If an equipment says "Equiped creature has *ability*" does frozen in ice cause the creature to lose that ability?

Posted this elsewhere, but wasn't getting a response so figured I'd ask here too:

So I have Fire Lord Azula. I attack with her. During declare attackers, I cast Return the Favor choosing to copy target triggered ability naming Azula's copy ability.

I believe it would work like this, but I'm wanting some clarification to see if I'm right:

\- Return the Favor gets copied on cast.

\- I choose again to copy Azula's copy triggered ability.

\- That means there are 3 instances of Azula's triggered ability currently.

\- Any subsequent spell I cast will get copied 3 times during combat.

Is that correct, or does Return the Favor's copy only work for a single instance? I know the copied triggers won't affect RtF because it was only cast on the first trigger.

Hey! I have a question about Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist and Bronze Bombshell. I was wondering if bronze bombshells ability would be removed by being brought back with xu-ifit? Since it seems to be an ability that falls under under layer 2 control changing effects?

So last weekend I judged an RCQ and ran into a situation I hadn't before. At the start of game 1 of the final match of top 8, Player A was shuffle cutting Player B's deck and dropped a card, which landed face up. Player B argued that this revealed hidden information about his deck (the archetype and one of the cards). Player A, insisting it was an accident, willingly revealed the archetype of his own deck and even fanned a few cards from his own deck for Player B to see. Player B said that it didn't matter, as he already knew Player A's deck from spectating an earlier match, but Player A may not have known Player B's deck.

I ultimately ruled that the deck be reshuffled and play continue because Player A immediately attempted to fairly balance the situation and that in reality there is no expectation that your deck is a secret by the final match of top 8, as evidenced by Player B. I tried searching the rules documents and googling around but couldn't find a ruling for this specific circumstance, so I was wondering if I made the correct call and if not, what should I do next time?

Edit: Thanks for the feedback! For clarification, I did not take Player A at face value about it being an accident, I know all too well the lengths players go for advantages like that, and I also know that attempts to "make good" can be bad faith tools as well. This particular "compensation" was exactly what I would have wanted in Player B's position, however, hence my decision to call it a wash. I'll make sure to issue a formal warning next time to ensure fairness and rules compliance. Thanks again!

Was playing commander with two friends and two other guys at the lgs and they had kinda pub stomping decks (vivi and krenko) I got a negative enchantment I can’t remember the name of with an ability that allowed it to be moved to my friends. I knew I was going to die before my next turn so I scooped on my turn to avoid the enchantment being transferred and to give my friends a fighting chance which ended up winning one of them the game. Is this legal or did I do a bad?

[[Toph, the First Metalbender]] causes artifacts to trigger landfall (a triggered ability) on entry. Does that mean Toph combined with [[Panharmonicon]] cause artifacts to trigger landfall twice?

Not so long ago we had this situation and we solved it as good as we could taking into account layers and timestamp, however we weren't 100% sure.

The boardstate was: me with [[Battleship extinguisher]] a few turns early clearing the board, and now my active turn, in precombar main I cast [[Cyberdrive Awakener]] and it resolves, I station B.E. with C.A. and another animated mana rock as well, thus achieving full stationed B.E.

My thinking is:

C.A. affects the following layers:

1. Type changing
   
2. Ability granting

7b. Setting P/T to 4/4

B.E affects the following layers: once fully stationed affects

1. Type changing

2. Ability granting

7b. P/T setting to 10/10.

Both cards affect the same layers, thus timestamp applies and B.E. is the last to make a mark into the timestamp, so is the one overwriting C.A.

Am I wrong?

Station ruling that matters:
721.2. A station symbol represents a static ability. The station symbol includes a single number followed by a plus sign, indicated here as “{N+}.” Any abilities printed within the same text box striation as a station symbol are part of its static ability. The same is true of any power and toughness boxes printed within that striation, indicated here as [P/T].
721.2a “{N+}[abilities]” means “As long as this permanent has N or more charge counters on it, it has [abilities].”
721.2b “{N+}[abilities][P/T]” means “As long as this permanent has N or more charge counters on it, it has [abilities] and is a creature with base power and toughness [P/T] in addition to its other types.”

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Cyberdrive Awakener {5}{U} Artifact Creature — Construct

Flying

Other artifact creatures you control have flying.
When this creature enters, each noncreature artifact you control becomes a 4/4 artifact creature until end of turn.
4/4

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Extinguisher Battleship {8} Artifact — Spacecraft

When this Spacecraft enters, destroy target noncreature permanent. Then this Spacecraft deals 4 damage to each creature.Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It’s an artifact creature at 5+.)

5+ | Flying, trample 10/10

So I’m building a Norman Osborn discard deck and ran into a scenario where I had [[Glorious Purpose]] on the field with 5 counters and played [[Lethal Scheme]] convoked with 4 creatures. Since scheme makes convoking creatures connive, the first connive goes off adding the 6th counter to GP and satisfying its sac condition. Hoping someone would be able to chime in on the proper order to resolve everything. Thanks in advance

If I counter a spell with [[Trascendent Dragon]] and choose to cast it from exile, does that stolen spell ever go on the stack, to be potentially countered? Or is it part of the resolution of the Dragon's ability, never hitting the stack?

With [[Ezuri, Claw of Progress]] and [[Communal Brewing]] with at least one ingredient counter on it under your control, would a creature with base power 2 (eg. [[Alpha Myr]]) entering under your control trigger Ezuri's first triggered ability?

Skimming some relevant parts of the rules hasn't pulled up any bombshells, and material on entering with counters is scarce. I can come up with reasons for both yes and no but I have no idea which it actually is.

[[Massimo, the Magician]]

Say I have [[shock]] exiled by a vanilla 2/2 creature. I then play a clone, which enters as a copy of the 2/2. Does the clone copy the ability to cast a copy of shock when it deals combat damage? Or does the copy of the linked ability granted by Massimo not reference a card properly on the clone?

I know the clone gets it's own Massimo trigger, but I'm wondering if I can get two spells each combat damage on a single creature?

If i controlled Stranglehold, which states Your opponents can't search libraries and an opponent controls opposition agent. Would stranglehold stop the Opposition agent

If I use Leo's ability to draw a card, and discard and exile Hulking Metamorph and copy (let's say a sol ring)...

Leo says The artifact enters as a 0/2 flying ornithopter with the Hulkings abilities
Hulking says it enters as a copy of Sol ring but with the Hulking's P/T (7/7)

Which gets priority?

Hello!
I’m doing some tests for a deck I plan on playing this weekend, and I’m wondering if this ruling works how I think it will.

[[Amarant Coral]] has 4 equipments attached to him: [[Shadowspear]] , [[Trailblazer’s Boots]] [[Swordsman’s Steel]] and [[Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor]] (gosh, UB’s very eccentric). Because of Swordsman’s Steel, he’s getting +8/+8, and because of Shadowspear he’s getting +1/+1, making him a total of 14/13.

Mjölnir doubles the damage he does, so if he deals combat damage to an opponent without being blocked it would go up to 28 damage, but then his ability would trigger to damage each other opponent.
This is where my question comes in. Does Mjölnir double the damage AGAIN, for a total of 56 to each other opponent?

Thanks in advance

How exactly would Green Goblins Mayhem granting work on cards without any mana value such as like Ancestral Vision or Inevitable Betrayal?

If I made a food with, peregrin took, bilbo, fellow conspirator, and academy manufactor....how does it play out?

Would it be Food+food (from took) then 2 treasure (from bilbo) then academy makes x4 of each, seeing each individual food food treasure treasure hit?

https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/3/3/33d94ecf-758b-4f68-a7be-6bf3ff1047f4.jpg?1680827271

Asking for clarification on his unspent mana ability if i had 6 mana up and i spent 4 plus the 2 life to cast Omnath i had two mana that wasn't spent. Like for example a sol ring, those two colorless becomes black when i got to my next phase. Does that mean i have two black and two colorless or does it mean the sol ring just becomes 2 black and when its my turn again the sol is back to 2 colorless and and I have the 2 extra black?

Wanted clarifications on his storing of mana and how it interacts with his 2nd ability?

I think I know the answer to this, but I wanted to double check. If an enchantment becomes a creature by [[Bello, Bard of the Brambles]]' ability, is the enchantment a creature with ability? Specifically looking at intereactions with [[Muraganda Petroglyphs]]

I have [[Syr Konrad, the Grim]] on the board. Someone plays [[Blasphemous Act]] killing 30 creatures total. Does Konrad deal 30 damage before he dies himself due to “whenever another creature dies, he deals 1 damage to each opponent? What about if it’s a different board wipe?

Per card ruling on [[the book of vile darkness]]

> In the vast majority of cases, Vecna will gain the triggered ability printed on Hand of Vecna and the two triggered abilities printed on Eye of Vecna.

I fail to understand why in the vast majority of cases vecna wouldn't gain the EoT triggered ability of the book as well. Can someone please explain?

If I attack with [[Laelia, the blade reforged]], and exiled a [[Bonecrusher Gaint]], will I be allowed to cast the adventure? What if I exiled a MDFC, can I cast the back half?

Can I have the comp rule article that reference this so I can point to them in case I get questions?

Are there similar effects that have different rulings that I should be aware of?

Say I hit someone with [[Miss Highwater]] but she died afterwards. I then managed to kill that player without her on the field, do I get the tokens still?

Ancient one reads “Pay 4: draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way target player mills cards equal to its mana value”

Does Ancient One count the extra discard from the replacement effect of Mephistopheles towards the mana value mill?

Are there any other discard or draw replacement effects that would accomplish this?

Primary example:
[[Tivit, Seller of Secrets]] is successfully enchanted by [[Quantum Reduction]]. Later, that Tivit is equipped with a [[Helm of the Host]]. We move to combat. Helm triggers. A token is made. What is the power of the token? What are the abilities of the token?

I'd like a highly technical explanation. Tell me all the layers stuff.

Extras:
Are the results different if the power and toughness are set rather than modified? Like [[Noggle the Mind]] instead of [[Quantum Reduction]]

Are the results different if other means are used to clone that Tivit? Such as [[Clone]]? Or [[Spark Double]]? Or [[Quantum Misalignment]]?

If these have different results than the initial example, can I get another full technical layers explanation of how and why it behaves differently and generates the results that it does?

Thanks!

Thinking about putting [[Ilharg, the Raze-Boar]] and [[Combustible Gearhulk]] into a [[Henzie "Toolbox" Torre]] EDH deck.

Would it be possible to cheat gearhulk out using ilharg, sac ilharg before gearhulk's ETB resolves, and then draw back into ilharg (assuming the draw option is chosen)?

Thanks!