Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170429134340/@comment-24942479-20170605070550

I always viewed it on once that magic potential is kinda like force sensitivity on star wars. For instance say regina may be less powerful than emma for instance, her experience will give her the slight edge in battle (similiar to obiwan and Anakin). Personally I always viewed the apprentice and the dragon as the most powerful magic users as they seemed to "see" many things from their solitude and magic to figure out magic in the LWM. Not even rumple could do that and he even reaserced the LWM as he knew the dragon was alive. The only reason they appear weak is they dont practice battle or dark magic so chose not to fight dirty  (EVIL queen vs dragon situation)   I think in once age = power as those who had lived for a very long time such as Pan, the Apprentice and the blackfairy seemed to be able to achieve the most impressive feats. For that reason I think it goes

GODS

HOLY GRAIL (merlin above rumple as he possesed pure uncoruppted HG magic)

BLACK FAIRY ( her thousands of years experince allows her to contend with dark one rumple, maybe stronger than standard dark one due to her knowledge and immunity to dark magic)

APPRENTICE (older than the dark one and can travel between realms at will, knows far too much, Willing to fight the dark ones as well as the snow queen). PETER PAN ( Older than rumple with great magic, able to break zelenas magic stating that he was better than her)ZELENA (without pendant is the greatest person with natural magic)

THE DRAGON (Magic in land without magic, seems to have natural forsight and is held in high esteem as regina looks for him when she cannot undo the sleeping curse meaning he is considered more knowledgable)

ALL SAVIOURS (born with very powerful magic in order to destroy their own villians, their magic can see across realms)

BLUE FAIRY ( knows many things and seems confident enough to threaten zelena when she wanted her baby, Managed to cast a spell across the whole EF for singing which apparently requires alot of experience as INGRID said to cast a spell across an antire kingdom would require a lifetime of cultivating magic).

SNOW QUEEN (Exceptional raw power. i think ice magic is one of the strongest kind and along with it comes the potential for witch craft. Entirely self taught and her statue needed emma and regina combinded to destroy illustrating they she is above regina. Rumples composure around her shows that she is powerful and he states to bell that "the snow queen defeated both emma and regina. Ive heard the argument that she is weaker than regina but if that were the case regina would have defeated her far before the spell of shattered sight. I Think her power is the exact same as elsas but elsa is inexperinced and thus her magic snowman was not as refined and as strong as ingrids thats why hers broke to regina)

CORA ( May have less raw magic as regina as when rumple meets regina he remarks  "such raw power" or something similiar. But Cora has much experience being trained by rumple and using maleficents spell book. Also Maleficent did not come back to retrieve it)

REGINA and MALEFICENT ( they seem to be entirely equal, some say regina can to this and others say Maleficent can do that but they acknowledge each other as equals. this can be seen when regina walks into the dinner and tells maleficnet she wont hide and she can TRY to kill her. Personally I think regina is more gifted but maleficent is self taught and it took her about 100 years to get to the level that she is at whereas regina and cora's learning was fast tracked by the dark magic wiki of the dark one. BUT Regina might be slighty above as she and rumple were the "most powerful practitioners of magic" FINE PRINT in the enchanted forest)

AMARA and JAFAR ( same as above as amara had 100 years to self teach herself and study magic but she fast tracked Jafars teaching so he could skip all those years. These two are probably just below the ones above.

the FTL seems to produce the most powerful sorcerors whereas other lands have magic such as OZ but they produce practioners with less raw power. This can be seen with glinda and her pendent was unable to stop zelana whereas Regina without one could produce stronger light magic. Besides the witches of OZ I cannot think of any magic practitioners that were not born in the fairy tale land.