Blech, Loafing Pest

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Blech is a 3/4 legendary Pest for {1}{B}{G} that turns every life gain event into a mass +1/+1 counter distribution across Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders. It excels as a commander in a lifegain shell stocked with these creature types, but is quite narrow outside that niche — the trigger is dead without both lifegain sources and the relevant creature types in play simultaneously.

• Blech's counter trigger covers five distinct creature types (Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, Spider), which creates a surprisingly wide cross-tribal synergy in B/G — many Pest-producing cards (e.g., Tend the Pests, Tavern Swindler) also gain life, enabling double-dipping as both the trigger condition and a recipient.

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• Each life gain event triggers once regardless of amount, so stacking multiple lifegain triggers per turn (e.g., lifelink attacks + Soul Warden effects) multiplies the counters far faster than one large gain would.

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• Blech is a 3/4 on its own — a competitive stat line at 3 CMC — meaning it doesn't need the tribal shell to have presence, but its ceiling is firmly in a dedicated lifegain + multi-type creature deck.

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• EDHREC rank: #11,804