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Blech, Loafing Pest

Blech, Loafing Pest

Legendary Creature — Pest · {1}{B}{G} · Black/Green commander

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider you control.
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What Blech, Loafing Pest actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Blech, Loafing Pest deck needs

Plays as bat typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Blech, Loafing Pest deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Blech, Loafing Pest

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
  2. Haywire Mite1 mana
  3. Sakura-Tribe Elder2 mana
  4. Fanatic of Rhonas2 mana
  5. Lotus Cobra2 mana
  6. Springheart Nantuko2 mana
  7. Scute Swarm3 mana
  8. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana

Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. High Market0 mana
  3. Zuran Orb0 mana
  4. Blood Artist2 mana
  5. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  6. Bloodchief Ascension1 mana
  7. Deathrite Shaman1 mana
  8. Gilded Goose1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Branching Evolution3 mana
  2. Hardened Scales1 mana
  3. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  4. Winding Constrictor2 mana
  5. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  6. Benevolent Hydra2 mana
  7. Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
  8. The Earth Crystal4 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Fatal Push1 mana
  6. Beast Within3 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Nature's Claim1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Grim Tutor3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Vicious Rivalry4 mana
  8. Endemic Plague4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Herald's Horn3 mana
  7. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  8. Phyrexian Arena3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  4. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  5. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  6. Asceticism5 mana
  7. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  8. Commander's Plate1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Golgari Signet2 mana
  3. Incubation Druid2 mana
  4. Palladium Myr3 mana
  5. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  6. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  7. Heritage Druid1 mana
  8. Llanowar Tribe3 mana

Combos with Blech, Loafing Pest

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Blech, Loafing Pest is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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