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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: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (19)
- 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 - 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix - 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 3 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix - 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Fragmentize
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Fury$0.70 0.70 tix
- 1 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (21)
- 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 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 4 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 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
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 2 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.38 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Murktide Regent
$6.95
5.15 tix - 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.88
0.04 tix
- 2 Shattering Spree
$0.93
0.22 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
- 2 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 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 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (19)
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.50 0.02 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 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
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$16.58 2.65 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (13)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
49.65 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 (17)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (8)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (9)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
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
- 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 Marsh Flats$31.67 1.00 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 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 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 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 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: 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: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix
- 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 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 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
- 1 Unholy Heat
$0.29
0.01 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 1 Court of Grace
$2.94
5.25 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 From the Ashes
$3.33
1.82 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 3 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 2 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 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: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (10)
Lands (19)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (12)
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
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 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 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 2 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: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (12)
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
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 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 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 1 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 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: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 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 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 2 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
Artifacts (12)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
49.65 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 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 (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.76
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.76
0.02 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (14)
- 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 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.06 tix
- 2 Assassin's Trophy
$0.68
0.02 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.51
0.01 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Dress Down$0.37 0.80 tix
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.51
0.01 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (21)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
- 2 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.24
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
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (19)
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.50 0.02 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 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
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$16.58 2.65 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (22)
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 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
- 3 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Monastery Mentor
$0.49
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$113.82
9.25 tix
- 2 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
$80.38
6.36 tix
- 2 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
