Clustering SQL Standard edition on three nodes as Active/Active/Passive

Is the limit of Standard Edition clustering of SQL a licensing limit or a technical limit?
We have an Active/Active cluster (2 nodes, multiple SQL "resource group" installations), and we want to add a third node in to become the passive node for all SQL instances.
As far as I understand it, we simply configure the each SQL server in the cluster to have only two "possible owners" with a "preferred owner" of an Active node. So, for SQL server "VServSQL1" it could run on Node1 or Node3(passive), with Node1 as preferred
- then for the SQL server "VServSQL2" we could set it to run on Node2 or Node3 and un-check Node1.
Can anyone confirm if this will work? What is the limitation with mixing the active nodes within a Windows Failover cluster?

 Hello ,
Yes we can have SQL Server standard SQLInstance1 on 
NODE1 and NODE2. Standard SQLInstance2 on NODE 3 and either of NODE2 or NODE1.
Thank You
Jayaprakash JO - MSFT

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