RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Expansion card questions: Question about keywords stacking. When a card effect would give a card surge and that card already has…

Question

Question about keywords stacking. When a card effect would give a card surge and that card already has surge, would that be two instances of surge? And therefore could mean no limit of how many times the same card can Surge? Same question with Quick strike on a minion, would that cause it to attack twice or more in a row? Same with villainous, would that character get two or more boost cards? Same with Toughness? Where it would most of the time fail but some characters can have multiple tough status cards on them Same with steady? 4 status of the same type?
Incite would stack correct? And in general is it if a keyword has a numerical value it stacks and if not it doesn’t?

Answer

Most keywords, particularly the ones you mentioned, do not stack—for example, a card that already has Surge cannot be given Surge again. Surge, Quickstrike, Villainous, Toughness, and Steady can only be granted to a card once. Granting any of these keywords to a card more than once would not cause any additional effects.
Surge, Quickstrike, Villainous, Toughness, and Steady can only be granted to a card once. Granting any of these keywords to a card more than once would not cause any additional effects.
One keyword that does stack is Retaliate X; if something already has Retaliate X, X is able to be increased based on some card/game effects.
Yes, that’s a good rule of thumb. Most keywords with a numeral will stack, like Retaliate or Hinder.

-Alex