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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: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (3)
Artifacts (4)
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
- 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
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix - 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix - 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix - 1 Enduring Innocence
$3.92
0.06 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Magebane Lizard
$0.42
1.88 tix - 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix - 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
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
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix - 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 2 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.30
0.30 tix - 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 3 Suncleanser
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 4 Nadu, Winged Wisdom
$0.35
0.02 tix - 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.49
0.56 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 4 Delighted Halfling
$26.56
0.09 tix
- 1 Noble Hierarch
$10.35
0.20 tix
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
$1.75
0.50 tix
- 1 Ice-Fang Coatl
$0.62
0.10 tix
- 4 Nomads en-Kor
$0.49
0.37 tix
Sorceries (6)
Instants (12)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (21)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 2 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah— —
- 4 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.51
4.39 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 3 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
$8.30
9.33 tix
- 1 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 (7)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Artifacts (10)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
$4.00
0.76 tix
- 1 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.14 tix - 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix - 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.46 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.46
1.22 tix
- 3 Thief of Existence
$0.27
0.03 tix - 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Vexing Bauble
$2.15
5.72 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
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
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$9.11 0.02 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Savai Triome$20.65 0.11 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (22)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$50.49 0.53 tix
- 4 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 3 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Sanctum of Ugin$2.60 0.02 tix
- 1 Shifting Woodland$4.37 0.03 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 4 Ugin's Labyrinth$12.14 11.31 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 1 Cityscape Leveler
$5.83
2.04 tix - 1 Disruptor Flute
$1.60
2.93 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 2 Haywire Mite
$0.40
0.04 tix
- 2 Kozilek's Return
$0.33
0.45 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.46
1.22 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.62 tix
- 1 Vexing Bauble
$2.15
5.72 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
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 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 3 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 3 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 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
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (20)
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Glistening Deluge
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
$0.39
0.59 tix
- 3 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Rakdos Charm
$0.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (23)
- 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
- 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: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
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
- 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
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.59 1.09 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Enduring Innocence
$3.92
0.06 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Magebane Lizard
$0.42
1.88 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
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 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 3 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 3 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (10)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (12)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Commercial District$6.88 1.18 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 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
- 3 Shifting Woodland$4.37 0.03 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
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
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.01 tix
- 3 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 (4)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (8)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (22)
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Commercial District$6.88 1.18 tix
- 3 Dwarven Mine$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
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
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 3.13 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
- 1 Headliner Scarlett$5.56 0.10 tix
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
$3.92
9.49 tix
- 3 Goblin Rabblemaster
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Gut, True Soul Zealot
$0.16
10.48 tix
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 4 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 4 Simian Spirit Guide
$2.71
0.01 tix
- 4 Caves of Chaos Adventurer
$0.36
13.90 tix
- 3 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
