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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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or 2 life.)
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: 6 | Swiss: 2
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: 5
Main Deck
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
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
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 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 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$31.45
24.65 tix
- 2 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: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (2)
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 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 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: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (12)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.90 tix
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 2 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 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: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 2 Hullbreacher
$1.64
7.75 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 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 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$31.45
24.65 tix
- 2 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: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (6)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (24)
- 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
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 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
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 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: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (23)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 3 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 Sacred Foundry$9.69 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
- 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 Mountain$0.06 0.01 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
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 2 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (23)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
- 4 Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 4 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
$8.30
9.33 tix
- 2 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.76
0.51 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.86
0.37 tix
- 4 Grief
$2.93
0.22 tix
- 1 Solitude
$33.72
5.00 tix
- 4 Psychic Frog
$4.70
5.05 tix
- 4 Guide of Souls
$2.67
1.63 tix
- 3 Mockingbird
$3.28
0.26 tix
Instants (8)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
