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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: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (19)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Armageddon
$6.81
2.75 tix - 2 End the Festivities
$1.35
0.03 tix - 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix - 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.30 tix - 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Umezawa's Jitte
$2.85
0.09 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Instants (7)
Lands (28)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$48.92 0.52 tix
- 4 Cloudpost$0.29 0.04 tix
- 1 Eye of Ugin$62.02 0.13 tix
- 5 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$22.60 11.63 tix
- 4 Glimmerpost$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.47 3.04 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 1 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Vesuva$2.12 0.02 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.17 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
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: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 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 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 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
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.53 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 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: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix - 4 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
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
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Misdirection
$5.84
8.87 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix - 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.06 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.94 2.46 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 12.10 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
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
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble— —
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
14.72 tix
- 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
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.30 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (15)
Lands (22)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.87 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Terminus
$0.30
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 9
Main Deck
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 2 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
- 3 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 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
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
- 1 Eternal Witness$0.70 0.03 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 3 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.52
0.60 tix
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
$5.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Primeval Titan
$4.45
0.14 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.65
1.16 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 4 Ice-Fang Coatl
$0.59
0.10 tix
- 1 Omnath, Locus of Creation
$4.13
0.75 tix
Sorceries (13)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (30)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$30.08 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.34 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
- 1 Ice-Fang Coatl$0.59 0.10 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.52
0.60 tix
- 2 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.52
0.60 tix
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
$5.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Primeval Titan
$4.45
0.14 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.65
1.16 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 1 Ice-Fang Coatl
$0.59
0.10 tix
- 2 Ice-Fang Coatl
$0.59
0.10 tix
- 1 Omnath, Locus of Creation
$4.13
0.75 tix
Sorceries (13)
Instants (14)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.50 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.76 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.00
0.04 tix
Enchantments (6)
Lands (30)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$30.08 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.34 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
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 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
- 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse$35.46 0.02 tix
- 3 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 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 Magus of the Moon
$4.18
1.20 tix
- 2 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyrite Spellbomb
$0.15
0.03 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: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
