pest by Zool90

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a fair Golgari lifegain +1/+1 counters deck built around Blech, Loafing Pest. Blech converts every life-gain event into a board-wide pump for Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders, so the deck's job is to stack repeatable lifegain such as Essence Warden, Ill-Gotten Inheritance, and Fountain of Youth alongside a dense swarm of those creature types. It wins primarily through combat: Iridescent Hornbeetle turns counters placed each turn into a growing Insect army, while Tend the Pests and Spider Spawning produce wide token boards. Pest Infestation doubles as both removal and a token burst, and Dina, Soul Steeper plus Ill-Gotten Inheritance provide incidental drain reach. There are no true infinite combos here; the deck is a medium-speed value engine that snowballs through counter multiplication and tribal token generation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherjacket
  • 1 Ankle Biter
  • 1 Atraxa's Skitterfang
  • 1 Bake into a Pie
  • 1 Binding the Old Gods
  • 1 Bladebrand
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blessed Respite
  • 1 Broodspinner
  • 1 Buzzard-Wasp Colony
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Containment Breach
  • 1 Cost of Brilliance
  • 1 Courier Bat
  • 1 Cram Session
  • 1 Deadbridge Goliath
  • 1 Deadly Recluse
  • 1 Deathsprout
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Drider
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fang of Shigeki
  • 1 Forced Adaptation
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
  • 1 Fountain of Youth
  • 1 Golgari Findbroker
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Locket
  • 1 Grapple with Death
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hunt for Specimens
  • 1 Ill-Gotten Inheritance
  • 1 In the Presence of Ages
  • 1 Infuse with Vitality
  • 1 Insectoid Exterminator
  • 1 Iridescent Hornbeetle
  • 1 Jewel-Eyed Cobra
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Krotiq Nestguard
  • 1 Leyline Prowler
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Mark of the Vampire
  • 1 Maze Skullbomb
  • 1 Mirkwood Spider
  • 1 Mirrodin Avenged
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Necrosquito
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Pest Summoning
  • 1 Pestilent Syphoner
  • 1 Point the Way
  • 1 Professor of Zoomancy
  • 1 Racers' Scoreboard
  • 1 Return from Extinction
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Rotwidow Pack
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shopkeeper's Bane
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider Spawning
  • 1 Spinal Centipede
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Monumental Facade
  • 1 Twin-Silk Spider
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Webspinner Cuff
  • 1 Winter's Intervention
  • 1 Witherbloom Pledgemage