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Marionette Masterdrain$1.56This is the premier artifact-sacrifice drain creature, turning your artifact deaths into direct life loss with a much larger payoff. It plays the same aristocrats/artifact-engine role, but at a higher mana cost and higher ceiling.Disciple of the Vaultdrain$1.09A classic low-cost artifact payoff that drains opponents whenever your artifacts go to the graveyard. It is one of the closest cheap functional substitutes for a black artifact-sacrifice engine.Pitiless Plunderertoken_generation$2.18While it makes Treasures instead of draining, it fills the same role of rewarding your creatures dying and fueling more sacrifice loops. It is a staple in aristocrats combo shells with similar mana cost.Nadier's NightbladedrainBudget$0.19This card converts token deaths into life loss for opponents, serving as a parallel sacrifice payoff in black decks. It is especially strong in token-heavy builds that overlap with artifact token strategies.Vindictive VampiredrainBudget$0.23A close aristocrats payoff that drains each opponent whenever your creatures die, including artifact creatures like Servos. It is slightly slower but broadly functions like a multiplayer version of the source card.Bastion of RemembrancedrainBudget$0.35This enchantment provides the same incremental life-drain reward for your creatures dying and is very efficient in sacrifice decks. It is less tied to artifacts specifically, but the functional role is extremely similar.Mirkwood BatsdrainBudget$0.94It drains opponents when you create or sacrifice tokens, which overlaps well with Servo/Artifact token engines and sacrifice loops. It is a stronger but more mana-intensive payoff for token-heavy artifact decks.Syr Konrad, the Grimdrain$36.85This is a broader graveyard-death payoff that pings opponents when creatures leave the battlefield or hit graveyards. It is less narrow than Marionette Apprentice but fills a similar black life-drain role.
