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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 $1.33.
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: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Back to Basics
$3.52
13.01 tix - 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix - 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix - 1 Ruination
$0.65
4.54 tix - 1 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 2 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 2 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
$6.47
2.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.69
0.70 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Quicksilver Amulet
$2.02
0.02 tix - 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 4 Cephalid Illusionist
$1.11
2.85 tix
- 3 Narcomoeba
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 3 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.22
0.20 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 1 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix
- 4 Baleful Strix
$0.95
0.31 tix
- 1 Thassa's Oracle
$21.55
0.10 tix
- 1 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
- 4 Nomads en-Kor
$0.49
0.37 tix
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Lands (27)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.38 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Batterskull
$3.28
0.02 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 1 Sulfur Elemental
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (7)
Lands (28)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 3 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.49 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix - 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
$16.23
8.58 tix - 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 2 Sudden Demise
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 3 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 2 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Omniscience
$6.14
0.03 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Stifle
$7.02
20.36 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 2 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 2 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
- 1 Eternal Witness$0.70 0.03 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 3 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.50
0.56 tix
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
$5.52
0.02 tix
- 1 Primeval Titan
$4.32
0.17 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.62
1.16 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 4 Ice-Fang Coatl
$0.62
0.10 tix
- 1 Omnath, Locus of Creation
$4.12
0.75 tix
Sorceries (13)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (30)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.79 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.27
4.72 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.78
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (19)
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Archive Trap
$1.04
0.37 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.25
0.02 tix - 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 3 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
- 1 Lightning Bolt$0.78 0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (19)
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 4 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 2 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.67
8.35 tix
- 2 Run Afoul
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (24)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 2 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Powder Keg
$33.16
24.65 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (6)
Lands (21)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.99 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.49 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix