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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: 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: 1 | 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: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (17)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Instants (4)
Artifacts (13)
Lands (34)
- 2 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Blast Zone$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 2 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
- 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 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.48 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Instants (7)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (35)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.79 0.03 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.83 0.93 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 3 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 2 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 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
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (12)
Lands (28)
- 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 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 3 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Lion Sash
$2.39
0.02 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
- 3 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Extraction Specialist
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Loran of the Third Path
$3.63
0.23 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.22
0.20 tix
- 1 Serra Paragon
$0.51
0.20 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix - 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
$12.66
32.50 tix - 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Sorceries (3)
Lands (33)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Cavern of Souls$50.28 0.52 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.34 0.20 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 4 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 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (10)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (21)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.38 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Chill
$0.62
11.94 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
$0.39
0.58 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Leyline Binding
$0.41
0.79 tix - 1 Moat
$872.56
1.05 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (24)
- 2 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: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (20)
- 3 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 4 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.31 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Cursed Totem
$1.16
0.14 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.58
0.18 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
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
- 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 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
- 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
- 2 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
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: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (2)
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
- 2 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
- 3 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
- 2 The Stone Brain
$0.45
1.22 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (5)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (23)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium$1.52 0.02 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.44 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 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 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Day's Undoing
$1.56
0.65 tix
- 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 - 2 Pest Control
$6.45
2.21 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.43
0.27 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.47
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
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
- 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
- 2 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
- 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
- 2 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
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: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Lion Sash
$2.39
0.02 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
- 3 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Extraction Specialist
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Loran of the Third Path
$3.63
0.23 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.22
0.20 tix
- 1 Serra Paragon
$0.51
0.20 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix
- 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
$12.66
32.50 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Sorceries (3)
Lands (33)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Cavern of Souls$50.28 0.52 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.34 0.20 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 4 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 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
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 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.61
9.84 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
