Wand duel

A wand duel is a sporting event engaged by friendly wizards in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. They are mostly for the sake of entertainment, although sometimes they may be to let off steam between rivaling wizards. Each wizard in the duel is armed with a magic wand, with both wands of the same magical strength and power to make sure the duel is a fair fight. The object of the duel is for each wizard to disarm his or her opponent for a set number of rounds or points, though neither is allowed to use a death curse on the other wizard, for that would disqualify the wizard from further wand duels. The wizard with the most rounds or points won throughout the match is declared the winner.

Wand duels are mostly engaged by humans. Among Smurfs, however, wand duels are simply for practice among magic-based beings so that they could defend themselves against other wizards and magic-based beings. Papa Smurf, being a master wand duelist, passed on his skills to Brainy, who, although a skilled duelist, turned out to be no match for his apprentice Miracle, who surpassed him in wand dueling.