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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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (29)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.71 0.22 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 2 Flagstones of Trokair$4.04 0.12 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.87 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
- 3 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.17 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix - 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix - 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix - 1 Hall of Gemstone
$4.49
2.16 tix
- 2 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
$1.96
0.40 tix - 1 Path to Exile
$1.04
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tower of the Magistrate$1.75 2.18 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
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: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (13)
Artifacts (28)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.08 tix
- 1 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 tix - 2 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 tix - 2 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Silence
$7.03
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (1)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.67 1.00 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 3 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.16 tix
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
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
- 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 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: 2 | Swiss: 2
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
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (20)
- 2 Daze
$0.90
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 - 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
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
- 2 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 2 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)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (15)
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 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
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.06 tix
- 2 Assassin's Trophy
$0.68
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 (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 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
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Grove$0.60 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Court of Cunning
$4.06
1.86 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.16
0.03 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 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
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 3 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
- 1 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: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (29)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.71 0.22 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 2 Flagstones of Trokair$4.04 0.12 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.87 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
- 3 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.17 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Hall of Gemstone
$4.49
2.16 tix
- 2 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes
$1.96
0.40 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.04
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tower of the Magistrate$1.75 2.18 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 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 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
