MetaDelver 79025ab

Printings

• Ravnica Remastered #463 rare 2024-01-12
• Magic Online Promos #102335 rare 2022-12-15
• Double Masters 2022 #564 rare 2022-07-08
• Double Masters 2022 #397 rare 2022-07-08
• Double Masters 2022 #312 rare 2022-07-08
• Magic Online Promos #94084 rare 2022-07-07
• Innistrad: Double Feature #257 rare 2022-01-28
• Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos #257s rare 2021-09-24
• Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos #257p rare 2021-09-24
• Innistrad: Midnight Hunt #378 rare 2021-09-24
• Innistrad: Midnight Hunt #257 rare 2021-09-24
• Secret Lair Drop #44 rare 2020-06-01
• Kaladesh Inventions #44 special 2016-09-30
• Return to Ravnica #231 rare 2012-10-05
• Magic 2010 #217 rare 2009-07-17
• Tenth Edition #338 rare 2007-07-13
• Saviors of Kamigawa #158 rare 2005-06-03

Rulings

• 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
  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
  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 "[cost]: [effect]." Triggered abilities and static abilities of the named card work normally.

Archetypes that play this card

Duel Commander

1. Emry, Lurker of the Loch 100.0% of lists

Legacy

1. Lands 100.0% of lists
2. Painter 40.0% of lists
3. Mystic Forge Combo 34.0% of lists

Modern

1. Mono-Black Midrange 100.0% of lists
2. Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp 100.0% of lists
3. Affinity 91.9% of lists

Vintage

1. Wastescape Battlemage 100.0% of lists
2. Raker Shops 72.4% of lists
3. Sphere Shops 45.0% of lists