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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: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (25)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.06 0.02 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 5 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.39 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (24)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.06 0.02 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 5 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.28 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (12)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (13)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 3 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix - 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.06
0.03 tix - 1 Collector Ouphe
$2.98
0.10 tix - 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix - 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 2 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 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (32)
Instants (6)
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: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (25)
- 3 Daze
$0.88
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 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
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix - 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Planar Void
$4.44
2.24 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 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: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (16)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
15.73 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
- 2 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
- 1 Manifold Key
$1.41
0.03 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.88 tix
- 1 Bolas's Citadel
$9.61
0.02 tix
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
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 (29)
- 2 Golgari Thug
$0.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Golgari Thug
$0.41
0.04 tix
- 4 Shambling Shell
$0.12
0.01 tix
- 4 Narcomoeba
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 4 Prized Amalgam
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 4 Stinkweed Imp
$1.10
0.03 tix
- 3 Ichorid
$0.61
0.26 tix
- 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
$0.93
0.02 tix
- 1 Ashen Rider
$0.28
0.02 tix - 4 Hollow One
$0.30
0.10 tix
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
$15.34
0.02 tix
Sorceries (11)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (5)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Fragmentize
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Scab-Clan Berserker
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.92
0.22 tix
- 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.19
0.04 tix
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale$2899.99 10.95 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
- 4 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 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (10)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (24)
- 1 Academy Ruins$4.95 0.02 tix
- 1 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 1 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 1 Gemstone Caverns$52.24 0.90 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.03 tix
- 1 River of Tears$0.28 0.02 tix
- 1 Tolaria West$0.44 0.45 tix
- 4 Urza's Mine$0.57 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Power Plant$0.60 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Tower$0.63 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix - 3 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Eldrazi Temple$2.81 0.80 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 2 Spatial Contortion$0.18 0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction$1.31 5.50 tix
- 3 Thought-Knot Seer
$5.10
1.64 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (24)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.06 0.02 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 5 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.39 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.06
0.03 tix
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Dovin's Veto
$1.96
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Thrun, the Last Troll
$0.71
0.02 tix
- 2 Timely Reinforcements
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (20)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (7)
Lands (24)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 4 Dark Depths$1.49 0.21 tix
- 1 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.11 0.02 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (26)
- 3 Punishing Fire
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 3 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 4 Assassin's Trophy
$0.65
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 4 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 3 Drown in the Loch
$0.99
0.03 tix
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (30)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 8.15 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 4 Grove of the Burnwillows$5.96 0.96 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 1 Waterlogged Grove$0.89 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.85 2.98 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.06
0.03 tix
- 2 Carpet of Flowers
$1.52
5.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 3 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 1 Return to Nature
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (20)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Blazing Volley
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
$1.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
- 2 Winter Orb
$10.98
17.69 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (14)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.65
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.68
0.10 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.25
0.03 tix
- 2 Submerge
$3.95
3.95 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
- 3 Goblin Cratermaker
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Goblin Piledriver
$3.28
0.20 tix
- 2 Mogg War Marshal
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Goblin Chieftain
$4.32
0.02 tix
- 2 Goblin Warchief
$1.20
0.03 tix
- 2 Gempalm Incinerator
$0.16
0.04 tix
- 4 Goblin Matron
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Pashalik Mons
$2.14
0.02 tix
- 1 Goblin Trashmaster
$6.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Goblin Ringleader
$0.55
0.03 tix
- 3 Munitions Expert
$0.27
0.02 tix
- 2 Goblin Lackey
$11.18
1.70 tix
- 2 Goblin Lackey
$11.18
1.70 tix
- 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
$0.32
0.40 tix
- 1 Goblin Chainwhirler
$0.41
0.02 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (23)
- 3 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 2 Badlands$235.61 8.15 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 4 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 3 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Pendelhaven$2.31 1.35 tix
- 1 Rishadan Port$7.99 18.37 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
