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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: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (3)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
- 2 Force of Vigor
$3.94
3.00 tix - 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix - 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix - 1 Misdirection
$5.84
8.87 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix - 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.06 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 13.58 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 2 Crypt Incursion
$0.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den$2.25 0.02 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute$0.45 0.02 tix
- 3 Soul-Guide Lantern$0.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix - 1 Spell Pierce
$0.20
0.01 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unmoored Ego
$0.21
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix - 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.23 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.27
0.26 tix
- 1 Grim Lavamancer
$0.29
0.22 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix - 1 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
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.63
1.67 tix
- 4 Paradoxical Outcome
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.83 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Artifacts (15)
- 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
- 3 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
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.59
1.01 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.01
0.02 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$10.23
0.02 tix
Enchantments (3)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (18)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.09 3.34 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.87 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.52 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.85 0.21 tix
- 4 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.68 2.56 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
18.71 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.51 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$3.93
0.40 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 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
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 4 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 Giver of Runes
$9.26
1.98 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.21 tix
Instants (4)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (34)
- 2 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 2 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 6 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Rishadan Port$7.99 19.48 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.51 13.97 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
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
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (23)
- 1 Brainstorm$1.19 0.83 tix
- 4 Dark Ritual$3.35 0.02 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time$0.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation$50.02 19.57 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute$0.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.65 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.39
0.04 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.35
1.07 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.45 tix
- 3 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (3)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
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
- 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
- 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 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: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (20)
Lands (22)
- 3 Darkslick Shores$1.96 0.02 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.19 0.03 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.90 2.59 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 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
- 2 Watery Grave$9.02 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
Instants (8)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (20)
- 4 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 2 City of Traitors$46.98 18.81 tix
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.04 7.28 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.95 1.78 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$39.00 3.75 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.49 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.11 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 14.92 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.51
5.17 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.74
4.89 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.52 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.78
0.02 tix
- 2 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.94 tix
- 1 Unholy Heat
$0.31
0.01 tix
- 3 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Abrade
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.02
19.57 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.29 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.49 2.10 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.58 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
- 2 True-Name Nemesis
$2.71
0.73 tix
