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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: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
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)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 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 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (17)
Lands (12)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Artifacts (21)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix - 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.60 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 4 Sphere of Resistance
$12.28
11.62 tix
- 1 Thorn of Amethyst
$0.56
0.02 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.62 tix
- 4 Fleetwheel Cruiser
$0.27
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
- 1 Fatal Push$0.41 0.02 tix
- 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
- 2 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 2 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
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: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
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 Misdirection
$5.84
8.99 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
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (21)
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 2 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 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix - 3 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (3)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (10)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.49
0.56 tix
- 1 Squee, the Immortal
$1.11
0.02 tix
- 3 Imperial Recruiter
$13.87
0.02 tix
- 3 Misthollow Griffin
$3.08
0.02 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 4 Ice-Fang Coatl
$0.62
0.10 tix
- 1 Hydroid Krasis
$0.33
0.03 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
Sorceries (6)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (20)
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.61 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Grove$0.92 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 1 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
$3.98
0.02 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 2 Elvish Visionary
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 2 Elvish Visionary
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 1 Archon of Valor's Reach
$0.37
0.77 tix
- 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
$18.30
0.02 tix - 4 Allosaurus Shepherd
$50.48
6.15 tix
- 1 Birchlore Rangers
$0.80
0.04 tix
- 4 Elvish Reclaimer
$5.18
0.06 tix
- 4 Heritage Druid
$3.00
0.27 tix
- 4 Nettle Sentinel
$0.27
0.11 tix
- 4 Wirewood Symbiote
$0.25
0.03 tix
Sorceries (11)
Instants (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 1 Charming Prince
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 3 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
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.08 tix
Lands (24)
Sideboard
- 1 Aven Mindcensor
$0.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Cataclysm
$1.34
12.27 tix
- 1 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (21)
Lands (20)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (23)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Court of Cunning
$3.92
1.86 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.67
0.06 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
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
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.08 tix
Lands (24)
Sideboard
- 2 Cataclysm
$1.34
12.27 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 2 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (32)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 2 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 2 Field of the Dead$29.77 0.02 tix
- 1 Flagstones of Trokair$4.10 0.06 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.85 0.77 tix
- 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity$12.88 0.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 2 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 3.13 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.37 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.61 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 3 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.79 tix
- 2 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.07 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Ipnu Rivulet$0.29 0.03 tix
- 2 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.36 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Lands (21)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scrubland$215.00 4.41 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (7)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (30)
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.77 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 2 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
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Grove$0.92 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Lands (18)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 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
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (20)
- 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
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 3 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
