Pithing Needle (Modern)
Pithing Needle appears in 17.9% of Modern decks in the last 90 days (1700 decks), averaging 1.0 copies in the main deck. It is played above all in Golgari Broodscale.
Share of decks
17.9%
▲ 1.4
vs previous 90 days
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
1700
707 main, 1053 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
64%
250 top 8 (challenges only)
Weekly data
| Week from | Share of decks |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | 14.1% |
| 2026-08-17 | 17.1% |
| 2026-08-24 | 17.8% |
| 2026-08-31 | 20.7% |
| 2026-09-07 | 18.8% |
| 2026-09-14 | 21.0% |
| 2026-09-21 | 23.7% |
| 2026-09-28 | 17.4% |
| 2026-10-05 | 16.8% |
| 2026-10-12 | 13.4% |
| 2026-10-19 | 17.1% |
| 2026-10-26 | 17.4% |
Played together with
| Card | Together | Lift |
|---|---|---|
| Urza's Saga | 100% | 4.5 |
| Mishra's Bauble | 79% | 3.7 |
| Mox Opal | 74% | 9.9 |
| Skateboard | 72% | 10.8 |
| Tormod's Crypt | 67% | 8.3 |
| Shadowspear | 66% | 11.3 |
| Kappa Cannoneer | 65% | 12.4 |
| Pinnacle Emissary | 65% | 12.4 |
| Engineered Explosives | 64% | 11.9 |
| Emry, Lurker of the Loch | 64% | 10.2 |
| Steam Vents | 62% | 2.2 |
| Welding Jar | 60% | 12.7 |
| Fiery Islet | 59% | 4.5 |
| Spirebluff Canal | 59% | 10.0 |
| Metallic Rebuke | 57% | 10.3 |
| Claws of Gix | 54% | 12.6 |
| Weapons Manufacturing | 54% | 12.6 |
| Shivan Reef | 53% | 12.3 |
| Preordain | 37% | 2.4 |
| Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs | 36% | 2.6 |
- 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 | 10.8% | 83% |
| Boros Energy | 6.6% | 0% |
| Affinity | 5.2% | 98% |
| Goryo's Vengeance | 5.0% | 0% |
| Moonshadow | 4.3% | 1% |
| UBG (unclassified) | 3.7% | 4% |
| Craterhoof | 3.3% | 1% |
| WR (unclassified) | 2.8% | 3% |