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Brood of Cockroaches
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Magic: The Gathering
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VisionsVIS · #53
- Card type
- Creature — Insect
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.37 € · 0.47 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Black
Card text
When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of the next end step, you lose 1 life and return this card to your hand.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Geofrey Darrow & I. Rabarot
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1997-02-03
Flavour text
"It's like waking on a bed of a thousand olives during an earthquake of subtle force." —Afari, *Tales*
Rulings
The life loss and the return to hand both happen at the beginning of the end step as a single effect. It is not two separate effects.
The loss of life is not optional.
