Deadeye Tracker

Graveyard hate usually arrives as a one-shot: a spell you deploy once and watch turn into a blank card the moment the matchup shifts. This Pirate reframes the effect as a repeatable engine by stapling it to a body that grows. Each activation strips exactly two cards from an opponent's graveyard and then explores as part of the same ability's resolution, so the disruption comes bundled with incremental value: a +1/+1 counter or a land off the top every time it fires. The balancing constraint is right there in the target requirement. The ability needs two cards in an opponent's yard to activate at all, so against decks that keep their graveyard empty it simply cannot be turned on: no exile, and no explore either, since the explore is baked into resolution rather than a separate hook to fall back on. It is a dedicated answer to graveyards, not a value creature that happens to hate on them. Where it earns its keep is the grind: a one-mana creature that can chew through a flashback engine, a delve enabler, or a reanimation pile two cards at a time, indefinitely, rather than a single explosive blast. The cost is tempo and a tapped body. At 1/1 it invites removal before it ever activates, and each activation ties the creature up, so it erodes a graveyard slowly instead of shutting one off outright. The explore counters are the offer in return: survive long enough and the disruption tool becomes a real clock.