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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: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (7)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix - 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Magus of the Moon
$4.07
1.17 tix - 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Triumph of Saint Katherine
$3.04
26.49 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (23)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 1 Darkslick Shores$1.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Gloomlake Verge$10.09 0.36 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$9.73 7.26 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$9.73 7.26 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.28 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (13)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$12.92
24.41 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.92
0.01 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.41
1.28 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 2 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (28)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$49.11 9.33 tix
- 2 Dark Depths$1.49 0.21 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.70 0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Deeps$0.73 0.02 tix
- 2 Flagstones of Trokair$4.23 0.12 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.82 0.46 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.60 3.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara$27.46 17.52 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.92 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.98
0.10 tix - 2 Deafening Silence
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 2 Disruptor Flute
$1.36
3.20 tix
- 1 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.71
0.31 tix
- 1 Endurance
$4.09
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.04
0.06 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$23.88 11.94 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
- 3 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.03 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
- 2 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 1 Barbarian Ring$0.25 0.06 tix
- 1 Barbarian Ring$0.25 0.06 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 4 Inspiring Vantage$1.38 0.06 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.91 0.17 tix
- 4 Sunbaked Canyon$3.54 1.91 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
