User blog comment:Edrea/Is Morgana more powerful than Merlin?/@comment-5674726-20130628163633/@comment-50.71.17.103-20150522073133

Your first argument is void in that Arthur was dying of a stab wound from a blade forged in a dragon's breath, which is what ended up killing Morgana. So regardless of whether you're right about the properties of the bracelet, it would have been useless in healing Arthur.

So Morgana was wrong, Sidhe magic > bracelet. Maybe she wasn't counting non-human forms of magic.

Also, it was Gaius who told Merlin how to heal Arthur, not Kilgharrah. And what he actually said was that Arthur needed to be healed on the island that is the source of the Sidhe's magic, not by the Sidhe themselves. Why on earth would the Sidhe agree to heal Arthur?

I think it's more likely that being on the island would have vamped up Merlin's magic, giving him the power necessary to overpower the dragon magic in the shard of Mordred's blade. Though it's completely illogical that he couldn't do that on his own, considering he is a dragonLORD. Are dragon-made artefacts somehow more magically potent than the actual dragon?! I'm left wondering what would have happened if Merlin had used dragonlord-ese to order the shard to not kill Arthur.