If a creature is a suspected, goaded ring-bearer, and then an effect makes the creature lose all abilities, it will still be a suspected, goaded ring-bearer because designations arent abilities
The equip ability on its own, without outside help from cards like Leonin Shikari, cannot be activated at instant speed, so if you play an Artificers Hex on an equipment thats already attached to a creature, they will not be able to remove that equipment before they are in their main phase, guaranteeing you a dead creature
The key to the design was making sure that each side had something you wanted, because the card could change at will
If all six of the revealed cards are land cards, your opponent doesn't exile anything
That was a little too restrained though, so they made sure to add Trample, because creatures just have to work nowadays