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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,946 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 1.4 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $1.31.
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 | 93 | 1.2 | 1393 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 58 | 1.4 | 538 | 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: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (9)
Lands (18)
- 3 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 4 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.05 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.70 0.02 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (25)
- 2 Daze
$0.88
0.02 tix - 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix - 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix - 3 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix - 2 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Dark Ritual
$3.19
0.02 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.17
1.19 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.42
0.08 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Force of Despair
$6.24
3.91 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 3 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
$0.23
0.02 tix - 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 10.95 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (19)
- 2 Brain Freeze
$2.67
0.02 tix
- 1 Daze
$0.88
0.02 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
16.53 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix - 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (7)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Magmatic Sinkhole
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix
- 3 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Artifacts (17)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix - 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 1 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 4 Sphere of Resistance
$12.03
10.48 tix
- 1 Thorn of Amethyst
$0.57
0.02 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.32 tix
- 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$20.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 10.95 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.11 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 3 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (7)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
$2.92
0.28 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.27
0.09 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 2 Return to Nature
$0.14
0.03 tix - 3 Shattering Spree
$0.92
0.22 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.06
0.10 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 10.95 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
Instants (6)
Lands (18)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 4 Bazaar of Baghdad$1949.99 4.05 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.70 0.02 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (25)
- 2 Daze
$0.88
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 2 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Dark Ritual
$3.19
0.02 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.17
1.19 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.42
0.08 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Force of Despair
$6.24
3.91 tix
- 2 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 4 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 10.95 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (15)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 3 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.51 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$9.61
0.02 tix
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 1 Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Charming Prince
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 2 Soulherder
$1.86
0.03 tix
- 1 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Spellseeker
$17.05
12.75 tix
- 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Peacekeeper
$10.41
0.33 tix
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.18 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 4 Baleful Strix
$0.95
0.22 tix
- 1 Mother of Runes
$8.25
2.25 tix
- 4 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.40 tix
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.12 0.83 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.12 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Act of Authority
$0.86
0.79 tix
- 2 Eliminate
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 2 Gilded Drake
$196.36
6.03 tix
- 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
$0.25
0.10 tix
- 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.95
3.95 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Back to Basics
$3.38
13.25 tix
- 1 Bitterblossom
$32.99
0.02 tix
- 1 Commandeer
$2.50
0.14 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.68
0.10 tix
- 2 Liliana's Triumph
$0.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (20)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.95
3.95 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.06
0.10 tix
- 2 Winter Orb
$10.98
17.69 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (17)
Lands (20)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.44 0.02 tix
- 1 City of Traitors$46.79 18.66 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 2 Prismatic Vista$25.85 2.98 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 5 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Carpet of Flowers
$1.52
5.74 tix
- 1 Firemind's Foresight
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
16.53 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Release the Ants
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 2 Return to Nature
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Shared Summons
$1.05
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Trickbind
$9.06
0.02 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
- 1 Wipe Away
$0.30
0.03 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (21)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 1 Return to Nature
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.95
3.95 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Winter Orb
$10.98
17.69 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (20)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 1 Rough/Tumble
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$3.95
3.95 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Winter Orb
$10.98
17.69 tix
- 1 Winter Orb
$10.98
17.69 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (21)
Planeswalkers (2)
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 Brazen Borrower
$0.49
0.04 tix
- 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.98
0.10 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Return to Nature
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Vapor Snag
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
- 1 Winter Orb
$10.98
17.69 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (17)
Instants (19)
Lands (16)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 8.15 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.52
5.74 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (20)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 4 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.52
5.74 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Entreat the Angels
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Terminus
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
- 1 Wilt$0.12 0.03 tix
- 1 Wilt
$0.12
0.03 tix
