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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,955 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 | 1398 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 61 | 1.4 | 542 | 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Sorceries (7)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 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 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
- 4 Elvish Visionary
$0.09
0.03 tix - 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Craterhoof Behemoth
$18.30
0.02 tix - 4 Allosaurus Shepherd
$50.48
6.15 tix
- 1 Birchlore Rangers
$0.80
0.04 tix
- 4 Heritage Druid
$3.00
0.27 tix
- 4 Nettle Sentinel
$0.27
0.11 tix
- 4 Quirion Ranger
$1.48
0.81 tix
- 1 Wirewood Symbiote
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 3 Wirewood Symbiote
$0.25
0.03 tix
Sorceries (11)
Instants (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix - 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Life from the Loam
$4.76
3.07 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix - 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
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
- 2 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 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Sorceries (17)
Instants (8)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
- 2 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
$8.47
0.39 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Echo of Eons
$9.24
7.78 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 tix - 1 Grapeshot
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
$2.64
0.02 tix
- 1 Reforge the Soul
$5.24
0.02 tix
- 3 Rip Apart
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Silence
$7.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.24
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 2 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.14 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
- 1 Phyrexian Revoker
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.22 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.08 tix
- 2 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.08 tix
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (3)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
- 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)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (3)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 2 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Collective Brutality
$0.35
0.07 tix
- 2 Crypt Incursion
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 2 Damnation
$15.33
0.09 tix
- 1 Lullmage's Domination
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.33
0.02 tix - 1 Set Adrift
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (20)
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 3 Fiery Islet$4.08 7.28 tix
- 4 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 3 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (15)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 2 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
$15.34
0.02 tix
- 2 Eureka
$458.42
0.08 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Shared Summons$1.04 0.02 tix
- 1 Sublime Epiphany$0.27 0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.14
0.10 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (21)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (20)
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 2 Rough/Tumble
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 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 (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
- 2 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
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Choke
$0.65
0.79 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 2 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 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 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 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
