Pithing Needle
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt 257 • rare
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Collector number
- 257
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Ovidio Cartagena
- Market price
- $0.39
What it does
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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.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlBanned
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Pithing Needle was originally introduced in the Ravnica: City of Guilds set in 2005, designed to provide players with a versatile tool for stopping activated abilities. Its inclusion in Innistrad: Midnight Hunt as a reprint served to provide the Standard format with a necessary answer to powerful planeswalkers and equipment, maintaining the card's status as a staple utility piece in competitive Magic: The Gathering.
The artwork for this version by illustrator Anastasia Ovchinnikova maintains the series' traditional depiction of a sinister, surgical tool. The design aesthetic reflects the gothic horror theme of the Innistrad plane, emphasizing the cold and mechanical nature of the object as it is used to seal away the magical influence of an opponent's card.
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