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Needle Spires

First printed in Oath of the Gatewatch (2016)

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Needle Spires

Land

This land enters tapped.
tap: Add Red or White.
2 genericRedWhite: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/1 red and white Elemental creature with double strike. It's still a land.

Illustrated by
Jonas De Ro

Legality

Rulings (4)

  • When a land becomes a creature, that doesn't count as having a creature enter the battlefield. The permanent was already on the battlefield; it only changed its types. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield won't trigger.
  • An ability that turns a land into a creature also sets that creature's power and toughness. If the land was already a creature (for example, if it was the target of a spell with awaken), this will overwrite the previous effect that set its power and toughness. Effects that modify its power or toughness will continue to apply no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change its power or toughness (such as +1/+1 counters) and effects that switch its power and toughness. For example, if Needle Spires has been made a 0/0 creature with three +1/+1 counters on it, activating its last ability will turn it into a 5/4 creature that's still a land.
  • This land is colorless until the last ability gives it colors.
  • A land that becomes a creature may be affected by "summoning sickness." You can't attack with it or use any of its tap abilities (including its mana abilities) unless it began your most recent turn on the battlefield under your control. Note that summoning sickness cares about when that permanent came under your control, not when it became a creature nor when it entered the battlefield.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 31 Oct 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Needle Spires in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Edge of Eternities (EOE), Premier Draft 57.7% +2.4 +6.5 1265
Pioneer Masters (PIO), Premier Draft 58.4% +3.1 +0.4 3633
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen