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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: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
- 2 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix - 3 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.50
0.56 tix - 1 Knight of Autumn
$0.41
0.02 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 (5)
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
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Seeds of Innocence
$6.71
4.41 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.34
0.43 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix - 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
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 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 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 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 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 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
- 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
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
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
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (13)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (10)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.91 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$35.77
16.56 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
13.49 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.59 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.61 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
11.65 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.44 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
1.01 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.01
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (8)
Lands (18)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1810.00 0.12 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 2.89 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 2 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.20 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Fractured Sanity
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 1 Void Mirror
$0.34
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
- 1 Patchwork Automaton
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Revoker
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Crystalline Giant
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Foundry Inspector
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
$2.30
0.02 tix - 1 Lodestone Golem
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
$2.35
0.02 tix - 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.11 tix
- 1 Stonecoil Serpent
$0.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.27
1.35 tix
Artifacts (24)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.91 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
13.49 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.59 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.61 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
11.65 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.44 tix
- 1 Expedition Map
$1.49
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.68 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.01
0.02 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 1 Sphere of Resistance
$12.28
11.49 tix
- 1 Thorn of Amethyst
$0.56
0.02 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$21.02
0.02 tix
- 1 Nettlecyst
$3.03
0.02 tix
- 1 Serum Powder
$0.71
0.36 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.31
8.55 tix
- 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
$0.67
0.03 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.76 tix
Lands (24)
- 4 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Inventors' Fair$15.62 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Mishra's Workshop$3000.97 11.14 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 2.89 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Archive Trap
$1.04
0.37 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.98
4.76 tix
- 1 Lantern of the Lost
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
$0.59
0.02 tix - 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.67
3.54 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 1 Warping Wail
$0.41
0.03 tix - 1 Weathered Runestone
$0.28
0.03 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
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
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 2 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 Snapcaster Mage
$15.93
0.16 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 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
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 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: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Sorceries (23)
Instants (14)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 2 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.14 tix
- 1 Consign/Oblivion
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 2 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.01 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
$2.62
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.34
0.43 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Monastery Mentor
$0.48
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Ruination
$0.65
4.54 tix
- 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
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: 5 | Swiss: 1
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
- 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: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
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
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 2 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 2 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.39
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.06 tix
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.68
0.02 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 (1)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 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
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.67
0.06 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.38
0.06 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
