Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184894-20160222033019/@comment-28211584-20160414223208

Hmcooper4 wrote: I would disagree. First, they did show Regina being weaker than Zelena in Season 3, until she realized that she was capable of light magic. And Regina did have plenty of strong Magic in the Neverland Arc. Also, we don't really know how Regina would have compared to Ingrid, since they never faced off.

And Regina did just fine when she was with Queens of Darkness. Mal got one good sleep spell in, but Regina was quite adept in knocking out Gepetto and Pinnochio.

And in Camelot, she could not reveal her magic, since she was trying to portray herself as the Savior.

Also, Regina's brand of Magic is of the Dark Variety, which is fueled primarily by strong negative emotion. Since she is trying to turn things around, she does not pull the "Dark" card near as often, and has yet to really master the light side. but when she does pull out her Dark magic, she is still quite as capable as ever.

So I would not call Regina's magic "Stagnant". I fully agree with you, not to mention that soon after the regina steals the curse of maleficent, she and the Queens of Darkness go to White Castle snow make a covenant to go to tree magic and discover how to defeat the regina, but before of them propose that the proncipe asks if they want to invade the castle of regina, ai the cruella to respond sarcastically "if you were as smart as it is beautiful" showing that they were afraid of the evil queen, even meleficent, ursula, cruella together (apparently the snow and charming too) prefiriam go behind that tree than directly attack the regina, and the snow queen, I think regina is far more powerful than she, for ingrid is very limited to ice magic, telekinesis, teleportation, and some small things witchcraft, already regina has a lot more variety. And in time regina was hanged, this was because it was surprised, (I say this in view, that Emma who at the time that only made energy projections, as dirava the best on ingrid sometimes, as Elsa magically can even be defeated by anastasia).