User blog comment:Dryst97/Fire is Superior than magma/@comment-53539-20100215115821

Lava is a molten rock (liquid) whereas fire is burning (gas). Fire needs food to keep it up, whereas magma is heated froma source. In short, molten rock can even in the real world overpower a tree on fire for instance, putting out its flames by engulfing. One must also remember that magma can likewise cause fire since it is heat. Also fire in real life tends to under normal circumstances consume its source quickly, whereas magama is either slow and sticky or fast and runny.

Either way, if we had to throw elements into the pan here, fire would loose to magma just by magmas prinicples alone. In short, the next example I could give you for this is water, which would loose to ice.