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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: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (21)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix - 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix - 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix - 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix - 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Scroll of Fate
$0.27
0.64 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
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: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (27)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 5 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 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 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 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: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (12)
Artifacts (28)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
- 1 Aether Spellbomb
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.14 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 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 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.70
0.02 tix - 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 1 Silence
$7.07
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 3 Thrasta, Tempest's Roar
$0.59
0.02 tix - 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (13)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
- 4 Cephalid Illusionist
$1.11
2.85 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Baleful Strix
$0.95
0.31 tix
- 3 Baleful Strix
$0.95
0.31 tix
- 1 Thassa's Oracle
$21.55
0.10 tix
- 3 Esper Sentinel
$56.38
1.42 tix
- 4 Nomads en-Kor
$0.49
0.37 tix
Sorceries (7)
Instants (12)
Lands (27)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 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 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Cabal Therapy
$6.60
11.99 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.15
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Meddling Mage
$2.32
0.38 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (5)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
- 2 Cathar Commando
$0.16
0.01 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.15
0.02 tix
- 1 Lion Sash
$2.39
0.02 tix
- 4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 3 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 3 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.22
0.20 tix
- 1 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix
- 3 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix
- 1 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Lands (33)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (15)
- 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
- 3 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.42 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 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.68 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
1.01 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.01
0.02 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.23
0.02 tix
Enchantments (1)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 1 Karn, the Great Creator
$3.21
0.10 tix
- 2 Opposition Agent
$18.98
6.79 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 4 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)
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
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
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: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 3 Consider
$0.27
0.01 tix
- 2 Stubborn Denial
$3.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Drown in the Loch
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 3 Tainted Indulgence
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 2 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Archmage's Charm
$1.26
0.14 tix
- 2 Archmage's Charm
$1.26
0.14 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Archmage's Charm
$1.26
0.14 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.76 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Stubborn Denial
$3.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.62
8.00 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
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 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
$2.62
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Lands (18)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 7.74 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
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
- 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
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 3 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: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
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 Hullbreacher$1.67 8.35 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 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
- 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
- 3 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
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
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
