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Pithing Needle
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Artifact
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
Times Brought
142
Decks Running
59
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
Card text
Pithing Needle
Artifact
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Anthony Palumbo
Final zone distribution
31 instances3.2%
Library
45.2%
Battlefield
9.7%
Graveyard
16.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Urza, Lord High Artificer
10 decks
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2
Magda, Brazen Outlaw
6 decks
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3
Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent
2 decks
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4
Gandalf the White
2 decks
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5
Knuckles the Echidna
2 decks
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6
Krenko, Mob Boss
2 decks
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7
Whtz, the Bibliophile
2 decks
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8
Alania, Divergent Storm
1 decks
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9
Arcum Dagsson
1 decks
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10
Atla Palani, Nest Tender
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
142 brought · 57 playersBrought to game
142
Ever drawn
28
Reached battlefield
22
Still on board at game end
14
Once cast, 64% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.
≥ -14.9pp
Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=16) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=82).
Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.
Observed gap -2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -14.9pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=22
32%
T1
5%
T2
9%
T3
0%
T4
9%
T5
32%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
1
· P75
7
· max
14
On curve
32%
(7 / 22 cast on T1)
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.
How is Playgroup Live card data collected?
Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.