Selesnya Eulogist

Populate is one of the fussiest keywords Green-White has ever shipped: it does exactly nothing until you already have a creature token to copy, which makes any card that grants it a two-part machine that only fires once the other half is online. What this Centaur does is fold graveyard hate into that engine. The repeatable activated ability exiles a creature card from any graveyard, then populates, so every use pulls double duty: it strips recursion targets and dredge fodder out from under an opponent while it manufactures another copy of whatever token you have going. That pairing is the whole idea. Exile-based graveyard interaction usually lives on white enchantments or colorless artifacts that ask nothing back; here it is bolted to a token strategy so that the cost you pay to disrupt a graveyard is also the cost you pay to grow your board. The balancing wrinkle is the token prerequisite: with no token to copy, populate whiffs and you are left with a bare exile effect, so the ability rewards a deck already committed to token production rather than a deck reaching for spot graveyard hate. It belongs to a family of token-payoff creatures that convert an otherwise vertical resource (bodies) into a horizontal one (more bodies), with the graveyard exile grafted on as a differentiator that gives it a job beyond ramping the board wider.