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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: 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
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: 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: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (22)
Lands (22)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea$4.94 0.02 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 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
- 2 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 4 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Damnation
$15.31
0.09 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Eliminate
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.98
4.76 tix - 3 Extirpate
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 3 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 7.74 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 4 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.03 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Planeswalkers (7)
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
- 1 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 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: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (15)
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix - 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.06 tix - 2 Assassin's Trophy
$0.68
0.02 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (20)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 3 Crop Rotation
$3.42
2.13 tix
- 1 Dress Down$0.37 0.52 tix
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Ipnu Rivulet$0.29 0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Instants (8)
Lands (18)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 7.74 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 3 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.03 tix
- 1 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.03 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (27)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
- 2 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.14 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 1 Karn, the Great Creator
$3.21
0.10 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Malevolent Hermit
$1.50
0.02 tix
- 2 Monastery Mentor
$0.48
0.02 tix - 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Court of Ire
$0.35
1.22 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 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: 7
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
- 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
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (9)
Lands (26)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 4 Gemstone Mine$2.15 8.87 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Mana Confluence$33.04 0.44 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$57.90 0.03 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 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
- 1 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
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
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
- 1 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
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (33)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 2 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.83 0.93 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 3 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.48 tix
- 2 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (17)
- 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 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
$2.89
0.27 tix
- 2 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 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 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.98
4.76 tix
- 4 Fury
$0.69
0.70 tix
- 1 Grindstone
$3.02
1.29 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
9.55 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Painter's Servant
$32.62
0.02 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 1 Twinshot Sniper
$0.27
0.03 tix
