Commander

Blech, Loafing Pest

Global commander stats

All Golgari commanders

269 Wins

751 Losses

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Overview

Summary

Blech, Loafing Pest is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 1,031 recorded Playgroup games, winning 26% of them (269–751) at an Elo of 1,429, ranking #4162 globally.

Wins average 9 turns, with 31 damage dealt and 0.51 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 3 Aug 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Blech, Loafing Pest's win rate?

Blech, Loafing Pest has a 26% win rate across 1031 recorded Playgroup games (269 wins, 751 losses).

How long do winning games with Blech, Loafing Pest take?

Wins with Blech, Loafing Pest take on average 9 turns. Total tracked play time: 15 days.

How many decks use Blech, Loafing Pest?

367 decks list Blech, Loafing Pest as their commander on Playgroup, of which 287 have played at least one recorded game.

Blech, Loafing Pest Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

4162

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1429

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 31

Average commander damage per game 7

Average poison counters given per game 4

Average kills per game 0.51

Average turn length 3 minutes

No. decks for this commander 367

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 287

No. games played with this commander 1031

Total hours played 15 days

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1527	Sheepsheepnub	76	37	51 %
2	1524	Dylan	2	1	50 %
3	1514	Gremlen_161	2	0	0 %
4	1500	Minhito	3	1	50 %
5	1500	Johibo	2	0	0 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Blech, Loafing Pest wins, 67.36% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

67.36%

Commander Damage

11.4%

Non Combat Damage

10.36%

Alternative

6.22%

Combo

2.07%

Poison

1.55%

Mill

1.04%

Avg win turn 9.1 based on 273 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Blech, Loafing Pest

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Blech, Loafing Pest decks that leave them out.

+12.4 pp

Top card: Hardened Scales

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Hardened Scales 112 games	+12.4 pp	112
2	Arasta of the Endless Web 109 games	+10.5 pp	109
3	Twitching Doll 97 games	+7.5 pp	97
4	Llanowar Wastes 108 games	+6.3 pp	108
5	Duskshell Crawler 108 games	+5.8 pp	108
6	Root Manipulation 87 games	+3.0 pp	87

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Blech, Loafing Pest wins 36.36% of games from position 1 and 11.76% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

36.36% n=319

Seat 2

25.32% n=312

Seat 3

19.63% n=214

Seat 4

18.85% n=122

Seat 5

11.76% n=17

Seat 6

25.0% n=4

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Blech, Loafing Pest wins 25.38% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 5 mulligans.

0 mulligans

25.38% n=327

1 mulligan

29.59% n=196

2 mulligans

29.85% n=67

3 mulligans

40.0% n=15

4 mulligans

0.0% n=3

5 mulligans

0.0% n=1

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Blech, Loafing Pest 3.7/5 on average, across 706 self-reports.

3.7 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Blech, Loafing Pest wins, opponents flag the game as salty 71.1% of the time across 273 tracked wins.

71.1 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Blech, Loafing Pest. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.