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Magic · Innistrad: Midnight Hunt · #257 · Rare

Pithing Needle

Magic card price for Pithing Needle: $0.61 market, from $0.35 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$0.61
0.0% this week · 0.0% in 30 days
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1 day−1.6%
7 days0.0%
30 days0.0%
90 days+5.2%
1 year−1.6%
All time−29.1%

Sellers right now

$0.35lowest listing$8.29highest
Market price$0.61
Mid listing$0.71
Direct$0.51
30-day avg$0.62

Market price is what a near-mint copy actually sold for. The cheapest listing is what a seller asks today — on thin markets the two differ a lot.

Where to buy

TCGplayer$0.61
Cardmarket$0.96 €0.85

EUR converted at 1.1253 (ECB reference rate). Shipping and condition not included.

One year

$0.4952-week low$0.6352-week high
In the range86%
All-time low$0.49
All-time high$0.87
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$0.31$0.51$0.71$0.91
$0.61
Feb 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Oct 2026
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

Pithing Needle (Foil) entered our records in February 2024 at $0.86 and stands at $0.61 today, down 29.1% over that time. Over the past twelve months it moved −1.6%, trading between $0.49 and $0.63. The current price is near the top of that range. Its all-time high in our data is $0.87, still 42.6% above the current price. The cheapest listing right now is $0.35, and the 30-day average market price is $0.62.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$0.61$0.35$8.290.0%
Normal$0.40$0.25$20.00−7.0%

The card in play

Type line
Artifact
Rules text

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.

Flavor

Occasionally a skaab remembers too much of its former life. Luckily, there’s an easy cure.

Other printings of Pithing Needle

14 more · $0.51 – $86.46
All printings
Pithing Needle (44), Masterpiece Series: Kaladesh Inventions — Magic card price +0.4% 7d Pithing Needle Masterpiece Series: Kaladesh Inventions · #44 $86.46 Pithing Needle (158), Saviors of Kamigawa — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Pithing Needle Saviors of Kamigawa · #158 $49.00 Pithing Needle (338), 10th Edition — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Pithing Needle 10th Edition · #338 $8.78 Pithing Needle (217), Magic 2010 (M10) — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Pithing Needle Magic 2010 (M10) · #217 $5.43 Pithing Needle (257), Innistrad: Double Feature — Magic card price +6.4% 7d Pithing Needle Innistrad: Double Feature · #257 $5.18

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