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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,951 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 1.4 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $1.33.
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 | 94 | 1.3 | 1394 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 62 | 1.5 | 542 | 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: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
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 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Lands (22)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Indatha Triome$18.13 6.66 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.37 0.02 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Cephalid Coliseum$0.29 0.03 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (19)
- 2 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (24)
- 3 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$9.11 0.02 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.37 0.01 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 4 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix - 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.90 tix - 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (22)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$31.45
24.65 tix
- 1 Ratchet Bomb
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 True-Name Nemesis
$2.71
0.73 tix
- 2 Unable to Scream
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 2 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.04
0.48 tix
- 2 Force of Despair
$6.48
3.78 tix
- 2 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 2 Shatter Assumptions
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Meathook Massacre
$25.60
2.85 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$4.02
0.39 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (19)
- 2 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (27)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (15)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
- 3 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
