MTG vs Harry Potter universe

[ect562]

are HP wizard capable of manipulating the classical elements?

[Eframepilot]

are HP wizard capable of manipulating the classical elements?

They can certainly manipulate fire, water, earth and air, but the classical elements don't have particular significance.

[septesix]

If you go down that route we end up arguing with a "no limits fallacy." Now the rules of magic are a bit strange, but if you are going to try and do analysis in fantasy, generally if a spell is more powerful (ie does more damage) and be countered, then it would seem that whatever brute force spell you use to counter it would also work on a weaker spell. So if an MTG infinite combo spell which hurts multiple targets can be countered, then a spell which only kills one person would seem to be susceptible to counterspell as well.

But AK won't need a no-limit argument to make it work in MtG. There are spells that cannot be countered by any counterspell in MtG so you can easily imagine AK being one of those. As for the times when it doesn't work, you can imagine something somehow make the target become invalid (ie, add protection from a color as instance , just for an idea) and it will still be "countered" by the game rules.