Lobotomy

Lobotomy refers to the act of exiling all (or any) copies of a card generally from target player's hand, library and graveyard. It alludes to the effect of its namesake, the Tempest card <c>Lobotomy</c>, and occasionally are called extraction effects after <c>Surgical Extraction</c>.
==Description==
Lobotomy effects are primary centered in black—flavored as permanently messing with people's minds. Blue also used to be getting a decent amount, but nowadays it is solely to be found in black. Urza's Destiny had a lobotomy cycle that was reprinted in Betrayers of Kamigawa. The effect is primarily a sideboard anti-combo effect, as against most decks removing one specific card is ineffectual, whereas combo decks dedicate resources towards finding particular cards. Recently, more aggressively costed Lobotomy effects are accompanied with a clause that grants the target a bonus (usually a card, sometimes a creature) if one of the named cards were in the hand. This design recognizes that the extra mana that it costs is not worth the potential for card parity by catching the card in hand.
The most famous cards are <c>Extirpate</c> and <c>Surgical Extraction</c>.
===List of lobotomy cards===
Last Updated for Wilds of Eldraine
Name 	Cost	Original Set 	What being lobotomized
<c>Counterbore</c> 	 	Shadowmoor 	Lobotomizes a countered spell.
<c>Cranial Extraction</c> 	 	Champions of Kamigawa 	Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name.
<c>Crumble to Dust</c> 	 	Battle for Zendikar 	Lobotomizes a nonbasic land.
<c>Deadly Cover-Up</c> 	 	Murders at Karlov Manor 	Lobotomizes a chosen card from a graveyard.
<c>Deicide</c> 	 	Journey into Nyx 	Lobotomizes an enchantment if it's also a God.
<c>Dispossess</c> 	 	Amonkhet 	Lobotomizes an artifact of chosen card name.
<c>Eradicate</c> 	 	Urza's Destiny 	Lobotomizes a nonblack creature.
<c>Extirpate</c> 	 	Planar Chaos 	Lobotomizes a chosen card, other than a basic land, from a graveyard.
<c>Grizzled Huntmaster</c> 	 	Alchemy: Innistrad 	Lobotomizes a creature from your hand and deck.
<c>Haunting Echoes</c> 	 	Odyssey 	Lobotomizes all cards, other than basic lands, from a graveyard.
<c>Infinite Obliteration</c> 	 	Magic Origins 	Lobotomizes a creature of chosen card name.
<c>Invasive Surgery</c> 	 	Shadows over Innistrad 	Lobotomizes a countered sorcery spell if the player has enabled Delirium.
<c>Kotose, the Silent Spider</c>	 	Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty 	Lobotomizes a chosen card, other than a basic land, from an opponent's graveyard
<c>Lobotomy</c> 	 	Tempest 	Lobotomizes a chosen card, other than a basic land, from a hand.
<c>Lost Legacy</c> 	 	Kaladesh 	Lobotomizes a nonartifact, nonland card of chosen card name.
<c>Memoricide</c> 	 	Scars of Mirrodin 	Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name.
<c>Necromentia</c> 	 	Core Set 2021 	Lobotomizes a card other than a basic land of chosen card name.
<c>Pick the Brain</c> 	 	Shadows over Innistrad 	Lobotomizes a chosen nonland card from a hand if the player has enabled Delirium.
<c>Quash</c> 	 	Urza's Destiny 	Lobotomizes a countered instant or sorcery spell.
<c>Reap Intellect</c> 	 	Dragon's Maze 	Lobotomizes chosen up to X nonland cards from a hand.
<c>Scour</c> 	 	Urza's Destiny 	Lobotomizes an enchantment.
<c>Shimian Specter</c> 	 	Future Sight 	Creature that lobotomizes a chosen nonland card from a hand when deals combat damage to that hand's player.
<c>Slaughter Games</c> 	 	Return to Ravnica 	Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name.
<c>Sowing Salt</c> 	 	Urza's Destiny 	Lobotomizes a nonbasic land.
<c>Splinter</c> 	 	Urza's Destiny 	Lobotomizes an artifact.
<c>Stain the Mind</c> 	 	Magic 2015 	Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name.
<c>The End</c> 	 	Wilds of Eldraine 	Lobotomizes a creature or planeswalker.
<c>The Stone Brain</c> 	 	The Brothers' War 	Lobotomizes up to 4 copies of any card with chosen card name.
<c>Surgical Extraction</c> 	 	New Phyrexia 	Lobotomizes a chosen card, other than a basic land, from a graveyard.
<c>Test of Talents</c> 	 	Strixhaven: School of Mages	Lobotomizes a countered target or instant spell.
<c>Thought Hemorrhage</c> 	 	Alara Reborn 	Lobotomizes a nonland card of chosen card name.
<c>Unexpected Conversion</c> 	 	Alchemy: Innistrad 	Lobotomizes an instant or sorcery from your hand and deck.
<c>Unmoored Ego</c> 	 	Guilds of Ravnica 	Lobotomizes up to 4 copies of any card with chosen card name.
===Acorn cards===
Name 	Cost	Original Set	What being lobotomized
<c>Look at Me, I'm the DCI</c>	 	Unglued 	Lobotomizes a card of chosen card name to all players (including their sideboards and the battlefield). The exiled cards remain exiled until the match ends.
==References==
Category:Magic slang
Category:Miscellaneous mechanics
Category:Release day maintenance