I'm working on building a maester deck and something occured to me reading the attachments abilities as response or any phase. Now firstly i would have thought that kneeling a maester with mutiple chains would activate the intentional ability of all chains but realizing that some have different response conditions, I'm now wondering if you can kneel to activate only one "any phase" chain ability and then any "response" chains would react but other "any phase" conditions would remain inert. Or am i originally correct in the assumption that they all activate? For example:

i have a maester with a gold link(any phase kneel for gold), valyrian steel link(any phase kneel for draw card) and a pale steel link( response when knelt put character printed cost 1 or lower into play). if i kneel him do i get 3 gold, 2 cards and put out a character? or do i only get whatever i declare (gold or card) and then put out a character? any help in clarifying this would help as it would obviously affect the strategy of putting certain attachments on certain maesters. But i had figured because there arent too many maester characters and lots of chains especially concerning the agenda that any and all chains on a character would activate when knelt and that would be the whole point of "forging your maesters chain". This might be a duh! question but i dont want to make any mistakes building this deck and getting it to a bad start. Thx!

Any Phase tiggered effects have to resolve one by one. Activating an any phase ability is what is called a "player action" this must fully resolve before the next player action can be triggered.

"Response" on the other hand must be in reaction to something, typically a player or framework action (or other responses).

So to trigger an "any phase" chain, you must kneel the maester as the "cost". At which point you can fire off your "response" chains in reaction to kneeling the maester. After all this resolves, you have a knelt maester and have used a single "any phase" chain and any number of "response" chains on that maester.

To use any further "any phase" chains on that maester, you must have one way or another to stand that maester.

*i am using the term "any phase chain" very loosely here, as all current "any phase" chains require you to kneel the maester. should another chain ever be printed without the cost of kneeling the attached maester, this explanation would have to be worded differently.

If the Maester was choosed as a defender/attacker, he'd still be able to use it's attached chains?

The only thing you need to ask is if the Maester knelt. How or why he knelt makes no difference.

If you kneel a maester to defend, you wouldn't then get to use the any phase chain would you? For "any phase" actions you couldn't declare that you are kneeling a maester to defend, and to pay the cost of the any phase action right? My understanding is that you would have to declare cost that the kneel is paying for, but then, you would still get all of the response chains triggered.

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