Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) #148 · Mythic · Legendary Creature — Pest // Sorcery
Mana cost: {2}{G}
Other Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control get +1/+1.
When Blex dies, you gain 4 life.
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Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put any number of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 3 life for each card you put into your hand this way.
Power/toughness 3/2 · Illustrated by Ekaterina Burmak · Released April 23, 2021
Prices
- Nonfoil: $7.37 USD · €6.64 EUR
- Foil: $14.05 USD · €8.25 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $2.87 USD (28.0%) to $7.37 USD; low $7.37 USD, high $10.39 USD.
Printings
- Magic Online Promos #90300 (PRM) · Mythic · 2021
- Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos #148s (PSTX) · Mythic · 2021 · $13.26 USD foil
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #148 (this printing) · Mythic · 2021 · $7.37 USD
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #322 (STX) · Mythic · 2021 · $17.74 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2021-04-16 · wotc — 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 · wotc — 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.”