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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 | 67 | 1 | 805 | 1.1 |
| Modern | 81 | 1 | 632 | 1 |
| Legacy | 23 | 1 | 462 | 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
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.00 tix - 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.49 0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.30 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.69 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.89
0.22 tix
- 2 Through the Breach
$0.43
0.02 tix - 1 Wipe Away
$0.32
0.03 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Artifacts (15)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.77 tix
- 1 Forked Bolt
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Grim Lavamancer
$0.29
0.17 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Murderous Cut
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.60
2.33 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.32 tix - 2 Vandalblast
$1.10
0.03 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix - 3 Tarmogoyf
$5.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.65
0.02 tix - 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Huntmaster of the Fells
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
$0.16
0.02 tix
- 4 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.80 tix - 4 Wild Nacatl
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.04
0.09 tix
- 1 Qasali Pridemage
$0.18
0.03 tix
Instants (8)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (23)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 5.59 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.72 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.90 1.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plateau$200.00 3.27 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.51 tix
- 2 Taiga$215.00 4.10 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.46 1.26 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.44 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$16.84 2.49 tix
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (12)
Lands (26)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.85 0.01 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.25 0.61 tix
- 4 Cloudpost$0.29 0.04 tix
- 1 Eye of Ugin$62.02 0.15 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$23.88 11.94 tix
- 4 Glimmerpost$0.31 0.03 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 4 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 2 Vesuva$2.36 0.02 tix
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
- 4 Elvish Visionary
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Craterhoof Behemoth
$18.52
0.03 tix - 4 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.80 tix
- 1 Birchlore Rangers
$0.84
0.05 tix
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
$2.02
0.04 tix
- 4 Heritage Druid
$3.02
0.23 tix
- 4 Nettle Sentinel
$0.28
0.08 tix
- 4 Quirion Ranger
$1.49
0.65 tix
- 4 Wirewood Symbiote
$0.22
0.03 tix
Lands (20)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (22)
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.27 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.78 tix
- 1 Clifftop Retreat$0.25 0.02 tix
- 2 Dragonskull Summit$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.46 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.72 0.03 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.46 0.88 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.73 0.14 tix
- 4 Shambling Vent$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Crumble to Dust
$0.05
0.03 tix - 2 Devour Flesh
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 2 Kor Firewalker
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Lingering Souls
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Radiant Flames
$0.11
0.02 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.31
4.59 tix
- 1 Zealous Persecution
$0.14
0.03 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.30 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 4 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.45 tix
- 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
$1.72
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
10.08 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.51 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 3 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (23)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.28
14.21 tix
- 1 Darkblast
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Diabolic Edict
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.30 tix
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
10.08 tix
- 2 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.32 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (25)
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.73
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$25.46
10.21 tix
- 1 Misdirection
$5.84
8.89 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.22
0.02 tix - 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.47 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.99 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.77 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 4 Mana Drain
$50.98
0.40 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.17
0.02 tix - 4 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Artifacts (8)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (21)
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.85 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.27 0.02 tix
- 2 Darkslick Shores$1.75 0.02 tix
- 1 Desolate Lighthouse$0.18 0.02 tix
- 1 Drowned Catacomb$1.29 0.02 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.01 2.38 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$12.06 0.20 tix
- 1 Sulfur Falls$0.27 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$8.76 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Deathmark
$0.09
0.02 tix
- 2 Dispel
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Outpost Siege
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Painful Truths
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Rending Volley
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.36
0.21 tix
- 2 Vandalblast
$1.10
0.03 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Artifacts (15)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
- 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
$41.62
0.02 tix - 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
$19.18
0.51 tix
- 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
$34.60
0.02 tix - 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
$20.54
3.15 tix - 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Oracle of Mul Daya
$2.32
0.02 tix
- 3 Primeval Titan
$5.09
0.15 tix
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
$4.89
0.80 tix
Sorceries (8)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (27)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.85 0.01 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.25 0.61 tix
- 4 Cloudpost$0.29 0.04 tix
- 2 Dryad Arbor$3.72 0.02 tix
- 1 Eye of Ugin$62.02 0.15 tix
- 4 Glimmerpost$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 7 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 10.95 tix
- 1 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.03 tix
- 4 Vesuva$2.36 0.02 tix
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.30 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 4 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.45 tix
- 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
$1.72
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
10.08 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.51 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 3 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (16)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.00 tix
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.60 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.77 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
10.08 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.69 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.32 tix
- 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Creeping Corrosion
$5.99
0.02 tix
- 1 Doom Blade
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 1 Illness in the Ranks
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 3 Nature's Claim
$0.37
0.01 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Vatmother
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Spellskite
$7.57
0.02 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Vampiric Link
$3.92
0.35 tix
- 1 Viridian Corrupter
$0.39
0.03 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (17)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.29
6.24 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.51
2.62 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$489.98
5.72 tix
- 2 Painful Truths
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
2.05 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Treasure Cruise
$0.25
0.01 tix - 3 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.72
0.01 tix
- 3 Preordain
$0.45
0.01 tix
- 2 Gitaxian Probe
$3.96
0.01 tix
Instants (19)
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.01 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$25.46
10.21 tix
- 4 Gush
$2.54
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.47 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.99 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.77 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$13.32
0.20 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.17
0.02 tix
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.91
0.02 tix
- 1 Notion Thief
$1.50
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.22 tix
- 2 Serenity
$0.30
3.11 tix
- 2 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Artifacts (26)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
52.25 tix - 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.03 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
25.02 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.09 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.81 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.16
0.03 tix
- 4 Sphere of Resistance
$12.03
10.48 tix
- 3 Crucible of Worlds
$20.94
0.02 tix
- 3 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.98
5.02 tix
- 1 Tangle Wire
$10.88
11.51 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
6.54 tix
- 3 Smokestack
$0.96
0.61 tix
- 2 Uba Mask
$9.92
0.02 tix
- 1 Spine of Ish Sah
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.81 tix
Lands (23)
- 3 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 2 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.05 tix
- 2 Buried Ruin$0.38 0.03 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.25 0.61 tix
- 2 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 4 Mishra's Workshop$3000.97 10.86 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.67 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 10.95 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 3.32 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.11 0.03 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.44 0.02 tix
