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Pithing Needle 
Artifact
Pithing Needle appeared in 1,933 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 1.1 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $1.83.
Oracle Text
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.
Format Legality
PioneerModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Pithing Needle, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vintage | 68 | 1.1 | 808 | 1.1 |
| Modern | 76 | 1 | 636 | 1 |
| Legacy | 17 | 1 | 456 | 1.1 |
| Pioneer | 1 | 1 | 25 | 1 |
| Duel Commander | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- Ravnica Remastered
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 463
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Pithing Needle
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Cityscape Leveler
$6.47
2.00 tix - 1 Damping Sphere
$1.01
1.22 tix - 1 Esika's Chariot
$0.36
0.03 tix - 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Heart of Kiran
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Pestilent Cauldron
$0.34
0.02 tix - 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.71
0.02 tix - 1 The Chain Veil
$5.49
0.02 tix - 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
$4.29
0.02 tix
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.45
1.15 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix - 1 Treasure Vault$0.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Ugin's Nexus
$1.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Wishclaw Talisman
$1.60
0.02 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (23)
- 4 Sylvan Scrying
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 4 Hidden Strings
$0.25
0.03 tix - 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
$2.06
0.02 tix
- 3 Bala Ged Recovery
$5.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Extinction Event
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 2 Dark Petition
$2.81
0.02 tix
- 4 Pore Over the Pages
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Behold the Beyond
$0.98
0.03 tix
- 3 Emergent Ultimatum
$0.40
0.02 tix
Instants (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (22)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.33 0.02 tix
- 3 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 4 Botanical Sanctum$1.46 0.02 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.75 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Lotus Field$2.19 0.23 tix
- 2 Otawara, Soaring City$27.08 1.80 tix
- 2 Temple of Mystery$0.15 0.02 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 4 Giada, Font of Hope
$0.43
0.02 tix - 1 Skyclave Cleric
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 4 Youthful Valkyrie
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 4 Resplendent Angel
$6.21
0.02 tix
- 4 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Realmwalker
$1.15
0.02 tix
- 1 Righteous Valkyrie
$4.75
0.02 tix
- 3 Righteous Valkyrie
$4.75
0.02 tix
- 4 Bishop of Wings
$3.22
0.02 tix
Lands (24)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 4 Branchloft Pathway$2.92 0.02 tix
- 2 Brushland$0.40 0.03 tix
- 1 Cave of the Frost Dragon$0.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.28 0.15 tix
- 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx$52.98 0.03 tix
- 4 Overgrown Farmland$2.35 0.02 tix
- 6 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Temple Garden$7.19 0.02 tix
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (8)
Lands (27)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$48.92 0.52 tix
- 4 Cloudpost$0.29 0.04 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.71 0.22 tix
- 1 Eye of Ugin$62.02 0.13 tix
- 5 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$22.60 11.63 tix
- 4 Glimmerpost$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Vesuva$2.12 0.02 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.17 0.02 tix
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.13 3.48 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.62 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.08 1.80 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.51 0.17 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$4.98 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.82 0.18 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix - 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.31
0.02 tix - 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadowspear
$18.15
0.52 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.25
4.90 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (23)
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.45 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.81 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.47 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.32 0.03 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$16.58 2.65 tix
- 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground$9.89 0.09 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 3 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 2 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.30
0.26 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Terminate
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (25)
- 4 Blightstep Pathway$5.63 0.17 tix
- 4 Blood Crypt$9.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Castle Locthwain$3.82 0.31 tix
- 1 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.22 tix
- 4 Haunted Ridge$8.13 0.03 tix
- 2 Hive of the Eye Tyrant$0.49 0.02 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.38 0.06 tix
- 1 Sulfurous Springs$1.11 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.43 0.15 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.13 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 2 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 2 Extinction Event
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Extinction Event
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 2 Go Blank
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Reckoner Bankbuster
$0.60
0.02 tix
- 2 Rending Volley
$0.23
0.04 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.71
0.02 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
- 4 Giada, Font of Hope
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Skyclave Cleric
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 4 Youthful Valkyrie
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 4 Resplendent Angel
$6.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Resplendent Marshal
$1.04
0.02 tix
- 4 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Realmwalker
$1.15
0.02 tix
- 4 Righteous Valkyrie
$4.75
0.02 tix
- 1 Lunarch Veteran
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 4 Bishop of Wings
$3.22
0.02 tix
Sorceries (5)
Lands (23)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 4 Branchloft Pathway$2.92 0.02 tix
- 3 Brushland$0.40 0.03 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.28 0.15 tix
- 1 Mutavault$4.00 0.25 tix
- 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx$52.98 0.03 tix
- 4 Overgrown Farmland$2.35 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Temple Garden$7.19 0.02 tix
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancestral Statue
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Cityscape Leveler
$6.47
2.00 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.01
1.22 tix
- 1 Esika's Chariot
$0.36
0.03 tix
- 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
$0.67
0.03 tix - 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Heart of Kiran
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Pestilent Cauldron
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.71
0.02 tix
- 1 The Chain Veil
$5.49
0.02 tix
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.45
1.15 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 1 Treasure Vault$0.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Woodcaller Automaton
$0.20
0.02 tix
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Instants (30)
- 1 Essence Scatter
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 3 Essence Scatter
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 4 Impulse
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Make Disappear
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 2 Negate
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 4 Thirst for Discovery
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 4 Consider
$0.25
0.01 tix
- 4 Fading Hope
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 3 Slip Out the Back
$3.82
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
Lands (22)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Artifacts (23)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 3 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 3 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix - 2 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.73
8.35 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (5)
Lands (25)
- 4 Blightstep Pathway$5.63 0.17 tix
- 4 Blood Crypt$9.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Castle Locthwain$3.82 0.31 tix
- 1 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.22 tix
- 4 Haunted Ridge$8.13 0.03 tix
- 2 Hive of the Eye Tyrant$0.49 0.02 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.38 0.06 tix
- 1 Sulfurous Springs$1.11 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.43 0.15 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.13 0.03 tix
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 1 Adarkar Wastes$0.28 0.03 tix
- 4 Concealed Courtyard$0.94 0.02 tix
- 2 Godless Shrine$8.54 0.02 tix
- 4 Hallowed Fountain$7.62 0.06 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.08 1.80 tix
- 2 Raffine's Tower$14.14 0.20 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.43 0.15 tix
- 1 Underground River$1.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Underground River$1.17 0.02 tix
- 3 Watery Grave$9.44 0.02 tix
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (21)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.13 3.48 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.62 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.08 1.80 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.51 0.17 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$4.98 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.82 0.18 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadowspear
$18.15
0.52 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.25
4.90 tix
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.39 tix
- 3 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.51
0.01 tix
- 2 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.30
0.26 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.67
3.66 tix
- 2 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
$5.50
0.03 tix
- 1 The Stone Brain$0.45 1.15 tix
- 1 Void Mirror
$0.34
0.02 tix
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 1 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 4 Crop Rotation
$3.37
2.15 tix
- 1 Ipnu Rivulet$0.29 0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.22
0.02 tix - 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
