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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,954 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 | 1399 | 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: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.00 0.57 tix
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.26 4.93 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 2 Mystic Gate$3.11 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.61 7.12 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.24 0.09 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix - 2 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix - 3 Drannith Magistrate
$9.68
0.36 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix - 2 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.38 tix - 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.70
2.22 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$2.19
5.43 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 3 Marionette Apprentice
$0.68
0.03 tix
- 2 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix - 3 Prosperous Innkeeper
$0.20
0.03 tix - 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Eternal Witness
$0.70
0.03 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.85
0.37 tix
- 1 Woe Strider
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 4 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
$26.85
1.91 tix
- 1 Geralf's Messenger
$3.39
0.02 tix
- 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 4 Young Wolf
$0.17
0.03 tix
Instants (3)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (21)
- 2 Blooming Marsh$2.01 0.06 tix
- 1 Blooming Marsh$2.01 0.06 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Pendelhaven$2.31 1.25 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Twilight Mire$0.37 0.02 tix
- 2 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Accursed Marauder
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.49 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (14)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.73 1.75 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.24 0.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 1 Dark Betrayal
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.60
1.18 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
$15.66
13.55 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (30)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Deeps$0.76 0.02 tix
- 2 Flagstones of Trokair$4.11 0.09 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.48 0.46 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara$30.30 16.68 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.82 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 2 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.72
0.35 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.03
0.02 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.03
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 3 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.31 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$24.66 0.71 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Brainsurge
$0.35
0.03 tix
- 4 Galvanic Discharge
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.43
0.27 tix
- 3 Tune the Narrative
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 3 Orim's Chant
$5.36
0.28 tix
Artifacts (5)
Lands (22)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.00 0.57 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Cascade Bluffs$0.32 0.02 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.26 4.93 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 1 Monumental Henge$0.39 0.02 tix
- 2 Mystic Gate$3.11 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.61 7.12 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.33
25.82 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.70
2.22 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.47
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$2.19
5.43 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.06 tix
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.33
25.82 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.60
1.18 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 3 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.18 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
