# Reflection Template For Blech, Loafing Pest

For each loss, name one primary cause and one secondary cause.
For each win, name the card, package, or tactical policy that most contributed to the win.
Classify each result as a card quantity problem, card selection problem, mana problem, tempo problem, matchup problem, sideboard problem, pilot sequencing problem, or closing-power problem.
Report mana performance, sideboard impact, stranded cards, overperforming cards, underperforming cards, and whether the Deck Strategy or Tactical Policy guidance was followed.

- Deciding factor: What actually ended the game: token volume from Scute Swarm, Pest Infestation, Tend the Pests, Pest Summoning, or Blight Mound; counter scaling from Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, Doubling Season, Winding Constrictor, Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, or Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest; card flow from Skullclamp, Moldervine Reclamation, Village Rites, Deadly Dispute, Ohran Frostfang, Inspiring Call, or Immoral Bargain; or a single opposing threat that the deck could not answer?
- Mulligans: Did kept hands have green mana for Nature's Lore, Rampant Growth, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Cultivate, early creatures, or token setup, and did any keep fail because High Market, Swarmyard, Reliquary Tower, Radiant Fountain, Bojuka Bog, or tapped duals delayed the first useful play?
- Mana: Did Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Nature's Lore, Rampant Growth, Cultivate, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Virulent Emissary, and Prosperous Innkeeper produce enough early acceleration, or were expensive cards such as Beledros Witherbloom, Ohran Frostfang, Gorma, the Gullet, South Wind Avatar, Doubling Season, Moldervine Reclamation, and Toxic Deluge stranded?
- Velocity: Did Skullclamp, Village Rites, Deadly Dispute, Moldervine Reclamation, Ohran Frostfang, Inspiring Call, and Immoral Bargain convert material into decisions, or did the deck run out of cards after early ramp and token deployment?
- Engines: Did Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, Doubling Season, Winding Constrictor, Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, Iridescent Hornbeetle, Scute Swarm, Ashnod's Altar, Dina, Soul Steeper, and Essence Warden create a coherent engine, or were pieces drawn in the wrong order?
- Removal: Did Assassin's Trophy, Witherbloom Charm, Mortality Spear, Haywire Mite, Pest Infestation, Toxic Deluge, and Arachnogenesis answer the visible problem that mattered, or were they spent before the opponent committed the decisive permanent, combat step, graveyard resource, or combo piece?
- Closing: Did the deck turn a wide board into lethal pressure with Ohran Frostfang, Blex, Vexing Pest, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, counter doublers, or commander pressure from Blech, Loafing Pest, or did opponents stabilize after the deck produced many small bodies?
- Role: Did the pilot correctly choose between ramping, stabilizing, drawing, holding protection with Heroic Intervention or Inspiring Call, and committing Doubling Season or Branching Evolution, or did it play as a generic value deck without matching visible pressure?
- Mistakes: Did any sacrifice decision with High Market, Ashnod's Altar, Skullclamp, Village Rites, Deadly Dispute, Tend the Pests, or Moldervine Reclamation remove the only necessary blocker, life engine, commander-support piece, or payoff enabler?
- Stranded cards: Which exact cards were repeatedly uncastable, low-impact, or illegal at key moments, especially Cauldron of Essence, Feral Appetite, Comforting Counsel, Immoral Bargain, Professor Dellian Fel, Springleaf Parade, Dina, Essence Brewer, Shopkeeper's Bane, and Blech, Loafing Pest; Card text check required for unresolved tactical assumptions.
- Overperformers and underperformers: Which cards generated wins or prevented losses beyond expectation, and which cards looked strong in deckbuilding but failed when Veles exposed legal actions, mana limits, board state, stack state, and public information?
- Sideboard: Did the zero-card sideboard matter in post-game planning, and did the absence of legal swaps make matchup adaptation depend entirely on mulligans, sequencing, target priority, Bojuka Bog timing, Toxic Deluge sizing, and protection timing?

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