Master of the top part 2

[Alexzang, etherium envoy]

Me again with {master transmuter} ( the second best card in sharuum decks everywhere) and {Sensei's divining top}. Earlier today I confirmed that activating tops second ability and responding with transmuters ability, returns top to my hand, let's me dump a fat piece of metal on the board and nets me a card all for a measly U ( TOO MUCH SYNERGY, right?) so the question I have now is, say I don't have a fat piece of metal in hand, if I choose to put top back in, does it then upon the previous resolution of its own ability get sent back to the top (HA!) or does it stay on the board?

[Rasser]

Stays on the Battle field. It's considered a new and different top.

201.4.: Text that refers to the object it's on by name means just that particular object and not any other objects with that name, regardless of any name changes caused by game effects.

201.4a: If an ability's effect grants another ability to an object, and that second ability refers to that first ability's source by name, the name refers only to the specific object that is that first ability's source, not to any other object with the same name. This is also true if the second ability is copied onto a new object.
Example: Gutter Grime has an ability that reads "Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a slime counter on Gutter Grime, then put a green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield with 'This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of slime counters on Gutter Grime.'" The ability granted to the token only looks at the Gutter Grime that created the token, not at any other Gutter Grime on the battlefield. A copy of that token would also have an ability that referred only to the Gutter Grime that created the original token.

RESOLVED

[Alexzang, etherium envoy]

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