Pest Control by user1445709

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

Blech, Loafing Pest rewards every life-gain event by growing your Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider board. The deck builds value from disposable tokens, sacrifice effects, and repeated life gain, using cards such as Essence Warden, Dina, Soul Steeper, Moldervine Reclamation, and Mirkwood Bats. Its strongest compact finish is Witherbloom Apprentice plus Chain of Smog. Once both pieces are assembled, the spell can copy itself indefinitely and create lethal magecraft triggers. The problem is access: the list has only partial tutoring, little protection, and several expensive payoff cards. Its ordinary game is therefore a midrange token deck with a late combo ceiling, not a consistently fast combo deck. It can produce large boards and strong attrition, but sweepers, graveyard disruption, and removal aimed at the key creatures can reset its progress. Blech, Loafing Pest is a useful growth engine, but the commander is not required for the combo finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Containment Breach
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 1 Follow the Lumarets
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grapple with Death
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Pest Summoning
  • 1 Plague of Vermin
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shopkeeper's Bane
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spike Feeder
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery