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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 (2)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Planeswalkers (7)
Lands (19)
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.50 0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (19)
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.50 0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (21)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix - 1 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix - 1 End the Festivities
$1.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Fall from Favor
$0.21
0.04 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (20)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 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 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.67
1.95 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: 3 | Swiss: 1
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
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$1.11
0.02 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 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
- 1 Cathar Commando
$0.16
0.01 tix - 1 Lion Sash
$2.36
0.02 tix
- 4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.20 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 3 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 3 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Extraction Specialist
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.37
0.18 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.54
5.00 tix - 2 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.34
2.21 tix
Lands (33)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.08 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.85
0.03 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 2 Path to Exile
$1.04
0.02 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.41 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.30 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (1)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (19)
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 2 Brain Freeze
$2.57
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.76
0.02 tix
- 3 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 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 4 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.71 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.25
0.02 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Instants (8)
Lands (18)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 7.68 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 4 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.05 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$16.58 2.65 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (8)
Lands (20)
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
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.33
0.43 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Monastery Mentor
$0.49
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Ruination
$0.59
4.54 tix
- 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
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
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
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: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
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
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.80 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Gaea's Blessing
$0.31
0.03 tix - 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1810.00 0.12 tix
- 1 Monastery Mentor
$0.49
0.02 tix
- 1 Murktide Regent
$6.95
5.15 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.67
0.06 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$18.71
6.79 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.33
0.06 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (19)
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.50 0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
