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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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (14)
Lands (19)
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.08 1.80 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
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
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Sorceries (16)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.04
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 - 1 Monastery Mentor
$0.49
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Ruination
$0.59
4.54 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (19)
Lands (22)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.18 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 6 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 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 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.44 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
- 4 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix - 4 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
- 1 Basking Rootwalla
$0.13
0.01 tix
- 3 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
- 2 Archive Trap
$1.05
0.39 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 2 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
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: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (5)
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 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Knight of Infamy
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
$0.59
0.02 tix - 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.71
0.02 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.04
0.02 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
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
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 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
0.99 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$21.02
0.02 tix
Enchantments (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (16)
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)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (3)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
- 1 Cavern of Souls$48.92 0.52 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.34 0.01 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 3 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Grand Abolisher
$16.40
0.02 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 4 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 Thassa's Oracle
$21.04
0.10 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Sorceries (19)
Instants (18)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
$1.67
0.02 tix
- 1 Brain Freeze
$2.57
0.02 tix
- 1 Candelabra of Tawnos
$2275.12
16.09 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Mind's Desire
$0.91
0.02 tix
- 1 Pact of Negation
$17.36
0.25 tix
- 1 Rebuild
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Wipe Away
$0.29
0.03 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
Lands (16)
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 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 Sauron's Ransom
$0.62
0.02 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 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 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 1 Palantír of Orthanc
$21.79
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Instants (4)
Artifacts (13)
Lands (34)
- 2 Ancient Tomb$48.79 6.50 tix
- 1 Blast Zone$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.71 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.47 3.04 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.47 3.04 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.17 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (30)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 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
- 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
- 1 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.82 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 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 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Outland Liberator
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.04
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 3 Thoughtseize
$6.69
1.60 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Court of Cunning
$4.06
1.86 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
$47.86
7.19 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (33)
- 2 Ancient Tomb$48.79 6.50 tix
- 1 Blast Zone$0.33 0.02 tix
- 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 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.47 3.04 tix
- 1 Riftstone Portal$2.69 0.04 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$16.58 2.65 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.17 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 2 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.20
0.48 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.69
1.60 tix
Final: 1 | 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
- 3 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
- 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
- 4 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.67 1.00 tix
- 1 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
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
