Funeral Pyre

Graveyard hate built for a specific paranoia: the threshold-and-flashback decks of its era that turned the graveyard into a second hand. Most exile-from-graveyard effects of the time were one-way taxes, but this one hands the target's owner a 1/1 flier in return, which reads like a concession until you account for who the spell is aimed at. Against a reanimator pile or a flashback engine, exiling one key card for one white mana is the whole transaction; the Spirit you give back is a body that does nothing to advance their plan, and often arrives on your own side of the table when you point the spell at your own graveyard to dodge a recursion play or an opponent's graveyard hate. That self-targeting wrinkle is the underrated half of the design: it converts a card you no longer want in your graveyard into a flier at instant speed, which means the symmetry never costs you anything you cared about. The token clause is also flavor doing structural work: the burned card's spirit rises, a tidy bit of color-pie logic that keeps the effect inside white's lane of orderly, reciprocal answers rather than the pure denial black or blue would offer. It is a narrow tool, but the kind that ages well, because graveyard strategies keep getting reprinted and reinvented, and a one-mana instant that exiles and gives back something irrelevant is a clean way to interact with them.