Pithing Needle

Artifact

Illustrated by Anthony Palumbo

F

EDHREC Rank #6,488

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.

The fearful want the procedure before a blood festival. The guilty seek it afterward.

Rulings (5)

Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.

Oct 1, 2012

Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.

Oct 1, 2009

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.

Jun 1, 2005