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Magic · Prerelease Cards · #257 · Rare

Pithing Needle

Magic card price for Pithing Needle: $1.84 market, from $1.05 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$1.84
0.0% this week · 0.0% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days0.0%
30 days0.0%
90 days+4.6%
1 year+32.4%
All time−9.8%

Sellers right now

$1.05lowest listing$15.19highest
Market price$1.84
Mid listing$1.84
Direct$2.78
30-day avg$1.84

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$1.84
Cardmarket$1.74 €1.55

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

One year

$1.3952-week low$1.9052-week high
In the range88%
All-time low$1.39
All-time high$2.30
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$1.66$1.75$1.83$1.92
$1.84
Jul 20Aug 19Sep 18Oct 18
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

Pithing Needle came out in October 2026; we leave the first weeks out of this story, because early prices are set before real supply exists. Listings currently start at $1.05; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $1.84.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$1.84$1.05$15.190.0%

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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