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Slaughter GamesdisruptionBudget$0.26A direct black-red analogue that names a card and exiles all copies from the chosen player's hand, library, and graveyard. It also makes the effect uncounterable, but uses the same discard-style anti-combo role.Lost LegacydisruptionBudget$0.13Very close functional replacement in black: it names a nonartifact, nonland card and exiles all copies from the opponent's hand, library, and graveyard. It trades flexibility for a slightly more restrictive card type clause.MemoricidedisruptionBudget$0.17This is one of the closest matches to Cranial Extraction, naming a card and exiling all copies from hand, library, and graveyard. It is nearly identical in role and cost.Extirpatedisruption$1.65A one-card surgical effect that removes all copies of a chosen card from graveyard, hand, and library? Actually it only targets a graveyard card and exiles all copies from the owner's hand, graveyard, and library. It serves the same anti-combo, anti-recursion purpose at instant speed.Surgical Extractiondisruption$2.01A premier graveyard-based version of the same effect: it exiles a card from a graveyard and all copies from hand, library, and graveyard. It is much cheaper and more efficient, though narrower in timing and setup.Praetor's Graspdisruption$10.13Similar in that it removes a key card from an opponent's library and lets you exile or steal it for later use. It is more proactive and different in execution, but fills the same disruptive tutor-denial role.Thought HemorrhagedisruptionBudget$0.18A close black-red thoughtseize-style name-and-strip spell that can hit all copies from hand and library, while also dealing damage. It does not touch the graveyard, but it occupies the same anti-combo slot.Bitter Ordealdisruption$13.16A black exile-and-strip effect that can remove multiple copies of a named card from an opponent's library, hand, and graveyard via gravestorm. It is less direct, but can function as a powerful extraction finisher.
