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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: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (19)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix - 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.90 tix - 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix - 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Laboratory Maniac
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Murktide Regent
$7.33
6.28 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (23)
- 2 Aether Hub$0.27 0.03 tix
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.40 0.18 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 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
- 4 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Cleansing Wildfire
$0.41
0.03 tix - 1 Disruptor Flute
$1.60
2.93 tix
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix - 1 End the Festivities
$1.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix - 2 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.49
7.97 tix
- 2 Suncleanser
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (21)
Lands (19)
- 4 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 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 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 4 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.48
0.53 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
- 1 Brain Freeze
$2.60
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix - 3 Waterlogged Teachings
$0.38
0.03 tix - 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (11)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix - 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
16.38 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.22
0.02 tix
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
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: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (22)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (23)
- 2 Aether Hub$0.27 0.03 tix
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.40 0.18 tix
- 2 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 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
- 4 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
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: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 4 Cleansing Wildfire
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Fear, Fire, Foes!
$0.23
0.03 tix - 1 High Noon
$4.42
13.34 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (24)
- 1 Aether Hub$0.27 0.03 tix
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 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
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
- 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
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 3.13 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (24)
- 4 Flame of Anor
$4.56
0.05 tix
- 2 Flare of Denial
$3.15
0.25 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 4 Galvanic Discharge
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix
Lands (20)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 2 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (6)
Lands (23)
- 2 Aether Hub$0.27 0.03 tix
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 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 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Exorcise
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Fear, Fire, Foes!$0.23 0.03 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
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
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse$0.36 0.35 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
- 3 White Orchid Phantom
$0.27
0.08 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 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 Ketria Triome$17.06 0.15 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raffine's Tower$13.83 0.20 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (20)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
- 1 Cephalid Coliseum$0.29 0.03 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea$4.96 0.02 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 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 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Baleful Mastery
$2.51
0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 3 Extirpate
$1.31
0.03 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Long Goodbye
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 The Meathook Massacre
$25.60
2.85 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (20)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
- 2 Waterlogged Teachings— —
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 1 Brain Freeze
$2.60
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix - 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (11)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
16.38 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.22
0.02 tix
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (15)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 2.89 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 3 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dark Betrayal
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 2 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
