Good news for you. It does exist in the new API. You can use exists () function call.
Just remember to use GetBlockBlobReference which doesn't perform the call to the server.
You can use the given syntax:
public static bool BlobExists(CloudBlobClient client,
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{
return client.GetContainerReference(containerName)
.GetBlockBlobReference(key)
.Exists();
You can learn more about various types of Azure storage on Azure Storage Tutorial.