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Pithing Needle
All Printings
- Artist
- Ron Spencer
- Frame
- inverted
- Language
- EN
- Border
- borderless
- Security stamp
- oval
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.
“Phyrexians spent countless hours unsuccessfully trying to harvest and recreate blinkmoth serum.”
- WotCOct 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.
- WotCOct 1, 2009
Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
- WotCJun 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.
- WotCJun 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.
- WotCJun 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.