Steam magic doesn’t exist so the imbue is all we have to go off of unless it becomes a thing (hopefully not)
cloud magic and mud magic meanwhile
clearly flash magic is the inferior because it ends up with the caster obtaining a public indecency charge (but yeah no if you asked me to explain flash id say like.. a faster yet weaker light? which would be on the same level as a tickle, come to think of it)
flash magic deserves to exist because its like light.. but bright and is a legacy magic for some reason I Guess
Nah, the real egregious magic is “Electron”
Oh, I’m an ancient magic, meaning I was made nearly a millenia before cathode tube or proper ways to conduct electricity would ever be discovered. Also I’m just red lightning and burning air or whatever, which does not even make sense given the name. Honestly the real electron magic would just be Light and its varients because, Photons are produced when Electrons move to a lower energy level after receiving a dose of energy.
Steam is fine, but also just kinda redundant when we already have stuff like water, cloud, and other heat based magics.
Electron on the other hand just makes me hyperbolically enraged
fun fact: when it was first put on the list of magics, electron was described as a dark green/black form of lightning which I think is pretty funny
…wasnt it red and blue…?
all the way back in 2019, back when WoM was having its first open beta tests, it was like that
Mud is thankfully dead now, sadly cloud seems to be staying.
If I remember correctly, electron and neutron magic are scrapped but have something similar replacing them. Might have been misinformed but I swear that’s what happened. (Neutron was kinda just stronger gravity I think)
:<
honestly, it would go well as an imbue magic when imbuing sand/earth/ash? into weapons that naturally apply soaked
but noooo that’s too much uniqueness for base magics!!! base magics should just be lame and have no interesting things at all!!!
Talking about uniqueness in reference to mud magic 
It’s just wet dirt
(Yes I know a lot of other magics are boring, but mud is definitely one of the worst offenders)
Unfortunately Electron is still the example used on the Trello describing Ancient Magics. It’s apparently teal and red (which has weird implications given those are Chaos colors.) Regardless, it does not seem to have been retconned yet.
I was told that’s just because the thing is outdated but maybe I was just being lied to idk. I hope it’s not too chaos related cause there’s already 3 other particularly chaos related magics.
Also aren’t the chaos colors teal and black not teal and red?
eh, I just kinda associate Teal in general with Chaos, which is probably incorrect. However, Red is at least tangentially related, given that Rackham is red, and Ghosts are manifested through Chaos. So that’s where that came from.
and yet, lightning but red is good enough for a lost magic
and yet, fire but it leaves behind clouds is good enough for a lost magic,
and yet, light but it’s bigger and does more damage is good enough for a lost magic
and lightning and poison
and shadow, but wait, it actually has a good status effect this time
And yet, metal but with auto-ice synergies is good enough for a lost magic
Yeah those also suck, most would fit better as just skins (sprite skin for lightning, white skin for light, etc.) Except poison lightning I need it crushed into dust and blown away by the wind to be be fulfilled in life.
Frostmetal is slightly based on an actual folklore thing (unless it’s a coincidence) and is a bit of an interesting idea so it’s not quite as bad as the others.
sighhhhh
I would tell you to get a different poison based lost magic but I’m not sure if any of those exist.