Blex, Vexing Pest
Legendary Creature — Pest
Other Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control get +1/+1.
When Blex dies, you gain 4 life.
Pests are typically harvested before they outgrow their enclosures. Blex is far from typical.
3 / 2
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos (PSTX #148s)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2021-04-23
- Artist
- Ekaterina Burmak
- EDHREC rank
- #7,280
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Dread Return
- Blech, Loafing Pest
- Hornet Queen
- Pest Infestation
- Beledros Witherbloom
- Giant Adephage
- Victimize
- Oversold Cemetery
- Pestilent Cauldron
- Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
- Tend the Pests
- Blight Mound
- Life // Death
- Arasta of the Endless Web
- Reanimate
- Sedgemoor Witch
- Skullwinder
- Ripples of Undeath
- Grist, the Hunger Tide
- Mortuary Mire
- Witch's Cottage
- Animate Dead
- Living Death
- Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
- Stitch Together
- Caustic Caterpillar
- Valentin, Dean of the Vein
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Bala Ged Recovery
- Bala Ged Recovery
- Persist
- Rise of the Witch-king
- Tortured Existence
- Phyrexian Reclamation
- Arachnogenesis
- Pest Summoning
- Honest Rutstein
- Hornet Nest
- Deadly Brew
- Desecrated Tomb
- Insidious Roots
- Feral Appetite
- Spider Spawning
- Grave Researcher
- Ant Queen
- Undead Butler
- Pest Mascot
- Vilis, Broker of Blood
- Bramble Familiar
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Forest
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Overgrown Tomb
- Woodland Cemetery
- Llanowar Wastes
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Victimize
- Rampant Growth
- Dread Return
- Bojuka Bog
- Reanimate
- Pest Infestation
- Beledros Witherbloom
- Golgari Rot Farm
- Assassin's Trophy
- Tainted Wood
- Undergrowth Stadium
- Hornet Queen
- Arasta of the Endless Web
- Cultivate
- Twilight Mire
- Eternal Witness
- Blech, Loafing Pest
- Nature's Lore
- Underground Mortuary
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Culling Ritual
- Verdant Catacombs
- Giant Adephage
- Haywire Mite
- Toxic Deluge
- Temple of Malady
- Tend the Pests
- Grist, the Hunger Tide
- Necroblossom Snarl
- Blight Mound
- Cauldron of Essence
- Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
- Oversold Cemetery
- Bala Ged Recovery
- Bala Ged Recovery
- Ripples of Undeath
- Rise of the Witch-king
- Animate Dead
- Golgari Signet
- Beast Within
- Talisman of Resilience
Format legality
Rulings
- 2021-04-16
If a creature is more than one of the creature types Blex cares about, it may haunt your dreams, but it will get the +1/+1 bonus only once.
- 2021-04-16
While resolving Search for Blex, you may put any number of the cards into your hand, even if you don’t have enough life to cover it. We’ll assume you have a plan that’s better than “and then I’ll lose the game.”