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You get a non-animated Totem with the ability to be animated. Copy-Effects are in Layer 1 while both Humility and the Totem's activation are only applied in higher layers.

Try to look at the layer-system like this:

Whenever anything in play changes, the game tries to find out, what the actual game-state is. To do so, it starts with the actual printed cards. Then it...

No dependance here as among other things both abilities would have to be in the same layer:



And still the nonbasics will be mountains.



Emphasis mine.

Explanation a) is absolutely correct.

The game goes through the layers and when it arrives in layer4 Magus still has its abiility and all nonbasics are mountains. In layer 5 Humility removes the...

You are right. Your Monastery will have First Strike.

Actually, if you play an Arcbound Worker with Humility in play, it would come into play with the counter thus being 2/2.

That is because an ability like "~This~ comes into play with ~something~"...