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Surgical Extraction 
Instant
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
( can be paid with either 
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.
can be paid with either 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
ModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
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
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Surgical Extraction
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Sorceries (19)
Instants (14)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.06 tix - 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.14 tix - 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix - 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.01 tix - 1 Peer into the Abyss
$2.62
0.02 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (22)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (37)
- 2 Cathar Commando
$0.16
0.01 tix - 1 Lion Sash
$2.39
0.02 tix
- 4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 3 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 3 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 4 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.22
0.20 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix - 1 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 3 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
- 1 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Instants (4)
Lands (32)
- 2 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.34 0.20 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 4 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 8 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.48 tix
- 3 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.48 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 4 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 2 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.41 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
- 3 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
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
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
- 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
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (37)
- 2 Cathar Commando
$0.16
0.01 tix
- 1 Lion Sash
$2.39
0.02 tix
- 4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 3 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 3 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 4 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.22
0.20 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix
- 1 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 3 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
- 1 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Instants (4)
Lands (32)
- 2 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.34 0.20 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 4 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 8 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.48 tix
- 3 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.48 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 4 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 2 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.41 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (37)
- 1 Cathar Commando
$0.16
0.01 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
- 2 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.22
0.20 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 4 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix
- 1 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Lands (32)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Hammer Mage
$0.27
0.26 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 3 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 1 Sudden Demise
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (6)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.78
0.02 tix
- 2 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
7
Final: 7 |
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
- 3 Ice-Fang Coatl
$0.62
0.10 tix
- 1 Ice-Fang Coatl
$0.62
0.10 tix
- 1 Omnath, Locus of Creation
$4.12
0.75 tix
Sorceries (13)
Instants (14)
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.03
0.04 tix
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
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 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 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 3 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Seeds of Innocence
$6.71
4.41 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 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
- 3 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
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (16)
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
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 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 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (1)
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
- 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
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 2 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 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
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.93
0.22 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 1 Sulfuric Vortex
$0.91
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (12)
Instants (4)
Lands (36)
- 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
- 3 Field of the Dead$29.79 0.03 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.83 0.93 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 3 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Nurturing Peatland$6.65 1.30 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Tower of the Magistrate$1.75 2.18 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 4 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Flame Jab
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (16)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
