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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: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 2 Emperor of Bones
$1.52
0.63 tix - 4 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.61
0.47 tix - 4 Ketramose, the New Dawn
$4.17
0.68 tix
- 3 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Boggart Trawler
$0.89
0.43 tix - 4 Overlord of the Balemurk
$20.12
7.27 tix - 3 Witch Enchanter
$2.95
0.72 tix
- 4 Solitude
$34.04
5.00 tix
- 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
$1.87
0.06 tix
Sorceries (3)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Aven Interrupter
$3.30
0.06 tix
- 1 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
$22.61
0.02 tix - 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
$20.64
3.13 tix - 1 Orim's Chant
$5.37
0.30 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 3 White Orchid Phantom
$0.26
0.12 tix
- 2 Wrath of the Skies
$1.73
5.04 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix - 2 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.89 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.41
1.28 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 1 Meltdown$0.22 0.77 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (10)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (28)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$49.11 9.33 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$11.09 1.95 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.81 4.12 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.11 0.13 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.52
5.74 tix - 2 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad$0.30 0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (7)
Lands (23)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.26 0.67 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$7.92 4.97 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.12 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.91 0.17 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.16 tix
- 2 Orim's Chant
$5.37
0.30 tix
- 1 Showdown of the Skalds
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 3 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.30
4.72 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.73
5.04 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (20)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
- 3 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 1 Gloomlake Verge$10.09 0.36 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.03 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 4 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$9.73 7.26 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.28 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (22)
- 4 Lotus Petal
$36.20
15.73 tix - 1 Mishra's Bauble
$1.59
0.02 tix
- 3 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Aether Spellbomb
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Grindstone
$3.11
1.40 tix
- 1 Lavaspur Boots
$1.21
0.08 tix
- 1 Manifold Key
$1.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 4 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.48 tix
- 4 The One Ring
$90.29
1.09 tix
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 2 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 4 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 2 Kappa Cannoneer
$0.36
0.36 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.26 0.67 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 3 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$7.92 4.97 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.12 0.83 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.12 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.91 0.17 tix
- 1 Sunbaked Canyon$3.54 1.91 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.24
0.39 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.75
0.90 tix
- 2 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.16 tix
- 4 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.59
2.12 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
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.73
5.04 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
