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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,951 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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or 2 life.)
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 (8)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Anger of the Gods
$0.27
0.03 tix - 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix - 1 Fry
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 4 Leyline of Sanctity
$0.32
0.10 tix - 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix - 1 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 2 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 3 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea$4.96 0.02 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 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 - 3 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)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Crop Rotation
$3.52
2.05 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tarmogoyf
$5.38
0.03 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
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
- 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
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 3 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 3 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
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 By Force
$0.27
0.03 tix - 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
$6.17
0.02 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 4 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (9)
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
- 4 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Peek
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.14 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Brain Freeze
$2.60
0.02 tix
- 2 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 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
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
- 1 Gush$2.41 0.04 tix
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 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 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 2 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 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (6)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Fragmentize
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (25)
- 2 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 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 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Dark Ritual
$3.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.22
1.08 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Peek
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Fatal Push$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern$0.22 0.02 tix
- 3 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 Tombstalker
$0.27
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 2 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.81 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 3 Nurturing Peatland$6.56 1.25 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix
- 2 Cleansing Wildfire
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 2 Kozilek's Return
$0.33
0.45 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.33
0.02 tix - 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (18)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 2 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (20)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 2 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Return to Nature
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.14
0.10 tix
- 1 Winter Orb
$10.98
18.15 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
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
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 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 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
$35.82
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (18)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (22)
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Field of the Dead$29.77 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 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
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 1 Dead of Winter
$0.39
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 4 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (7)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
$2.95
0.27 tix
- 3 Extract
$5.14
0.57 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (20)
- 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 Misdirection
$5.84
8.99 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 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 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (6)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Brain Freeze
$2.60
0.02 tix
- 1 By Force
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Mind Twist
$1.40
2.67 tix
- 2 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 2 Underworld Breach
$7.86
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (22)
- 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
- 4 Dark Ritual
$3.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.22
1.08 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.07 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Feed the Swarm
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 4 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
$0.23
0.02 tix - 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
