Surgical Extraction
B/PInstant
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({B/P} 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.
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Market prices
updated on 06/17/2026| Source | Normal | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Card Kingdom | $4.49 | $4.49 |
| Cardmarket | €4.11 | €3.92 |
| CardTrader Buy | €2.69 | €3.51 |
| TCGplayer | $2.14 | — |
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Near Mint: 26 · Slightly Played: 1
Rulings (6)
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.
06/01/2011"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.
06/01/2011To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
06/01/2011Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
06/01/2011If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
06/01/2011A 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.
06/01/2011Legality by format
| Brawl | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Old School | Not legal |
| Pauper | Not legal |
| Pioneer | Not legal |
| Premodern | Not legal |
| Standard | Not legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Not legal |
| Extended | Not legal |
| Frontier | Not legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Not legal |