Crossroads Candleguide

Two functions rarely bundled into one common-slot body: incidental graveyard hate on entry and repeatable five-color fixing. The exile trigger targets any single card in any graveyard, which makes it a soft answer to flashback, disturb, escape, and other graveyard-recursion plans without demanding you main-deck a dedicated hoser; the "up to one" wording means it never sits dead when there's nothing worth exiling. Once it's down, the activation turns it into a mana rock stapled to a 3/4 blocker, smoothing splashes at a cost that's steep per-color but reliable turn after turn. The Scarecrow type and colorless mana value are what let it fit anywhere: no color commitment on the way in, any color on the way out. That combination is the whole reason to run it over a cleaner rock or a cleaner piece of graveyard interaction: neither of those does the other job, and this one asks for no specific archetype to justify a slot. It is a utility artifact built for decks that want a body, a modest mana filter, and a one-time graveyard tax folded into the same card, at the price of doing none of the three exceptionally well.