Academy Manufactor + Hazel's Brewmaster + Pippin, Warden of Isengard

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Overview

With Academy Manufactor on the battlefield, any effect that would create a Food token (including Hazel's Brewmaster's ETB/attack trigger or Pippin's , activation) instead creates one Food, one Clue, and one Treasure. When Hazel's Brewmaster's triggered ability resolves it first exiles up to one target card from a graveyard and then creates the token(s); because the exile happens as part of that same resolution, the Food token created that resolution will immediately gain the activated abilities of any creature cards exiled with Hazel's Brewmaster (see Ruling [2024-07-26]). Foods are any Food artifacts, so they interact with costs or effects that say “sacrifice a Food” or similar (see Ruling [2024-11-08]).

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Step 1

Hazel's Brewmaster's triggered ability ("exile up to one target card from a graveyard and create a Food token") goes on the stack when it triggers (on ETB or when it attacks).

Step 2

When that triggered ability resolves, do its written instructions in order: first exile the chosen card from a graveyard (if any) and that card becomes one of the cards exiled with Hazel's Brewmaster.

Step 3

Next, the ability attempts to create a Food token. Academy Manufactor has a replacement effect: "If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each." That replacement effect applies to the token-creation event, so instead of creating just a Food token you create a Food token, a Clue token, and a Treasure token.

Step 4

Because the exile step happened earlier in the same resolution, Hazel's Brewmaster already has any creature cards exiled with it by the time the Food token is created. Hazel's Brewmaster's static text grants Foods you control all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with that creature, and those abilities effectively act as though printed on the Food (Ruling [2024-07-26]). Therefore the Food token created this resolution immediately has those activated abilities.

Step 5

If you activate Pippin's , ability, that activation creates a Food token; Academy Manufactor replaces that creation so Pippin's activation produces a Food, a Clue, and a Treasure. Any Food tokens created by Pippin will gain Brewmaster-granted abilities only while Brewmaster currently has creature cards exiled with it (Ruling [2024-07-26]).

Resolution

When Hazel's Brewmaster's ETB or attack trigger resolves with Academy Manufactor in play, you exile the target card (if any), then you create a Food, a Clue, and a Treasure token instead of only a Food. The Food token created this way will have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Hazel's Brewmaster while that static effect applies (Ruling [2024-07-26]). When you activate Pippin's , ability you similarly create a Food, a Clue, and a Treasure token; those Foods will gain Brewmaster-granted activated abilities only if Hazel's Brewmaster currently has creature cards exiled with it (Ruling [2024-07-26]). Foods count as any Food artifact for things that care about Foods (Ruling [2024-11-08]).