Carrion Imp

Common-rarity graveyard hate stapled to an evasive body, and that pairing is the entire design logic. A dedicated hate piece like Tormod's Crypt costs you a card and a slot; folding the effect into a 2/3 flyer means the answer never rots in hand against a matchup that does not show up. The exile is optional and single-target, so it does not blank against an empty graveyard: you play a serviceable evasive body and take the reanimation insurance only when it is there to take. The two life rides on the exile actually resolving (the text conditions it with "if you do"), so the graveyard clause and its reward travel together, all or nothing. Against an empty yard you get a plain flyer and no incidental payoff, which is the honest shape of the card rather than a hidden downside: nothing about the body suffers for the graveyard interaction whiffing. This is the fair-Magic version of graveyard answers: not a wall you build against a combo deck, but a creature you would run anyway that happens to strip a single target off an opponent's pile, exiling their best reanimation or recursion target rather than sweeping the whole yard. It belongs to a long line of black creatures that answer graveyards while still contributing to the board, where the value proposition is simply that you never lose the slot when the matchup does not materialize.