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Blech, Loafing Pest
Oracle Text
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider you control.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Blech, Loafing Pest is a classic value engine for life-gain midrange, turning every point of incidental life into a team-wide growth spurt for the right creature types. As a 3/4 for three mana, it already blocks well and buys time, but its real strength is snowballing a board of small synergy creatures into a lethal threat. The best shell is usually Golgari lifegain or counters, especially with cards that gain life repeatedly at low cost: lifelink creatures, drain effects, Food tokens, or end-step lifegain triggers. Because it pumps Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider, it rewards building around a broad tribal mashup rather than a single subtype; deathtouch Spiders and evasive Bats become especially dangerous once counters start stacking. Pair it with reliable repeatable life gain, not one-shot bursts, so you can keep scaling in grindy games and overwhelm removal with constant board-wide pressure.
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Character Background
Blech, Loafing Pest is a classic value engine for life-gain midrange, turning every point of incidental life into a team-wide growth spurt for the right creature types. As a 3/4 for three mana, it already blocks well and buys time, but its real strength is snowballing a board of small synergy creatures into a lethal threat. The best shell is usually Golgari lifegain or counters, especially with cards that gain life repeatedly at low cost: lifelink creatures, drain effects, Food tokens, or end-step lifegain triggers. Because it pumps Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider, it rewards building around a broad tribal mashup rather than a single subtype; deathtouch Spiders and evasive Bats become especially dangerous once counters start stacking. Pair it with reliable repeatable life gain, not one-shot bursts, so you can keep scaling in grindy games and overwhelm removal with constant board-wide pressure.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-03 12:10:43 UTC