Declaration in Stone
Exile is the cleanest form of removal in white's arsenal, and the design problem this answers is the cost of cleanliness. Most cheap exile effects either overpay for the rate or hand the opponent nothing in return. Here the price is written into the resolving spell itself: two mana scrubs a creature off the table no matter how much indestructibility, graveyard recursion, or death-trigger insurance it carries, and the compensation is baked in through investigate. Crucially, the opponent is the one who investigates: whoever controlled the exiled creatures gets a Clue for each nontoken body removed. That clause is the throttle, not decoration. Against a single threat you are handing the opponent a card in exchange for the certainty of the removal, which keeps a two-mana catch-all from being strictly oppressive. It still asks for a legal target, so a hexproof creature stays out of reach; the spell answers what it can touch, and it touches almost everything.
The name-matching clause is what turns a precise removal spell into a soft sweeper. Because it exiles every creature its controller controls sharing the named creature's name, one target can drag an entire board of copies with it, and the Clue count scales with how many of those copies are nontoken: a swarm of tokens costs them nothing back, a stack of real bodies hands them a Clue apiece. That folds two effects into a single slot, the targeting language doing both jobs at once. The result scales inversely with how much the opponent has committed to one name: surgical against a lone creature, devastating against a field of identical ones, and always honest about the cards it gives back.
