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Magic was there already before 1x22

-Regina made a forgetting spell in 3x10

-Regina and Jeferson opened a portal with the hat in 1x21

-Graham's heart thing ...

-And the town itself was frozen in time, which needed magic.

But you couldn't create magic ex novo. That is what Rumple brought in 1x22