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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: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
- 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
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix - 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
0.99 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 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
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.79 0.03 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.22 0.15 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix - 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 1 Court of Grace
$2.98
5.25 tix
- 2 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.15
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.67
8.35 tix
- 1 Hushbringer
$0.52
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Terminus
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (28)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.86 0.01 tix
- 2 Dark Depths$1.72 0.22 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 2 Flagstones of Trokair$4.11 0.09 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.50 3.15 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Savannah$194.99 3.95 tix
- 2 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.77 0.83 tix
- 2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth$14.69 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Choke
$0.65
0.82 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.57
0.10 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.15
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Ray of Revelation
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Seeds of Innocence
$6.71
4.41 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 2 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (10)
Lands (27)
- 2 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
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 4 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.67 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.15
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 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
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Instants (17)
Lands (24)
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.49 0.02 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.34 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.22 0.15 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 1 Reflecting Pool$11.32 0.10 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.57 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.68
0.02 tix
- 1 Blossoming Calm
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Fracture
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.47
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Vanishing Verse
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
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
- 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: 3 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (21)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 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 Grim Lavamancer
$0.29
0.22 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.74 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (23)
- 2 Lotus Petal
$35.77
17.03 tix - 3 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.42 tix
- 3 Urza's Bauble
$5.39
14.06 tix
- 4 Chromatic Star
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 4 Grindstone
$3.02
1.29 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyrite Spellbomb
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Retrofitter Foundry
$0.37
6.87 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Ichor Wellspring
$0.54
0.03 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.98
4.76 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.31
8.55 tix
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
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
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.57 0.01 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 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 Manic Scribe
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.42
0.03 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (4)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
