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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: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix - 1 Lion Sash
$2.39
0.02 tix - 3 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 1 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 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 - 1 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Sorceries (4)
Instants (4)
Lands (33)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Cavern of Souls$50.28 0.52 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 3 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 3 Scrubland$215.00 4.38 tix
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet$9.57 1.22 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.78
0.45 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
- 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: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (7)
Lands (21)
- 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 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 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
- 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: 6 | Swiss: 5
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
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Nurturing Peatland$6.65 1.30 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 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 2 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 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.42 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 3 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$46.38
7.36 tix
- 1 Grief
$2.98
0.22 tix
- 3 Grief
$2.98
0.22 tix
- 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.42 tix
- 2 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 2 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
$2.31
0.62 tix
- 4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.38
8.30 tix
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Lands (20)
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 2 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.79 0.02 tix
- 4 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
- 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 3 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Annul
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.78
0.45 tix
- 3 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 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
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.27
4.72 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (8)
Lands (21)
- 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 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 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
- 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
- 2 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
$6.47
2.78 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.30
0.02 tix - 1 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 1 Nishoba Brawler
$0.19
0.03 tix - 3 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
—
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Reprieve
$1.37
0.15 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.27
4.72 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Lands (20)
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 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 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (28)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Commercial District$6.84 0.96 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.26 4.93 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Jetmir's Garden$16.88 0.17 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.22 0.15 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.38 0.02 tix
- 3 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle$10.05 0.02 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 (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: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (17)
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.49 0.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
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: 4
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
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Nurturing Peatland$6.65 1.30 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 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 2 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 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.42 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (4)
Lands (22)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 2 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
- 2 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 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.45
1.22 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
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 Cast into the Fire
$0.78
0.45 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 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 (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (11)
Lands (21)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.73 1.75 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$10.25 0.19 tix
- 1 Savai Triome$20.62 0.12 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 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
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (16)
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
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 1 Doorkeeper Thrull
$0.72
0.35 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 2 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 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 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
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
