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Pantlaza, Sun-Favored does this from a Dinosaur kindred angle, using some mild kindred effects but mostly focusing on creatures that are powerful in a vacuum

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Cards like Wall of Blood let you drain as much of your life as youd like, and you can syphon all the cost reduction into an X-spell like Exsanguinate or Jaya's Immolating Inferno