Ignis Scientia

The dig-for-a-land enters trigger is doing quiet work that separates it from the usual Simic ramp effect: six cards deep, but only a land, and only tapped, which keeps the ceiling honest while smoothing a color-hungry two-color curve. That much is familiar. The activated ability is where the card finds its own lane. Graveyard exile is common enough; gating it behind a tap and mana is the balancing lever that matters, because it means the effect resolves once per turn cycle rather than as a passive drain. That single-shot cadence is deliberate: it slows the hate to a rate a controlling deck can afford to leave online without warping every combat, and it makes each activation a decision about which graveyard card is most worth removing this turn. The conditional Food token is the clever wrinkle. Exiling a creature card pays you a token; exiling anything else does not. That turns an otherwise purely reactive ability into a value engine, but a metered one, since you only tick upward on the turns you commit the tap. Repeatable graveyard interaction usually does nothing for your own board when it fires; this one advances a Food-and-lifegain plan while it disrupts reanimator, delve, and flashback engines, which is the harder trick to pull off cheaply. The 2/2 body is incidental. The card is the repeatable exile, priced to be sustainable rather than explosive, and stitched into any shell that already wants Food or sacrifice fodder.