Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-24746469-20160505041937

For me it goes this way.

1. Merlin, Rumple, Nimue. - Their magic comes from the holy grail.

2. Pan - His magic was powered by neverland and Rumple stated that the only way to defeat him was to kill himself with the dagger which happened outside of neverland. So even out of neverland Pan was still strong. Rumple doesn't need his dagger to kill anyone of the magic users below pan on this list so I guess that makes pan more powerful that most of the people in this list.

3. Emma - Emma was the only one who was able to hurt Zelena in the wicked arc plus regina said that her magic was stronger. Remember that time Emma could use her magic to look in the mirror to another realm, but Regina couldn't? I think that example is more than enough. And I know Regina stopped Zelena by using light magic, but that only happened once, after that she had continued to use dark magic. So if she doesn't really learn to wield light magic she is still weaker. The fact that Emma has less experience doesn't make her weaker. There's a difference between knowledge/experience and Raw power/Achieving your highest potencial.

4. Zelena - Even without her pendant she is very talended and have magic as a gift since she was born, maybe she is equal to the people in number 5 or maybe she is a bit stronger after all.

5. Regina, Cora, Snow Queen, Elsa, Maleficent, Amara and Jafar (Without the staff). - They all have used generic dark magic (exept for Elsa of course) so I don't really see them being stronger that one another. Elsa and Ingrid have the bonus of having elemental magic, but we have seen Ingrid choking people so Ice it's obviuosly not the only thing they can do.

6. Blind Witch - Regina said her spells are always half cooked, meaning that Regina can break them. So I guess that makes her weaker than anyone in number 5, but it could also mean that they are equals and an equal should be able to break your protection spell.

7. Red Queen - Like someone said above, we have only seen her use the basic of TLK. I also remember Cora telling her that she could teach her a "touch" of magic meaning that she probably didn't learn a lot like Cora learned from Rumple. Also, the Red Queen didn't have the power to stand up againt's Jafar. She stated herself that she, Alice, Cyrus and Will were no match for Jafars magic.

I didn't include Blue or the Apprentice because quite honestly I feel like we don't have enough resources in the show to judge their power level correctly.