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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 (20)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Commercial District$6.84 0.96 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 4 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Angrath's Rampage
$0.30
0.03 tix - 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix - 1 Bonecrusher Giant
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix - 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix - 2 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 2 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
$0.98
0.03 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix - 4 Wall of Roots
$0.21
3.90 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.42 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
$26.85
1.91 tix
- 3 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
$26.85
1.91 tix
- 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 3 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Gilded Goose
$0.30
0.06 tix
- 4 Young Wolf
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Strangleroot Geist
$0.14
0.03 tix
Lands (22)
- 3 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
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Pendelhaven$2.31 1.25 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.17 0.16 tix
- 1 Twilight Mire$0.37 0.02 tix
- 2 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (23)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium$1.52 0.02 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 2 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.84
0.02 tix - 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Pest Control
$6.45
2.21 tix - 1 Pest Control
$6.45
2.21 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.43
0.27 tix
- 3 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.78
0.45 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
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
- 2 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 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 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 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
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 3 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.14
0.10 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
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 Force of Despair
$6.34
3.79 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.62
1.16 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Badlands$235.61 7.74 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 2 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tsabo's Web
$4.12
20.28 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Lands (20)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Godless Shrine$8.10 0.03 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.73 1.75 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.57 1.22 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.38 tix
- 1 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix - 2 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.47
0.10 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Temporary Lockdown
$0.32
0.13 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Angrath's Rampage
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Cursed Totem
$1.16
0.14 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 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: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Angrath's Rampage
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Cursed Totem
$1.16
0.14 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 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: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Artist
$1.86
0.02 tix
- 3 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Honest Rutstein
$0.44
0.03 tix
- 4 Wall of Roots
$0.21
3.90 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.42 tix
- 4 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
$26.85
1.91 tix
- 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 4 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Gilded Goose
$0.30
0.06 tix
- 4 Young Wolf
$0.17
0.03 tix
Lands (22)
- 2 Blooming Marsh$2.01 0.06 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Nurturing Peatland$6.65 1.30 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Pendelhaven$2.31 1.25 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.17 0.16 tix
- 1 Twilight Mire$0.37 0.02 tix
- 2 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Drana and Linvala
$6.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 2 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix - 1 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 3 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (13)
Lands (20)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 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: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
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 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.72
0.35 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Mawloc
$3.60
21.75 tix
- 2 Orim's Chant
$5.36
0.28 tix
- 1 Outland Liberator
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 2 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tsabo's Web
$4.12
20.28 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.78
0.45 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Lands (20)
- 3 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 4 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Cursed Totem
$1.16
0.14 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.70
2.22 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: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (1)
Artifacts (12)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Murktide Regent
$7.29
5.49 tix - 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.43
0.27 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
