Blech the lively by user3617739

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 16

Deck overview

This deck uses Blech, Loafing Pest to turn life gain into +1/+1 counters on Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders. The main operating package is Blech, Loafing Pest, Essence Warden, and Scute Swarm. Once six lands are available, landfall creates a rapidly growing Insect board, while Essence Warden supplies the life that makes Blech, Loafing Pest scale the creatures. The deck has strong creature-theme redundancy and several ways to convert a wide board into cards or combat pressure, including Terrasymbiosis, Inspiring Call, Ohran Frostfang, and Earthshaker Giant. Its limits are slower assembly, many tapped lands, limited protection, and no deterministic finish. Removal can answer the key permanents before the engine compounds, and a large token board still needs several combat steps to eliminate three players. This is a synergistic casual-to-mid-power engine deck, not a competitive Commander list.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ancient Cornucopia
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Earthshaker Giant
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fountain of Renewal
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hooded Hydra
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Iridescent Hornbeetle
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Meltstrider Eulogist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Root Manipulation
  • 1 Sapseep Forest
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Smell Fear
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Tablet of the Guilds
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 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 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Vraska's Contempt
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery