Surgical Extraction
Instant
( 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.
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."AAAHHGH!"
Illustrated by Mark Bagley · Secret Lair Drop (SLD)
Legalities
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
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Secret Lair Drop
#2022
rare
2025-09-22
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Secret Lair Drop
#2003
rare
2025-09-22
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Breaking News
#19
rare
2024-04-19
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Magic Online Promos
#102251
rare
2022-12-15
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Double Masters 2022
#94
rare
2022-07-08
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Double Masters 2022
#444
rare
2022-07-08
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Double Masters 2022
#356
rare
2022-07-08
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Modern Masters 2015
#99
rare
2015-05-22
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Magic Online Promos
#40072
rare
2011-12-12
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New Phyrexia
#74
rare
2011-05-13
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New Phyrexia Promos
#74★
rare
2011-05-12
Rulings
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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.
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To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
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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.
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If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
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Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
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"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.
Archetypes that play this card
Legacy
- Other 2.0% of lists
Modern
- Other 4.7% of lists
- Izzet Prowess 3.4% of lists