Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex

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.

Pests are typically harvested before they outgrow their enclosures. Blex is far from typical.

Other Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control get +1/+1.
When Blex dies, you gain 4 life.

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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.

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.”