What happens if you gain control of an equipped creature?

What happens if you gain control of an equipped creature?

Gaining control of an equipped creature doesn’t give you control of the Equipment on it. The Equipment remains attached to the creature, but only the Equipment’s controller can play its equip ability. If you play Karn’s Touch on an attached Equipment, it becomes unattached and stays in play as a creature.

What happens to equipment when equipped creature dies?

Nothing. It stays on the battlefield, not equipped to anything.

Does equipment get destroyed when creature dies?

If an equipped creature dies or gets bounced, the equipment stays in play, and you can equip it the next time you can play a sorcery.

Does equipment stay on the field?

Equipment spells don’t attach to anything. Equipment permanents on the battlefield can.

Can you equip as an instant?

The Equip ability is done at sorcery speed. If an equipment has anither ability that lets it be attached at instant speed then yes. Equip [cost] ([Cost]: Attach this permanent to target creature you control.

Can you attach equipment to creatures you don’t control?

Control of the creature matters only when the equip ability is activated and when it resolves. Spells and other abilities may also attach an Equipment to a creature. If an effect attempts to attach an Equipment to an object that can’t be equipped by it, the Equipment doesn’t move.

What happens to equipment when creature is exiled?

In short, the exiled permanent becomes a non-permanent card that is a new object, causing all statuses, counters, equipment, enchantments, etc to detach. Enchantments will go to the graveyard.

Do Equipment cards go to the graveyard?

No. Equipment will stay in play regardless of what happens to whatever it is equipped to. They don’t need to be attached to anything to remain in play.

Is attach the same as equip?

Is that correct? They’re the same thing. The keyword Equip means “Cost: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.”

Can you equip a creature already equipped?

So, if an Equipment is already attached to a creature, when you activate its Equip ability, you move it from where it currently is (attached to the original creature) and put it onto the new creature. One thing to keep in mind is that the Equip ability is an ability the Equipment has, not the creature.

Can you put multiple equipment on a creature?

An Equipment can’t equip more than one creature. If a spell or ability would cause an Equipment to equip more than one creature, the Equipment’s controller chooses which creature it equips.

Do creatures keep counters when exiled?

counters are or are not removed from a permanent when it is destroyed/exiled/w\e.