This is about attitude, not results
Starlight09 said:
Although the Knight of Wands is a guy of action, as all courts are, I would see him as breezily cutting someone off without a moment's notice and galloping off to have fun with his 'loyal' friends, rather than challenging them like that. Now, the Knight of Swords however, I could definitely see rushing into an argument.
But that's not the point. You're talking about the possible results of messing with such a knight, not whether their attitude tells you that messing with him would be a bad idea.
Consider Mr. Spock, a quintessential sword. Does he radiate the message "don't mess with me"? No, he doesn't. You wouldn't look at him and think that you'd better give him a wide berth, would you? That doesn't mean you
should mess with him, or that if you do, you won't be sorry. He will, with amazing wit, intelligence and efficiency cut you down to size with words and make you look like an idiot. But the Sword, looking all cool and thoughtful, isn't going to make you afraid to mess with him.
Wands, on the other hand,
are fire. They
are temper. They
are passion. And all of those emotions can radiate a feeling of "don't mess with me." Will the Knight/Wands
always radiate that? Of course not. But we're looking for a card that
says that the person is radiating this attitude. That you would look at them and give that person a wide berth. That, to me, makes it likely to be a Wand Court card.
Do you see the difference? Any Trump in the deck, any court card, might be one that it'd be a bad idea to "mess" with because they might avenge themselves on you in a terrible way. BUT which ones would give you that message--make you know it on sight, rather than finding it out after you'd done the messing and realized it was a mistake? Not every trump or court will make you suspect that it's probably a bad idea to mess with them.
The Wands aren't subtle. If they don't want you messing with them, you'll know it.