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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: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 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 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.82 0.18 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (20)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 1 Price of Progress
$4.67
1.95 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Unchained Berserker
$0.06
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Instants (19)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (13)
Lands (20)
- 3 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.80 0.02 tix
- 3 Blood Crypt$9.45 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.81 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.81 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.82 0.31 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.43 0.15 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.39 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.59
0.18 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix - 2 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
$1.73
0.44 tix
- 1 Path of Peril
$0.31
0.25 tix
- 2 Raze the Effigy
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.36 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
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
- 1 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 4 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 Damnation
$15.31
0.08 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Eliminate
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
$20.49
3.25 tix - 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 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: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (20)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix - 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix - 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix - 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
Artifacts (7)
Lands (18)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.13 3.48 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.13 3.48 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.87 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.22
0.02 tix - 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 3 Shattering Spree
$0.93
0.22 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix - 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (18)
- 2 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
- 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
- 2 Minor Misstep
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (23)
- 2 Darkslick Shores$2.03 0.03 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.18 0.03 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.18 0.03 tix
- 3 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 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 4 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.62 0.01 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.44 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 1 Lion Sash
$2.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Remorseful Cleric
$0.19
0.02 tix
- 4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.37
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
- 1 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.34
2.21 tix
Artifacts (7)
Lands (33)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.08 tix
- 2 Empty-Shrine Kannushi
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.04
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.30 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Lands (23)
- 2 Darkslick Shores$2.03 0.03 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.18 0.03 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
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 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: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (1)
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
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.34 0.01 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 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
- 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
- 2 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.12
2.43 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.35
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
