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Blech, Loafing Pest

· Legendary Creature — Pest · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

101

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Blech, Loafing Pest

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

Final zone distribution

25 instances

36.0%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

16.0%

Exile

28.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

101 brought · 48 players

Brought to game

101

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=16) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=59).

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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -7.2pp to +20.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.