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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 | 91 | 1.2 | 1401 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 57 | 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: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
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
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.49 0.01 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Day's Undoing
$1.56
0.65 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 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 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
- 3 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.03 tix
- 3 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 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
- 3 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 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
- 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix - 4 Vengevine
$5.72
1.69 tix
- 4 Hollow One
$0.31
0.10 tix - 4 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
$1.26
0.06 tix - 4 Stitcher's Supplier
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodghast
$0.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
$4.99
0.77 tix
- 3 Deathrite Shaman
$4.99
0.77 tix
- 3 Basking Rootwalla
$0.13
0.01 tix
- 1 Basking Rootwalla
$0.13
0.01 tix
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (35)
- 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
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 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: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (10)
Lands (21)
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 City of Traitors$46.98 18.81 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 2 Great Furnace$2.15 9.23 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Seat of the Synod$0.64 1.12 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
$8.41
0.39 tix - 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.98
4.76 tix
- 1 Grindstone
$3.02
1.29 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.34
0.43 tix
- 3 Lightning Bolt
$0.78
0.02 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix - 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
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 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 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
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
- 1 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
- 2 Malevolent Hermit
$1.50
0.02 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
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
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
- 3 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
- 1 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
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
- 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
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
- 1 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 (15)
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
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 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
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 2 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
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
- 3 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
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 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
- 1 Sulfuric Vortex
$0.91
0.02 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Instants (22)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 6
