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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: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (34)
- 2 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Blast Zone$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 2 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$22.66 11.94 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.48 0.46 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara$30.30 16.68 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Lands (18)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 3 Spirebluff Canal$5.06 0.62 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.61 7.12 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix - 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.05 tix - 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.78
0.45 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.33
25.82 tix - 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix - 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Annul
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.05 tix
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.78
0.45 tix
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.33
25.82 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 3 Harsh Mentor
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
$2.26
0.68 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
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
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 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: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (11)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix
- 3 Harsh Mentor
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.30
0.02 tix - 2 Magebane Lizard
$0.42
1.94 tix
- 1 Magebane Lizard$0.42 1.94 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.31 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 2 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.08
0.03 tix - 1 Break the Ice
$0.27
0.06 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.76 tix
- 1 Cursed Totem
$1.16
0.14 tix
- 1 Damnation
$15.31
0.09 tix
- 3 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 2 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Nethergoyf
$3.60
2.78 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: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
- 3 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 (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (21)
Lands (21)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 4 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 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 3 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Back to Basics
$3.52
12.48 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix - 1 Consign to Memory
$3.33
25.82 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix - 2 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: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
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
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 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
