Remorseful Cleric

The breakthrough for graveyard hate was making it earn a slot before it ever exiles anything. Old-style answers (Tormod's Crypt, Relic of Progenitus, the various Leyline effects) sat dead in matchups where the graveyard didn't matter, which relegated them to the sideboard and nothing more. This is the alternative: a 2/1 flyer that pressures life totals and trades in combat exactly like an unconditional two-drop, with the exile folded in as a sacrifice ability you spend only when the board state calls for it. Maindeck it, and against decks with no graveyard plan it's just a creature that flies; against reanimator or delve or a flashback engine, it becomes a one-shot exile on a body, fired at instant speed in response to the exact moment they try to assemble their yard. The sacrifice is instant-speed, so removal doesn't cleanly strip the answer: point a burn spell at it and you crack it in response, the same way you'd sacrifice a Crypt to dodge artifact hate. What actually separates it from a colorless rock is exposure to the far broader pool of creature removal. A Crypt only fears artifact answers; the Cleric dies to anything that kills a two-drop, which forces you to spend the exile prematurely far more often, cashing in your insurance before the graveyard threat has even materialized. That is the tension of the design: you get a real clock or you get the answer, but every point of pressure you extract keeps a fragile body on the table that an opponent can pressure into an early trigger.