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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: 5 | Swiss: 1
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: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Lands (20)
- 3 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 3 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.31 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 3 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.17 0.16 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.05 tix
- 2 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.76 tix - 1 Cursed Totem
$1.16
0.14 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 1 Liliana of the Veil
$4.85
0.69 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 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: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (11)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Angrath's Rampage
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 3 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: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (11)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Angrath's Rampage
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 3 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: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (3)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 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
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 3 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (13)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (8)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 2 Commercial District$6.84 0.96 tix
- 4 Dwarven Mine$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (11)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Sorceries (13)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (8)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 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
- 2 Commercial District$6.84 0.96 tix
- 4 Dwarven Mine$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 4 Goblin Engineer
$9.93
0.02 tix
- 3 Broadside Bombardiers
$3.82
9.44 tix
- 1 Simian Spirit Guide
$2.57
0.01 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Dragon Engine
$0.95
0.02 tix - 1 Chaos Defiler
$7.28
90.29 tix
- 2 Fury
$0.69
0.70 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Devourer
$41.16
2.46 tix - 2 Goblin Welder
$22.01
5.04 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.27
1.35 tix
Instants (1)
Artifacts (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 2 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 2 Badlands$235.61 7.74 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 3 Great Furnace$2.15 9.23 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (19)
Instants (15)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (2)
Lands (22)
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.26 4.93 tix
- 2 Emeria, the Sky Ruin$5.08 0.02 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 1 Indatha Triome$17.67 6.79 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.38 0.02 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix - 2 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
$22.24
0.02 tix - 1 Get Lost
$3.52
0.78 tix
- 2 Hallowed Moonlight
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 2 Leyline of Sanctity
$0.31
0.10 tix
- 2 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.38 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Temporary Lockdown
$0.32
0.13 tix
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.45
1.22 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Sorceries (13)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (8)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 2 Commercial District$6.84 0.96 tix
- 4 Dwarven Mine$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
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
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix - 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 High Noon
$4.42
9.98 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix - 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (22)
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 4 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 3 Ephemerate
$4.26
2.51 tix
- 1 Orim's Chant
$5.36
0.28 tix
- 4 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.38 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (26)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 2 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.38 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Back to Basics
$3.52
12.48 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 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 Loran of the Third Path
$3.63
0.23 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Pest Control
$6.45
2.21 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Back to Basics
$3.52
12.48 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 3 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 2 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Lord of Change
$3.07
3.46 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
$2.71
0.73 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 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 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
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