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
- #7,362
- 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
- Giant Adephage
- Beledros Witherbloom
- Victimize
- Pest Infestation
- Oversold Cemetery
- Pestilent Cauldron
- Tend the Pests
- Blight Mound
- Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
- Life // Death
- Reanimate
- Arasta of the Endless Web
- Sedgemoor Witch
- Ripples of Undeath
- Skullwinder
- Mortuary Mire
- Animate Dead
- Witch's Cottage
- Living Death
- Grist, the Hunger Tide
- Stitch Together
- Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
- Caustic Caterpillar
- Valentin, Dean of the Vein
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Grave Researcher
- Tortured Existence
- Persist
- Bala Ged Recovery
- Bala Ged Recovery
- Phyrexian Reclamation
- Rise of the Witch-king
- Pest Summoning
- Honest Rutstein
- Hornet Nest
- Arachnogenesis
- Deadly Brew
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- Insidious Roots
- Desecrated Tomb
- Undead Butler
- Feral Appetite
- Massacre Wurm
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Teacher's Pest
- Archon of Cruelty
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Forest
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Woodland Cemetery
- Overgrown Tomb
- Llanowar Wastes
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Victimize
- Dread Return
- Rampant Growth
- Bojuka Bog
- Reanimate
- Pest Infestation
- Beledros Witherbloom
- Golgari Rot Farm
- Assassin's Trophy
- Tainted Wood
- Hornet Queen
- Undergrowth Stadium
- Twilight Mire
- Arasta of the Endless Web
- Cultivate
- Eternal Witness
- Verdant Catacombs
- Nature's Lore
- Blech, Loafing Pest
- Underground Mortuary
- Culling Ritual
- Giant Adephage
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Haywire Mite
- Toxic Deluge
- Necroblossom Snarl
- Tend the Pests
- Temple of Malady
- Grist, the Hunger Tide
- Blight Mound
- Oversold Cemetery
- Animate Dead
- Deathcap Glade
- Cauldron of Essence
- Ripples of Undeath
- Bala Ged Recovery
- Bala Ged Recovery
- Golgari Signet
- Rise of the Witch-king
- Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
- Living Death
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.”