Thank you both for your replies :).

It’s not something I would rely on. I’ve been on both sides of Surgical Extraction in creature matchups and it rarely works out. Cards that don’t affect the board against decks that flood the board are very questionable in the best circumstances. What you are essentially doing is incrementally improving your chances of winning in a longer game. Yes, sometimes you do get back some card advantage by taking an extra copy out of their hand, but more often you don’t and just improve their chance of drawing worse.

Think of it like this: Lantern Control is based around making each of its opponent’s draws worse, but unless it hits Ensnaring Bridge it cannot beat a resolved creature. Anemic beatdown is still beatdown and in my experience if you’re using cards to make beatdown worse down the line without actually stopping their beatdown now, you’re falling behind. That’s why I advise against it.