytime soon

Oh dear God SawTooth..., Not to sound like a hater, I'm not, but would it kill you to do a little research before spewing nonsense like that again?!

Hear me out; I have a FULL explanation for the outburst. The shows canonical difference in power among unicorns aside (a topic you brought up yourself I might add), actual history has quite a bit to do with how social status is depicted among the tribes. In spite of minor differences, many cultures around the world, many seeming to have had no connection sense the age of caves, stories have popped up with mythical creatures with with surprising similarities. Unicorns always seems regal, pegasi have a thing for freedom (for themselves and others), and earthbound horses have been mans work and war horse for so long that it's hard for many to imagine them as anything else. Do you see where I'm going with this? Between plain facts and strangely linked mythologies, it's hard to say we don't have data to work with. I'm not promising it's accurate, nor am I suggesting you don't have a right to your opinion, but you do run a channel that expects you to know at least a minimum about what you are talking about.

That said.... sorry about the rant.

Last time I watched your videos was 2017, so I got a lot to catch up on. What’re your pronouns btw?

Sawtooth waves is planning to make his channel an au of mlp

They do have a unfair advantage i think unicorns could give their horns to the other pony's and evan creatures i mean there must be a spell for that right?

But if they drain all the magic unicorns would just be a earth pony with a horn.

me:hm maybe call in discord to give everyone an artifact or something

few moments later

CHAOS WE ONLY NEED THE RIGHT TO HANDLE THIS MESS!!!!!!!!

i still remember my little pony in 2008

YES A NEW VIDEO THANK YOU SO MUCH

I think that unicorns aer not op because they have magic in certain areas determened by their cutie marks, unlike twilight whose area is Magic.

I love your videos and I agree with most of them I'm one of your biggest fans

Agreed, if you think about it, this kinda compares Flim & Flam with the apple family Bc they are unicorns and are richer than them Bc they are Earth ponies

Just turn everyone into alicorns

Yes magic is important

Unicorn Master Race! 😎🦄

unicorn=rich pegasi=modern earth pony=poor alicorn=LEGENDARY