Blech by user4912007

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Golgari deck uses Blech, Loafing Pest to convert repeatable lifegain triggers into permanent +1/+1 counters across kindred creature types including Pests, Insects, Spiders, Bats, and Snakes. The strategy begins with low-cost ramp and lifegain permanents like Essence Warden and Prosperous Innkeeper, followed by the deployment of Blech on turn 3. From turn 4 onward, token generators such as Blight Mound, Pest Infestation, and Scute Swarm flood the battlefield with kindred bodies that grow with every lifegain event. The deck pressures opponents through massive trampling attacks granted by Duskshell Crawler or Garruk's Uprising, while simultaneously threatening lethal table-wide drain through aristocrat engines like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Mirkwood Bats. It features efficient permanent removal, high redundancy, and resilient recovery against board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Eumidian Terrabotanist
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farseek
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fountain of Renewal
  • 1 Gardenize
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hornet Nest
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Meltstrider Eulogist
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Pest Summoning
  • 1 Pestbrood Sloth
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shopkeeper's Bane
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat