Abhorrent Oculus

Six cards exiled from the graveyard is not a downside clause tacked onto a body: it is the entire premise. The price tag reads like a normal three-drop, but nobody casts this on turn three off an empty yard, so the real question is how fast a deck can dump six cards into the graveyard and still want a 5/5 flier waiting on the far side of that effort. That reframes the whole thing as a payoff wearing a beater's cost, one that only exists in shells built to fill the graveyard quickly; self-milling engines suddenly have a threat worth chasing. The upkeep trigger is what makes it more than a cheap-looking body: manifest dread on every opponent's turn digs two deep, drops a 2/2 that might flip into something real, and buries the miss, so a stalled board keeps generating pressure without asking you to cast anything. That it fires on each opponent's upkeep rather than your own is the subtle part, front-loading value onto the turns you would otherwise be passive and turning a defensive posture into a grinding advantage. The graveyard exile also cuts both ways as a design lever: it self-limits recursion loops and taxes decks that lean on the yard for other things, so the payoff is metered by how much you are willing to spend to get here.