Hi Ther
Just looking for some clarification on stifle, if I cast stifle in response to deathrite shaman, the exiling land ability, will it be countered and will the land still get exiled? Same goes with any planeswalker, if I stifle the + or - ability I assume the walker still stays on the loyalty it was already on?
Everything after the colon in an activated ability is part of the effect; everything before is part of the cost. Stifle counters the effect of the ability, but the cost has already been paid.
The cost for activating Deathrite Shaman's first ability is just tapping it; exiling the land and adding mana are part of the effect, so those won't happen if the ability gets countered.
The cost to activate a loyalty ability is to add or remove the specified number of loyalty counters, so that is unchanged by countering the ability.
If you activate a planeswalker's ability and it gets Stifled, does that count as the 'one use per turn' and it'll just sit bored till next turn (barring shenanigans like the Teferi walker or Chain Veil)?
Yes. The ability was still activated, in much the same way that a spell that gets countered by Counterspell was still cast (for the purpose of Rule of Law or cards that trigger an ability when a spell is cast, for example.)
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Just looking for some clarification on stifle, if I cast stifle in response to deathrite shaman, the exiling land ability, will it be countered and will the land still get exiled? Same goes with any planeswalker, if I stifle the + or - ability I assume the walker still stays on the loyalty it was already on?
Thanks for your help!
The cost for activating Deathrite Shaman's first ability is just tapping it; exiling the land and adding mana are part of the effect, so those won't happen if the ability gets countered.
The cost to activate a loyalty ability is to add or remove the specified number of loyalty counters, so that is unchanged by countering the ability.