Surgical Extraction
- Mana cost
- {B/P}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Modern Masters 2015 #99 (rare)
- Price
- $2.96 USD
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} 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.
Surgical Extraction has 11 printings, first in New Phyrexia (2011). EDHREC ranks it #13,764 among Commander cards. It appears most in Rowan, Scion of War decks (817 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Surgical Extraction most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Rowan, Scion of War: 817 decks
- Umori, the Collector: 206 decks
- Kotose, the Silent Spider: 20 decks
- Venom, Eddie Brock: 17 decks
- Reyhan, Last of the Abzan: 4 decks
Often played with Surgical Extraction
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
- : "Any number of cards" means just that. If you wish, you can choose to leave some or all of the cards with the same name as the targeted card, including that card, in the zone they're in.
- : To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
- : Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
- : If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
- : A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.