MTG Card Pithing Needle

Formats and restrictions
Standard | Legal |
Historicbrawl | Banned |
Commander | Legal |
Historic | Legal |
Legacy | Legal |
Modern | Legal |
Future | Legal |
Vintage | Legal |
Duel | Legal |
Gladiator | Legal |
Brawl | Banned |
Pioneer | Legal |
Recent decks






Text of card Pithing Needle
As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, choose a card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
Occasionally a skaab remembers too much of its former life. Luckily, there's an easy cure.
Rules and information for Pithing Needle
2005-06-01
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.
2005-06-01
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.
2005-06-01
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.
2009-10-01
Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
2012-10-01
Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form “
-ost:
-ffect].” Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.