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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 | 87 | 1.2 | 1401 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 55 | 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
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (13)
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
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 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
- 3 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (10)
Planeswalkers (2)
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 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 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 Xander's Lounge$13.24 0.09 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix - 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix - 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 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: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower— —
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.67
8.35 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.05 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix - 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (14)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 2 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (22)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 4 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
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Crypt Incursion
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Cursed Totem
$1.16
0.14 tix
- 1 Eliminate
$0.16
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
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Sorceries (4)
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
- 2 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 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 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 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
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (2)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (22)
- 2 Emeria, the Sky Ruin$5.08 0.02 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 1 Mistveil Plains$0.25 0.03 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Spara's Headquarters$13.50 0.26 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (21)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | 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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (29)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 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
- 4 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
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.15
0.02 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Hushbringer
$0.52
0.02 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Path to Exile
$1.03
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 2 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (7)
Planeswalkers (2)
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
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.24 0.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
