Card text
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider you control.
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Mana cost
{1}{B}{G}
Power / toughness
3/4
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Card text
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider you control.
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
About Blech, Loafing Pest
This page covers the borderless printing of Blech, Loafing Pest (298), a Black and Green Legendary Creature — Pest from Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS). It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 7 more formats.
We track no other printing of 298 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Secrets of Strixhaven is a main expansion, released April 2026. Blech, Loafing Pest has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider you control.
Card details
- Card number
- 298
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 24 April 2026
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Borderless
- Type line
- Legendary Creature — Pest
- Colour
- Black / Green
- Colour identity
- Black / Green
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{G}
- Power / toughness
- 3/4
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Blech, Loafing Pest
Other printings of Blech, Loafing Pest in Secrets of Strixhaven
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Blech, Loafing Pest in other sets
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