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Hmcooper4 wrote: "Magic always comes with a price, dearie!"

Esk is right, though. we've not seen as much of that as we maybe should.

On the other hand, they played it out well with the master wizard, Rumple. the whole "incurred a huge debt to darkness"/blackened heart sorta exemplified the cost of magic over time.

However, another question that I've had is whether ALL magic comes with a price, or just Dark Magic. What about Light Magic, or Fairy Magic, or even Ice Magic? What are the rules of Magic? I've got to know! I liked that too and then once you heart is consumed by darkness they become an Living mindless Evil, like Regina becomes Anger, Zelena turns into a mindless Jealousy, etc with little to less humanity.

Magic is Once is "as the plot demands". I read the trivia on the Magic page which described how they used nature in Seasons 1 and 2, so to let it be natural, but it has become less so.

In my head (since I was planning to use some Once elements in a story) it is such:

Fairy Magic: Fairies have light magic, but use fairy dust to reduce the price (darkness) of magic. We have seen Nova and Blue use magic without their wands a couple of times. Using a outside catalyst and conduit (dust and wand) limits their abuse and overuse of magic. Their magic has no price to pay, but a sacrifice instead. "Are you willing to sacrifice this world for the next?" Also, they only use it for those that are untouched by darkness, like the wishing star or the Sorcerer's enchantment. They can grant any wish as long as it is pure in intent and deed. That would explain why the Black Fairy can use every spell ever casted including the Time Travel spell. Think of them as much, much weaker genies with more rules and limiting themselves with the uses of a limiting factor.

Non-Fairy Magic: As before season 3b, all magic (except one) was under one main category-Dark. This is why Snow and David feared Emma could go dark with using magic. They can pretty much do all that the fairies can do without the sacrifice and without limits. This leads to abuse and a price to pay. There are costs and then there is a price.

Ex: Cost of DC: Hair, Heart of the thing you love most, etc.   Price: Emptiness

So, under rules and personal limitations, magic can be with little cost to oneself. Light vs Dark shouldn't be an issue because Light should require using your light (good emotions) and Dark should be strengthened by your inner darkness. But then that makes Emma not special, but then again, they like Emma not being special. So, if we use the divide then everyone should be able to use light magic from time to time. The way they presented it seems this way. Regina said she was changing which lead to light magic, but she still uses other spells. Therefore, Emma's light magic doesn't make it white, it's just her color scheme.....I assume. All other magiic falls under here except genie magic and foresight, I think.

The Laws of Magic are pretty much irrelevant since the genies spell only gave Jafar the power to raise the dead and do the Curse of the Empty Heart (which Cora could do) and change memories since he actually couldn't change the past(which anyone can do) and he said so.

Known rules:

-Know where the object or person's location in order to teleport them to you. ....that's all I got.