By Gnome Means — ruling 1

You can put any established kind of counter on any permanent using the last ability. If that counter has no mechanical relevance, it’s still put on the creature. For example, you can put a loyalty counter on a creature this way. The loyalty counter won’t do anything, but who knows? The creature might one day become a planeswalker, and then it will. Dream big!

By Gnome Means : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

By Gnome Means is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Create a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token. , Sacrifice an artifact: Choose any kind of counter a printed card refers to, then put one of that counter on target permanent.

How it works : By Gnome Means

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1January 19, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
You can put any established kind of counter on any permanent using the last ability. If that counter has no mechanical relevance, it’s still put on the creature. For example, you can put a loyalty counter on a creature this way. The loyalty counter won’t do anything, but who knows? The creature might one day become a planeswalker, and then it will. Dream big!
No other card is named in this ruling.