Pithing needle bug
There is a bug with pithing needle effect, every time that I mention the card’s name, (meaning at each new game), eve in the effect isn’t mana related it triggers anyways. For example I recently played against a sheoldred deck, and the draw card effect triggered.
frank#28247
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Rezzahan#77802
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Those cards still trigger, because they are TRIGGERED abilities. Pithing Needle only stops ACTIVATED abilities. Those terms mean very different things. A triggered ability cannot be activated, an activated ability cannot be triggered.
An activated ability, which can be stopped by Pithing Needle, ALWAYS has the form [cost]:[effect], either in the text of the ability, or in the rules for it, if it is a keyword ability. If it does not have that form, you are not dealing with an activated ability.