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Surgical Skullbomb

First printed in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023)

All 2 prints

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Surgical Skullbomb

Artifact

1 generic, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
2 genericBlue, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature to its owner's hand. Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

It crackles with the intellect of a twisted genius.

Illustrated by
Gaboleps

Legality

Ruling (1)

  • If the target of Surgical Skullbomb's last ability isn't a legal target as the ability tries to resolve (probably because it has left the battlefield), you won't draw a card.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Surgical Skullbomb in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE), Premier Draft 53.9% -0.8 +2.2 42401
Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE), Sealed 56.3% -0.1 +3.1 2254
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen

Commander In 6 of 6161 decks (0.1%), most in Mm'menon, the Right Hand

Share of decks
0.1%
▲ 0.1 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.2% 2026-08-24: 0.1% 2026-08-31: 0.0% 2026-09-07: 0.0% 2026-09-14: 0.1% 2026-09-21: 0.1% 2026-09-28: 0.2% 2026-10-05: 0.1% 2026-10-12: 0.1% 2026-10-19: 0.1% 2026-10-26: 0.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
7
7 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
10%
0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Mm'menon, the Right Hand 0.1% 100%
Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor 0.0% 50%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Fountainport Bell100%924.9
Aether Spellbomb100%104.4
Moonsilver Key100%20.2
Sensei's Divining Top100%13.8
Urza's Saga100%4.1
Mox Amber100%1.5
Sol Ring100%1.0
Wanderer's Twig86%924.9
Waterlogged Hulk // Watertight Gondola86%924.9
Phyrexian Furnace86%924.9

Best win rate

DeckRecord
Mm'menon, the Right Hand
William DiMeo in FOIL Gaea's Cradle cEDH 6k
0-5
0%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
Terry Lee,
1 main #50
of 59
0-2
Mm'menon, the Right Hand
Jesse Key,
1 main #23
of 59
1-3
Mm'menon, the Right Hand
Drew Fiel [Grim],
1 main #23
of 65
1-2
Mm'menon, the Right Hand
William DiMeo,
1 main #73
of 79
0-5
Mm'menon, the Right Hand
Jesse Key,
1 main #21
of 62
1-3
Mm'menon, the Right Hand
Jay Anson,
1 main #16
of 16
0-3