Power Pickaxe

Edison Card Text
Once per turn, you can select and remove from play 1 monster in your opponent's GY whose Level is less than or equal to the equipped monster's, and have the equipped monster gain 500 ATK until the End Phase.
Targets
Note: the first part of the effect
No Damage Step effect
Banlist • Unlimited
Interactions
If Power Pickaxe is destroyed, does the ATK gain remain?!
Power Pickaxe is equipped to a monster and then destroyed.
No. The equipped monster loses the 500 ATK when Power Pickaxe is destroyed.
Rulings
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●This effect targets the monster in your opponent’s GY.
●Removing the monster is an effect, not a cost.
●If the target monster is not removed from play by this effect, the equipped monster does not gain ATK.
●If the Level of the equipped monster is lower than the targeted monster when this effect resolves, the targeted monster is not removed from play.
●Removing the target monster from play and gaining 500 ATK happen at the same time.
●If “Power Pickaxe” is negated, the equipped monster loses the 500 ATK.
●It won't regain it even if “Power Pickaxe” stops being negated.
●If “Power Pickaxe” is destroyed, the previously equipped monster loses the 500 ATK.
●Monsters removed by this effect remain removed from play even after the End Phase.
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