Can you use equipped equipment towards casting improvise?
And if I have an equipment on a creature, do I have to pay the equip cost twice, to transfer the equipment to a new creature?
Do I have to pay to unequip?
Can you use equipped equipment towards casting improvise?
Yes, the equipment is still an artifact that can be tapped to pay for Improvise.
Tapping the equipment doesn't change its effect on the equipped creature or makes the creature become tapped, and tapping the creature also doesn't make the equipment become tapped.
And if I have an equipment on a creature, do I have to pay the equip cost twice, to transfer the equipment to a new creature?
You pay the Equip cost only once. An equipment can only equip one creature at a time; equipping it to a new creature automatically removes it from the previous creature.
Do I have to pay to unequip?
No. You can't just unequip an equipment like that; you need a new creature to move the equipment to it.
If I have a stitcher's graft can I just pay 2 to equip it to an enemies creature, and then just pay another 2 to equip it to another creature, killing th3 previous creature?
The Equip ability can only target creatures you control. You can't equip an opponent's creatures this way.
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702.6. Equip
702.6a. Equip is an activated ability of Equipment cards. "Equip [cost]" means "[Cost]: Attach this permanent to target creature you control. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery."
701.3. Attach
701.3a. To attach an Aura, Equipment, or Fortification to an object means to take it from where it currently is and put it onto that object. If something is attached to a permanent on the battlefield, it's customary to place it so that it's physically touching the permanent. An Aura, Equipment, or Fortification can't be attached to an object it couldn't enchant, equip, or fortify, respectively.
Can you use equipped equipment towards casting improvise?
Improvise only cares that you are tapping an artifact to pay the cost, it can be a 'normal' artifact like howling mine or a piece of equipment like skullclamp
And if I have an equipment on a creature, do I have to pay the equip cost twice, to transfer the equipment to a new creature?
Do I have to pay to unequip?
Covering the pair of these together. Once you equip a creature with something the equipment stays attached to the creature until the creature/equipment leaves the battlefield, gains an appropriate form of protection or youa activate the equip ability targetting another creature. You can't pay a cost to unequip it from the creature and you only hace to pay the cost of the abilty once to move it to a new creature
If I have a stitcher's graft can I just pay 2 to equip it to an enemies creature, and then just pay another 2 to equip it to another creature, killing th3 previous creature?
No, when you activate the equip ability you can only target creatures you control, not those belonging to a teammate or an opponent.
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It's worth noting that even if Stitcher's Graft somehow becomes attached to an opponent's creature - say, because your opponent used Magnetic Theft to attach it to one of their creatures - attaching it to another creature won't do anything to the opponent's creature. This is because the ability directs you to sacrifice the permanent that Graft became unattached from, and you can't sacrifice a permanent you don't control.
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And if I have an equipment on a creature, do I have to pay the equip cost twice, to transfer the equipment to a new creature?
Do I have to pay to unequip?
Yes, the equipment is still an artifact that can be tapped to pay for Improvise.
Tapping the equipment doesn't change its effect on the equipped creature or makes the creature become tapped, and tapping the creature also doesn't make the equipment become tapped.
You pay the Equip cost only once. An equipment can only equip one creature at a time; equipping it to a new creature automatically removes it from the previous creature.
No. You can't just unequip an equipment like that; you need a new creature to move the equipment to it.
The Equip ability can only target creatures you control. You can't equip an opponent's creatures this way.
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702.6. Equip
702.6a. Equip is an activated ability of Equipment cards. "Equip [cost]" means "[Cost]: Attach this permanent to target creature you control. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery."
701.3. Attach
701.3a. To attach an Aura, Equipment, or Fortification to an object means to take it from where it currently is and put it onto that object. If something is attached to a permanent on the battlefield, it's customary to place it so that it's physically touching the permanent. An Aura, Equipment, or Fortification can't be attached to an object it couldn't enchant, equip, or fortify, respectively.
Improvise only cares that you are tapping an artifact to pay the cost, it can be a 'normal' artifact like howling mine or a piece of equipment like skullclamp
Covering the pair of these together. Once you equip a creature with something the equipment stays attached to the creature until the creature/equipment leaves the battlefield, gains an appropriate form of protection or youa activate the equip ability targetting another creature. You can't pay a cost to unequip it from the creature and you only hace to pay the cost of the abilty once to move it to a new creature
No, when you activate the equip ability you can only target creatures you control, not those belonging to a teammate or an opponent.
- H.L Mencken
I Became insane with long Intervals of horrible Sanity
All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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