SLDSecret Lair Drop Series

Pithing Needle

Pithing Needle from Secret Lair Drop Series
Pithing Needle from Secret Lair Drop Series

Artifact   {1} (CMC:1)

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.

044 SLD • ENJoshua Howard

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Legal in: Modern,Extended,Return to Ravnica Block,Kamigawa Block,Legacy,Vintage,Freeform,Prismatic,Tribal Wars Legacy,Tribal Wars Standard,Classic,Singleton 100,Commander

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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 his or her 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.
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