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Would Planeswalkers ability still work if it would destory it?

If a Planeswalker use his/her ability and uses all the loyalty counters so the Planeswalker would have zero counters, would the ability still activate before the Planeswalker is destory due to having no loyalty counters?

Example:
Vraska the Unseen has 7 loyalty counters than I activate |-7|: Put three 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens onto the battlefield with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game." Would her ability reslove before she is put in the graveyard?
Posted 30 April 2014 at 23:15

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Yep, it's quite a common play, too.
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Posted 02 May 2014 at 19:46

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What happens is you put the ability on the stack, then remove the loyalty counters as payment. The ability is already on the stack and cannot be removed. State based actions are checked and Vraska "dies" before anyone (even you) has a chance to respond but the ability still will resolve unless someone has a stifle or something...
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Posted 03 May 2014 at 18:37

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