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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 | 91 | 1.2 | 1401 | 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: 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: 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
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Angrath's Rampage
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 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
- 1 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 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: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (16)
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
- 3 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 2 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Sunbaked Canyon$3.52 2.05 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Angrath's Rampage
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 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
- 1 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 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: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (7)
Lands (23)
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Indatha Triome$17.67 6.79 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.61 7.12 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (11)
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
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 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
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
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: 7 | Swiss: 7
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
- 1 Spirebluff Canal$5.06 0.62 tix
- 1 Spirebluff Canal$5.06 0.62 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (13)
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
- 2 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
- 2 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
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.82 tix - 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix - 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 3 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.72
0.35 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.03
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
- 2 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 2 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 2 Badlands$235.61 7.74 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 3 Great Furnace$2.15 9.23 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
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: 5 | Swiss: 1
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
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.31 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.17 0.16 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
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: 4 | Swiss: 8
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
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.73 1.75 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 2 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 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.84
0.02 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: 1 | 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: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
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
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Commandeer
$2.63
0.14 tix - 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
$20.51
3.23 tix - 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix - 2 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 2 Supreme Verdict
$1.47
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (8)
Lands (22)
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Indatha Triome$17.67 6.79 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Raucous Theater$10.05 0.87 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.38 0.02 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
