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Magic · Promo Pack: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt · #257 · Rare

Pithing Needle

Magic card price for Pithing Needle: $1.51 market, from $0.49 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$1.51
0.0% this week · +9.4% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days0.0%
30 days+9.4%
90 days+31.3%
1 year+7.1%
All time+45.2%

Sellers right now

$0.49lowest listing$9,999.00highest
Market price$1.51
Mid listing$1.39
Direct$1.25
30-day avg$1.44

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$1.51
Cardmarket$0.70 €0.62

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

One year

$0.8352-week low$1.5452-week high
In the range96%
All-time low$0.62
All-time high$1.99
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$0.36$0.95$1.55$2.14
$1.51
Feb 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Oct 2026
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

Our price record for Pithing Needle (Foil) begins in February 2024 at $1.04; the market price today is $1.51, up 45.2% since then. In the last year the price changed +7.1% and ranged from $0.83 to $1.54, and it now trades near the top of that range. The highest price we have recorded is $1.99, 31.8% above today. Listings currently start at $0.49; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $1.44.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$1.51$0.49$9,999.000.0%
Normal$0.43$0.38$9,999.000.0%

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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