A Buggy Brew by Jalthex

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The deck is a Golgari token-and-counter swarm built around Blech, Loafing Pest. It generates Pest, Insect, Snake, and Spider tokens, gains life from creature entry and death triggers, and turns that life gain into army-wide +1/+1 counters. A strong graveyard subtheme supports recursion via Entomb, Reanimate, Living Death, and Zask. The main finishing line is Mikaeus plus Walking Ballista for infinite pings, while the token beatdown plan serves as a backup. Blech's ability is the central engine, but the deck can still function through grind and combo without him.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Eumidian Terrabotanist
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Iridescent Hornbeetle
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord