Geistflame

One damage rarely closes a game, and that is exactly the bet this card makes: by stapling flashback onto a one-mana ping, the design converts a low-impact effect into a recurring one. The first cast costs a single red mana and picks off an X/1, snipes a planeswalker loyalty, or pushes the last point through. The graveyard cast costs four, which looks steep against the body it kills, but it is buying a second trigger from a card you already spent, not a fresh card from hand. That structure makes it a slow card-advantage engine wearing the clothes of a cantrip-less burn spell: two pings spread across the game, each at instant speed, each available in a different turn. The friction is the four-mana flashback price, which keeps the engine from being free and forces you to weigh recursion against everything else competing for late-game mana. It belongs to the lineage of attrition burn that wants to grind a board down one toughness at a time rather than deal a lethal lump, the same role Forked Bolt and similar pingers fill, but with the graveyard giving it a second life that a one-shot does not have. The reach to any target is what keeps it relevant past creatures: a flashback ping at a planeswalker or a player is the kind of incremental pressure that a deck built to outlast its opponent actually wants.