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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,949 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 | 1.3 | 1394 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 62 | 1.5 | 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: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 2 Charming Prince
$0.33
0.02 tix - 2 Soulherder
$2.01
0.03 tix - 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Opposition Agent
$19.41
6.79 tix - 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.64
7.75 tix
- 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.41 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.22 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 4 Baleful Strix
$0.94
0.31 tix
- 3 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.36 tix
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (21)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 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 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Gilded Drake
$196.36
5.89 tix
- 1 Hullbreacher
$1.64
7.75 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Remorseful Cleric
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (8)
Lands (27)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$50.49 0.53 tix
- 4 Cloudpost$0.29 0.04 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Eye of Ugin$62.02 0.16 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$23.56 11.94 tix
- 4 Glimmerpost$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 7 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Vesuva$2.29 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix - 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Knight of Autumn
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Renegade Rallier
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.29
0.03 tix - 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 3 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 3 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
$9.17
0.06 tix
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
$5.52
0.02 tix
- 1 Scute Swarm
$6.79
0.02 tix
- 1 Yasharn, Implacable Earth
$0.39
0.02 tix
- 1 Archon of Emeria
$0.99
0.10 tix
- 1 Primeval Titan
$4.42
0.15 tix - 4 Elvish Reclaimer
$5.18
0.06 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.03
0.06 tix
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (35)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 2 Field of the Dead$29.77 0.02 tix
- 4 Flagstones of Trokair$4.10 0.06 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 3.13 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.37 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.61 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.37 0.02 tix
- 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle$10.05 0.02 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Vesuva$2.29 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 4 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Archon of Emeria
$0.99
0.10 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 2 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 3 Faerie Macabre
$3.94
0.01 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (14)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (24)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (11)
Enchantments (3)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (21)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 1 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (6)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (19)
- 2 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 - 1 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 - 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (8)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (10)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (1)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (20)
- 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
- 1 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 (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 By Force
$0.27
0.03 tix - 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 4 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: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (19)
- 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
- 1 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
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (8)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (8)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 1 Charming Prince
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Remorseful Cleric
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 4 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
- 2 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 4 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 4 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
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
Instants (6)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (32)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (8)
Lands (27)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$50.49 0.53 tix
- 4 Cloudpost$0.29 0.04 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Eye of Ugin$62.02 0.16 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$23.56 11.94 tix
- 4 Glimmerpost$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 7 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 2 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Vesuva$2.29 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (35)
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 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 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Glacial Chasm$23.56 11.94 tix
- 3 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.85 0.77 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Maze of Ith$9.58 3.13 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Sheltered Thicket$0.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.61 tix
- 1 Taiga$215.00 3.61 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Grove$0.92 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Artifacts (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (25)
Sideboard
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
$0.60
0.02 tix
- 1 Glass Casket
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.63
0.02 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.71
0.02 tix - 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix - 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.62 tix
