Pithing Needle (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt) - Gatherer

Pithing Needle

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Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Pithing Needle

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Artifact

Card Text:

As Pithing Needle enters, choose a card name.

Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Expansion:

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt

Rarity:

Rare

All Sets:

Card Number:

378

Artist:

Ovidio Cartagena

Rulings

6/1/2005	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.
6/1/2005	You can name any card, even if that card doesn't normally have an activated ability. You can't name a token unless that token has the same name as a card.
6/1/2005	If you name a card that has both a mana ability and another activated ability, the mana ability can be activated but the other ability can't be activated.
10/1/2009	Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
10/1/2012	Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.