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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: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.26 4.93 tix
- 4 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 Lush Portico$4.48 0.46 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.61 7.12 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 2 Wall of Roots$0.21 3.90 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix - 1 Blood Artist
$1.86
0.02 tix
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Honest Rutstein
$0.44
0.03 tix - 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Wall of Roots
$0.21
3.90 tix
- 4 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
$26.85
1.91 tix - 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
$5.68
0.02 tix - 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
$0.38
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)
- 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
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 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
- 2 Twilight Mire$0.37 0.02 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 3 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (6)
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
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 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
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (23)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Demolition Field$0.28 0.02 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.26 4.93 tix
- 2 Emeria, the Sky Ruin$5.08 0.02 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Lush Portico$4.48 0.46 tix
- 7 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.38 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix - 1 Get Lost
$3.52
0.78 tix
- 2 Hallowed Moonlight
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Leyline of Sanctity
$0.31
0.10 tix
- 1 Leyline of Sanctity
$0.31
0.10 tix
- 4 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix - 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.38 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Temporary Lockdown
$0.32
0.13 tix
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.45
1.22 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (11)
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
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix - 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.72
0.35 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 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 Terminus
$0.30
0.02 tix - 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 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
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (33)
- 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
- 3 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
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
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
- 1 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
- 2 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
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: 2 | Swiss: 5
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
- 1 Blood Artist
$1.86
0.02 tix
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Honest Rutstein
$0.44
0.03 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 4 Wall of Roots
$0.21
3.90 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
- 4 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
$0.95
0.13 tix
- 4 Young Wolf
$0.17
0.03 tix
Lands (22)
- 3 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 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 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
- 2 Twilight Mire$0.37 0.02 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Lands (21)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Savai Triome$20.62 0.12 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
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 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
- 4 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
$26.85
1.91 tix
- 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 4 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
$0.95
0.13 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
- 2 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
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 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 Twilight Mire$0.37 0.02 tix
- 2 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
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: 5 | Swiss: 1
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
- 4 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
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 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: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Lands (21)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Savai Triome$20.62 0.12 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix