Pithing Needle 
Artifact
Oracle text (EN)
Artifact
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.
Printing details
- Set
- PRM · 102335
- Rarity
- Rare
- Language
- EN
- Artist
- Ron Spencer
- Released
- 2022-12-13
- Prices
- – · –
Price history
No price history for this printing yet.
Prices
| Source | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Cardmarket | No offers | |
| CardTrader (EN) | No offers | |
| CardTrader (any language) | No offers | |
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Legality
- standard Not legal
- pioneer Legal
- modern Legal
- legacy Legal
- vintage Legal
- commander Legal
- pauper Not legal
- alchemy Not legal
- brawl Banned
- competitivebrawl Legal
- duel Legal
- future Not legal
- gladiator Legal
- historic Legal
- oathbreaker Legal
- oldschool Not legal
- paupercommander Not legal
- penny Legal
- predh Legal
- premodern Not legal
- standardbrawl Not legal
- timeless Legal
- tlr Legal
Rulings
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
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Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.