The more specific wording would be "not her energy", I like to think Wanda as some magic 3D printer that could potentially print anything, but she doesn't really have all that much material and energy to do stuff.
Life Force/Twilight Sword are some like massive mana pool buffs that allows her to do stuff that requires ridiculous mana drains. But even if she doesn't have the mana to do that, she technically has that "skill", just greyed out.
The same can be said about any type of magic, how is light magic different from dark magic?
And honestly what is vanilla regular magic anyway? Magic from the school of Vishanti's teaching?
Marvel Comics won't give us clear answers of course since there are writers having their own very different interpretation.
But one difference is clear though, you can tell the difference of their source.
How is Flame of Faltine different from hellfire? Well, the former is from Faltine, Dormammu's people, the later is well, from hell dimensions. They are different even when they are functionally the same.
It's funny that with all the comics going up in value on Ebay,spoilers:end of spoilers
Avengers vol. 3 #10, where Busiek and Pérez introduced "chaos magic," hasn't been mentioned much of anywhere, despite its obvious influence on the show.
Wanda's powers are so confusing that no one can really remember where anything started, so it's not surprising that most people don't know that was the origin of Wanda having chaos magic (though of course based on the earlier story about Chthon giving her magical abilities at birth).
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To me they should make her overpowered at least at universal level cause that could potentially give meaning to her being the nexus of reality and be the main guardian of the universe and on occasion deal with multiverse threats. Just to challenge her and push her to her limits. They could still give her difficulties and struggles both in fighting those threats and having to deal with the problems that just come with life
“There is no defense against the Scarlet Witch's HEX!”
I'm not for Wanda being op always because that's usually when comics just turns her into a plot device. Limits are always best on characters in long-form storytelling.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
Using her as a plot device is more of a writer/editorial problem than what her power set/level is in my opinion. A character can be op and they still can have development and growth long-term. Like some people have said maybe the house of ideas, usually the avengers side, doesn't know or understand how to tell such a story
“There is no defense against the Scarlet Witch's HEX!”
That's not the typical approach comics takes and it starts to not make sense that this character then isn't in every situation to just come in and solve everything right away. I don't really want that for Wanda. I want her to have a chance to be an actual character and not the solution to every problem.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
Her probability like all other definitions for her powers over the years were basically whatever the writer called for.
There was a page that kept track of all her capabilities, but it is long and probably confusing. Everything being chaos magic was just their way of trying to simplify it under one thing. And say this allows her to do all these things.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”