# Once a use powers not per card **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [March 21, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/once-a-use-powers-not-per-card/37371 "2018-03-21T13:03:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@Eris](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eris)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/once-a-use-powers-not-per-card/37371/1 "2018-03-21T13:03:36Z")
Is it intentional or a bug? If you have multiples of a troop with a once per battle power only one of them can use the power. ---
**Author:** ![fishinia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/fishinia/32/33490_2.png) [@fishinia](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/fishinia)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/once-a-use-powers-not-per-card/37371/2 "2018-03-21T13:12:24Z")
Pretty sure it is intentional, i seem to remember not too long ago you could fire off multi maws and they fixed it so you could not ---
**Author:** ![Slypenslyde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/slypenslyde/32/30373_2.png) [@Slypenslyde](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Slypenslyde)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/once-a-use-powers-not-per-card/37371/3 "2018-03-21T13:18:28Z")
Yes, this has been explained as intentional, specifically because of The Great Maw. It’s also a common complaint, because that is about the only card that didn’t need a 2nd cast to be worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Eris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@Eris](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eris)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/once-a-use-powers-not-per-card/37371/4 "2018-03-21T16:29:10Z")
Cool. I hadn’t realized they had done that until I fought a couple teams that had for the same card and once one of them use the power the others were greyed-out ---
**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/once-a-use-powers-not-per-card/37371/5 "2018-03-21T19:46:43Z")
Yeah, unfortunately this is another of those unintuitive mechanics that you only “get” by experiencing it. I suspect that this nuance is hard to get across in the little blurbs they have as tooltips. (In general, GoW suffers from a lack of concise and accurate wordsmithing, which makes some tasks like looking up spell effects needlessly difficult.) ---
**Author:** ![UKresistance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ukresistance/32/7558_2.png) [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 3:13am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/once-a-use-powers-not-per-card/37371/6 "2018-03-22T03:13:07Z")
Would be fair to ask the devs to change it to once per card, still wouldn’t expect to see 3 maw teams. ---
**Author:** ![KrudlerTheHorse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/krudlerthehorse/32/9505_2.png) [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 3:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/once-a-use-powers-not-per-card/37371/7 "2018-03-22T03:38:30Z")
Fun fact: The lead designer wanted for no duplicate Troops allowed but compromise was reached with other interested parties, which led to the compromise of dupes being allowed & this odd-ball behavior for certain ones!