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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,949 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 (16)
Sorceries (12)
Lands (18)
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury$2.63 0.20 tix
- 4 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
- 4 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
$8.30
9.33 tix
- 2 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 2 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.49
7.97 tix
- 4 Guide of Souls
$2.67
1.63 tix
- 4 Ocelot Pride
$40.17
11.51 tix
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (14)
Lands (21)
- 3 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 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 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Sorceries (22)
Instants (14)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.07 tix - 1 Consign/Oblivion
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 tix - 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.01 tix - 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix - 1 Peer into the Abyss
$2.64
0.02 tix - 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Torment of Hailfire
$41.14
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (25)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Bloodchief's Thirst
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Glistening Deluge
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 3 Harbinger of the Seas$1.57 1.10 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
$20.12
7.28 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (8)
Lands (21)
- 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
- 3 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 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.38 0.03 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.34 0.02 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Firemind's Foresight
$0.21
0.02 tix - 1 Intuition
$358.15
15.87 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.33
0.45 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Release the Ants
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Rushing River
$0.13
0.04 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Through the Breach
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Trickbind
$9.06
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Cursed Totem
$1.18
0.17 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 2 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Suncleanser
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (28)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (1)
Artifacts (15)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (25)
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.48
0.53 tix
- 3 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 4 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 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: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 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 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 2 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (23)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (25)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Bloodchief's Thirst
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Glistening Deluge
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Memory Deluge
$0.31
0.20 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Sorceries (4)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (34)
- 3 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 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
- 2 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.52 0.46 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Lands (19)
- 4 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 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
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 9
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
- 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
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
