Blech Test

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Golgari life-gain and +1/+1 counter tribal deck helmed by Blech, Loafing Pest. The primary game plan is to generate a steady stream of life-gain triggers-through creature ETBs, death triggers, and token generation-to pump Blech's ability, which puts +1/+1 counters on every Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider you control. The deck then wins through combat damage with a wide, pumped board, supplemented by drain effects from Dina, Soul Steeper, South Wind Avatar, and Mirkwood Bats. It also leverages counter synergies like Hardened Scales and Winding Constrictor to accelerate growth. The deck has moderate removal and recursion but lacks speed, consistency, and robust protection, making it a midrange value deck that aims to outlast opponents through incremental advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Comforting Counsel
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Eumidian Terrabotanist
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 1 Follow the Lumarets
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grapple with Death
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Iridescent Hornbeetle
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meltstrider Eulogist
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 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 Pestbrood Sloth
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Root Manipulation
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shopkeeper's Bane
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery