Does Silverfur Partisan's ability get activated by planes-walker abilities?

Asked by macrofez 7 years ago

i have a Silverfur Partisan + Zada, Hedron Grinder deck and i was wondering it an ability from a planeswalker (such as Arlinn Kord  ^Flip's +1 ability) would proc Silverfur Partisan's ability. i know that planeswalker abilities are cast at sorcery speed, but i wish to know if they count as sorcery or not. thankyou.

Busse says... Accepted answer #1

The ability, as you said it, is an ability that adds or removes Loyalty counters, and it's not a spell of sorcery or instant type, so your Silverfur Partisan would not proc. To proc, the effect HAS to come from a card with Sorcery or Instant type.
Cheers!

Courtesy rulings:

• 306.5d: Each planeswalker has a number of loyalty abilities, which are activated abilities with loyalty symbols in their costs. Loyalty abilities follow special rules: A player may activate a loyalty ability of a permanent he or she controls any time he or she has priority and the stack is empty during a main phase of his or her turn, but only if none of that permanents loyalty abilities have been activated that turn. See rule 606, Loyalty Abilities.

July 16, 2016 3:54 p.m. Edited.

Epochalyptik says... #2

@macrofez: Note that abilities aren't automatically activated. Activated abilities are manually activated; triggered abilities trigger automatically.

An activated ability is written in the form "[cost]: [effect]" (note the colon to separate the two). Activated abilities are manually activated; they never happen as a result of something else. When an activated ability is activated, its controller puts it onto the stack, makes choices for it, and pays its costs just like he or she were casting a spell. A triggered ability is written in the form "[at/when/whenever] [event], [effect]." Triggered abilities happen automatically when the stated event occurs in the game. When a triggered ability triggers, its controller puts it onto the stack the next time a player receives priority.

@Busse: Note that "proc" is not a term in Magic. "Proc" stands for "programmed random occurrence," which signifies effects that don't always happen. Triggered abilities always trigger when their trigger conditions are met.

July 16, 2016 4:25 p.m.

Busse says... #3

• Epochalyptik: thanks for the explanation, I always thought proc meant something like "activates" or "triggers". I will try to be more technical in the future. My bad hahahah

Cheers!

July 16, 2016 4:44 p.m.