Surgical Extraction is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card 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.
How it works : Surgical Extraction
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
"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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Syr Konrad, the Grim + Shadowborn Apostle + Secret Salvage + Surgical Extraction
- 1Cast Secret Salvage by paying
, exiling Shadowborn Apostle from your graveyard and causing you to search your library for all copies of Shadowborn Apostle in your library and put them into your hand. - 2Syr Konrad triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent.
- 3Move to your cleanup step, causing you to discard down to your maximum hand size, ensuring to discard as many copies of Shadowborn Apostle as possible.
- 4Syr Konrad triggers for each creature card discarded this way, dealing that much damage to each opponent.
- 5During the next player's turn, cast Surgical Extraction by paying , exiling all copies of Shadowborn Apostle from your graveyard.
- 6Syr Konrad triggers for each creature card exiled this way, dealing that much damage to each opponent.
Syr Konrad, the Grim + Rat Colony + Secret Salvage + Surgical Extraction
- 1Cast Secret Salvage by paying , exiling Rat Colony from your graveyard and causing you to search your library for all copies of Rat Colony in your library and put them into your hand.
- 2Syr Konrad triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent.
- 3Move to your cleanup step, causing you to discard down to your maximum hand size, ensuring to discard as many copies of Rat Colony as possible.
- 4Syr Konrad triggers for each creature card discarded this way, dealing that much damage to each opponent.
- 5During the next player's turn, cast Surgical Extraction by paying , exiling all copies of Rat Colony from your graveyard.
- 6Syr Konrad triggers for each creature card exiled this way, dealing that much damage to each opponent.
Syr Konrad, the Grim + Persistent Petitioners + Secret Salvage + Surgical Extraction
- 1Cast Secret Salvage by paying , exiling Persistent Petitioners from your graveyard and causing you to search your library for all copies of Persistent Petitioners in your library and put them into your hand.
- 2Syr Konrad triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent.
- 3Move to your cleanup step, causing you to discard down to your maximum hand size, ensuring to discard as many copies of Persistent Petitioners as possible.
- 4Syr Konrad triggers for each creature card discarded this way, dealing that much damage to each opponent.
- 5During the next player's turn, cast Surgical Extraction by paying , exiling all copies of Persistent Petitioners from your graveyard.
- 6Syr Konrad triggers for each creature card exiled this way, dealing that much damage to each opponent.
Syr Konrad, the Grim + Relentless Rats + Secret Salvage + Surgical Extraction
- 1Cast Secret Salvage by paying , exiling Relentless Rats from your graveyard and causing you to search your library for all copies of Relentless Rats in your library and put them into your hand.
- 2Syr Konrad triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent.
- 3Move to your cleanup step, causing you to discard down to your maximum hand size, ensuring to discard as many copies of Relentless Rats as possible.
- 4Syr Konrad triggers for each creature card discarded this way, dealing that much damage to each opponent.
- 5During the next player's turn, cast Surgical Extraction by paying , exiling all copies of Relentless Rats from your graveyard.
- 6Syr Konrad triggers for each creature card exiled this way, dealing that much damage to each opponent.
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