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Live Play Data

Blech, Loafing Pest

{1} {B} {G} · Legendary Creature — Pest · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
189
Decks Running
83
Median Cast Turn
4
Drawn → Played
80%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=329
0%
T1
1%
T2
46%
T3
29%
T4
12%
T5
10%
T6-9
2%
T10+
Median 4 P25 3 · P75 4 · max 14
On curve 47% (151 / 329 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

189 brought · 80 players
Brought to game
189
Ever drawn
44
Reached battlefield
35
Still on board at game end
17

Once cast, 49% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -17.5pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=34) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=134).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap -2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -17.5pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

50 instances
2.0%
Library
34.0%
Battlefield
36.0%
Graveyard
10.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Blech, Loafing Pest card

Blech, Loafing Pest

{1} {B} {G}
Legendary Creature — Pest
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider you control.
3 / 4
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Ilse Gort

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.
How is Playgroup Live card data collected?
Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.