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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 (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix - 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.90 tix - 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.56
2.20 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (2)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.34 0.02 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Disruptor Flute
$1.60
2.93 tix - 1 Firemind's Foresight
$0.21
0.02 tix - 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Release the Ants
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Shared Summons
$1.04
0.02 tix - 1 Sublime Epiphany
$0.27
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix - 1 Price of Progress
$4.56
2.20 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
$15.89
0.14 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (20)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$9.11 0.02 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
- 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 Underground Mortuary$12.67 1.48 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
$0.39
0.59 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Meathook Massacre
$25.60
2.85 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 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 Sunbaked Canyon$3.49 2.01 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Chained to the Rocks
$0.33
0.02 tix - 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Lithomantic Barrage
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 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 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 3 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.04
0.48 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.58
9.34 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.48
0.53 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 1 Cut Down
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 4 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 4 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 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
- 3 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 3 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.51
4.39 tix
- 4 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 4 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
$8.30
9.33 tix
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 2 Ranger-Captain of Eos
$36.83
6.28 tix
- 3 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.49
7.97 tix
- 1 Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 4 Guide of Souls
$2.67
1.63 tix
- 4 Ocelot Pride
$40.17
11.51 tix
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Showdown of the Skalds
$0.31
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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Grindstone
$3.23
1.29 tix
- 4 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Portable Hole
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (35)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Commercial District$6.88 1.18 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.85 0.77 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 3 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.61 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 3 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.04
0.48 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.58
9.34 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
- 2 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah— —
- 1 Ocelot Pride$40.17 11.51 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury$2.63 0.20 tix
- 2 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.51
4.39 tix
- 2 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 2 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
$8.30
9.33 tix
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 3 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.49
7.97 tix
- 4 Guide of Souls
$2.67
1.63 tix
- 3 Ocelot Pride
$40.17
11.51 tix
