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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,955 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 | 1.2 | 1398 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 61 | 1.4 | 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 (4)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (10)
Planeswalkers (8)
Lands (24)
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 4 Dwarven Mine$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Jetmir's Garden$16.08 0.17 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Savai Triome$20.65 0.11 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.31 0.09 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix - 1 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix - 1 High Noon
$4.42
13.34 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix - 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Silence
$7.07
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (13)
Lands (33)
- 2 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 2 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Riftstone Portal$2.69 0.04 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tranquil Thicket$0.09 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (1)
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
- 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
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 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 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix - 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Lands (18)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 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 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 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 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 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
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (22)
- 4 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 3 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 4 Delighted Halfling$26.56 0.09 tix
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters$44.78 6.90 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.40
0.04 tix
- 1 Blood Artist
$2.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix - 2 Wall of Roots
$0.21
3.77 tix
- 1 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 Young Wolf
$0.17
0.03 tix
Sorceries (4)
Instants (3)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (21)
- 2 Blooming Marsh$2.00 0.06 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 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
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.94
4.00 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 1 The Meathook Massacre
$25.60
2.85 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (22)
- 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
- 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
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Chained to the Rocks
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix - 2 Suncleanser
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The One Ring
$90.29
1.06 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Lands (17)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 4 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Feed the Swarm
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.33
0.02 tix - 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix - 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (34)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 2 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.77 0.02 tix
- 2 Flagstones of Trokair$4.10 0.06 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.52 0.46 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 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
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Dark Betrayal
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 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: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (6)
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 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
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (4)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
- 3 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
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
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 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 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
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (4)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
- 1 Aether Hub$0.27 0.03 tix
- 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
- 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
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 2 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Kutzil's Flanker
$0.46
0.02 tix
- 1 Magebane Lizard
$0.42
1.88 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 4 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 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 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Chained to the Rocks
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Suncleanser
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The One Ring
$90.29
1.06 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Lands (18)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 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 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 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 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 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
