So Many Insane Plays – Gush, Gush, Gush, Gush, Win
…Right before my death, I manage to Pithing Needle his Barbarian Ring recursion with Crucible, but that doesn’t stop…
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The Return To U/W Control
…1 Detention Sphere Sideboard - 2 Rule of Law - 1 Pithing Needle - 1 Celestial Purge - 2 Kor Firewalker - 3 Stony Silence…
Devoted to Boros in Standard
…Akroan Horse Boros Cluestone Chromatic Lantern Haunted Plate Mail Pithing Needle Ratchet Bomb Boros Guildgate Encroaching Wastes Mutavault Nykthos, Shrine…
What Does Modern Look Like With The Arrival Of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt?
…Seal of Cleansing - 1 Chalice of the Void - 1 Pithing Needle - 4 Thoughtseize - 1 Hushbringer - 1 Drannith Magistrate - 1 Lurrus…
Planeswalkin’ in Orlando
…Julian names Elspeth with Pithing Needle when I have Gideon and Ajani in hand. I then play the Ajani and…
Opening Shots Have Been Fired
…s Command - 3 Izzet Charm - 4 Beck Sideboard - 3 Pithing Needle - 2 Ancient Grudge - 3 Negate - 1 Electrickery - 2 Izzet…
Arcane Teachings – Lands Are Awesome
…Bridge from Below Sideboard - 4 Chain of Vapor - 4 Pithing Needle - 3 Darkblast - 4 Leyline of the Void This is…
Insider Information – Goblins in Legacy
…I don’t want be locked out by a single Pithing Needle due to lazy deckbuilding. When creature decks are…
Legacy Reanimator
…As a last note, Enlightened Tutor finds our sideboard anti-graveyard hate cards like Pithing Needle and potentially Serenity or…
Stop Copying Me
…Pithing Needle gives you an answer to planeswalkers, which this deck often has difficulty dealing with through normal means. Although…
Thirst for Knowledge – All Eyes On Columbus
…Dragon - 3 Pernicious Deed - 1 Tormod's Crypt - 2 Pithing Needle - 2 Krosan Grip - 2 Faerie Macabre As I said…
Positive EV – The Many Faces of Five-Color Control
…Fallout - 1 Doom Blade - 1 Essence Scatter Sideboard - 1 Pithing Needle - 2 Deathmark - 1 Liliana Vess - 2 Puppeteer Clique - 2…
The Most Underrated Decks In Modern
…Dismember - 1 Gut Shot - 3 Warping Wail Sideboard - 2 Pithing Needle - 2 Relic of Progenitus - 2 Basilisk Collar - 2 All…
The Nose Knows – Standard for Nationals
…3 Cultivate Sideboard - 4 Lightning Bolt - 2 Naturalize - 1 Pithing Needle - 1 Summoning Trap - 3 Ricochet Trap - 4 Obstinate Baloth…
Going Infinite – Financial Notes From The Invitational
…2 Perish - 4 Engineered Plague - 2 Spinning Darkness - 2 Pithing Needle - 2 Leyline of the Void - 2 Extirpate This deck…
Anything Pro – Going Against The Grain: Team Italia
…Submerge - 1 Tormod's Crypt - 1 Engineered Explosives - 2 Pithing Needle - 1 Relic of Progenitus Both decks are very good…
Legacy’s Allure – Delving Into Dream Halls
…Propaganda - 2 Meditate - 1 Hydroblast - 1 Rushing River - 2 Pithing Needle - 4 Spell Pierce Here’s how it works: You…
The Blueprint: Beagles Eat Like Hound Dogs
…race against Affinity, and deals with troublesome artifacts like Pithing Needle. Note the huge anti blue part of the board…
Mythic Rares and Fungibility
…1 Pithing Needle @ 23.00 = $23.00\*\*\* 2 Carven Caryatid @ 1.00 = $1.00 1 Seedborn Muse @ 4.00 = $4…
Two Different Worlds
…Sphinx's Revelation - 4 Dissolve Sideboard - 2 Gainsay - 1 Pithing Needle - 3 Thoughtseize - 1 Negate - 1 Revoke Existence - 2 Ultimate…
Investigating Shadows Over Innistrad
…Expedition Map - 4 Dismember - 2 Spatial Contortion Sideboard - 2 Pithing Needle - 1 Ghost Quarter - 2 Relic of Progenitus - 2 All…
Rocking Out: Innovations in GBx
…can steal a game one victory before boarding in Pithing Needle as a hard answer to Karn, Ugin, or Eye…
Rise from Your Grave!
…Pithing Needle could be fine, but I wasn’t very impressed with it—although Needle is about the only answer…
Forming the SoM Gauntlet
…Leyline of Vitality is my answer to Cunning Sparkmage (along with point removal) now that Pithing Needle is not an…
Chatter of the Squirrel – Tezzeret
…30) - 4 Wrath of God - 3 Mind Stone - 1 Pithing Needle - 3 Broken Ambitions - 4 Cryptic Command - 1 Hallowed Burial…
Legacy’s Allure – The Pile of Misfit Cards
…first game is to Extirpate the Martyrs, or with Pithing Needle. Counterspells are nearly useless against the core of the…
Deconstructing Constructed – Live Free or Fae Hard
…The board is pretty standard with the exception of Pithing Needle, which I don’t actually see much point of…
Resurrecting Solar Flare
…Charm - 4 Supreme Verdict - 1 Ultimate Price Sideboard - 1 Pithing Needle - 2 Negate - 2 Planar Cleansing - 2 Dispel - 1 Evil…
Magic Online Musings: This Week on MTGO #29
…Pithing Needle 12-16 (14-16) Umezawa’s Jitte 7-8 (7-9) Cranial Extraction 3-6 (4-6) Dark…
The Bochum Experience
…Pithing Needle. I had completely discounted this card from the list of possible solutions. Cycling the charm on my turn…
Curiosities: Non-Standard Standard Decks
…3 Mizzium Mortars Sideboard - 2 Tormod's Crypt - 1 Pithing Needle - 1 Garruk, Primal Hunter - 1 Garruk Relentless - 2 Wolfir…
The Dragonmaster’s Lair – Preparing for Grand Prix: Washington D.C
…Behemoth Sledge - 1 Basilisk Collar Sideboard - 1 Island - 3 Pithing Needle - 3 Oblivion Ring - 2 Path to Exile - 2 Qasali…
Final Esper Updates And A Look at M15
…Phyrexian Revoker I stopped playing Pithing Needle not long ago and this card is worse in control decks. The decks…
Everything You Need To Know About W/R Prison
…on one will keep them being able to cast Pithing Needle to slow down your planeswalkers. Their only interaction to…
Commander Deck Tech: Sharuum the Hegemon
…Hex Parasite A cog! And he beats! He eats planeswalkers! Potentially good, but right now Pithing Needle gets the job…
Flores Friday – Work in Progress: Mishra Again
…happens you can be ahead on the metrics (maybe Pithing Needle is best?). In terms of Faeries you just have…
Four Approaches To Deck Selection
…Traumatic Visions - 1 Double Negative - 2 Divination Sideboard - 1 Pithing Needle - 1 Deathmark - 1 Flashfreeze - 1 Oblivion Ring - 3 Negate…
Deckbuilding With (& Against) True-Name Nemesis
…Batterskull Sideboard - 2 Seal of Cleansing - 2 Cataclysm - 1 Pithing Needle - 1 Sunlance - 1 Aven Mindcensor - 2 Oblivion Ring - 2…
Down And Dirty – Fireworks At Lake Michigan: Three Extended Decks
…the sideboard reflects that with both Krosan Grip and Pithing Needle to dismantle the troublesome permanents. After looking over the…
SCG Dallas By The Numbers
…Ensnaring Bridge - 1 Pyrite Spellbomb - 1 Welding Jar - 2 Pithing Needle - 4 Mishra's Bauble - 2 Chromatic Star - 2 Sword…
Triple DKA Drafting For Fun And Profit
…Choosing Pithing Needle over Essence Drain or Tidings is pretty much guaranteed to make your deck worse. As such, I…
Trawling In Modern
…Wellspring Sideboard - 2 Ensnaring Bridge - 4 Defense Grid - 1 Pithing Needle - 2 Thoughtseize - 2 Nature's Claim - 2 Inquisition of…
The Most Underrated Card In Standard
…Magma Jet - 4 Lightning Strike Sideboard - 1 Shock - 1 Pithing Needle - 2 Act of Treason - 3 Mizzium Mortars - 4 Skullcrack…
Removed From Game – Extended Extended
…Then he added Trinket Mage, and searched out Pithing Needle. Goh made Pentad Prism and a tapped Godless Shrine. In…
The Sun Titan And The King Eternal
…Mystic Remora - 1 Mind Stone - 1 Parallax Wave - 1 Pithing Needle - 1 Azorius Signet - 1 Return to Dust - 1 Coalition…
Post-Kaladesh Burn: Building for the Dredge Metagame
…of the same-named card (against Surgical Extraction or Pithing Needle, for example) is a disadvantage. - ```decklist Lands: 3 Scalding…
My Logic Of Legacy
…Sideboard - 3 Show and Tell - 1 Echoing Truth - 2 Pithing Needle - 1 Blazing Archon - 1 Wipe Away - 1 Thoughtseize - 1…
Thirty Questions Answered
…Kamigawa block rotates out of Standard?* Umezawa’s Jitte, Pithing Needle, and the big fatty dragon finishers (including Ink-Eyes…
Innovations – Magic Online Interview with Worth Wollpert, and New Extremes in Standard
…Refuge Spells (33) - 4 Howling Mine - 4 Fog - 2 Pithing Needle - 4 Negate - 4 Angelsong - 3 Font of Mythos - 4…
Naya Humans
…Spells (6) - 2 Rancor - 4 Selesnya Charm Sideboard - 2 Pithing Needle - 2 Oblivion Ring - 2 Nevermore - 2 Sigarda, Host of…