Printings
Pithing Needle
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 1
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Ravnica Remastered (RVR)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 463
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.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 1, 2012
Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2009
Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2005
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.
Source: wotc - June 1, 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.
Source: wotc - June 1, 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.
Source: wotc
Price History
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