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Gifted Aetherbornutility$0.35Black creature with lifelink and deathtouch that plays a similar stabilizing role by padding your life total while blocking profitably.Gray Merchant of Asphodeldrain$1.27Another black drain effect that gains you life while draining an opponent, often serving as a stronger life-swing payoff.Sangromancerutility$0.89Rewards combat or discard by gaining life, serving as a black lifegain creature that helps stabilize like Bloodhunter Bat.Nirkana Assassinutility$0.11A black creature that can gain deathtouch and lifelink, functioning as a survivability and life-padding body similar to the Bat.Vampire Nighthawkutility$0.20Classic black flying lifelink/deathtouch creature that fills the same stabilizing evasive body role at a lower cost.Basilica Screecherdrain$0.26Cheap evasive black creature that can drain life via extort, overlapping with Bloodhunter Bat's incremental life-swing plan.Nightmare Shepherdutility$2.05Black flying creature that creates value on death and can support attrition plans, similar in being an evasive black utility threat.Sorin's Thirstdrain$0.09Direct life-swing spell in black that deals damage and gains life in one card, mirroring the Bat's enter-the-battlefield effect.
