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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: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (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 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
- 2 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix - 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix - 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix - 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix - 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
- 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
- 2 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
- 2 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (4)
Lands (28)
- 3 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Gaea's Cradle$310.45 15.19 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Talon Gates of Madara$28.54 16.81 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.67 1.48 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
- 1 Goblin Cratermaker
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Goblin Piledriver
$3.28
0.17 tix
- 1 Mogg War Marshal
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Rundvelt Hordemaster
$1.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Stingscourger
$0.04
0.03 tix
- 2 Goblin Warchief
$1.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 tix
- 4 Broadside Bombardiers
$3.92
9.49 tix
- 4 Goblin Matron
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Pashalik Mons
$2.15
0.02 tix
- 2 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Goblin Ringleader
$0.55
0.03 tix
- 1 Muxus, Goblin Grandee
$12.90
4.46 tix - 3 Munitions Expert
$0.27
0.02 tix
- 4 Goblin Lackey
$11.18
1.70 tix
- 1 Skirk Prospector
$0.30
0.03 tix
Sorceries (1)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 1 Earwig Squad
$0.48
0.02 tix
- 1 Goblin Trashmaster
$6.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Pyrokinesis
$1.59
7.84 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 1 Sudden Edict
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (2)
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: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (23)
- 3 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
- 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 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Chained to the Rocks
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 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 Magebane Lizard
$0.42
1.88 tix
- 1 Mizzium Mortars
$0.47
0.02 tix
- 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.49
7.97 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Suncleanser
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Sunspine Lynx
$1.92
0.13 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (22)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix - 3 Entomb
$11.46
0.10 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
- 1 Flash
$1.75
0.55 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix - 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
$2.43
9.92 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (22)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
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
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Emperor of Bones
$1.70
0.59 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 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: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (15)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 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 Purify the Grave
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Ruination
$0.65
4.54 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
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
- 2 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
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 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 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
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: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (24)
- 1 Cling to Dust$0.28 0.03 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 3 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Lands (19)
- 3 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 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
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | 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: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 4 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Graveyard Trespasser
$0.39
0.59 tix
- 1 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 3 Suncleanser
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
