Feed the Cycle

Unconditional destruction of a creature or planeswalker at two mana is a rate black usually has to pay for somehow, and the payment here is a choice rather than a fixed tax. The forage clause turns your graveyard and your Food into removal fuel: exile three cards or sacrifice a Food, and the spell is a clean two-mana kill. Fall short on either, and the backstop keeps it castable at three, so the card never becomes a dead draw the way a strict alternative-cost removal spell can. That design does real work in how it slots into a deck. It rewards the same graveyard and Food engines that want to be filling up anyway, converting resources that would otherwise sit as byproducts into a premium answer, but it refuses to punish the deck that has nothing to feed it. The interesting tension is that the cheaper mode actively wants your graveyard empty afterward, which cuts against reanimation and delve shells that would rather hoard those three cards; the payment is a genuine cost, not free value. What you are left with is a piece of interaction that scales with how much your deck is already producing, priced so that the floor is a slightly overcosted kill spell and the ceiling is one of the more efficient removal spells black has access to.