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Art by Anthony Palumbo
Anthony Palumbo

Pithing Needle

Return to Ravnica #231
Rare Non-foil Traditional foil EN

Released · Illustrated by Anthony Palumbo

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Not in a preconstructed deck (collector booster or promo printing).

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The fearful want the procedure before a blood festival. The guilty seek it afterward.

What is this worth

Non-foil

$0.64 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.49 as of 2026-10-05
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.65 as of 2026-10-06
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.25 as of 2026-10-05
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.64 as of 2026-10-06
  • Buylist Card Kingdom $0.05 as of 2026-10-05

Traditional foil

$1.28 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $1.99 as of 2026-10-05
  • Retail Cardmarket $2.02 as of 2026-10-06
  • Retail Mana Pool $1.00 as of 2026-10-05
  • Retail TCGplayer $1.28 as of 2026-10-06
  • Buylist Card Kingdom $0.60 as of 2026-10-05

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Price history

Foil

7 d 0.0%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 06 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

Non-foil

7 d +4.9%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 06 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

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Oracle 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.

Legalities

Legal Not legal

Standard
Pioneer
Modern
Legacy
Vintage
Pauper
Premodern
Old School
Future
Commander
Duel Commander
Oathbreaker
Pauper Commander
PreDH
Brawl Banned
Standard Brawl
Historic
Timeless
Alchemy
Gladiator
Penny Dreadful
tlr
competitivebrawl

Identifiers and data

Scryfall id
786c1e91-9d75-46a3-9e0d-56d29fcb01a7
Oracle id
a188fe7e-68de-4c7c-806c-bfe8fc7b44bf
Illustration id
44071072-6f19-42e8-b6e1-fc5e4dd1d173
Card back id
0aeebaf5-8c7d-4636-9e82-8c27447861f7
Multiverse ids
253581
MTGO id
46499
TCGplayer id
66505
Cardmarket id
258383
MTGJSON uuid
0c090097-dc52-5593-bad4-f0397994e1ba
Card Kingdom id
188226
Cardsphere id
38836
Set code
RTR
Collector number
231
Layout
normal
Frame
2003
Border
black
Booster
Yes
Games
paper, mtgo
Story spotlight
No
Reserved list
No
EDHREC rank
6542
Penny rank
118

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