[Modern] Dimir Deckout

3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Hedron Crab

4 Glimpse the Unthinkable
4 Mind Sluice
4 Mind Funeral
4 Archive Trap
4 Damnation
3 Surgical Extraction
4 Visions of Beyond

2 Jace, Memory Adept

4 Marsh Flats
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Watery Grave
2 Nephalia Drownyard
2 Sunken Ruins
5 Island
4 Swamp

Isn't Extirpate better than little ol' Surgy Extract?

Daemonic Myr wrote:Isn't Extirpate better than little ol' Surgy Extract?

Nope, because Surgi costs no mana

Rodrigo, Boros Lieutenant wrote:

Daemonic Myr wrote:Isn't Extirpate better than little ol' Surgy Extract?

Nope, because Surgi costs no mana

But Split Second is amazing. Snappy Chan gets screwed and it can't be countered.
That over No mana obviously.

Nope, because without the need of paying mana, I can play it on my opponent's turn when I did a big play on my last turn and couldn't save up mana, in case they put something valuable on the Graveyard which can't wait until my next turn. Mainly against Reanimator decks that base themselves on the Faithless Looting + Emrakul + Goryo's Vengeance (mind you, this deck's very common, and some decks play like this too).

Goes to show that I know nothing.