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Surgical Extraction
Oracle Text
({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.
Card Details
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Surgical Extraction is a precision scalpel for black decks that want to turn the graveyard into a liability, and it shines most in control, disruptive tempo, and anti-combo shells. At instant speed for either black mana or 2 life, it can punish a key card already milled, discarded, or countered by stripping every copy from the opponent’s graveyard, hand, and library. That makes it especially brutal against combo pieces, redundant win conditions, and engines that rely on a single named card. In practice, pair it with discard, counterspells, or graveyard hate to force information and maximize the hit; Thoughtseize effects are ideal because they let you identify the exact card to remove. It is also a strong sideboard tool in Modern and similar formats, where it can break up tutors, reanimation targets, or creature combo lines. The card’s flavor feels like surgical black magic: not just killing one threat, but excising its entire lineage.
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Character Background
Surgical Extraction is a precision scalpel for black decks that want to turn the graveyard into a liability, and it shines most in control, disruptive tempo, and anti-combo shells. At instant speed for either black mana or 2 life, it can punish a key card already milled, discarded, or countered by stripping every copy from the opponent’s graveyard, hand, and library. That makes it especially brutal against combo pieces, redundant win conditions, and engines that rely on a single named card. In practice, pair it with discard, counterspells, or graveyard hate to force information and maximize the hit; Thoughtseize effects are ideal because they let you identify the exact card to remove. It is also a strong sideboard tool in Modern and similar formats, where it can break up tutors, reanimation targets, or creature combo lines. The card’s flavor feels like surgical black magic: not just killing one threat, but excising its entire lineage.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-10-24 13:20:44 UTC