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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: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (24)
- 2 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix - 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.39
0.04 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix - 2 Dark Ritual
$3.35
0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 3 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Thought Scour
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix - 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Gaea's Blessing
$0.31
0.03 tix - 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.36 tix
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse$80.38 6.36 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 3 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Virtue's Ruin
$0.22
2.44 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Sorceries (7)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (10)
Lands (18)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.76
0.02 tix - 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.76
0.02 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix - 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix - 2 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.59
0.18 tix
- 1 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Fleshgorger
$1.60
0.02 tix - 1 Sudden Edict
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (12)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Baleful Strix
$0.95
0.28 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Court of Cunning
$4.06
1.86 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.73
8.35 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.67 1.00 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
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 3 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
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
- 2 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 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: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
- 3 Golgari Thug
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 4 Shambling Shell
$0.12
0.01 tix
- 4 Narcomoeba
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 4 Prized Amalgam
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 4 Silversmote Ghoul
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 3 Stinkweed Imp
$1.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Stinkweed Imp
$1.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Grief
$2.98
0.22 tix
- 3 Grief
$2.98
0.22 tix
- 4 Ichorid
$0.61
0.26 tix
- 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
$0.93
0.02 tix
- 4 Hollow One
$0.31
0.10 tix
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Sideboard
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.39 tix
- 1 Contagion
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (20)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (13)
Lands (20)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.80 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.45 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.81 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.82 0.31 tix
- 1 Graven Cairns$1.94 0.02 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.67 1.00 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 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 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.13 0.03 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.59
0.18 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 2 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
$1.73
0.44 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (6)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 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 Steam Vents$11.82 0.18 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.12
2.43 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.67
1.95 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 True-Name Nemesis
$2.71
0.57 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Artifacts (12)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
49.65 tix - 2 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 Trinisphere
$29.54
8.76 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.39 tix
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Empty-Shrine Kannushi
$0.08
0.03 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.85
0.03 tix
- 3 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (20)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 3 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 3 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Legion's End
$0.13
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.33
0.06 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.33
0.06 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
