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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: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (19)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 1 Gemstone Caverns$52.15 0.90 tix
- 4 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Sunbaked Canyon$3.49 2.01 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 3 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
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 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
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 4 Overlord of the Balemurk$20.12 7.28 tix
- 2 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
- 4 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)
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: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (7)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (7)
Lands (23)
- 3 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 4 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix - 1 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Showdown of the Skalds
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (7)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 2 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Showdown of the Skalds
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Vexing Bauble
$2.15
5.72 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 4 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
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 2 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 2 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 4 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 1 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 tix
- 3 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)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Aven Interrupter
$3.51
0.06 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.21 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
- 2 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
- 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
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.51
4.39 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (35)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 4 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 2 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 tix
- 3 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.22 tix
- 1 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
- 4 Guide of Souls
$2.67
1.63 tix
- 4 Ocelot Pride
$40.17
11.51 tix
- 2 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
Sorceries (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (11)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 3 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
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 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 Sunbaked Canyon$3.49 2.01 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (25)
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Gloomlake Verge$10.41 0.26 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 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: 4 | Swiss: 7
