Pithing Needle (Modern)
Pithing Needle appears in 16.9% of Modern decks in the last 30 days (384 decks), averaging 1.0 copies in the main deck. It is played above all in Golgari Broodscale.
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Share of decks
16.9%
▼ 3.8
vs previous 30 days
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
384
148 main, 258 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
63%
84 top 8 (challenges only)
Weekly data
| Week from | Share of decks |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | – |
| 2026-08-13 | 17.8% |
| 2026-08-20 | 17.1% |
| 2026-08-27 | 17.7% |
| 2026-09-03 | 20.6% |
| 2026-09-10 | 18.1% |
| 2026-09-17 | 22.3% |
| 2026-09-24 | 21.6% |
| 2026-10-01 | 20.4% |
| 2026-10-08 | 14.1% |
| 2026-10-15 | 17.0% |
| 2026-10-22 | 17.5% |
Played together with
| Card | Together | Lift |
|---|---|---|
| Urza's Saga | 100% | 4.1 |
| Mishra's Bauble | 95% | 3.6 |
| Skateboard | 85% | 13.4 |
| Mox Opal | 85% | 12.1 |
| Kappa Cannoneer | 83% | 14.5 |
| Tormod's Crypt | 83% | 8.9 |
| Pinnacle Emissary | 82% | 14.5 |
| Engineered Explosives | 82% | 14.4 |
| Shadowspear | 78% | 12.9 |
| Emry, Lurker of the Loch | 78% | 12.9 |
| Steam Vents | 78% | 2.8 |
| Welding Jar | 77% | 14.6 |
| Spirebluff Canal | 73% | 10.9 |
| Fiery Islet | 73% | 6.0 |
| Metallic Rebuke | 70% | 12.5 |
| Shivan Reef | 69% | 14.6 |
| Claws of Gix | 68% | 14.6 |
| Weapons Manufacturing | 68% | 14.6 |
| Preordain | 57% | 3.8 |
| Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs | 53% | 3.6 |
- Together
- decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
- Lift
- how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose
Archetypes by metagame share
| Archetype | Meta | Play it |
|---|---|---|
| Golgari Broodscale | 12.5% | 71% |
| Moonshadow | 10.5% | 0% |
| Affinity | 5.8% | 96% |
| Craterhoof | 3.2% | 1% |
| Mono-Black (unclassified) | 2.5% | 30% |
| Goryo's Vengeance | 2.5% | 2% |
| UBG (unclassified) | 2.1% | 2% |
| WUB (unclassified) | 1.7% | 3% |