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Pest Mascot

Creature — Pest Ape

Trample
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
common
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#13199
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Pest Mascot card art
Pest Mascot enters and immediately creates three 1/1 Pest tokens with lifelink, making it a four-body play for four mana — solid rate on its own, then Agatha's Soul Cauldron can exile it to spread its activated ability to other creatures. The dedicated home is Blech, Loafing Pest, where every Pest token becomes a pressure piece and sacrifice fodder simultaneously.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Blech, Loafing Pest

Blech, Loafing Pest

73.3% of decks · synergy 0.65

Blech, Loafing Pest wants as many Pest bodies as possible, and Pest Mascot delivers three tokens alongside a base creature the moment it resolves — over 73% of Blech decks run it for exactly that flood-the-board efficiency.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Pest Mascot is legal everywhere and sees almost all of its play in Commander, where token generation scales with the multiplayer life total and sacrifice synergies are plentiful. In pauper it's a reasonable common token producer, though four mana for a 1/1 base with three 1/1s faces stiff competition from more efficient commons. In Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, Pest Mascot simply doesn't clear the bar — four mana needs to close games in those formats, not fill a board with 1/1 lifelinkers. Commander is unambiguously where Pest Mascot belongs.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Pest Mascot is pure bulk — grab a copy out of any common box without thinking twice. Deep synergy with Blech, Loafing Pest keeps demand stable in that niche, but nothing here is pushing the price upward.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.