アーティファクト, 1 (1) 真髄の針が場に出るに際し、カード名を1つ指定する。 指定されたカードの起動型能力は、マナ能力でないかぎりプレイできない。
Illus. Pete Venters
Artifact As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.1
6/1/2005: Pithing Needle affects cards regardless of what zone the card might be in. This includes cards in hand or in the graveyard as well as cards in play. For example, a player can't cycle Eternal Dragon or return an Eternal Dragon from his or her graveyard to hand if Pithing Needle naming Eternal Dragon has been played.
6/1/2005: You can name any card, even if that card doesn't normally have an activated ability.
6/1/2005: If you name a card that has both a mana ability and another activated ability, the mana ability can be played but the other ability can't be played.