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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
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: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.33 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$24.99 0.68 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 4 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.29 0.14 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.67 1.48 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (22)
- 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 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
- 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: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.40
0.04 tix
- 4 Marionette Apprentice
$0.70
0.03 tix
- 2 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 tix
- 3 Prosperous Innkeeper
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.94
4.00 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 Geralf's Messenger
$3.39
0.02 tix
- 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$26.56
0.09 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$26.56
0.09 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$26.56
0.09 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$26.56
0.09 tix
- 4 Young Wolf
$0.17
0.03 tix
Instants (3)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (21)
- 2 Blooming Marsh$2.00 0.06 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Pendelhaven$2.31 1.25 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 Accursed Marauder
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
$11.98
0.02 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix - 1 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 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
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$24.99 0.68 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 4 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 1 Damnation
$15.33
0.09 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.58
0.18 tix - 2 Rakdos Charm
$0.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.46 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
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
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
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix - 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (12)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.37 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.87 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.00 tix
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.71
0.34 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harsh Mentor
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
$2.28
0.68 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (8)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 2 Commercial District$6.88 1.18 tix
- 4 Dwarven Mine$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground$9.95 0.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (12)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Barrowgoyf
$13.27
25.06 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 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: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
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
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 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
- 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
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
- 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
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 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
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.21 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
- 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
- 1 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 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
- 1 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Lands (18)
- 2 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (22)
- 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
- 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
- 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: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Enchantments (5)
Planeswalkers (3)
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
- 1 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
- 1 Sunbaked Canyon$3.49 2.01 tix
