Pestilence by user1993763

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Golgari life gain and +1/+1 counter synergy deck helmed by Blech, Loafing Pest. The strategy revolves around generating life gain triggers to put +1/+1 counters on all your Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders, which are abundant across the 99. The deck leverages token generation, sacrifice outlets, and drain effects to create a resilient board that can win through combat or a compact infinite combo. The primary win condition is the Chain of Smog + Witherbloom Apprentice infinite loop, which drains each opponent out. Secondary wins include combat damage from huge creatures boosted by counters and Lisette, Dean of the Root's trample, or accumulating drain triggers from Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Dina, Soul Steeper. The deck is well-tuned to grind out long games while threatening a sudden combo kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hooded Blightfang
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sapseep Forest
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Subterranean Cavern
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Banyan Tree
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth