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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,953 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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
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
- 4 Solitude
$33.40
5.00 tix - 2 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Lands (32)
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire$5.34 0.20 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 4 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 6 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Plateau$200.00 2.99 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 2 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.48 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
- 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
- 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
- 3 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 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
- 2 Timeless Dragon
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
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 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.41 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 2 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
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 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: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (8)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 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
- 2 Ruination
$0.65
4.54 tix
- 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.47
0.10 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (21)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 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
- 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
- 3 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 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 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 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
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
- 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
- 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
Final: 2 |
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 (14)
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 Island$0.05 0.01 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
- 1 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
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
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
- 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: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
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
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 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: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 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
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 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
- 1 Price of Progress
$4.56
1.90 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 Snapcaster Mage
$15.93
0.16 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 1 End the Festivities
$1.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble— —
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
- 4 Cephalid Illusionist
$1.11
2.85 tix
- 3 Narcomoeba
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 4 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 Thassa's Oracle
$21.55
0.10 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
- 1 Nomads en-Kor
$0.49
0.37 tix
- 3 Nomads en-Kor
$0.49
0.37 tix
- 3 Meddling Mage
$2.32
0.38 tix
- 1 Meddling Mage
$2.32
0.38 tix
Sorceries (3)
Instants (11)
Lands (28)
- 3 Cavern of Souls$50.28 0.52 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 3 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.38 tix
- 4 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 |
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
Final: 3 |
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 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 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
Sorceries (13)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (6)
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 Forest$0.09 0.01 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
- 1 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
- 2 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 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.17 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 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
Final: 1 |
