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Blech, Loafing Pest SOS 0176 · rare

Blech, Loafing Pest · {1}{B}{G} · Legendary Creature — Pest · Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider you control. · Power / toughness: 3/4 · Despite Blex's passing, Witherbloom students still continued the tradition of a yearly search in his honor. His son, however, took little effort to find.

Blech, Loafing Pest · {1}{B}{G} · Legendary Creature — Pest · Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each Pest, Bat, Insect, Snake, and Spider you control. · Power / toughness: 3/4 · Despite Blex's passing, Witherbloom students still continued the tradition of a yearly search in his honor. His son, however, took little effort to find.

Price
from $0.383 printings
Win rate
59.7% GIH 8,448 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 5,047 wins in 8,448 card-in-hand instances.

8,150 distinct games · 3,079 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.

17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

59.7%when drawn (GIH)

+4.4 pp vs 55.4% average · 8,448 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games

#37 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 2.5 on average (14,651 packs).

14 of 83 multicolor cards · 8 of 26 multicolor rare cards.

Taken at pick2.54,761 picks
Makes the deck73.8%4,761 picks with known usage
When played55.0%19,246.3 matchesBenched 54.7%
5,603.7 matches
When drawn59.7%8,448 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 60.7% · 3,557 instances
● Drawn later 59.1% · 4,891 instances

In hand 59.7% · 8,448 instances
Unseen in deck 52.0% · 11,243 instances
+7.7 percentage points when drawn

Compared with multicolor cards

Win rate when drawn59.7%8,448 instances14 of 83
Opening hand60.7%3,557 instances6 of 82
Drawn later59.1%4,891 instances27 of 83
In the deck55.4%19,932 instances35 of 83
Without seeing it52.0%11,243 instances46 of 83
Improvement when drawn+7.7 pp8,448 instances / 11,243 instances11 of 83
When benched54.7%5,603.7 matches48 of 83
Makes the deck73.8%4,761 picks with known usage35 of 83
Pick (last seen)2.514,651 packs14 of 83
Taken at2.54,761 picks14 of 83

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Witherbloom Lifegain Swarm BG62.2%4,895 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (59.7% · 8,448 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Teacher's Pest+5.6 pp6,483 games with both in the deck · 1,253 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 89% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026

Collect

3 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

SOS 0176 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · prerelease-witherbloom$0.38
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster · prerelease-lorehold · prerelease-prismari · prerelease-quandrix · prerelease-silverquill · prerelease-witherbloom$0.43

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · 15.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 928 packs (0.11%) · 3.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 66 packs (1.50%) · 36.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-lorehold · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-prismari · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-quandrix · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-silverquill · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-witherbloom · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-witherbloom · Modeled · About 1 in 24 packs (4.08%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterWildcard of any rarity100%Wildcard of any rarity
Play BoosterRare or mythic rare100%Rare or mythic rare
Play BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Collector BoosterTraditional foil rare or mythic85.7%Rare

Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Ilse Gort, SOS 176 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Witherbloom Lifegain Swarm cards → · Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗