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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
can be paid with either 
or 2 life.)
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: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Instants (7)
Artifacts (28)
- 1 Aetherflux Reservoir$20.59 0.02 tix
- 1 Manifold Key$1.27 0.03 tix
- 4 The One Ring$90.18 1.06 tix
- 4 Lotus Petal
$35.77
16.56 tix - 4 Mishra's Bauble
$1.61
0.02 tix
- 4 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.42 tix
- 4 Urza's Bauble
$5.39
14.06 tix
- 1 Pyrite Spellbomb
$0.15
0.03 tix - 4 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.68 tix - 1 Paradox Engine
$6.39
0.07 tix
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 4 Force of Negation$50.02 19.57 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite$0.41 0.03 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix - 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix - 1 Ravenform$0.15 0.03 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix - 1 Snapback
$0.43
0.03 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern$0.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Spatial Contortion
$0.18
0.03 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (11)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (28)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raffine's Tower$14.09 0.20 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix - 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (14)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Massacre
$0.51
1.01 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Artifacts (12)
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 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.34 0.20 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 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.48 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
- 2 Choke
$0.65
0.82 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 4 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix - 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 3 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 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
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.24 0.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 3 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
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.37 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
$2.04
0.40 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
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Fatal Push$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Force of Negation$50.02 19.57 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Palantír of Orthanc
$21.83
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (10)
Lands (28)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.24 0.09 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad$0.29 0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (28)
- 1 The One Ring$90.18 1.06 tix
- 4 Lotus Petal
$35.77
16.56 tix
- 4 Mishra's Bauble
$1.61
0.02 tix
- 4 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.42 tix
- 4 Urza's Bauble
$5.39
14.06 tix
- 1 Manifold Key
$1.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyrite Spellbomb
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 4 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.68 tix
- 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
$20.59
0.02 tix - 3 The One Ring
$90.18
1.06 tix
- 1 Paradox Engine
$6.39
0.07 tix
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 4 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Ravenform
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 3 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 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
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.24 0.09 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 3 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 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
- 2 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
- 4 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 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
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (11)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (28)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raffine's Tower$14.09 0.20 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 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 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 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 Palantír of Orthanc
$21.83
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
