Blech "Ah F*** that - My Pod" by user4209539

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is commanded by Blech, Loafing Pest, transforming every instance of lifegain into +1/+1 counters across Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders. The primary strategy opens with low-cost kindred creatures and recurring lifegain permanents such as Essence Warden, Druid Class, and Kazandu Nectarpot. Deploying Blech on Turn 3 enables immediate counter growth by Turn 4. The deck then accelerates its clock using counter multipliers like Doubling Season, Innkeeper's Talent, and Loading Zone, turning wide token swarms from Scute Swarm and Beledros Witherbloom into lethal attackers granted trample by Emil, Vastlands Roamer or Sphere Grid. It also contains an alternate win condition via the Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Sanguine Bond infinite life-drain combo. While resilient through secondary commanders like Lisette, Dean of the Root, the deck remains susceptible to board wipes due to a light protective spell package.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Ancient Cornucopia
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Comet Crawler
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Druid Class
  • 1 Emil, Vastlands Roamer
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Eumidian Terrabotanist
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Fountain of Renewal
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grapple with Death
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Illegitimate Business
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Jungle Basin
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Root Manipulation
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shopkeeper's Bane
  • 1 Social Climber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vivid Grove
  • 1 Wander Off
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery