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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: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix - 2 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 - 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: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
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 Maddening Hex
$2.12
0.39 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 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 - 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix - 2 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Eternal Witness
$0.70
0.03 tix
- 4 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: 1 | Swiss: 4
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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Archive Trap
$1.05
0.39 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.39 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Life from the Loam
$4.76
2.18 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.13
1.50 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
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
- 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 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
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
- 1 Archive Trap
$1.05
0.39 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 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 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.93
0.22 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
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
- 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 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.20
0.02 tix
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
- 1 Archive Trap
$1.05
0.39 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.17
0.25 tix
- 2 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 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.93
0.22 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: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
- 1 Vengevine
$5.70
1.64 tix
- 3 Vengevine
$5.70
1.64 tix
- 4 Hollow One
$0.31
0.10 tix - 4 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
$1.26
0.06 tix - 4 Stitcher's Supplier
$0.27
0.02 tix
- 2 Bloodghast
$0.75
0.02 tix
- 2 Bloodghast
$0.75
0.02 tix
- 4 Deathrite Shaman
$4.98
0.73 tix
- 2 Basking Rootwalla
$0.13
0.01 tix
- 1 Basking Rootwalla
$0.13
0.01 tix
- 1 Basking Rootwalla
$0.13
0.01 tix
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
- 3 Bayou$226.24 7.47 tix
- 4 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.05 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.73 0.02 tix
- 1 Gaea's Cradle$310.45 14.75 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 4 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.82
3.10 tix
- 1 Eaten Alive
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.92
4.00 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Life from the Loam
$4.76
2.18 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.52
0.04 tix
- 3 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 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
- 1 Unholy Heat
$0.29
0.01 tix
Final: 1 | 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
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 1 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Instants (7)
Lands (34)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$48.50 9.94 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.71 0.22 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$30.08 0.03 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$22.60 11.63 tix
- 4 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.87 1.04 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.47 3.04 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.47 3.04 tix
- 2 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.43 tix
- 2 Taiga$200.00 3.35 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.00 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Urza's Saga$35.61 13.14 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.21 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$11.22 0.83 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$16.58 2.65 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (14)
Artifacts (27)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (16)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 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
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.17 tix
Sideboard
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.35
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.42
20.20 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.38 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.17
0.81 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.90 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
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.35
5.78 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
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 (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
- 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: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (16)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.49 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$36.41 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.88 4.16 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
