Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160206155158/@comment-10390252-20160207195416

Phantom... get over it, okay? It was a perfectly valid special ability and interesting in all the right ways.

Like Cinder and Weiss, Velvet seems to have developed a specialised use of dust to maximise the utility of her Semblance. That makes her the third distinct Dust Mage as opposed to a Dust-enabled warrior in the show.