Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24942479-20170607070523/@comment-24264679-20170717190330

Tcweh wrote: Cora

1) She wsas able to protect herself from Regina's curse

2) She was able to adapt to new SB better than Regina. Regina needed the book to jumpstart herself, wheras Cora was still doing magic just fine when she arrived.

3) She was able to revamp the map Hook gave them to locate the DO dagger. Regina didn't show any such capabilites.

When they are together, it's obvious who the leader is.

1) She needed a magical device to achieve this. She clearly uses a magical stick and not her own magic. That is basicall like saying Since Regina can open a portal in the LWM using a wand and Rumple can't by his own power that that makes Regina stronger.

2) Regina hadn't practiced Magic for 28 years where as Cora was frozen in time for 28 years and never stopped practicing.