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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: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (3)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
- 4 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 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix - 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix - 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Court of Grace
$2.94
5.25 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
- 1 Seeds of Innocence
$6.64
4.41 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.12
2.43 tix - 1 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 2 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
$1.96
0.40 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (21)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Spara's Headquarters$13.36 0.23 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
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.12
2.43 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 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 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 4 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.34 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (29)
- 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
- 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
- 3 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
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.17 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence$1.05 0.02 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.04
0.02 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 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tower of the Magistrate$1.75 2.18 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
- 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
- 3 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 Lightning Bolt
$0.76
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 Consider
$0.25
0.01 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 2 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)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 By Force
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (18)
- 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
- 2 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 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
0.99 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.11
0.02 tix
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 2 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Karn, Scion of Urza
$3.98
0.02 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.71
0.02 tix - 3 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.25
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Outland Liberator
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 3 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.55
0.02 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
$5.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Questing Beast
$2.50
0.25 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 1 Undermountain Adventurer
$0.43
3.79 tix
- 4 Fiend Artisan
$4.23
0.36 tix - 2 Ignoble Hierarch
$0.96
0.09 tix
- 3 Noble Hierarch
$10.53
0.20 tix
- 3 Esper Sentinel
$54.58
1.30 tix
Lands (23)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Gaea's Cradle$310.45 14.75 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Nurturing Peatland$6.65 1.23 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.06 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaea's Blessing
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
$0.39
0.55 tix
- 1 Knight of Autumn
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 2 Path to Exile
$1.04
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
- 1 Cavern of Souls$48.92 0.52 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.67 1.00 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.34 0.01 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 1 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 3 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 2 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 3 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.85
0.03 tix
- 1 Mother of Runes
$8.34
2.21 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.04 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.13 3.48 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.87 tix
- 3 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Batterskull
$3.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.12
2.43 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.30 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (5)
Artifacts (7)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (21)
- 3 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 2 Copperline Gorge$0.58 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.47 0.02 tix
- 2 Stomping Ground$7.32 0.03 tix
- 1 Tranquil Thicket$0.09 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$16.58 2.65 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.30
0.26 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyrite Spellbomb
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.69
1.60 tix
- 1 Trail of Crumbs
$0.37
0.03 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
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
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 Thassa's Oracle
$21.04
0.10 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (20)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Artifacts (23)
- 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 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadowspear
$18.15
0.52 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.04
0.03 tix
- 4 Sphere of Resistance
$12.28
12.57 tix
- 1 Thorn of Amethyst
$0.56
0.02 tix
- 4 Nettlecyst
$2.98
0.02 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.54
8.76 tix
- 1 Fleetwheel Cruiser
$0.27
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.39 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (7)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.76
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (12)
Lands (21)
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.34 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
