Originally Posted by
Sharpandpointies
I agree, that had Strange been taken out (somehow) and one of the other sorcerers we saw was the one facing Doom (again, somehow), Doom would very likely have won.
Which kind of supports the idea that the other sorcerers weren't anything special. Doom, at the time, was basically still a neophyte getting by on his armor analyzing spells. He was the only guy who made it through alongside Strange. Not exactly a great showing for the other sorcerers, who showed absolutely nothing special during the conflict, were lousy at protecting themselves, and (in at least one case) couldn't even use dimensional entreaties.
Again, we had sorcerers there who didn't even know how to summon the energies of entities or extradimensional places. That places them below Mordo's flunkies. Sure, they were magic users, but their overall, demonstrated skill level was pretty abysmal by the standards of Strange, given some of them were below people two notches below him. And zero name-level people.
I'm not saying they were stumbling buffoons, but one doesn't need to be a stumbling buffoon to be a pretty loooong way from Strange, from Mordo (who is a doofus, but undeniably skilled at magic), from Mordo's flunkies, from Clea when she was an apprentice (where, despite her predilection toward needing to be rescued by Stephen, did occasionally call upon extradimensional entities), from other actual character-level sorcerers in Marvel.
And again - this is an important point - Doom wasn't taking those sorcerers out left and right. He was taking out zombified people (the sorcerers, yes, but AFTER they had been zombified, if that's a word) who seemed to have no defences and just the ability to fire the zombifying bolts of energy.
Waaay too much use of the word 'zombify' up there. ^_^ Apologies.