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Surgical Extraction 
Oracle Text
can be paid with either 
or 2 life.)
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 | 1391 | 1.4 |
| Legacy | 56 | 1.5 | 534 | 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: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix - 1 Beacon Bolt
$0.23
0.03 tix - 2 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix - 1 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
$2.92
0.28 tix
- 2 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Keranos, God of Storms
$11.21
0.02 tix - 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Shatterstorm
$0.30
0.15 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Beacon Bolt
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 2 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
$2.92
0.28 tix
- 1 Flame Slash
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Shatterstorm
$0.30
0.15 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (37)
- 3 Kitesail Freebooter
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 3 Phantasmal Image
$4.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Phantasmal Image
$4.44
0.02 tix
- 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix - 1 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
- 2 Militia Bugler
$0.12
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
- 4 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.40 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Collective Brutality
$0.34
0.09 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix - 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.32
0.46 tix
- 2 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.68
0.10 tix
- 4 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
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: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (23)
- 1 Dark Depths$1.49 0.21 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Price of Progress
$4.62
2.16 tix
- 1 Pyroclasm$0.20 0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 2 Sulfur Elemental
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 3 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 2 City of Traitors$46.79 18.66 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Boseiju, Who Shelters All$17.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Firemind's Foresight
$0.20
0.02 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
16.53 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.32
0.46 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Release the Ants
$0.11
0.03 tix
- 1 Rushing River
$0.13
0.04 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Through the Breach
$0.43
0.02 tix - 1 Trickbind
$9.06
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (8)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.65
0.02 tix
- 2 Diabolic Edict
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 2 Marsh Casualties
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Sylvan Library
$26.06
0.10 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.31
0.06 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 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 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
$0.56
0.84 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 2 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
Instants (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
- 1 Cataclysm
$1.35
12.86 tix
- 2 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.08 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.06
1.44 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Karn, Scion of Urza
$4.14
0.02 tix
- 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Seal of Cleansing
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$11.09 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 3 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Arcane Laboratory
$0.56
0.04 tix
- 2 Eidolon of the Great Revel
$1.81
0.93 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Artifacts (19)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (1)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
- 2 Collective Brutality
$0.34
0.09 tix
- 1 Creeping Corrosion
$5.99
0.02 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.06 tix - 2 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.06 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.68
0.10 tix
- 1 Maelstrom Pulse
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (37)
- 4 Meddling Mage$2.29 0.40 tix
- 4 Kitesail Freebooter
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 4 Phantasmal Image
$4.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 3 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
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
- 1 Mana Leak
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 3 Cryptic Command
$3.24
0.07 tix
- 1 Settle the Wreckage
$2.66
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Opt
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 3 Opt
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.36
0.24 tix
- 2 Condemn
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 3 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Logic Knot
$0.18
0.03 tix
Enchantments (3)
Lands (25)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancestral Vision$0.30 0.06 tix
- 1 Baneslayer Angel
$2.77
0.02 tix
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 2 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
$0.46
0.02 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 2 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: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
- 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
- 1 Restoration Angel
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.25
2.25 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.01
1.38 tix
Lands (24)
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 1 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Rishadan Port$7.99 18.37 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Cataclysm
$1.35
12.86 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.08 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.06
1.44 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.09
3.85 tix
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
$2.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Karn, Scion of Urza
$4.14
0.02 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 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (9)
Lands (28)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 4 Dark Depths$1.49 0.21 tix
- 2 Gemstone Mine$2.14 9.10 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.11 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 2 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.08 tix
- 2 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.08 tix
- 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Brightling
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 4 Flickerwisp
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Mirran Crusader
$0.29
0.02 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
- 2 Palace Jailer
$0.22
0.04 tix
- 4 Mother of Runes
$8.25
2.25 tix
Lands (23)
Sideboard
- 2 Absolute Law
$0.95
1.33 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 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
$0.59
0.02 tix
- 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.23 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.01
1.38 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (23)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Bitterblossom
$32.99
0.02 tix
- 2 Diabolic Edict
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Electrickery
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Scryb Ranger
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 4 Knight of the Reliquary
$1.64
0.02 tix
- 2 Stoneforge Mystic
$29.83
0.08 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.63
1.16 tix
- 2 Birds of Paradise
$4.98
0.02 tix
- 2 Noble Hierarch
$10.40
0.21 tix
- 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
$4.69
0.06 tix
- 1 Gaddock Teeg
$1.04
0.06 tix
- 1 Qasali Pridemage
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 3 Mother of Runes
$8.25
2.25 tix
Instants (5)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (23)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.70 0.02 tix
- 2 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
- 2 Savannah$194.99 3.09 tix
- 1 Scrubland$215.00 4.12 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Choke
$0.65
0.79 tix
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Council's Judgment
$0.42
0.08 tix
- 1 Crop Rotation
$3.51
2.12 tix
- 1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
$0.59
0.02 tix
- 1 Oblivion Ring
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Sanctum Prelate
$1.50
0.07 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 3 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 2 Zealous Persecution
$0.15
0.03 tix
