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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 (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
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
- 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
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 11.95 tix
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: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (20)
Lands (11)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Sorceries (3)
Instants (23)
- 2 Mana Leak
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 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
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.70
0.02 tix
- 4 Growth Spiral
$0.31
0.04 tix
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (27)
- 1 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 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: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (2)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (23)
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.33 tix
- 3 Concealed Courtyard$1.00 0.02 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 2 Godless Shrine$9.11 0.02 tix
- 4 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Shambling Vent$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Silent Clearing$6.64 0.82 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.37 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.03
0.03 tix - 1 Collective Brutality
$0.35
0.07 tix
- 3 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix - 1 Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
$0.38
0.02 tix - 2 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
$26.81
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (12)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix - 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix - 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Run Afoul
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.14
0.10 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (21)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 3 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (16)
Lands (19)
- 2 City of Traitors$46.98 18.77 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
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.63 2.70 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.34 0.02 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Disallow
$0.40
0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Firemind's Foresight
$0.21
0.02 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Return to Nature
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Shared Summons
$1.04
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (26)
- 3 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 4 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Nurturing Peatland$6.56 1.25 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Steely Resolve
$1.85
0.23 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.14
0.10 tix
- 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
$5.26
0.06 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Instants (25)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (30)
- 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
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Grove$0.92 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.49
5.14 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Notion Thief
$1.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge$3.42 0.06 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
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 Back to Basics
$3.49
12.99 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 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
- 1 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | 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
- 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
- 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
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
$35.82
0.02 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 2 Crop Rotation
$3.52
2.05 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 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
- 1 Stubborn Denial
$3.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.74
0.10 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 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 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 3 Submerge
$3.91
4.21 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Lands (27)
- 3 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 3 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Nurturing Peatland$6.56 1.25 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
- 2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (19)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
- 2 Brain Freeze
$2.60
0.02 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.25
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 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
