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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,954 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 | 85 | 1.2 | 1400 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 53 | 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: 5
Main Deck
Sorceries (9)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.50 0.02 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
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix - 2 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix - 4 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix - 2 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Portal to Phyrexia
$32.46
1.09 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 Tinker
$1.02
2.44 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (19)
- 1 Brain Freeze
$2.57
0.02 tix
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix - 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 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 Consider
$0.25
0.01 tix
- 3 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 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
Enchantments (2)
Lands (17)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 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 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
Sideboard
- 1 By Force
$0.28
0.03 tix - 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.76
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.33
0.06 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (11)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$59.21
6.07 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.45
2.57 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
6.13 tix
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.20 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.63 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.39 tix
- 1 Tinker
$1.02
2.44 tix
- 1 Treasure Cruise
$0.26
0.01 tix - 1 Thoughtseize
$6.69
1.60 tix
- 1 Preordain
$0.51
0.01 tix
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
$3.50
0.01 tix
Instants (10)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
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 (14)
- 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 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 (16)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 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
- 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 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
$0.59
0.02 tix - 1 Meddling Mage
$2.32
0.39 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Portal to Phyrexia
$32.46
1.09 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Vanishing Verse
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Virtue's Ruin
$0.22
2.44 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (22)
- 2 Darkslick Shores$2.03 0.03 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.18 0.03 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 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 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.44 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (22)
- 1 Darkslick Shores$2.03 0.03 tix
- 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
- 1 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
- 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
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.45
1.15 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (30)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 4 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 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 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Turn the Earth
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Artifacts (12)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (34)
- 3 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 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.47 3.04 tix
- 2 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.43 tix
- 2 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 1 The Mycosynth Gardens$0.36 0.25 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: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast$1.29 14.72 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 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: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 4 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.90
10.06 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 1 Court of Cunning
$4.06
1.86 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.04 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Ratchet Bomb
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Sorceries (8)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.50 0.02 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
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 4 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.51
0.01 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Portal to Phyrexia
$32.46
1.09 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Tinker
$1.02
2.44 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (27)
- 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
- 3 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
- 3 Grim Monolith
$30.19
8.93 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.54
8.76 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.11
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 2 The Mightstone and Weakstone
$4.29
0.02 tix
- 4 Coveted Jewel
$0.27
4.93 tix
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 2 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$6.02
4.76 tix
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.71
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 2 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.90
0.11 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (22)
- 1 Darkslick Shores$2.03 0.03 tix
- 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
- 1 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
- 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
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.45
1.15 tix