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Surgical Extraction
RareColour IDMV 1
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.
Card capabilities
Instant
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Primary formats
Eternal formats
Other printings
10 other English printingsEarliest 2011-05-12Newest 2025-09-22Cheapest priced $1.62 in OTP
Rulings (6)
wotc1 Jun 2011
To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
wotc1 Jun 2011
If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
wotc1 Jun 2011
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.
wotc1 Jun 2011
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.
wotc1 Jun 2011
"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.
wotc1 Jun 2011
Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
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