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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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (22)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$50.49 0.53 tix
- 1 Commercial District$6.88 1.18 tix
- 4 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 3 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 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
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (12)
Artifacts (29)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix - 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix - 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix - 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Long Goodbye
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$31.45
24.65 tix
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.48
0.53 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.58
9.34 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Threads of Disloyalty
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (23)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Sorceries (6)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (14)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.31 0.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (21)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (21)
- 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 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.52 0.46 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.37 0.02 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.31 0.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
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
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.06 0.15 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 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: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.48
0.53 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 3 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 4 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.07
0.66 tix
- 1 Siphon Insight
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Meathook Massacre
$25.60
2.85 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Instants (18)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (7)
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 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix - 1 Chained to the Rocks
$0.33
0.02 tix - 1 Fear, Fire, Foes!$0.23 0.03 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix - 3 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Static Prison
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 2 Suncleanser
$0.41
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: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (3)
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
- 3 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 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
Sideboard
- 1 Chained to the Rocks
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 2 Fear, Fire, Foes!
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Magebane Lizard
$0.42
1.88 tix
- 4 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 2 Orim's Chant
$5.08
0.23 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The One Ring
$90.29
1.06 tix
- 1 Thraben Charm
$0.31
0.03 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Long Goodbye$0.21 0.02 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$31.45
24.65 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.58
9.34 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Threads of Disloyalty
$0.24
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
$5.43
7.22 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$19.41
6.79 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
