Pest by Purple_Pufferfish

Format: Commander

Commander: Blech, Loafing Pest

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Blech, Loafing Pest heads a Golgari life-gain / +1/+1 counter engine that can shift into a lethal drain combo. The primary plan is to rack up small life-gain triggers-Pest deaths, Essence Warden, Jungle Hollow, lifelink attacks-so Blech grows every Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider. In parallel, the deck stocks several 'whenever you gain life, opponents lose life' permanents and combos them with Exquisite Blood for infinite life-loss. Dina, Soul Steeper is the de facto hidden linchpin: she both drains and, with any life-gain trigger, starts the loop. Beatdown through a wide, trampling, menacing tribe is the fallback win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accomplished Alchemist
  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dai Li Agents
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Follow the Lumarets
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Hagra Constrictor
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Leyline of Vitality
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Summoning
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Prowling Serpopard
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thornfist Striker
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will