ETCHEDCheapest priced copy (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt): $0.49 at Card Kingdom, near mint, their price list as of .
Pithing Needle 
Artifact · Rare · Double Masters 2022 · #564
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.
Legal inCommanderPioneerModernLegacyVintage
Banned inBrawl
Not legal inStandardPauper
15 printings · $0.49 to $99.99 at Card Kingdom
| Set | Number | Rarity | Card Kingdom | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenth Edition | 338 | Rare | $0.99 | $5.99 |
| Double Masters 2022 | 312 | Rare | $0.59 | $0.49 |
| Double Masters 2022 | 397 | Rare | $2.79 | $1.99 |
| Double Masters 2022 | 564 | Rare | — | — |
| Innistrad: Double Feature | 257 | Rare | $1.79 | $3.49 |
| Magic 2010 | 217 | Rare | $0.59 | $3.49 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt | 257 | Rare | $0.49 | $0.49 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt | 378 | Rare | $1.29 | $0.79Out of stock |
| Kaladesh Inventions | 44 | Special | — | $99.99 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos | 257p | Rare | $0.49 | $0.79 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos | 257s | Rare | — | $2.29 |
| Return to Ravnica | 231 | Rare | $0.69 | $1.49 |
| Ravnica Remastered | 463 | Rare | $2.99 | $3.49 |
| Secret Lair Drop | 44 | Rare | $5.99 | — |
| Saviors of Kamigawa | 158 | Rare | $5.99 | $39.99 |
5 rulings from Wizards of the Coast
- 1 June 2005If 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.
- 1 June 2005You 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.
- 1 June 2005Pithing 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.
- 1 October 2009Once Pithing Needle has left the battlefield, activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can be activated again.
- 1 October 2012Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.