Carrion Locust

Graveyard hate usually pays the tempo tax head-on: a dedicated card and mana spent on a reactive effect that leaves the board untouched. The trade here is different. The body is deliberately below rate (a 3-mana 2/1 flier is not something you cast for its stats), which is precisely why the exile trigger is bolted to it: you accept an underpowered creature to fold the disruption into a cast that also puts a flying clock on the table. The clause is single-target, which keeps it honest against decks that grind graveyard value one card at a time; it will not empty a delve engine or a flashback stockpile, but it can strip the one reanimation target, snap a loop, or exile the escape fuel an opponent has been banking. The conditional life loss when the exiled card is a creature is a small aristocrat-flavored kicker that punishes reanimator shells at the exact moment they hurt most: take the payoff, and you also chip the clock. Evasion carries more weight than the body implies, since even a modest flier keeps applying pressure through a ground stall long after the enter-trigger has done its work. It belongs to the lineage of utility creatures that ask you to eat a soft stat line in exchange for stapling interaction to a permanent, trading breadth for precision: a scalpel where cards like Bojuka Bog swing a hammer.