---
name: "Surgical Extraction"
mana_cost: "{B/P}"
cmc: 1
type_line: "Instant"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: []
set: "PRM"
set_name: "Magic Online Promos"
collector_number: "102251"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Thomas M. Baxa"
oracle_id: "3bfa088c-9a47-4123-aee5-4de44e355bef"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/surgical-extraction-prm"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Surgical Extraction
- **Mana Cost:** `{B/P}` (CMC: 1)
- **Type:** Instant

## 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.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Cranial Extraction](/printing/cranial-extraction-chk.md) — Sorcery — Arcane
2. [Secret Salvage](/printing/secret-salvage-paer.md) — Sorcery
3. [Slaughter Games](/printing/slaughter-games-ea1.md) — Sorcery
4. [Suffer the Past](/printing/suffer-the-past-c21.md) — Instant
5. [Memoricide](/printing/memoricide-prm.md) — Sorcery
6. [Extirpate](/printing/extirpate-plc.md) — Instant

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Magic Online Promos (PRM) #102251
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Thomas M. Baxa
- **Total Printings:** 41 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`