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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: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | 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
- 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: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (17)
- 1 Brain Freeze
$2.57
0.02 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 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 4 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
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Fury
$0.70
0.70 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.22
0.02 tix - 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 3 Shattering Spree
$0.93
0.22 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 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 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 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 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 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 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)
Sideboard
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.20 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.04 tix
- 2 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.25
0.02 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.12
2.43 tix
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 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
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Snuff Out
$5.90
10.06 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
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
- 3 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 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.70
0.70 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.67
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix - 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Court of Grace
$2.94
5.25 tix
- 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
$1.76
0.02 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.16
0.03 tix - 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.16 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Flame Slash
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 2 Unchained Berserker
$0.06
0.03 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Lands (21)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 3 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Hullbreacher
$1.73
8.35 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 Umezawa's Jitte
$2.85
0.09 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (1)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 2 Brotherhood's End
$1.12
2.43 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.67
8.00 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Unchained Berserker
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
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: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.16 tix
- 1 Collective Brutality
$0.35
0.07 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Instants (21)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Artifacts (11)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
49.65 tix
- 1 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 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 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.54
8.76 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.39 tix
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Cavern of Souls$48.92 0.52 tix
- 1 Karn, the Great Creator
$3.21
0.10 tix
- 2 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.85
0.03 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 2 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.67
3.66 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
- 2 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
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 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 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (13)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
49.65 tix
- 1 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
9.64 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 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
0.99 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.11
0.02 tix
Enchantments (1)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
- 1 Bontu's Last Reckoning
$0.53
0.02 tix
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.55 tix
- 3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 1 Portal to Phyrexia
$32.46
1.09 tix - 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.36 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.90
10.06 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Virtue's Ruin
$0.22
2.44 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
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: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 2 Brotherhood's End
$1.12
2.43 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 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
- 2 Unchained Berserker
$0.06
0.03 tix