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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: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (9)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 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
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 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: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix - 2 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 Cursed Totem
$1.16
0.14 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 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: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (35)
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Lion Sash
$2.39
0.02 tix - 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
$4.83
0.54 tix
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 2 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Boggart Trawler
$0.85
0.37 tix
- 1 Loran of the Third Path
$3.63
0.23 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.22
0.20 tix
- 1 Witch Enchanter
$3.31
1.00 tix - 4 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix
- 3 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
- 3 White Orchid Phantom
$0.26
0.08 tix
Sorceries (4)
Lands (31)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.34 0.20 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 3 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 5 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 3 Scrubland$215.00 4.38 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.57 1.22 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.57 1.22 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 2 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.03
0.02 tix
- 2 Sanctifier en-Vec
$0.31
0.17 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Wrath of the Skies
$2.19
5.43 tix - 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Artifacts (13)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (21)
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: 5 | Swiss: 1
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: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Annul
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 2 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.05 tix
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.78
0.45 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (22)
- 2 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.30
0.02 tix - 1 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 3 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
— - 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Stone of Erech
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Vexing Bauble
$2.25
6.25 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (8)
Sideboard
- 2 Break the Ice
$0.27
0.06 tix
- 1 Damnation
$15.31
0.09 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix
- 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
$20.51
3.23 tix - 2 Gemstone Caverns$52.14 0.90 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Ratchet Bomb
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Sickening Shoal
$13.02
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.38
0.06 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (3)
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
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 1 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 3 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (3)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.73 1.75 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 2 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 3 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 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
- 1 Vexing Bauble
$2.25
6.25 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
- 2 Nadu, Winged Wisdom
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 2 Nadu, Winged Wisdom
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.50
0.56 tix
- 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.50
0.56 tix
- 1 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 3 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 4 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Noble Hierarch
$10.44
0.20 tix
- 2 Nomads en-Kor
$0.49
0.37 tix
Sorceries (3)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (21)
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.79 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.73 1.75 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 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 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
Lands (22)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 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
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 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: 1
Main Deck
Sorceries (14)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
