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Pithing Needle 
Pithing Needle appeared in 1,938 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 1.1 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $1.82.
Oracle Text
Format Legality
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Pithing Needle, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vintage | 80 | 1.1 | 813 | 1.1 |
| Modern | 82 | 1 | 632 | 1 |
| Legacy | 21 | 1 | 460 | 1.1 |
| Pioneer | 1 | 1 | 25 | 1 |
| Duel Commander | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- Ravnica Remastered
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 463
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Pithing Needle
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (24)
- 2 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 4 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Scavenger Grounds$0.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Tectonic Edge$0.24 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Mine$0.57 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Power Plant$0.60 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Tower$0.63 0.03 tix
- 1 Wastes$0.72 0.03 tix
- 1 Wastes$0.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix - 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.61
0.02 tix - 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.75
0.03 tix - 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Spatial Contortion
$0.18
0.03 tix - 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix - 1 Walking Ballista
$7.01
1.38 tix - 1 Witchbane Orb
$0.34
0.02 tix - 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.11 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (9)
Lands (24)
- 1 Castle Ardenvale$0.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Castle Vantress$0.32 0.02 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 4 Glacial Fortress$0.24 0.02 tix
- 4 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Temple of Enlightenment$0.12 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (20)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 2 Mishra's Bauble
$1.59
0.02 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 3 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 1 Manifold Key
$1.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.88 tix
- 3 Arcum's Astrolabe
$0.28
0.03 tix - 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
Lands (15)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 4 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 3.14 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.52
5.74 tix - 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix - 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.32 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (18)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.65
0.02 tix - 1 Collective Brutality
$0.34
0.09 tix
- 3 Damping Sphere
$1.06
1.44 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$0.99
0.03 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix
- 3 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (24)
- 2 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 4 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Scavenger Grounds$0.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Tectonic Edge$0.24 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Mine$0.57 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Power Plant$0.60 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Tower$0.63 0.03 tix
- 2 Wastes$0.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.75
0.03 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Spatial Contortion
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.01
1.38 tix
- 1 Witchbane Orb
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.11 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (4)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Burrenton Forge-Tender
$0.15
0.03 tix - 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix
- 1 Goblin Cannon
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Knight of Autumn
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Spellskite
$7.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 3 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
- 2 Vraska, Golgari Queen
$5.04
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (21)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 8.15 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.85 2.98 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.52
5.74 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.63
1.16 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix - 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix - 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 2 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
$0.71
0.02 tix
- 2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
$5.14
0.02 tix
- 4 Champion of Dusk
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 4 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
$0.91
0.03 tix
- 4 Knight of the Ebon Legion
$2.47
0.02 tix
- 4 Gifted Aetherborn
$0.34
0.05 tix
- 2 Stromkirk Condemned
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 2 Walking Ballista
$7.01
1.38 tix
Sorceries (4)
Instants (4)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (14)
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Artifacts (13)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
15.73 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$9.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 By Force
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix - 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 4 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (18)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.65
0.02 tix
- 3 Damping Sphere
$1.06
1.44 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$0.99
0.03 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix
- 3 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (23)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.49
0.04 tix
- 1 Cindervines
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.98
0.10 tix
- 1 Gilded Drake
$196.36
6.03 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ratchet Bomb
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Return to Nature
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.95
3.95 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (20)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 8.15 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.63
1.16 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (17)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (18)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (24)
- 2 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 4 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Scavenger Grounds$0.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Tectonic Edge$0.24 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Mine$0.57 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Power Plant$0.60 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Tower$0.63 0.03 tix
- 2 Wastes$0.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.75
0.03 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 1 Spatial Contortion
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Spatial Contortion$0.18 0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.01
1.38 tix
- 1 Witchbane Orb
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.11 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (24)
- 2 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 4 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Scavenger Grounds$0.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Tectonic Edge$0.24 0.03 tix
- 2 Urza's Mine$0.57 0.03 tix
- 2 Urza's Mine$0.57 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Power Plant$0.60 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Tower$0.63 0.03 tix
- 2 Wastes$0.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.75
0.03 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Spatial Contortion
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.01
1.38 tix
- 1 Witchbane Orb
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.11 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (28)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Boros Garrison$0.17 0.01 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 1 Crumbling Vestige$0.18 0.03 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.13 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Gemstone Mine$2.14 9.10 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 3 Gruul Turf$0.22 0.01 tix
- 1 Khalni Garden$0.93 1.03 tix
- 1 Radiant Fountain$0.32 0.03 tix
- 1 Selesnya Sanctuary$0.23 0.01 tix
- 1 Simic Growth Chamber$0.24 0.01 tix
- 3 Simic Growth Chamber$0.24 0.01 tix
- 1 Slayers' Stronghold$0.28 0.02 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion$0.32 0.03 tix
- 2 Tolaria West$0.44 0.45 tix
- 1 Vesuva$2.38 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Batterskull
$3.27
0.02 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$20.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix
- 1 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
$2.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Hornet Queen
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 2 Spellskite
$7.35
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (24)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 4 Dark Depths$1.49 0.21 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.11 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
