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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: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (21)
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
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 1 Coffin Purge
$0.23
0.21 tix
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.33
25.82 tix
- 2 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.60
1.18 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix - 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 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 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 3 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 3 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 1 Dark Betrayal
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix - 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.33
25.82 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
$0.39
0.58 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 2 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.18 tix
- 2 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
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 - 4 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 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)
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
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 1 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: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (22)
- 3 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
- 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
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.11 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.61 7.12 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix - 2 Consign to Memory
$3.33
25.82 tix
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
$9.68
0.36 tix
- 2 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix - 2 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.38 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.70
2.22 tix - 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.47
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (22)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.26 4.93 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 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
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.11 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.61 7.12 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Commandeer
$2.63
0.14 tix - 3 Consign to Memory
$3.33
25.82 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$9.68
0.36 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.70
2.22 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.61
0.18 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.43
0.27 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$2.19
5.43 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor
$5.62
7.90 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.39
0.04 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix - 3 Entomb
$10.79
0.10 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
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
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Soul Rend
$0.37
1.07 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
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
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 3 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
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)
Planeswalkers (2)
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
- 2 Mystic Gate$3.11 0.02 tix
- 2 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 Leyline of Sanctity
$0.31
0.10 tix
- 1 Leyline of Sanctity$0.31 0.10 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw$1.70 2.22 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$2.19
5.43 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (18)
Lands (22)
- 1 Cephalid Coliseum$0.24 0.03 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
- 3 Break the Ice
$0.27
0.06 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix
- 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
$12.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Flare of Malice
$1.56
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Despair
$6.34
3.79 tix
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.42 tix
- 2 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.49 tix
- 1 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.49 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (22)
- 1 Cephalid Coliseum$0.24 0.03 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.17 0.16 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
