The New Arena

[Morgan le Fay]

After some testing with my guildmates, when your stake is grabbed and you take it back, no one can grab your stake anymore. This effectively prevents abuse, but it's weird. It can allow you to protect, for instance, your 1000 gems or your leader card by having a friend grab it from you and then grab it back.

It will certainly encourage guild members to work together, though, because you can share rewards with your friends.

^What Chicken said. One of my guildies was lucky enough to win the 1000 gems and brave enough to test this out. Once you've 'shared' it and 'reclaimed' your half of the stake back it is in effect protected from any other attack.