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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,954 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 | 94 | 1.2 | 1399 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 61 | 1.4 | 540 | 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: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
- 1 Cathar Commando
$0.16
0.01 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
- 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
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Artifacts (9)
Lands (34)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.41 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix - 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix - 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 2 Hullbreacher
$1.67
8.35 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 2 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 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
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
- 1 Cathar Commando
$0.16
0.01 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
- 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
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Instants (4)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (34)
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 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.41 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.67
3.54 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (19)
- 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
- 2 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 Manifold Key
$1.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 3 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
1.01 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.01
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.23
0.02 tix
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.70
0.02 tix - 3 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.25
0.02 tix - 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (22)
Lands (22)
- 1 Darkslick Shores$1.96 0.02 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea$4.94 0.02 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 4 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Baleful Mastery
$2.59
0.02 tix
- 1 Damnation
$15.31
0.09 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix - 3 Extirpate
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.45 0.02 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.25
0.02 tix - 1 Rebuild
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 2 Hullbreacher
$1.67
8.35 tix
- 2 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 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 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (22)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.71 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.68
0.02 tix
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.62
1.16 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.03
0.02 tix
- 1 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.18 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
- 2 Cathar Commando
$0.16
0.01 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
- 4 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 3 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 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 (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
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.41 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.57 2.51 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 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 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 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 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.47 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.96
4.00 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 2 Hullbreacher
$1.67
8.35 tix
- 2 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 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 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 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 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (19)
- 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
- 2 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 Manifold Key
$1.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 3 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
1.01 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.01
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.23
0.02 tix
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Dismember
$2.91
3.54 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.70
0.02 tix
- 3 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
