"Sometimes if a trick is done properly, it can be better than magic.  In fact, I would go so far as to say a good trick is real magic."
   "But still, it was just a trick."
   The wizard held up a finger, "Results, Richard.  That's what counts.  Your way, those men would have all lost their heads." 

When Kahlan first told me about the history of the three lands, she said the council had taken actions that had made the death of a wizard's wife and daughter at the hands of a quad stand for nothing, and as punishment the wizard did the worst thing possible to them: he left them to suffer the cosequences of their own actions.