Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4780272-20130326031852/@comment-5106672-20130406192354

Remember they're in the real world. Magic is unpredictable and so is its outcome. Also, fairy magic is arguably scarce in Storybrooke, as Gold and Regina stole from the mines all the diamonds that weren't turned into dust yet, which would probably make it harder to use: it isn't the first time Mother Superior "flops" with her wand. That's perhaps the reason why it worked that way.