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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: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (23)
- 3 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
- 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
- 3 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.38 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
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: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (18)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix - 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.04
0.48 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
8.91 tix - 1 Memory's Journey
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 4 Murktide Regent$7.33 6.28 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix - 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
$15.79
13.91 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 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
- 1 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dark Betrayal
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.58
9.34 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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.40
0.04 tix
- 3 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 3 Wall of Roots
$0.21
3.77 tix - 1 Endurance
$3.94
4.00 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 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
- 4 Young Wolf
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
Sorceries (4)
Instants (4)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (21)
- 2 Blooming Marsh$2.00 0.06 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 2 Shifting Woodland$4.37 0.03 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Twilight Mire$0.35 0.02 tix
- 2 Underground Mortuary$12.67 1.48 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.94
4.00 tix
- 3 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 The Meathook Massacre
$25.60
2.85 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
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: 1 | Swiss: 8
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
- 2 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: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (23)
- 1 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
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 1 Monumental Henge$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (23)
Lands (20)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.45 0.02 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 4 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 2 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (22)
- 1 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 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 2 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
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (23)
Lands (20)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 4 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 2 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
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
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 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: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (23)
- 2 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix - 2 Dark Ritual
$3.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Dark Ritual
$3.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.22
1.08 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 3 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 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
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 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
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (23)
- 1 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
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 1 Monumental Henge$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 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
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (3)
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: 3 | Swiss: 4
