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Pithing Needle (257)

DBL · Innistrad: Double Feature · rare

Mana cost
Mana value	1.0
Type	Artifact
Rarity	rare
Colors	—
EDHREC rank	6500

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.

Occasionally a skaab remembers too much of its former life. Luckily, there's an easy cure.

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Magic Online Promos — Magic Online Promos — Saviors of Kamigawa $4.22 Tenth Edition $1.37 Magic 2010 $0.55 Return to Ravnica $0.61 Kaladesh Inventions — Secret Lair Drop $3.45 Innistrad: Midnight Hunt $0.42 Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos $0.43 Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos — Innistrad: Midnight Hunt $0.53 Innistrad: Double Feature $0.85 Double Masters 2022 $0.51 Double Masters 2022 $1.31 Double Masters 2022 — Ravnica Remastered $1.82

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Legality

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• 2005-06-01: 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.
• 2005-06-01: 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.
• 2005-06-01: 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.
• 2009-10-01: Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
• 2012-10-01: Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.