Pithing Needle
Pithing Needle: Artifact, Double Masters 2022. As this artifact enters, choose a card name. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
- Released
- 2022-07-08
- Collector number
- 312
- Artist
- Anthony Palumbo
- Commander rank
- 6,419 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Pithing Needle
Pithing Needle is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from Double Masters 2022 (2X2), a Masters set released in July 2022. It is collector number 312 in that set, with art by Anthony Palumbo. It costs {1} (one generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It is banned in Brawl. It has been printed in 12 sets, from Saviors of Kamigawa (2005) to Ravnica Remastered (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.51 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
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.
The fearful want the procedure before a blood festival. The guilty seek it afterward.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.51 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Pithing Needle by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Banned |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Pithing Needle
Pithing Needle has been printed in 12 sets. The 12 most recent other printings are listed here, newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Ravnica Remastered (RVR) #463 | Rare | 2024 |
| Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #397 | Rare | 2022 |
| Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #564 | Rare | 2022 |
| Innistrad: Double Feature (DBL) #257 | Rare | 2022 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID) #257 | Rare | 2021 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID) #378 | Rare | 2021 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos (PMID) #257p | Rare | 2021 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos (PMID) #257s | Rare | 2021 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #44 | Rare | 2020 |
| Kaladesh Inventions (MPS) #44 | Special | 2016 |
| Return to Ravnica (RTR) #231 | Rare | 2012 |
| Magic 2010 (M10) #217 | Rare | 2009 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Pithing Needle, newest first.
- Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.
- Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Similar cards
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