Surgical Extraction | Secret Lair Drop

Q: What does Surgical Extraction do in Magic: The Gathering?

({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 magic the gathering card art

Secret Lair Drop (sld)
#2022 • rare • English • Foil

Surgical Extraction

Instant

(

can be paid with either swamp

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.

Illustrated by Mark Bagley

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Legalities

Not Legal

standard

Not Legal

future

Legal

historic

Legal

timeless

Legal

gladiator

Not Legal

pioneer

Legal

Modern

Legal

Legacy

Not Legal

pauper

Legal

vintage

Not Legal

Penny

Legal

Commander

Legal

Oath Breaker

Not Legal

Standard Brawl

Legal

brawl

Not Legal

alchemy

Not Legal

Pauper EDH

Legal

duel

Not Legal

Old School

Not Legal

Pre-Modern

Legal

PreDH

Rulings

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.

2011-06-01 • wotc

To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.

2011-06-01 • wotc

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.

2011-06-01 • wotc

If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.

2011-06-01 • wotc

Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.

2011-06-01 • wotc

"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.

2011-06-01 • wotc