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Mana cost
{1}
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Card 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
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlBanned
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Pithing Needle
Pithing Needle (231) is an Artifact from Return to Ravnica (RTR). It costs {1} and has mana value 1. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage and 4 more formats.
Return to Ravnica is a main expansion, released October 2012. Pithing Needle has 11 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
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.
Card details
- Card number
- 231
- Set
- Return to Ravnica (RTR)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 5 October 2012
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Artifact
- Colour
- Colourless
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Mana cost
- {1}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Pithing Needle
Pithing Needle in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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