Pithing Needle (397)

Provider	Type	Normal	Foil	Etched	Date
tcgplayer	retail	$1.31	$2.32	—	2026-09-27
manapool	retail	$0.78	$1.97	—	2026-09-27
cardmarket	retail	$1.69	$3.19	—	2026-09-27
cardkingdom	retail	$2.99	$1.99	—	2026-09-27
cardkingdom	buylist	$1.50	$0.60	—	2026-09-27

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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.