@Ardashir  
It will still ruin the threat due to the bad guy’s lucked out with Discord not helping.  
If Discord steps in, they’re screwed.
 
So they need to explore actual weaknesses to balance out Discord’s reality warping crap without relying on outright magic negating objects such as Chrysalis’s throne and the collars.  
If Chrissi and the cats didn’t have those, they were done for.  
In fact the collar thing only happened due to Fluttershy stupidly making Discord not use his magic.
 
There are ways to handle Discord so he won’t ruin the threat but sadly.. the show and this comic issue here did not do it right.

There’s an extended preview of #97 here.
 
As I thought, there would be a harmony tree…in the sewers…  
Now, will this comic focus on Pinkie & Trixie since they got so little in #96?

@Jacalope  
Oh, now I understand.
 
And we haven’t gotten a proper explanation about it yet?
 
@Jacalope  
And sadly, we know MLP has a problem with internal logic. :(

Look, these comics are bound by “The Last Problem”, so we know for a fact Discord gets the collar off.

@Jacalope  
I like it, I only forgave him once I saw this. He deserves that.

@Jacalope  
Well im sorry if i came off as offensive i was just saying the full pic would probably decided the end result on how to feel about it, I think 96 comes out April 14

@CORDZ2000  
It’s not about lore, it’s about common sense like a writer. I know MLP is more about characters than from lore, but there are details you need to take care to make real the scenario, because if there isn’t internal logic, then, the story can’t be taken seriously.

@Jacalope  
Honestly im happy to see trixie cares about discord because honestly until now ir felt one sided, so on the one hand i can discuss all day how i feel about the lore of this on the other ill probably focus on the character moments surrounding this and see where it goes

@Red-Supernova  
when i say undirectional, i mean the collar shouldn’t be melted with Trixie’s magic because is an object that blocks magic, so, if blocks magic, that mean it only can be destroyed or be open in normal ways, not with magic.
 
And if it’s like “okay, blocks the user’s magic but that same object can be affected with other character magic” then, it’s useless for a culture that dislikes magic a lot because magicians can destroy the object easily.

Unpopular opinion discords ego is one of the funniest parts of his character like trixie I wouldn’t want him becoming a pathetic shivering wuss u can go write a fanfic if u wish a character to get down like that for some weird joy and no story purpose

@Jacalope  
What do you mean by unidirectional?
 
I know! It feels like there needs to be proper buildup for him being taken down a peg.

@Jacalope  
I wouldn’t wanna see discord being defeated by someone weaker than him because I have love for his character for being objectively one of the most developed in the series power included, i would only think its epic if discord got defeated because someone much more powerful came along

@Red-Supernova  
And specially, if the Abyssians hates so much the magic, why the magic restraing stuff is unidirectional instead of “oh, you can’t escape from that collar, not even melt it”?
 
It’s not even fanservice for Discord haters… a good thing that would be EPIC and makes everbody, fan or not of Discord, is just put someone defeating a powered Discord like Batman vs Superman in Dark Knight Returns.

@Jacalope  
YES. While I figured that magic restraint stuff would only exist in fandom comics due to a lot of fans’ kinky desires, if they were to exist in canon, I figured the most powerful magic users in FiM’s world would just snap through these restraints like twigs. Then again, there was the material used to make Chrysalis’s throne in Season 6, which was VERY powerful in terms of magical restraints.  
Even though I hate Discord (his character) with a passion and seeing his situation get more and more inconvenient should be hilarious to me, even I have to question the logic of how these magical restraints came to be and how the Abyssinians got their hands on them.
 
@AC97  
I have a feeling if we asked those questions to the writers on their Twitters, even they wouldn’t have a satisfying answer.

@Jacalope  
Oh yeh tru

@CORDZ2000  
I think with all the 3 options, he have those needs if he loses his powers.

@Jacalope  
Option 3 would also suggest without his powers he has the need to use the bathroom eat sleep and drink water

@CORDZ2000  
The most possible one but option 3 is very interesting.

@Jacalope  
Im going with 1. Because discord has never breathed fire and has animal parts that have nothing to do with dragons

@CORDZ2000  
hmm, If’s not a simple inconsistency of the writer because it’s from a cartoon, it can give a curious contribution on how the biology of draconequus works.
 
Giving us 3 possible conclusions.  
1- The draconequus even without their powers are very resistent.  
2- The draconequus shares a lot of biology with dragons.  
3- When a draconequus loses their powers, their bodies adapts their biology to be like the dominant animal, for example, Eris would have a bird biology meanwhile Discord had a dragon biology.

@AC97  

 
Draconqueous seem to have some good durability would explain how he had no injuries in times he was getting attacked and captured In the series..or the shows rating idk

@AC97  
Literally Trixie brokes the consistency, logic and biology laws to harm Discord. Trixie is OP AF. That or Discord actually is a dragon at least in biology.

@Jacalope  
And if it was hot enough to melt steel or whatever that is, why wasn’t it burning Discord, if it’s got his magic nullified? Shouldn’t there be some serious convection involved there? I don’t exactly see dragon scales on that area of his body.

@AC97  
Well, the answer is issue 96 but hasn’t been released yet but for some reason IDW give us a preview of issue 97 because all the Abyssian arc plus the annual will be released in this same month.
 
And yeah, i cannot understand how works the the magic drain, because if Discord’s magic is powerful and very unstable, how is possible there always exist any object that can block that type of magic? And talking about the collars, how the hell Trixie can melt the collar with her magic if those things are magic drainers?

How the heck did the collars even happen to get on them? Why do they have them; unicorns or some such live there, let alone why are they so potent as to be able to affect Discord with a presumably standard one? What was Trixie even going for exactly?