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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,953 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 | 89 | 1.2 | 1399 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 57 | 1.4 | 539 | 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: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 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 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix - 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Stifle
$7.02
20.36 tix
- 1 Stifle
$7.02
20.36 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (1)
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
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Lands (20)
- 3 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 3 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 3 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
- 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
- 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
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Cursed Totem
$1.16
0.14 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 2 Liliana of the Veil
$4.85
0.69 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Molten Collapse
$0.34
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: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (21)
Lands (22)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea$4.94 0.02 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 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
- 1 Crypt Incursion
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 2 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.98
4.76 tix - 3 Extirpate
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Hibernation
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Long Goodbye
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (7)
Lands (21)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 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
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
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
- 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
- 2 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
- 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 (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 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
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.72
0.35 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.98
6.79 tix
- 1 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.18 tix
- 1 Pest Control
$6.45
2.21 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Sorceries (14)
Instants (21)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Firemind's Foresight
$0.21
0.02 tix - 3 Leyline of Sanctity
$0.31
0.10 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Shared Summons
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Trickbind
$9.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Wipe Away
$0.29
0.03 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (20)
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Misdirection
$5.84
8.87 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.39
0.04 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix - 4 Dark Ritual
$3.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.35
1.07 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.14 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 2 Cut Down
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 2 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.42 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.61
9.84 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (7)
Lands (21)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 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
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Sorceries (13)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (8)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 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
- 2 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: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Bonecrusher Giant
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.05 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 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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Lands (21)
- 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
- 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 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: 6
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: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (23)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (1)
Sideboard
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
$18.48
3.22 tix
- 2 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.14 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.14 tix
- 2 Echo of Eons
$9.41
8.33 tix
- 3 Goblin Charbelcher
$0.33
0.20 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
15.87 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
9.55 tix - 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
9.55 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
9.55 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
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 Lush Portico$4.48 0.46 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
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
