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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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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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (15)
- 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 - 3 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix - 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (15)
- 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
- 3 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (9)
Sideboard
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix - 1 Gaea's Cradle$310.45 15.19 tix
- 1 Homeward Path$14.09 3.57 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 3 Petrified Field$1.93 0.17 tix
- 1 Riftstone Portal$2.69 0.04 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (22)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (28)
- 2 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 2 Field of the Dead$29.77 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Grove$0.27 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 River of Tears$0.28 0.02 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Sunken Hollow$0.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 3 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$21.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Damnation
$15.33
0.09 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix - 1 Spreading Seas
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Vendilion Clique
$3.53
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.21
0.02 tix - 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.21
0.03 tix - 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 2 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 2 Spirit of the Labyrinth
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 3 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.14 tix
- 1 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.14 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 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
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.35
2.08 tix
Instants (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
- 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
- 2 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
$0.60
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: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (21)
- 1 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 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 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
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 1 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 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 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 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Felidar Retreat
$0.84
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Sorceries (18)
Instants (16)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
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
- 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
- 2 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
$0.60
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: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (20)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Run Afoul
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 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: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (18)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
- 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 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (20)
Lands (12)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (20)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
