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Teacher's Pest
NM
LP
MP
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uncommon · Creature — Skeleton Pest

Teacher's Pest

uncommon · Creature — Skeleton Pest · Secrets of Strixhaven
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Oracle Text

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life.
{B}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Card Details

1/1Power / Toughness
{B}{G}Mana Cost
1Prints

Character Background

Teacher’s Pest is a perfect little nuisance for a black-green value or midrange deck, turning every combat step into incremental pressure and inevitability. A 1/1 with menace means it slips past single blockers early, forcing awkward blocks or free damage, and the life gain on attack quietly offsets aggressive crack-back turns. Its real strength, though, is resilience: paying {B}{G} to return it from the graveyard tapped gives you a repeatable threat that is hard to cleanly answer, especially in grindy games where removal is traded one-for-one. That makes it especially appealing with self-mill, discard outlets, or sacrifice themes, since you can stock the graveyard and recast the Pest as a recurring source of board presence. In a tempo shell, it can keep chipping in while you hold up interaction; in control, it becomes a persistent win condition that stabilizes your life total while forcing the opponent to spend more resources than its size suggests.

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Character Background

Teacher’s Pest is a perfect little nuisance for a black-green value or midrange deck, turning every combat step into incremental pressure and inevitability. A 1/1 with menace means it slips past single blockers early, forcing awkward blocks or free damage, and the life gain on attack quietly offsets aggressive crack-back turns. Its real strength, though, is resilience: paying {B}{G} to return it from the graveyard tapped gives you a repeatable threat that is hard to cleanly answer, especially in grindy games where removal is traded one-for-one. That makes it especially appealing with self-mill, discard outlets, or sacrifice themes, since you can stock the graveyard and recast the Pest as a recurring source of board presence. In a tempo shell, it can keep chipping in while you hold up interaction; in control, it becomes a persistent win condition that stabilizes your life total while forcing the opponent to spend more resources than its size suggests.

Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-03 23:10:43 UTC

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