Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6739926-20150118083555/@comment-26184894-20150318064250

FakeEntertainer wrote: I think of it more like water and dye. The magic is the dye and the water is a tool. If you use magic through a tool, then the tool is in a way becoming one with the magic. In a similar sense, if you use water to spread your dye, the water takes up some of the properties of the dye. So by them throwing magic across the mirror, the mirror itself is having that magical property, see?

And Zelena's still out of the game, leaving the only person who can shapeshift being Cora. The remaining members of Team Cora (Herself and Regina) can both teleport, but so can Ingrid. If they teleport Team Ingrid apart, why can't Ingrid just teleport back? It could go the same way- Ingrid can teleport Regina or Cora to their base and freeze them. The protection spell Regina used did nothing against the Curse of Shattered Sight, and when Cora blocked the Dark Curse, that was through her staff, so we can assume that no curse can be stopped without a magical object. They're prone to Ingrid's Freezing Curses. I disagree with you on the weapon thing. It is a big difference between using your surroundings vs. having a weapon.

I also disagree with you about zelena's magic. I don't think her pendant should be viewed as a weapon because it makes her magic stronger. the pendant is not designed to hurt anyone and not being magically used to hurt anyone so how does it count as a weapon? if however the op decided that the pendant was a magical weapon, we could just use the zelena from before she had the pendant and Zelena would still be the most powerful person in this fight because before zelena had the pendant she was the most powerful sorceress rumple had ever seen including Ingrid.

I think team Cora wins because else and Emma are both weaker magic users and less experienced than everyone on team Cora. Ingrid is the only problem and I don't think she stands a chance against Cora or zelena. the only way team Ingrid stands a chance is IF Emma can remove zelena's pendant. she might not be able to because it was never stated to be fact that Emma could remove it. snow and charming assumed that because Emma was a product of true love and had magic she was the strongest light magic user, therefore able to remove the pendant however if that was true baby Neal should have been the next strongest user of light magic not Regina. he is a product of the same true love and also has magic. so we don't know for sure if Emma would be able to remove the pendant.