Beckon Apparition

Most cheap exile-from-the-yard effects spend a card on a proactive answer and leave nothing on board: this one staples a single instant-speed disruption to a 1/1 flier, so the tempo you sink into reacting to a flashback target or a reanimation setup comes back partly as a creature. The token is small, but it flies and it sticks, which buys more than the stat line implies: it chips in evasive damage, holds up a chump block, or feeds any engine hungry for a body to sacrifice. The exile half is what makes the card matter. Targeting a card rather than a permanent answers graveyard recursion at its source, before the value returns, and at instant speed you can sit on it until the exact moment a key card is about to be reused. The cost keeps it frictionless: one white-or-black symbol, payable in either color thanks to the hybrid pip, so it asks nothing unusual of a manabase that already runs white, black, or both. It does not sweep a whole graveyard the way wider hate does; it surgically removes one card. The Spirit it leaves behind is the entire reason to run this over a strictly reactive exile spell, the difference between trading down and trading even.