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Surgical Extraction 
Surgical Extraction appeared in 1,947 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 | 92 | 1.2 | 1393 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 58 | 1.4 | 539 | 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: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.08 tix - 2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 2 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 Phyrexian Revoker
$0.25
0.02 tix - 2 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.18 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.25
2.25 tix
- 1 Serra Avenger
$0.47
0.02 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.01
1.38 tix
Lands (24)
Sideboard
- 1 Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Cataclysm
$1.35
12.86 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.08 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Ratchet Bomb
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Sorceries (16)
Instants (26)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
$1.59
0.02 tix - 1 Brain Freeze
$2.67
0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Pact of Negation
$18.16
0.31 tix - 1 Snap
$3.46
0.05 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Teferi's Realm
$2.23
2.04 tix
- 1 Turnabout
$0.25
0.02 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 3 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix - 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (7)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Dovin's Veto
$1.96
0.03 tix
- 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
$0.46
0.02 tix - 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 2 Restoration Angel
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Timely Reinforcements
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (25)
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 3 Become Immense
$0.22
0.03 tix - 4 Blossoming Defense
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 3 Groundswell
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 4 Might of Old Krosa
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 4 Vines of Vastwood
$0.71
0.03 tix
- 1 Mutagenic Growth
$1.35
0.03 tix - 2 Mutagenic Growth
$1.35
0.03 tix
- 1 Mutagenic Growth
$1.35
0.03 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
Lands (20)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.06 0.02 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.06 0.02 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.70 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Inkmoth Nexus$11.13 0.14 tix
- 2 Pendelhaven$2.31 1.35 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.39 0.02 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Dissenter's Deliverance
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
$1.76
0.02 tix
- 1 Return to Nature$0.14 0.03 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Twisted Image
$0.31
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Artifacts (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$20.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
$16.36
8.82 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.61
0.02 tix - 3 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Oblivion Stone
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Thought-Knot Seer
$5.10
1.64 tix - 1 Walking Ballista
$7.01
1.38 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (37)
- 4 Kitesail Freebooter
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 4 Phantasmal Image
$4.44
0.02 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 4 Thalia's Lieutenant
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 4 Reflector Mage
$0.35
0.03 tix
- 4 Noble Hierarch
$10.40
0.21 tix
- 4 Mantis Rider
$0.16
0.02 tix
- 4 Champion of the Parish
$1.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Anafenza, the Foremost
$0.55
0.02 tix
- 4 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.40 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.08 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 Phyrexian Revoker
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Recruiter of the Guard
$5.20
0.18 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.25
2.25 tix
- 2 Serra Avenger
$0.47
0.02 tix
- 1 Tomik, Distinguished Advokist
$0.28
0.02 tix
Lands (23)
Sideboard
- 2 Cataclysm
$1.35
12.86 tix
- 2 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.08 tix
- 2 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Gut Shot
$4.70
0.03 tix - 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Scryb Ranger
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Knight of Autumn
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 4 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.64
0.02 tix
- 3 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.08 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
$5.67
0.02 tix
- 1 Tireless Tracker
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 4 Noble Hierarch
$10.40
0.21 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.04
0.06 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.25
2.25 tix
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (23)
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.70 0.02 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Gaea's Cradle$310.45 15.28 tix
- 2 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (23)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Scryb Ranger
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Knight of Autumn
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.64
0.02 tix
- 1 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.64
0.02 tix
- 1 Renegade Rallier
$0.30
0.04 tix
- 2 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.08 tix
- 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 1 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 4 Noble Hierarch
$10.40
0.21 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.04
0.06 tix
- 3 Mother of Runes
$8.25
2.25 tix
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (23)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.70 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Gaea's Cradle$310.45 15.28 tix
- 1 Horizon Canopy$2.13 0.18 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.12 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.65
0.02 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Crop Rotation
$3.51
2.12 tix
- 2 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Garruk Relentless
$0.72
0.02 tix
- 1 Knight of Autumn
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 3 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
$5.04
0.02 tix
- 2 Zealous Persecution
$0.15
0.03 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Lands (25)
Sideboard
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.06
0.03 tix - 2 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.06
1.44 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 1 Settle the Wreckage
$2.66
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.36
0.24 tix
- 1 Timely Reinforcements
$0.21
0.03 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (6)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
- 1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Dovin's Veto
$1.96
0.03 tix
- 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
$0.46
0.02 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 2 Restoration Angel
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Timely Reinforcements
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.51
0.02 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (25)
Sideboard
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.06
0.03 tix
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.06
1.44 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 2 Dovin's Veto
$1.96
0.03 tix
- 1 Monastery Mentor
$0.41
0.06 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 2 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Timely Reinforcements
$0.21
0.03 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (12)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.99
4.65 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Grindstone
$3.11
1.40 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.07
1.17 tix
- 1 Mycosynth Lattice
$36.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 3 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.11 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (26)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Sorceries (23)
Instants (13)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (35)
- 3 Shaman of the Pack
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 4 Dwynen's Elite
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 4 Elvish Archdruid
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
$12.81
0.02 tix
- 4 Elves of Deep Shadow
$3.62
0.03 tix
- 1 Elvish Mystic
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 1 Elvish Mystic
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 2 Elvish Mystic
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 3 Heritage Druid
$3.00
0.23 tix
- 1 Heritage Druid
$3.00
0.23 tix
- 4 Llanowar Elves
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 4 Elvish Clancaller
$0.48
0.02 tix
Sorceries (3)
Lands (18)
- 4 Blooming Marsh$1.90 0.10 tix
- 2 Cavern of Souls$51.61 0.53 tix
- 2 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Ghost Quarter$0.41 0.02 tix
- 3 Gilt-Leaf Palace$5.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.39 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Assassin's Trophy
$0.65
0.02 tix
- 1 Choke
$0.65
0.79 tix
- 3 Damping Sphere
$1.06
1.44 tix
- 2 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Stain the Mind
$0.18
0.02 tix - 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
