Liliana's Scorn

Five mana to unconditionally destroy a creature is a rate no serious removal spell has run at in years, which tells you the destruction was never the point. The tutor rider is the whole brief: for its stated cost, this fetches a single, specifically named card, Liliana, Death Mage, from library or graveyard into your hand. It belongs to the small tradition of removal spells welded to a planeswalker's story, effects that exist so the tie-in walker has a supporting cast rather than to earn a slot on their own merits. The graveyard clause is the one flicker of genuine utility: because it can pull the walker back after it has already died and been binned, the card doubles as a soft insurance policy on a legendary you might only ever run one copy of. Strip away that narrow tutor and you are left with overpriced creature removal, which is why the card lives and dies with the one deck built around the walker it names. The construction makes no secret of what it is: a bundled effect, priced for the bundle, aimed at players committed to a specific closed loop rather than anyone shopping for a clean answer.