Card database
Pithing Needle
Legal
Type line
Artifact
Oracle text
As this artifact enters, choose a card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
Rulings
- If you name a card that has both a mana ability and another activated ability, the mana ability can be activated but the other ability can't be activated.2005-06-01
- You can name any card, even if that card doesn't normally have an activated ability. You can't name a token unless that token has the same name as a card.2005-06-01
- Pithing Needle affects cards regardless of what zone they're in. This includes cards in hand, cards in the graveyard, and exiled cards. For example, a player can't cycle Eternal Dragon or return an Eternal Dragon from their graveyard to hand if Pithing Needle naming Eternal Dragon is on the battlefield.2005-06-01
- Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.2009-10-01
- Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.2012-10-01
Market price
$0.54
Commanders that play this card
Use over time
9 public decks with Pithing Needle saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.
Jul 27This week
Often played with
Across the 10 public decks that play Pithing Needle.
10 of 10 (100%)
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