About Teacher's Pest
Teacher's Pest, Creature — skeleton pest, designed by Stephanie Cheung first released in Apr, 2026 in the set Secrets of Strixhaven. It see play in 1 formats: Commander.
Teacher’s Pest would fit best in a Golgari (black‑green) midrange or grindy recursion deck that values resilient threats, life gain, and graveyard synergy, since menace makes it awkward to block and its self-recursion gives inevitability in attrition games; it also pairs well with sacrifice outlets and self-mill strategies that can repeatedly bring it back for value. However, compared to staples like Tenacious Underdog (stronger pressure and card draw), Bloodghast (free recursion tied to land drops), Scrapheap Scrounger (efficient recurring threat), or even Skyfisher Spider and other modern Golgari value creatures, this card is relatively low impact because gaining 1 life on attack is minor and paying {B}{G} each time to return it is mana‑intensive, so while it could see play in a budget, casual, or synergy-focused graveyard deck, it would likely not be competitive in higher-powered formats where more efficient recursive threats are available.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
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