Zombie Cannibal

The bargain here is brutal: a 1/1 that exiles cards from an opponent's graveyard only when it connects, one card per swing, blanked by a single chump blocker. It will never lock anyone out, and it was never built to. In an era when graveyards stopped being a discard pile and started being a resource (flashback to recur, threshold to power up), the question this design answers is how to disrupt that engine without burning a whole spell on a dedicated hate-piece. The answer was to bolt selective exile onto a body that still pressures life totals, so the card is never a dead draw the way a pure graveyard-hate enchantment can be. The disruption accrues slowly rather than sweeping, which is the cost of stapling it to combat. The genuinely clever part is the targeting: you choose the card that matters most, the flashback spell or the threshold enabler, rather than emptying the yard at random. That selectivity does more work than the unimpressive stat line suggests, and it is the part most players overlook. Creatures that recur exile through combat damage form a quiet thread through black's history; this one's contribution is the precision, picking the single card that hurts most each turn it gets through.