When Cook asked about enchanted artifacts with the air of a vaudevillian offering a straight line, Sunset replied, "Think of them more like music boxes or fine clocks, the kind of thing an individual craftspony makes. It takes a lot of time and effort—and magic too, of course. So they're at least as rare and expensive as one of those fancy machines, which means they're reserved for things you can't do any other way, things that make it worthwhile to go to the effort and expense, or, um, conspicuous consumption."