Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-25602483-20141124212452

Here is my list of characters from strongest to weakest (OUAT charcters only as I haven't seen OUTIW and has no intention to watch it at all).

1. Emma based on raw power, and her brand of magic which is light magic via love. She seems weak only because she  just started training. All the magic users we've encounter so far are all trained and experienced, but let say if emma had the same experience as rumple or at the very least regina and Zelena, she would be pretty strong. Her heart cannot be pulled out, that's how strong her light magic is and that was back in season 2 when she doesn't even know she has magic and I think its also obvious, because she's a saviour, hehe.

2. Rumple and Zelena, I put them on the same list because as I've said before, Cora almost beat rumple and based on experienced, Rumple had much more time to hone his skills with dark magic compare to Cora, yet he was almost defeated, so it only makes sense that Zelena, who is stronger than Cora according to rumple would be on the same level as rumple. Both have their weakness, Rumple the Dagger, and Zelena the pendant, but the pendant can only be removed by light magic, which rumple lacks. In addition to Zelena's feat, she easily broke the protection spell casted by Emma and Regina in season 3, and from what we saw, Regina and Cora had to combined their dark magic to break the protection spell Emma placed when they were trying to protect Gold.

3. The Snow Queen, she defeated both Regina and Emma, although emma is still an amateur, and It seems like they weren't expected to be attack as regina was still talking prior to being choked. She seems confident with her ability going as far as exchanging threats with rumple multiple times in season 4. She also seems to know dark magic in addition to her Ice elemental magic.

4. Cora, I can only base my assesment of her from her battle with rumple, so she's pretty strong. The only time I've seen her use dark magic are against normal people and there was never a scene where she had a duel against someone other than rumple, and unless they show a flashback of how close she was from winning against rumple, she is strong only via her duration of time she spent honing her skills, basically experience.

5. Pan, his magic is based on imagination and his youth, he is particularly strong in neverland because its kinda like a perfect fit with the way he uses his magic, through imagination. He can just imagine things and he would instantly possess it which is why rumple had the dagger hidded by the shadow because if Pad were to see rumple holding it, he could just take it via imagining. However, magic wise like casting spells and magical abilities that requires to hit or choke enemies, I'd say he doesn't really have a chance against rumple in terms of that. Also he was only able to trapped rumple using the box, through blood magic, he told Regina, MM, and Emma while they were trapped that that was how he was able to trap Rumple.

6 Regina is good with magic but not as good as the rest mentioned above. Although I must say, being the only magical being that was able to wield both Dark and Light magic at the same time says something. She might be able to develop the skill to be able to make these two complimentary to one another (Just speculation).

7. Elsa She just recently embraced her magic and still has a lot to learn same as Emma but her brand of magic is very weak in comparison to Emma, Light > Elemental, Ice. It's possible she possess light magic, because of true sisterly love, but it hasn't been show.

8. Blue, It is curios that Rumple could just instantly kill fairies, ie, cinderella's fairy god mother, but when rumple was arguing with blue, he was trying to slash her with his dagger, which suggest that Rumple can't simply just blow Blue up. She also seems scared of Regina's skills, seen during the episode when tinker bell was helping regina, and at the time regina was still a student which somewhat suggest that She might not be strong enough to overpower Regina (just speculation). Still so much is unknow about her, but we do know that fairy dust powers all the fairies, without it, they are powerless. In addition we also know that her light magic wasn't even strong enough to break rumple's protection spell in his shop, MM said that they must try something equally powerful, like dark magic so I guess she is that weak, or rather the fairy dust isn't strong enough.

9.  The Good witches of OZ, they are strong combined but not really when alone, although this would only hold through to Glinda as she wasn't really strong enough to defeat Zelena, I mean she really didn't even put a fight, other than threatening Zelena that she would find someone to defeat her and fulfill the prophecy.

I think these are all the magic users shown the most in OUAT.