Blech by Berta

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

Blech, Loafing Pest commands a Golgari midrange deck that converts lifegain triggers into team-wide +1/+1 counters for Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders. The game plan focuses on deploying Blech early, then utilizing recurring lifegain enablers like Essence Warden, Prosperous Innkeeper, and Pest death triggers to rapidly scale kindred creatures. Wide token producers such as Scute Swarm, Blight Mound, Pest Infestation, and Beledros Witherbloom build an expansive battlefield that threatens massive combat damage. Overrun effects from Blossoming Bogbeast and evasion from Duskshell Crawler ensure combat connections, while aristocrat drain engines like Dina, Soul Steeper, Mirkwood Bats, and Defiling Daemogoth burn the table simultaneously. High functional redundancy across typeline tokens and lifegain triggers ensures a reliable Turn 6 onset and a steady Turn 8 table elimination, supported by resilient token creation and secondary drain win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Ancient Cornucopia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Callous Bloodmage
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Eumidian Terrabotanist
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 1 Flare of Cultivation
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hollowmurk Siege
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Oracle's Restoration
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Signal Pest
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Witherbloom Command