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To reply to that, I said that experience and skill help, but not by much in terms of ranking power. The Apprentice likely did beat several Dark Ones, but he's not as powerful as them. Even if you take in account power, skill, etc, Apprenitce would be boosted up, but he'd still be below Dark One and there's seemingly noone near him.

I'll agree about the Dragon, but it still goes to show that the only two people that used magic was him and the Apprentice in the LWM. What I do know is that if we count that as simply knowledge, etc, the Dragon still thought he could open a portal and almost did.

Here we have the Apprentice with minor effort opening a portal of his own power. The Dragon almost opening a portal with his own power. Then Zelena and Regina opening a portal with Merlin's power (aka the wand). Hyde using it to open a small portal. So, I would consider the wand capable of small scale portals. (One of the only ways to tell power levels is by comparing the same things and it's really hard on this show).

Small scale portal (Let's call it a level 1 portal)

Door portal or vortex (Let's call it level 2 portal) and let's ignore the twister because it's weird.

The Merlin Wand can seemingly do at least a LVL 1 portal without a magic practitioner.

The other portal usually calls for a moderately powerful magic user and the wand.

The Dragon failing to create some sort of LVL 2 portal would be placed just as high as Zelena, etc creating a LVL 2 portal with the wand.

But that's all some weird math.

And yes, 100 or so coin tosss wishes = a TL potion = all of SB's magic

or maybe it was 100 or so coin tosses = 1 LVL 2 portal. Lol.

This show sometimes....