Playing with some of the new magics I noticed that crystal felt almost identical to wood and sand’s piles didn’t do anything but sit there and look pretty. I’m mostly making this post to kind of spitball ideas that could make magics have more of their own identity and I’d love to see other concepts in the comments. I’m intentionally not giving too many details so that the ideas can be interpreted differently for the sake of balancing
Sand - Sand piles hit by a warm magic (Fire/Plasma/Magma/Maybe Lightning) turn shiny and will shatter when an enemy walks over them, applying the bleed status. Sand piles hit by a wet magic (Acid/Ink/Water) will turn a darker color and slow down any enemies that walk over them.
Crystal - Dealing 10% of someone’s health with a crystal magic attack makes a crystal stick out of the enemy’s body. When the enemy has enough crystals stuck in them, they will be applied the crystallized status and will be encapsulated inside a crystal similar to the frozen effect.
puddles into cold water 
). It would apply the freezing effect when touching them (the effect when hit by ice 
electrocute those puddles, making it weaker so that it dosen’t become too overpowered.
) could bring it back to normal while shrinking it like usual
spells would break into pieces on contact with the ground (or only with explosion spells), which can be put on fire when hit with a warm magic (
clashes with crystal 
, it would divide into multiple weaker smaller blasts of light 
would slow down light 
after a clash (of course only if the opposite spell survived the clash)
piles exploding into sand particles when hit by wind 
