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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: 5
Main Deck
Sorceries (19)
Instants (15)
Lands (14)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
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 - 2 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 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Expressive Iteration$0.32 0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Ruination
$0.65
4.54 tix - 1 Snapcaster Mage$15.93 0.16 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 1 Sudden Edict$0.24 0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize$6.48 1.60 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.51
0.04 tix
- 1 Counterbalance
$3.58
0.94 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.67
8.35 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
$15.93
0.16 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unholy Heat
$0.31
0.01 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
- 1 Malevolent Hermit
$1.50
0.02 tix
- 1 Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
$2.71
0.73 tix
- 2 Lion Sash
$2.39
0.02 tix - 3 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 1 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.22 tix
- 1 Soulherder
$2.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 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
- 4 Baleful Strix
$0.95
0.31 tix
- 1 Meddling Mage
$2.32
0.38 tix
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (28)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.92 0.81 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.73 1.78 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 2.99 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.38 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Plains$0.35 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.15
0.02 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.58
0.18 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.67
8.35 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Meddling Mage
$2.32
0.38 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (4)
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
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Instants (7)
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
- 2 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 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
- 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
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 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: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Firemind's Foresight
$0.21
0.02 tix - 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
15.87 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.34
0.43 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Release the Ants
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Rushing River
$0.13
0.04 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Through the Breach
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Trickbind
$9.10
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
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
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 3 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.38 0.02 tix
- 2 City of Traitors$46.98 18.81 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 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
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 2 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Firemind's Foresight
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
15.87 tix
- 2 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Trickbind
$9.10
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Sorceries (12)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (36)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 4 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 Hall of Heliod's Generosity$12.52 0.02 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 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
- 1 Roadside Reliquary$0.22 0.03 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Scattered Groves$0.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 12.11 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.20 1.19 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Grove$0.92 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
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.71 9.59 tix
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.82 tix - 1 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Drop of Honey
$474.36
10.84 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Meekstone
$5.13
4.12 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Seeds of Innocence
$6.71
4.41 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Zuran Orb
$2.49
0.03 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
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
- 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
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 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
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
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
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 4 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 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 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (8)
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
- 3 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
- 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
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tower of the Magistrate$1.75 2.18 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 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: 3 | Swiss: 5
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
- 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
- 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: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Artifacts (23)
- 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
- 1 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
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.01
0.02 tix
- 4 Sphere of Resistance
$12.28
11.49 tix
- 1 Thorn of Amethyst
$0.56
0.02 tix
- 4 Nettlecyst
$3.03
0.02 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.31
8.55 tix
- 1 Fleetwheel Cruiser
$0.27
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.76 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
