Soul-Guide Gryff
Dedicated graveyard hate has a payment problem: answers like Tormod's Crypt or Relic of Progenitus do nothing for your board, so they only earn their keep against strategies that actually feed a graveyard. This bundles a version of that fix into a body, stapling a single instance of targeted exile onto a 3/4 flyer that earns its slot on evasion and stats first. The exile is deliberately narrow: up to one card, on the enters trigger, with no repeatability. That narrowness is what keeps it usable as maindeck-friendly disruption rather than a pure hoser: it clips one flashback card, a piece of delve fuel, a reanimation target you can see coming, and then it goes back to blocking and racing in the air. The "up to one" phrasing does real work, because it lets you cast the creature freely even when there is nothing worth exiling. Without it, an empty graveyard would simply keep the ability off the stack (the creature still enters fine), but "up to one" also means an irrelevant graveyard never forces you to exile a card you would rather leave alone. This is incidental hate as a design philosophy: not a wall against graveyard decks, but a soft tax folded into a creature you would run anyway, treating the exile as upside rather than the reason the card is in the deck.


