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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: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (17)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (27)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 3 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 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix - 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix - 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix - 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (22)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 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 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 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
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Sorceries (15)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Ruination
$0.59
4.54 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Ratchet Bomb
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (13)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Paradoxical Outcome
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix - 1 Dark Ritual
$3.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 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 (16)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
49.65 tix - 1 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$35.77
16.56 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 Opal
$234.22
16.74 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 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.68 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 (16)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 2.89 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
Sideboard
- 1 Archive Trap
$1.05
0.39 tix
- 1 Archon of Absolution
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.20 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
$0.59
0.02 tix - 1 Meddling Mage
$2.32
0.39 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.71
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.25
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (18)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.39
0.04 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 4 Dark Ritual
$3.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.34
0.87 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.08 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Murktide Regent
$6.95
5.15 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.90
10.06 tix
- 3 Subtlety
$15.67
8.00 tix
- 1 Subtlety$15.67 8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (22)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.18 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$27.08 1.80 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 2 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.62 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.44 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Crypt Incursion
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Eliminate
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 2 Ensnaring Bridge
$6.02
4.76 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$6.02
4.76 tix
- 3 Extirpate
$1.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (12)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 2 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 2 Fatal Push$0.42 0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
$1.73
0.44 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$47.86
7.19 tix
- 1 Lion Sash
$2.36
0.02 tix
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.20 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 3 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
$3.82
0.13 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.37
0.18 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.54
5.00 tix
- 4 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
- 6 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 4 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
- 1 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.08 tix
- 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
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 The Battle of Bywater
$2.80
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (24)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.81 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Golgari Rot Farm$0.25 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Nurturing Peatland$6.65 1.23 tix
- 3 Overgrown Tomb$9.47 0.02 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.01
1.22 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.31
0.02 tix - 1 Life Goes On
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.67
3.66 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Stone Brain$0.45 1.15 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
- 4 Orcish Bowmasters
$47.86
7.19 tix
- 1 Lion Sash
$2.36
0.02 tix
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.20 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 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 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
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.34
2.21 tix
Sorceries (4)
Lands (33)
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.13 3.48 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.28 0.15 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 3 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
- 2 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.43 tix
- 3 Scrubland$215.00 4.06 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 The Battle of Bywater
$2.80
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 2 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Palantír of Orthanc
$21.79
0.02 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (22)
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.18 0.03 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.18 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$27.08 1.80 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 2 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.62 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.44 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Crypt Incursion
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Eliminate
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$6.02
4.76 tix
- 2 Ensnaring Bridge
$6.02
4.76 tix
- 1 Extirpate
$1.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Extirpate
$1.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (22)
- 1 Snapback
$0.43
0.03 tix
- 4 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 4 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
- 2 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 4 Noxious Revival
$5.03
0.02 tix - 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
- 4 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Vengevine
$5.70
1.64 tix
- 1 Vengevine
$5.70
1.64 tix
- 2 Vengevine
$5.70
1.64 tix
- 4 Hollow One
$0.31
0.10 tix
- 3 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
$1.26
0.06 tix - 3 Bloodghast
$0.75
0.02 tix
- 3 Deathrite Shaman
$4.98
0.73 tix
- 4 Basking Rootwalla
$0.13
0.01 tix
- 3 Hexdrinker
$5.20
0.06 tix
- 4 Blazing Rootwalla
$0.21
0.02 tix
Artifacts (8)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Artifacts (12)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.16 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 3 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.70
0.70 tix
- 1 Loran of the Third Path
$3.82
0.13 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
$1.01
0.03 tix
