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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: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
- 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 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix - 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flame Blitz
$0.10
0.03 tix - 1 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
- 2 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
$1.73
0.44 tix
- 1 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: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (24)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$30.08 0.03 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.08 1.80 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 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
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
- 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 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flame Blitz
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 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 Path of Peril
$0.31
0.25 tix
- 1 Sudden Edict
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 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: 5 | Swiss: 4
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
- 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 Steam Vents$11.82 0.18 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix - 1 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 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
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (22)
- 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 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
- 4 Consider
$0.25
0.01 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix - 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.22
0.02 tix - 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 3 Shattering Spree
$0.93
0.22 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
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix - 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.25
4.90 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
- 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 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flame Blitz
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 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 Path of Peril
$0.31
0.25 tix
- 1 Sudden Edict
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 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: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (22)
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
- 2 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 3 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 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
- 1 The Stone Brain
$0.45
1.15 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (12)
Lands (19)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.80 0.02 tix
- 3 Blood Crypt$9.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.67 1.00 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.67 1.00 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse$35.46 0.02 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.62 0.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.62 0.01 tix
- 2 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 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
$1.73
0.44 tix
- 2 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: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
- 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 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flame Blitz
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
$1.73
0.44 tix
- 1 Path of Peril
$0.31
0.25 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix - 1 Outland Liberator
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Scryb Ranger
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Knight of Autumn
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.55
0.02 tix
- 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
$5.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Questing Beast
$2.50
0.25 tix
- 2 White Plume Adventurer
$2.53
5.55 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 3 Noble Hierarch
$10.53
0.20 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.34
2.21 tix
Sorceries (7)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (23)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 1 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 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.06 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 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
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 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 Life from the Loam
$4.76
2.18 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
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$6.02
4.76 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.04
0.02 tix
- 2 Fury
$0.70
0.70 tix
- 1 Grindstone
$3.03
1.50 tix
- 1 Karn, the Great Creator
$3.21
0.10 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Portable Hole
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 1 Twinshot Sniper
$0.27
0.03 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
- 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 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flame Blitz
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 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 Path of Peril
$0.31
0.25 tix
- 1 Sudden Edict
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix