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#19 • rare • English • Foil
Surgical Extraction
{B/P}
Instant
({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.
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 Arik Roper
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Legalities
Not Legal
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historicNot Legal
Legal
ModernLegal
LegacyNot Legal
Legal
vintageLegal
CommanderLegal
brawlNot Legal
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
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