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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 | 93 | 1.2 | 1398 | 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: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (21)
- 2 Brain Freeze
$2.60
0.02 tix - 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix - 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix - 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix - 4 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix - 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 2 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
- 3 Abrupt Decay$0.90 0.03 tix
- 1 Force of Negation$50.33 18.75 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor$4.75 3.00 tix
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Misdirection
$5.84
8.99 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.37 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Back to Basics
$3.49
12.99 tix
- 1 Back to Basics
$3.49
12.99 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix - 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix - 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix - 1 Hullbreacher
$1.64
7.75 tix
- 2 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.36 tix
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (15)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 3 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 City of Traitors$46.98 18.77 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
$15.34
0.02 tix - 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Shared Summons$1.04 0.02 tix
- 3 Shifting Ceratops
$0.27
0.02 tix
- 1 Sublime Epiphany$0.27 0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (22)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (19)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (14)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 3 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.49
0.56 tix
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
$5.52
0.02 tix
- 1 Questing Beast
$2.52
0.24 tix
- 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 2 Elvish Reclaimer
$5.18
0.06 tix
- 1 Hexdrinker
$5.21
0.06 tix
- 2 Noble Hierarch
$10.35
0.20 tix
Instants (19)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (22)
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Grove$0.92 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Life from the Loam
$4.76
3.07 tix
- 1 Liliana's Triumph
$0.37
0.03 tix
- 3 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (29)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.77 0.02 tix
- 3 Flagstones of Trokair$4.10 0.06 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.41 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.79 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 3 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$23.56 11.94 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 4 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.49
0.56 tix
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
$5.52
0.02 tix
- 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 2 Elvish Reclaimer
$5.18
0.06 tix
- 1 Hexdrinker
$5.21
0.06 tix
- 2 Noble Hierarch
$10.35
0.20 tix
Instants (19)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (22)
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Grove$0.92 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Life from the Loam
$4.76
3.07 tix
- 3 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.37 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Back to Basics
$3.49
12.99 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.64
7.75 tix
- 1 Meddling Mage$2.29 0.36 tix
- 1 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.36 tix
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 9
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.14
0.10 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.25
15.90 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.64
7.75 tix
- 1 Liliana's Triumph
$0.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Run Afoul
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.14
0.10 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
