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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: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (9)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (20)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (21)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.36 2.48 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$0.98 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.68 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.60 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix - 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix - 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.04
0.02 tix - 1 Field of the Dead$30.08 0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 tix - 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
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 Flusterstorm
$6.37
1.52 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 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
17.77 tix
- 1 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: 1 | Swiss: 8
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
- 1 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
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (1)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Seeds of Innocence
$6.64
4.41 tix
- 1 Smash to Dust
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
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
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 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 (3)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | 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
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
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 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
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
- 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 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: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (37)
- 4 Golgari Thug
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 4 Shambling Shell
$0.12
0.01 tix
- 1 Narcomoeba
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 3 Narcomoeba
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 4 Prized Amalgam
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 4 Silversmote Ghoul
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 4 Stinkweed Imp
$1.10
0.03 tix
- 4 Grief
$2.98
0.22 tix
- 1 Ichorid
$0.61
0.26 tix - 3 Ichorid
$0.61
0.26 tix
- 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
$0.93
0.02 tix
- 4 Hollow One
$0.31
0.10 tix
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Sideboard
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.39 tix
- 1 Contagion
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 2 Noxious Revival
$5.03
0.02 tix - 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.61
0.94 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
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.43 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.26 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
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 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: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Eternal Witness
$0.70
0.03 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
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (23)
- 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 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 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
