Surgical Extraction
{B/P}Instant
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({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.
Official rulings
- 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)
- "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)
- 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)
- Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana. (2011-06-01)
- If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life. (2011-06-01)
- 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)
Printings & prices
Every set Surgical Extraction has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.
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