Extract
Sorcery
Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $4.76
- EDHREC rank
- #17449
Extract lets you permanently delete a single card from an opponent's library before it ever becomes a problem — no graveyard, no recursion, just gone. One blue mana for that kind of surgical removal is the real story; the cost is that it does nothing to anything already on the battlefield.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Extract earns its keep — the singleton format means removing the one copy of a combo piece, a problematic land, or a tutor target can cripple a specific player's game plan entirely. It sees fringe play in Legacy and Vintage as a hate piece in combo mirrors, where knowing your opponent's deck lets you excise the card their whole strategy hinges on. Outside of those older formats, Extract is not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, so the audience is narrow. In Oathbreaker it functions similarly to Commander — one copy of a key spell gone from a 60-card singleton deck is a real disruption.
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Price Context
Current price
$4.76 cheap tier
At $4.76, Extract sits in budget territory for a niche blue spell with a very specific use case. Demand is narrow enough that the price is stable rather than climbing — run it if your meta calls for it, but don't expect it to appreciate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.