Makeshift Mauler

The graveyard is the cost, not the payoff. To put a 4/5 body on the table for four mana you have to exile a creature card already sitting in your bin, and that card never comes back, which is the whole tension of the design. Self-mill and recursion strategies want bodies in the yard for flashback, delve, threshold-style payoffs, and reanimation; this asks you to spend one of them outright for a clean rate up front. The 4/5 line is the tell: oversized for its cost precisely because the additional cost narrows the card to graveyard-centric decks willing to make the trade. The exile clause is what gives it teeth. Plenty of graveyard payoffs only want creatures present in the yard, or want to return them to the battlefield; this one removes a creature card from the zone permanently, which means each cast is a quiet anti-synergy with whatever else in the deck is counting on those same cards. It rewards a graveyard deep enough that one creature is a rounding error, and punishes the build that needs every card down there to fuel a loop. A blue beater that demands a stocked yard and then taxes it: simple on its face, but it forces a real accounting of what your graveyard is actually for.