Originally Posted by
The Glyphstone
You would have hated OWoD Mage then...it's explicitly like that, whether you have the appropriate magic knowledge to do something far less relevant than your ability to BS your storyteller into letting what magic you do have be used for a functionally identical result. For example, the use of the Life Arcana, focused on healing, buffing, and protection, to instant-kill someone via magical super-cancer.
In NuMage, they just gave up and let Mages have unlimited power. Space mastery+Matter mastery+a demense and ritual casting can totally conjure antimatter in someone's pants at a distance, and the only bit that requires any ST BSing is the antimatter bit (as opposed to, say, thermite).