Static and triggered abilities

Laterna Magica already supports some core functionalities of Magic, but there's still much left. I don't talk about discard and such things; these are effects that just need to be coded, and then they will be there; just a new flavor of an existing thing. I also don't talk about very complicated effects. All cards currently supported in Laterna Magica use the original oracle wording (with the exception that "draw three cards" must be changed into "draw 3 cards"), which won't be possible for all abilities, but such abilities are still not what I'm talking about.

I'm thinking about really new features, like static and triggered abilities, the ability to target, or text changing effects.
Text changing effects are just very hard; they kind of break my concept of "one template, many instances" for abilities: The printed wording can be shared between cards, just its interpretation, the rules meaning, is card-specific.
Targets are currently not my goal; I don't really want to do much UI at the moment, and this in inevitable with giving the player yet another possibility to make a choice.

That neatly leaves behind the two thing I already stated in the title, and they have one thing in common which currently gives me a headache: Scope of influence.

The scope of an ability means in what places and at what times it works. For spells and activated abilities it's comparable to legality, but the big difference is that the user initiates those abilities; static and triggered abilities are around at all times.

There are two ways to handle the situation:

• keep all abilities at all times and ask them if they should apply on every single occasion
• let the abilities themselves handle it; registering and unregistering using some events

I don't know why, but my initial though was to use the second. Both have good and bad points of course: The first can result in a performance problem, the second might break in strange corner cases.
A more obvious, but still realistic example is controller changes: Imagine you get control of a Glorious Anthem, but it still pumps your opponent's creatures.
But even the first approach has similar issues, namely abilities that didn't exist at the beginning of the game, for example on tokens or from Auras. If you register all abilities at the beginning of the game, those would be ignored.

If you expected a definitive solution here, I'm sorry. I don't have one. There's no right way to do anything, just several ways with different consequences.