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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: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (10)
Lands (23)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 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 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (22)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 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
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix - 2 Dreams of Steel and Oil
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix - 1 Graveyard Trespasser
$0.39
0.59 tix - 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.48
0.53 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (15)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
- 3 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 4 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
- 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
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk$20.12 7.28 tix
- 3 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 4 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 1 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 2 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.22 tix
- 3 Overlord of the Balemurk
$20.12
7.28 tix - 3 Witch Enchanter
$3.30
0.85 tix
- 2 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix
- 2 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix
- 1 Tidehollow Sculler
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
- 1 Concealed Courtyard$1.00 0.02 tix
- 1 Concealed Courtyard$1.00 0.02 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.40 0.18 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Godless Shrine$9.11 0.02 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 3 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
- 3 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
- 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 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 3 Fallaji Archaeologist
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
$16.46
0.06 tix - 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
$0.39
0.02 tix
- 4 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
$15.27
10.87 tix - 3 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix
- 1 Griselbrand
$6.63
1.19 tix - 1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
$15.79
13.91 tix
- 4 Psychic Frog
$4.70
5.05 tix
Sorceries (5)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$9.11 0.02 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 2 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 2 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 1 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 3 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 1 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 3 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.22 tix
- 4 Overlord of the Balemurk
$20.12
7.28 tix
- 4 Witch Enchanter
$3.30
0.85 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix
- 2 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.21 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.21 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 2 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
- 3 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (29)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 2 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Deeps$0.76 0.02 tix
- 2 Flagstones of Trokair$4.10 0.06 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.52 0.46 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara$28.54 16.81 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.79 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.72
0.35 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.97
4.00 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 4 Overlord of the Balemurk$20.12 7.28 tix
- 3 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 4 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 2 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 3 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 tix
- 2 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.22 tix
- 4 Witch Enchanter
$3.30
0.85 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix
- 3 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (7)
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
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 4 Overlord of the Balemurk$20.12 7.28 tix
- 2 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 3 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 4 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 1 Remorseful Cleric
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 4 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 tix
- 1 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.22 tix
- 4 Witch Enchanter
$3.30
0.85 tix
- 3 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix
- 2 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.40 0.18 tix
- 2 Godless Shrine$9.11 0.02 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.29 0.14 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (22)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Commercial District$6.88 1.18 tix
- 4 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Sanctum of Ugin$2.60 0.02 tix
- 2 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 4 Ugin's Labyrinth$12.14 11.31 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.33
0.45 tix - 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 2 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.46 tix
- 1 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.46 tix
- 3 Stone Rain
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 The Stone Brain
$0.46
1.22 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix - 1 Writhing Chrysalis
$0.20
0.50 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Lands (24)
- 4 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 4 Ifnir Deadlands$0.27 0.03 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 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
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 1 Wastes$0.70 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.03
0.03 tix - 3 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Dreams of Steel and Oil
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.48
0.53 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Wasteland Strangler
$0.20
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 2 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 1 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 3 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 1 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 3 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.22 tix
- 4 Overlord of the Balemurk
$20.12
7.28 tix
- 4 Witch Enchanter
$3.30
0.85 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix
- 1 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.21 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.21 tix
- 1 Sanctifier en-Vec
$0.32
0.15 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 3 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
- 2 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix