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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,955 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
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 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.08
0.03 tix - 2 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix - 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Despair
$6.34
3.79 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
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
- 2 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Lands (22)
- 3 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 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
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.98 7.50 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 3 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix - 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 3 Lightning Bolt
$0.78
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.78
0.02 tix
- 1 Unholy Heat
$0.31
0.01 tix
- 4 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
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
- 4 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
- 1 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 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix - 1 Path to Exile
$1.03
0.02 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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (28)
- 3 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 4 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Echoing Deeps$0.76 0.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$12.89 1.51 tix
- 3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Assassin's Trophy
$0.68
0.02 tix
- 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Force of Despair
$6.34
3.79 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 2 Opposition Agent
$18.98
6.79 tix
- 1 Pick Your Poison
$0.31
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- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | 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 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
$1.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Serra Paragon
$0.51
0.20 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 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 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
- 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
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (9)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 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 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 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 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Ground Seal
$0.17
0.02 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Terminus
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 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
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.24 0.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
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 Lantern of the Lost
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Long Goodbye
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (15)
Lands (20)
- 4 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
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 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
- 3 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.76 tix
- 1 Commandeer
$2.63
0.14 tix - 1 Damn
$1.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
$20.51
3.23 tix - 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.38 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (18)
Lands (22)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 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
- 2 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 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
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (15)
Lands (20)
- 4 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
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$10.18 4.32 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 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
- 3 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.76 tix
- 1 Commandeer
$2.63
0.14 tix
- 1 Damn
$1.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
$20.51
3.23 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.38 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix