Pithing Needle
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| Brawl | Banned |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel | Legal |
| Explorer | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Predh | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Card Set | Innistrad: Midnight Hunt |
| Card Type | Artifact |
| Rarity | Rare |
| Mana Cost | |
| Card 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. |
| Flavor Text | Occasionally a skaab remembers too much of its former life. Luckily, there's an easy cure. |
| Card Number | #257 |
| Artist | Ovidio Cartagena |
| Card Languages | Chinese Simplified , Chinese Traditional , English , French , German , Italian , Japanese , Korean , Portuguese (Brazil) , Russian , Spanish |
| Frame Version | 2015 |
| Border Color | Black |
| EDHREC Rank | 4776 |
| Has Foil? | Yes |
| Reprint? | Yes |
| Is Promo? | No |
| Oversized? | No |
| Joke Card? | No |
| In Starter? | No |
| Time Shifted? | No |
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Card Rulings
2005-06-01If 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.
2005-06-01Pithing 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.
2005-06-01You 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.
2009-10-01Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
2012-10-01Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.