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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,946 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 1.4 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $1.31.
Oracle Text
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Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.Format Legality
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Surgical Extraction, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | 93 | 1.2 | 1393 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 58 | 1.4 | 538 | 1.5 |
| Vintage | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1.5 |
Details
- Set
- Breaking News
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 19
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Surgical Extraction
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
- 3 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$7.92 4.97 tix
- 1 Gemstone Caverns$52.24 0.90 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.91 0.17 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Sunbaked Canyon$3.54 1.91 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.10
1.94 tix - 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.14
0.02 tix - 1 Grapeshot
$0.31
0.01 tix
- 4 Orim's Chant$5.37 0.30 tix
- 1 Past in Flames
$2.19
4.38 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury$2.60 0.21 tix
- 4 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Underworld Breach
$7.72
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (21)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.26 0.67 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$8.83 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Indatha Triome$18.67 6.89 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.91 0.17 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.39 0.02 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.72 6.85 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Gloomlake Verge$10.09 0.36 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$9.73 7.26 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.28 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix - 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$2.78
0.48 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.41
1.28 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix - 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.35 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$9.73 7.26 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Barrowgoyf
$12.92
24.41 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory$3.44 31.43 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 3 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 2 Go for the Throat
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.41
1.28 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas$1.41 1.28 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Sorceries (17)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.44 0.02 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 1 Firemind's Foresight
$0.20
0.02 tix - 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
16.53 tix
- 1 Release the Ants
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Shared Summons
$1.05
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Trickbind
$9.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Wipe Away
$0.30
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$2.78
0.48 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.41
1.28 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.35 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.31
0.06 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory$3.44 31.43 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.41
1.28 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pest Control
$6.44
2.26 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.35 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Lands (24)
- 4 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 4 Ifnir Deadlands$0.25 0.03 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.85 2.98 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.11 0.02 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$36.02 13.39 tix
- 1 Wastes$0.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.06
0.03 tix - 2 Break the Ice
$0.26
0.05 tix
- 3 Damping Sphere
$1.06
1.44 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Dreams of Steel and Oil
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.43
0.53 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Toxic Deluge
$3.31
0.06 tix
- 1 Wasteland Strangler
$0.20
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 2 Darkslick Shores$1.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.12 0.83 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$9.73 7.26 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.28 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$2.78
0.48 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.41
1.28 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.35 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 2 Molten Rain
$0.31
0.04 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.59
2.12 tix
- 2 Orim's Chant
$5.37
0.30 tix
- 1 Showdown of the Skalds
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.30
4.72 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (28)
- 2 Sink into Stupor— —
- 4 Beyeen Veil
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 3 Jwari Disruption
$0.38
0.04 tix
- 3 Flare of Denial
$3.19
0.31 tix
- 1 Flare of Denial
$3.19
0.31 tix
- 2 Sink into Stupor
$5.19
7.85 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Teachings
$0.44
0.03 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.36
0.24 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.35 tix
- 4 Disrupting Shoal
$11.57
0.57 tix
- 4 Whir of Invention
$5.06
0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.12 0.83 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$9.73 7.26 tix
- 4 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (23)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.89 tix
- 1 Exorcise
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.41
1.28 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Triumph of Saint Katherine
$3.04
26.49 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.26 0.67 tix
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.26 0.67 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$7.92 4.97 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.12 0.83 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.81 4.12 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.91 0.17 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 1 Molten Rain
$0.31
0.04 tix
- 1 Orim's Chant
$5.37
0.30 tix
- 1 Orim's Chant
$5.37
0.30 tix
- 1 Showdown of the Skalds
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.30
4.72 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.73
5.04 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$2.78
0.48 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.41
1.28 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.35 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix