Soul-Shackled Zombie

Graveyard hate is usually a spell you cast reluctantly, a tax you pay to answer someone else's engine and then move on. Bundling that answer onto a creature's arrival changes the accounting: the exile is no longer a dedicated card slot but a rider on a body you were playing anyway, and the drain clause turns a defensive tap into a two-point life swing whenever a creature card is among the two you snipe. That conditional is the pivot. Pointed at a pile of flashback fuel with no creatures in it, this is a plain 4/2 that happens to thin an opponent's recursion options; pointed at a deck feeding a reanimation loop or a graveyard combo, it is disruption plus reach in one trigger. The 4/2 body tells you where the design's priorities sit: aggressive stats, brittle enough that it wants to trade or attack rather than block, which frames the drain as pressure rather than stabilization. The exile targets a single graveyard, so it cannot fan out across a multiplayer table in one cast, and it caps at two cards, keeping it a precision instrument rather than a graveyard wipe. What it represents is the modern habit of folding utility onto stats: an answer to durdling hate pieces that ask you to spend a whole card doing nothing to your own board. Here the answer attacks.