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Bastion of Remembranceutility$0.35Provides a repeatable life-drain engine that steadily chips away at opponents while padding your life total, much like Vampire Neonate's incremental drain. It costs more upfront but is harder to remove and affects all opponents at once.Blood Artistutility$1.84A premier life-drain creature that repeatedly drains opponents in small chunks while gaining you life, serving a similar attrition role. It is cheaper to activate because it triggers off deaths instead of mana.Bontu's Monumentutility$3.70Gives your black creature spells a steady drain effect that resembles Vampire Neonate's incremental life loss and gain. It is less direct but can generate repeated value in a black-heavy deck.Crypt Ghastutility$11.13While primarily ramp, it also has extort, which lets you repeatedly drain opponents and gain life in a way similar to Vampire Neonate. It costs much more, but can create a strong life-swing engine.Kalastria Highbornutility$1.10A black life-drain creature that repeatedly turns mana into small life swings, echoing Vampire Neonate's grindy role. It is best in Vampire decks where it can scale with creature deaths.Night Market Lookoututility$0.13A cheap creature that can repeatedly drain each opponent and gain you life by tapping, closely mirroring the small incremental swing of Vampire Neonate. It is lower on mana and easier to deploy, but requires tapping itself to work.Sanctum Seekerutility$0.72Another Vampire drain payoff that converts board presence into life loss for opponents and life gain for you. It is much more expensive, but serves the same general attrition plan in tribal decks.Sanguine Bondfinisher$5.77It creates a life-drain conversion effect that can dramatically magnify the same life-swing style Vampire Neonate provides. It is not a creature, but it fills the same black drain finisher role.
