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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 | 93 | 1.2 | 1398 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 61 | 1.4 | 540 | 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: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
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
- 2 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: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 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 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 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
- 2 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 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
- 2 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
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.00 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 Harsh Mentor
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix - 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (25)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 2 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 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
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (24)
- 1 Feed the Cycle
$0.26
0.03 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
- 3 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.33 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$24.99 0.68 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 7 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
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (21)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 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
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadows' Verdict
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 1 Dark Betrayal
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 3 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.04
0.48 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Sire of Insanity
$0.52
0.02 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (5)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abiding Grace
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Celestial Purge$0.28 0.03 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.21 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.33 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$24.99 0.68 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.13 0.87 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 7 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.29 0.14 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
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 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 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
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 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: 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 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$44.78
6.90 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: 1
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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (21)
- 1 Feed the Cycle
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 3 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 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 3 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 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 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadows' Verdict
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
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 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
- 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
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
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: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (21)
- 1 Feed the Cycle
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 3 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 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 3 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 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 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadows' Verdict
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (12)
Planeswalkers (3)
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: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 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
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Molten Collapse
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 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
