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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,947 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
- 4 Overlord of the Balemurk$20.12 7.27 tix
- 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
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.89
0.43 tix - 2 Pinnacle Monk
$1.24
0.04 tix - 2 Witch Enchanter
$2.95
0.72 tix
- 4 Solitude
$34.04
5.00 tix
- 3 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.56
7.20 tix
Sorceries (2)
Instants (8)
Lands (18)
- 2 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 2 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$8.83 0.02 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$7.92 4.97 tix
- 2 Godless Shrine$8.86 0.03 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.12 0.83 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.12 0.83 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.91 0.17 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.65 1.29 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Balustrade Spy
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 3 Break the Ice
$0.26
0.05 tix
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
$22.61
0.02 tix - 3 Orim's Chant
$5.37
0.30 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 The Meathook Massacre
$25.49
2.90 tix - 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.31
0.06 tix
- 2 Vindicate
$0.42
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (23)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (19)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
- 3 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$7.92 4.97 tix
- 1 Gemstone Caverns$52.24 0.90 tix
- 4 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 1.05 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.91 0.17 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Sunbaked Canyon$3.54 1.91 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Sorceries (21)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (18)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (11)
Sideboard
- 1 Cut/Ribbons
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.92
0.01 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix - 1 Grapeshot
$0.31
0.01 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Pair o' Dice Lost
$0.25
0.05 tix - 1 Peer into the Abyss
$2.73
0.02 tix
- 1 Reforge the Soul
$5.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Storm Entity
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix - 1 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
- 2 Wear Down
$0.24
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$12.92
24.41 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 3 Dauthi Voidwalker
$2.78
0.48 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.12 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.57 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.11 0.13 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Lands (24)
- 2 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.80 0.02 tix
- 2 Blazemire Verge$8.54 0.07 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$8.83 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 1 Mount Doom$8.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 2 Raucous Theater$10.05 1.05 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$36.02 13.39 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.06
1.44 tix
- 3 Dauthi Voidwalker
$2.78
0.48 tix
- 2 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Disruptor Flute
$1.36
3.20 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.22
0.77 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.92
0.22 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (21)
Lands (28)
- 1 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$11.09 1.95 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 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Spara's Headquarters$13.61 0.26 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 3 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
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum$3.75 0.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.30
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Blood Crypt$8.83 0.02 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.39 2.02 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 1.05 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.72 6.85 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.28 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (23)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 2 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
- 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
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 2 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
$6.29
2.96 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.75
0.90 tix
- 1 Orim's Chant
$5.37
0.30 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
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.73
5.04 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$12.92
24.41 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.44
31.43 tix
- 3 Dauthi Voidwalker
$2.78
0.48 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix