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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: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
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
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
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
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (33)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 3 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 4 Crumbling Vestige$0.18 0.03 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Deeps$0.76 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Gruul Turf$0.21 0.01 tix
- 1 Hanweir Battlements$1.86 0.02 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 2 Lotus Field$2.44 0.24 tix
- 1 Mirrorpool$2.14 0.02 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Shifting Woodland$4.37 0.03 tix
- 3 Simic Growth Chamber$0.24 0.01 tix
- 1 Tolaria West$0.43 0.45 tix
- 1 Urza's Cave$1.00 0.03 tix
- 3 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle$10.05 0.02 tix
- 1 Vesuva$2.29 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix - 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
$1.75
0.50 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Seal of Removal
$0.20
0.03 tix - 2 Six
$4.56
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Vampires' Vengeance
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Vexing Bauble
$2.15
5.72 tix
- 1 Volatile Stormdrake
$0.38
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Cascade Bluffs$0.32 0.03 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (27)
- 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 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 3 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 4 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 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
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 3 Eternal Witness
$0.70
0.03 tix
- 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.49
0.56 tix
- 1 Knight of Autumn
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 4 Spellseeker
$16.13
12.28 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix - 4 Noble Hierarch
$10.35
0.20 tix
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
$1.75
0.50 tix
- 2 Ice-Fang Coatl
$0.62
0.10 tix
- 2 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.36 tix
Sorceries (5)
Instants (20)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (27)
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.52 0.46 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.37 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (22)
Lands (17)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Gloomlake Verge$10.41 0.26 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 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
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix - 1 Graveyard Trespasser
$0.39
0.59 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Long Goodbye
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Chained to the Rocks
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 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
- 3 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (23)
- 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 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 3 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 2 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 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: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Fear, Fire, Foes!
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 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 Showdown of the Skalds
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
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: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (23)
Lands (17)
- 1 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (8)
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
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 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: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
