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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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or 2 life.)
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: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix - 2 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix - 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 3 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
- 2 Unchained Berserker
$0.06
0.03 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
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
- 1 Aven Mindcensor
$0.62
0.02 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
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 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 (6)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (23)
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 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 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
- 2 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
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.36 tix
- 3 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
- 4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 4 Anointed Peacekeeper
$0.31
0.13 tix
- 4 Archon of Emeria
$0.98
0.10 tix
- 1 Loran of the Third Path
$3.82
0.13 tix
- 4 White Plume Adventurer
$2.53
5.55 tix
- 4 Seasoned Dungeoneer
$5.21
11.33 tix
- 3 Solitude
$33.54
5.00 tix
- 1 Solitude
$33.54
5.00 tix
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
- 1 Aven Mindcensor
$0.62
0.02 tix
- 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
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
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: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (21)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Armageddon
$6.81
2.75 tix
- 2 End the Festivities
$1.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.30 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.88
0.43 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | 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
- 3 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 Liliana of the Veil
$4.84
0.71 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 2 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 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: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Court of Cunning
$4.06
1.86 tix
- 2 End the Festivities
$1.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Enlightened Tutor
$20.99
4.00 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.04
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 3 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.30 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.30 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
- 4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 4 Anointed Peacekeeper
$0.31
0.13 tix
- 4 Archon of Emeria
$0.98
0.10 tix
- 1 Loran of the Third Path
$3.82
0.13 tix
- 4 White Plume Adventurer
$2.53
5.55 tix
- 4 Seasoned Dungeoneer
$5.21
11.33 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.54
5.00 tix
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
- 1 Aven Mindcensor
$0.62
0.02 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
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (21)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 End the Festivities
$1.35
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
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
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
- 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
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.82 0.18 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.12
2.43 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.67
8.00 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (25)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
$1.96
0.40 tix - 1 Price of Progress
$4.67
1.95 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Run Afoul
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
$5.50
0.03 tix
