Reito Lantern

Most graveyard answers of its era removed cards from the game outright; this one sends a single target to the bottom of its owner's library instead, and that distinction is the whole design. In practice, bottoming buries a card nearly as well as exile: absent a shuffle effect or a deck drawn down toward empty, anything tucked underneath is gone for the rest of a normal game. But the rules still count it as a card in the library rather than removed from the game, a softer interaction that matters for anything keying off exile triggers or exile counts. The activation cost is the brake. Paying repeatedly to pick off one target turns this into a surgical delay tool rather than a reset, the kind of answer aimed at recursion and flashback effects that wanted one specific card back, not at a graveyard churning out resources every turn. Because you choose when to activate it and can target a card in any graveyard, it doubles as a thin self-utility option: bottoming your own card when burying it is what you want, or stopping yourself from decking out by keeping the deck topped up. As incremental control it has aged into a curiosity, lapped by the broader graveyard engines that followed and undersold against the cheaper exile-based hate already being printed beside it. What it preserves is a snapshot of a quieter approach to graveyard interaction: the bottoming answer in a field that mostly chose to exile.