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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: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Instants (20)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
- 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 - 4 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix - 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 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 Brain Freeze
$2.60
0.02 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix - 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
$0.23
0.02 tix - 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Sorceries (3)
Instants (23)
- 4 Fatal Push$0.41 0.02 tix
- 4 Growth Spiral$0.31 0.04 tix
- 2 Mana Leak
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Remand
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Remand
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 3 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Cryptic Command
$3.25
0.07 tix
- 1 Cryptic Command
$3.25
0.07 tix
- 2 Fact or Fiction
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (27)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 1 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 2 Field of the Dead$29.77 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.06 0.15 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 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
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 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
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (20)
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix - 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 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 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 1 Return to Nature
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 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
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (22)
Instants (17)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (20)
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 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: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (21)
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 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 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 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
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer$3.25 0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (26)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (28)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 8.20 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 4 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.85 0.77 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 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 Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Notion Thief
$1.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Pernicious Deed
$3.04
14.15 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer$0.25 0.03 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (24)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix - 1 Savannah$194.99 3.54 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 2 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.49
0.56 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (3)
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
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 3 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
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Deafening Silence
$1.07
0.02 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 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: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (17)
Instants (18)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (20)
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 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: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Artifacts (23)
- 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 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 3 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 4 Sphere of Resistance
$12.28
11.62 tix
- 1 Thorn of Amethyst
$0.56
0.02 tix
- 3 Crucible of Worlds
$21.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.62 tix
- 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
$0.62
0.03 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
Lands (22)
- 3 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 4 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Inventors' Fair$15.40 0.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 4 Mishra's Workshop$3000.97 11.46 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 2.89 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
- 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 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 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
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 2 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 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 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
- 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
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 4 Golgari Thug
$0.41
0.03 tix
- 3 Shambling Shell
$0.12
0.01 tix
- 3 Narcomoeba
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 4 Stinkweed Imp
$1.10
0.03 tix
- 4 Ichorid
$0.61
0.26 tix
- 3 Street Wraith
$0.17
0.01 tix
- 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
$0.93
0.03 tix
- 1 Ashen Rider
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 3 Chancellor of the Annex
$3.12
0.06 tix
- 3 Hollow One
$0.31
0.10 tix
- 1 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
$1.26
0.06 tix - 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Void Winnower
$17.65
0.02 tix - 2 Bloodghast
$0.71
0.02 tix
Sorceries (11)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (5)
Sideboard
- 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
$29.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Dragonlord Kolaghan
$10.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
$15.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Despair
$6.48
3.78 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 2 Leyline of Sanctity
$0.32
0.10 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Sickening Shoal
$13.02
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (5)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (5)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 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
- 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 Brain Freeze
$2.60
0.02 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
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 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: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 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 (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
