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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: 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
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Chained to the Rocks
$0.33
0.02 tix - 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 2 Magebane Lizard
$0.42
1.88 tix - 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix - 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix - 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 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 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix - 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 2 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.51
4.39 tix
- 3 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 4 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
$8.30
9.33 tix
- 2 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.49
7.97 tix
- 3 Guide of Souls
$2.67
1.63 tix
- 1 Guide of Souls
$2.67
1.63 tix
- 2 Ocelot Pride
$40.17
11.51 tix
- 2 Ocelot Pride
$40.17
11.51 tix
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (22)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$9.11 0.02 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Damping Matrix
$0.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 2 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.46 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: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.40
0.04 tix
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
$0.19
0.03 tix - 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.97
4.00 tix
- 4 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
$27.57
2.01 tix
- 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 4 Delighted Halfling
$26.56
0.09 tix
- 2 Young Wolf
$0.17
0.03 tix
Sorceries (7)
Instants (4)
Lands (22)
- 3 Blooming Marsh$2.00 0.06 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 2 Shifting Woodland$4.37 0.03 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Underground Mortuary$12.67 1.48 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 2 Culling Ritual
$0.42
0.36 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 2 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix - 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.46 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 3 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (23)
- 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
- 4 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
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Lands (22)
- 2 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
- 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
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (7)
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
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix - 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Fear, Fire, Foes!
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 2 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.30
0.30 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Suncleanser
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (25)
- 4 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 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 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 2 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 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 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 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
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.48
0.53 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (24)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
- 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
$40.43
1.65 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.97
4.00 tix
- 4 Nadu, Winged Wisdom
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.49
0.56 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 3 Delighted Halfling
$26.56
0.09 tix
- 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
$5.26
0.06 tix
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
$1.75
0.50 tix
- 4 Nomads en-Kor
$0.49
0.37 tix
Sorceries (7)
Instants (12)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (7)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.97
4.00 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
- 3 Emperor of Bones$1.70 0.59 tix
- 1 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 tix
- 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
$16.46
0.06 tix - 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
$16.46
0.06 tix
- 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
$0.39
0.02 tix
- 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
$0.39
0.02 tix
- 4 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
$15.27
10.87 tix
- 2 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix
- 1 Griselbrand
$6.63
1.19 tix - 2 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
$15.79
13.91 tix
- 4 Psychic Frog
$4.70
5.05 tix
Sorceries (4)
Instants (11)
Lands (20)
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 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 Indatha Triome$18.13 6.66 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 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (24)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Lands (22)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$9.11 0.02 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 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 2 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
