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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 $1.35.
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: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix - 2 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Painful Truths
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.67
1.95 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (11)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Palantír of Orthanc
$21.79
0.02 tix - 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (28)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.71 0.22 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 2 Flagstones of Trokair$4.04 0.12 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.06 tix
- 2 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.17 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix - 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
Artifacts (12)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
49.65 tix - 1 Mana Crypt
$40.23
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
13.49 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
21.35 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.29 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
10.71 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
29.98 tix
- 1 Manifold Key
$1.33
0.03 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
0.99 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.11
0.02 tix
Lands (17)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.73
8.35 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Portal to Phyrexia
$32.46
1.09 tix - 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (20)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Instants (5)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Memory's Journey
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.76
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (10)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
49.65 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
13.49 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
21.35 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.29 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
10.71 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
29.98 tix
- 1 Manifold Key
$1.33
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
0.99 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
Enchantments (7)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 3 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.51
0.01 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (7)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (28)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 2 Dark Depths$1.71 0.22 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 2 Flagstones of Trokair$4.04 0.12 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.47 3.04 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.87 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 2 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$11.22 0.83 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.17 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$22.60 11.63 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tower of the Magistrate$1.75 2.18 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (28)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (1)
Sorceries (17)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (19)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (6)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (30)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.08 1.80 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.06 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$47.86
7.19 tix
- 1 Lion Sash
$2.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.20 tix
- 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 3 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Loran of the Third Path
$3.82
0.13 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.37
0.18 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.54
5.00 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.34
2.21 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.34
2.21 tix
Sorceries (4)
Lands (33)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.13 3.48 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.28 0.15 tix
- 1 Field of Ruin$0.18 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 4 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.67 1.00 tix
- 5 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.87 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 3 Scrubland$215.00 4.06 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.06 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 1 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Battle of Bywater
$2.80
0.02 tix
- 1 The Battle of Bywater
$2.80
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad$0.29 0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (14)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
$8.71
0.49 tix - 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (12)
Planeswalkers (6)
Lands (22)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.06 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Seeds of Innocence
$6.64
4.41 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
