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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,953 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 | 1396 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 64 | 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: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
- 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
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savai Triome$20.65 0.11 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Spara's Headquarters$13.76 0.26 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
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: 3 | Swiss: 1
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 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
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Laboratory Maniac
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Murktide Regent
$7.33
6.28 tix - 1 Predict
$0.79
0.04 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (19)
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 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Long Goodbye
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Sorceries (23)
Instants (13)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Consign/Oblivion
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 tix - 1 Grapeshot
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.01 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix - 1 Peer into the Abyss
$2.64
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
- 1 Fatal Push$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 2 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix - 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.33
0.02 tix - 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Soul Rend
$0.37
1.07 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Cascade Bluffs$0.32 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 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
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raffine's Tower$13.83 0.20 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 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
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Isochron Scepter
$8.68
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
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: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 1 Long Goodbye
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Portal to Phyrexia
$32.46
1.04 tix - 1 Serra's Emissary
$8.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (20)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.71
0.34 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.49
7.97 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
$2.28
0.68 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (34)
- 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
- 3 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.52 0.46 tix
- 3 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara$28.54 16.81 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (21)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 2 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (20)
- 1 Cascade Bluffs$0.32 0.03 tix
- 1 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.17 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.38 0.03 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 2 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (11)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (25)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 4 Cloudpost$0.29 0.04 tix
- 1 Eye of Ugin$62.02 0.16 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$23.56 11.94 tix
- 2 Glimmerpost$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 4 Planar Nexus$3.19 7.99 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 Trenchpost$0.29 1.09 tix
- 4 Urza's Tower$0.62 0.03 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 1 Expedition Map
$1.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.63
0.02 tix - 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 4 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix - 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (1)
Artifacts (30)
- 1 Candy Trail$0.60 0.03 tix
- 3 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 tix
- 4 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
8.91 tix
- 4 Lotus Petal
$36.20
16.38 tix
- 4 Mishra's Bauble
$1.61
0.02 tix
- 4 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.14 tix
- 4 Urza's Bauble
$5.38
12.99 tix
- 1 Aether Spellbomb
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Vexing Bauble
$2.15
5.72 tix
- 4 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
Lands (10)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.07 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.40
0.04 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Vexing Bauble
$2.15
5.72 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (21)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 2 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (20)
- 3 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Commercial District$6.88 1.18 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 2 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (4)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (23)
- 2 Aether Hub$0.27 0.03 tix
- 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
- 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 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Athreos, God of Passage
$14.63
0.02 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Fear, Fire, Foes!
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 4 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tainted Remedy
$7.32
0.03 tix
- 2 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
