Pithing Needle

Saviors of Kamigawa #158 · 2005 €0.48 Tenth Edition #338 · 2007 €0.45 Magic 2010 #217 · 2009 €0.41 Return to Ravnica #231 · 2012 €0.30 Kaladesh Inventions #44 · 2016 €64.34 Secret Lair Drop #44 · 2020 €3.24 Innistrad: Midnight Hunt #257 · 2021 €0.21 Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos #257p · 2021 €0.40 Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos #257s · 2021 €1.60 Innistrad: Midnight Hunt #378 · 2021 €0.74 Innistrad: Double Feature #257 · 2022 €0.80 Magic Online Promos #94084 · 2022 Double Masters 2022 #312 · 2022 €0.55 Double Masters 2022 #397 · 2022 €1.74 Double Masters 2022 #564 · 2022 Magic Online Promos #102335 · 2022 Ravnica Remastered #463 · 2024 €3.19

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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.

06/01/2005

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.

06/01/2005

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.

06/01/2005

Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.

10/01/2009

Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.

10/01/2012