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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: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.04 7.28 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.06 0.62 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
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: 2 | Swiss: 2
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 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.08
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
- 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 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: 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
- 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: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
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
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 3 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
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Instants (7)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (34)
- 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
- 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: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (7)
Lands (21)
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 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
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
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: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 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
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.98
6.79 tix
- 1 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.18 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 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
- 2 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Delighted Halfling
$27.06
0.10 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 3 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 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 Soulless Jailer
$1.27
0.49 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 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: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 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
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Palantír of Orthanc
$21.83
0.02 tix - 2 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 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: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 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
- 2 Snuff Out
$5.61
9.84 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.04 7.28 tix
- 3 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.06 0.62 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
- 3 Blooming Marsh$2.01 0.06 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 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
- 1 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.03 tix
- 2 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (7)
Lands (21)
- 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
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (20)
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 2 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 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
- 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 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: 4 | 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
