Brood of Cockroaches
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Insect
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- The List #VIS-53 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.17 USD
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.
Brood of Cockroaches has 2 printings, first in Visions (1997). EDHREC ranks it #17,023 among Commander cards. It appears most in Fumulus, the Infestation decks (1,241 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Brood of Cockroaches most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Fumulus, the Infestation: 1,241 decks
- Crovax the Cursed: 38 decks
- Lord Dregg, Insect Invader: 12 decks
- Swarm, Being of Bees: 5 decks
- Minotaur, Roxxon CEO: 2 decks
- Kingpin, Wilson Fisk
Often played with Brood of Cockroaches
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
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.