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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 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
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
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 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
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (34)
- 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
- 1 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.79 0.03 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
- 1 Stomping Ground$7.34 0.02 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 Waterlogged Grove$0.92 0.02 tix
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
- 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
- 3 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 1 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 3 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 2 Extraction Specialist
$0.31
0.02 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
- 1 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Instants (4)
Lands (33)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 3 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 2 Path to Exile
$1.03
0.02 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.41 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 1 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (17)
Lands (30)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.99 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 4 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 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (16)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Kozilek's Return
$0.34
0.43 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (7)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (16)
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
- 4 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
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
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
- 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
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (20)
- 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
- 4 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
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (8)
Lands (20)
- 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
- 3 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
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.03
1.16 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 From the Ashes
$3.33
1.82 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 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
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 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
- 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 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 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
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
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
- 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
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (25)
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 3 Assassin's Trophy
$0.68
0.02 tix - 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 3 Lightning Bolt
$0.78
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 3 Unholy Heat
$0.31
0.01 tix
- 4 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
Enchantments (5)
Lands (30)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.22 0.15 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.49 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.24 0.09 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Seeds of Innocence
$6.71
4.41 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.38
0.06 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
- 1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
$2.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 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 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (18)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 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
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 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
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.30 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 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
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
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
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
