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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: 1 | Swiss: 3
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 Honest Rutstein
$0.44
0.03 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 - 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
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: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$24.66 0.71 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Spymaster's Vault$0.88 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 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
- 2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$24.66 0.71 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Spymaster's Vault$0.88 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 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
- 2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (22)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix - 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.18 tix
- 1 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.62
1.16 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 2 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.18 tix
- 1 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (14)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$24.66 0.71 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Spymaster's Vault$0.88 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 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
- 2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
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 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 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 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 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: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (9)
Lands (20)
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.57 1.22 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 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 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (7)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Tower$24.66 0.71 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Spymaster's Vault$0.88 0.02 tix
- 5 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.17 0.16 tix
- 3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Anoint with Affliction
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 2 Break the Ice
$0.27
0.06 tix
- 4 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix
- 1 Disruptor Flute
$1.47
2.67 tix
- 1 Flare of Malice
$1.56
0.02 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.42 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 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 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 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 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 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: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.73 1.75 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 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
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
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 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Stifle
$7.02
20.36 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 4 Wrath of the Skies
$2.19
5.43 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Artifacts (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (32)
- 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 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Riftstone Portal$2.69 0.04 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
