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Pithing Needle 
Artifact
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 | 71 | 1 | 809 | 1.1 |
| Modern | 81 | 1 | 633 | 1 |
| Legacy | 23 | 1 | 461 | 1.1 |
| Pioneer | 1 | 1 | 27 | 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
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Artifacts (21)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 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 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 4 Sphere of Resistance
$12.03
10.48 tix - 4 Thorn of Amethyst
$0.57
0.02 tix
- 3 Tangle Wire
$10.88
10.72 tix - 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.32 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (23)
- 1 Rebuild
$0.27
0.03 tix - 3 Thirst for Knowledge
$0.10
0.01 tix
- 4 Paradoxical Outcome
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix - 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Mana Drain
$50.82
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix - 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Artifacts (13)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 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 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Memory Jar
$37.32
0.36 tix
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (22)
- 3 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix - 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 4 Mana Drain
$50.82
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix - 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
Artifacts (8)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Fragmentize
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (16)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (24)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix - 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Diabolic Edict
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Forked Bolt
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 1 Invasive Surgery
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Marsh Casualties
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix - 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Winter Orb
$10.98
17.69 tix
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 2 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.60 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Forked Bolt
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Meddling Mage$2.29 0.40 tix
- 1 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.40 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
- 2 Zealous Persecution
$0.15
0.03 tix
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 2 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix
- 1 Diabolic Edict
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.60 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Forked Bolt
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (15)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 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 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
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.88 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (14)
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 3.14 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (12)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (26)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Circle of Protection: Black
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 2 Collective Brutality
$0.34
0.09 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 3 Leyline of Sanctity
$0.30
0.10 tix
- 1 Maelstrom Pulse
$0.20
0.02 tix - 1 Magus of the Moat
$7.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Seal of Primordium
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Welding Jar
$1.38
0.03 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 2 Golgari Thug
$0.41
0.04 tix
- 2 Golgari Thug
$0.41
0.04 tix
- 4 Narcomoeba
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 2 Prized Amalgam
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 4 Stinkweed Imp
$1.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Vengeful Pharaoh
$1.10
0.02 tix
- 4 Ichorid
$0.61
0.26 tix
- 1 Dragonlord Kolaghan
$10.28
0.03 tix - 4 Golgari Grave-Troll
$0.93
0.02 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
$15.34
0.02 tix
Sorceries (7)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (8)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (8)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 3 Fragmentize
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.02 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (16)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 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
- 2 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
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.88 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (14)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 3.14 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
- 2 By Force
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 2 Ingot Chewer
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Sulfur Elemental
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Artifacts (21)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 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 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 4 Sphere of Resistance
$12.03
10.48 tix
- 4 Thorn of Amethyst
$0.57
0.02 tix
- 3 Tangle Wire
$10.88
10.72 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.32 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (14)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 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 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
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.88 tix
Enchantments (7)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (13)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 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 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Blightsteel Colossus
$34.70
0.02 tix - 3 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Monastery Mentor
$0.41
0.06 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Tinker
$1.02
2.50 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Tsabo's Web
$4.83
20.28 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Artifacts (19)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 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 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 4 Sphere of Resistance
$12.03
10.48 tix
- 4 Thorn of Amethyst
$0.57
0.02 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.32 tix
- 1 Coercive Portal
$9.92
0.02 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (9)
Lands (20)
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 3 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Treetop Village$0.33 0.03 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blazing Archon
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
$15.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 3 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 2 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (22)
- 3 Thirst for Knowledge
$0.10
0.01 tix
- 3 Paradoxical Outcome
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 3 Mana Drain
$50.82
0.40 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
Artifacts (13)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 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 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
Enchantments (1)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Baneslayer Angel
$2.77
0.02 tix
- 2 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moat
$7.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
