Card mechanic
When playing witness protection it says it removes abilities and makes the card a 1/1 creature, but when you play it on a token like an incubated phyrexian it doesn’t reduce the card to 1/1 instead it gives it a +1/+1, if this is how the mechanic works that fine just wanted to be sure. I’m playing arenas on IOS
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[Deleted User] commented
Witness Protection sets BASE power/toughness to 1/1. A transformed incubater token is a base 0/0 with some +1/+1 counters on it. Those counters are applied after base p/t has been set, even if that effect comes later (since they apply in different sublayers). So the token essentially gets +1/+1 due to its increased base stats. The same goes for any creature with +1/+1 counters on it, many of which are base 0/0.