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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: 8 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (5)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix - 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix - 2 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix - 1 Fury
$0.69
0.70 tix - 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
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
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (12)
Lands (21)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 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 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 3 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: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Artifacts (13)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Instants (17)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.73 1.75 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 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 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.18 tix
- 1 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.61
9.84 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 The Filigree Sylex
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Sorceries (14)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
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
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (11)
Lands (28)
- 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 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 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 2 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.72
0.35 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$22.66 11.94 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.03
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Baleful Strix
$0.95
0.31 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 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
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Harvester of Misery
$2.72
0.07 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Murktide Regent
$7.29
5.49 tix - 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (15)
Lands (29)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 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 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.61 7.12 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 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: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (29)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 2 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 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
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 2 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.72
0.35 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
$5.41
0.06 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (17)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (15)
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 4 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (11)
Lands (20)
- 3 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 4 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
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.17 0.16 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Angrath's Rampage
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
$2.31
0.62 tix
- 2 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 2 Liliana of the Veil
$4.85
0.69 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.73 1.75 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 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 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.18 tix
- 1 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.61
9.84 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 The Filigree Sylex
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Sorceries (16)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
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
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (4)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (12)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (33)
- 2 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.48 0.46 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 1 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 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
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 4 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 Harvester of Misery
$2.72
0.07 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Ratchet Bomb
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
