There are 5 more guildmages in Gatecrash that complete the new Guildmage cycle, some of these guildmages have abilities that ‘stack’ (not in terms of using the stack, because they all do that, but I’m trying to express the fact that their effects are cumulative). Let’s have a look at these abilities.

Sunhome Guildmage
Should be simple enough, if you activate either ability multiple times, the bonus/token generation will happen that many times.

Skarrg Guildmage
Having multiple instances of trample doesn’t help you gain “super-trample,” so unless your creatures lost trample somewhere along the way… you wouldn’t benefit from activating it multiple times.

For the land animation ability, if someone decided to be mean and say… cast Turn to Frog on it, setting its p/t to 1/1, then yes, a second activation will return it to its former glory! Please note that due to layers, a Downsized 4/4 (now a 0/4) land Elemental Creature will still stay a 0/4 if you activate the Guildmage’s second ability again (Basically, the P/T setting effect takes place before Downsize, so Downsize will always have the last word in that regards)

Vizkopa Guildmage
Oooohhh, now we get trickier, for the first ability, just like with Trample, lifelink (it modifies the damage dealt, and isn’t a triggered ability) is redundant with multiple instances, so you probably won’t want to activate this more than once for any particular target.

For the second ability, since it sets up a triggered ability, multiple activations will cause that many triggers to go on the stack when you gain life. That means if you control a 2/2 lifelink creature and you activate Vizkopa Guildmage’s 2nd ability 3 times, the 2 life you gain will translate into 3 triggers going on the stack. Each of those will make your opponent lose 2 life when they resolve (for those who can’t do math, that’s 6 life lost in total).

We’ll tackle the two more complicated Guildmages tomorrow!

Today’s Rules Tip written by Eddie Cheung