Name
Brood of Cockroaches
Mana Cost
Type
Creature — Insect
Set
Visions
Rarity
Uncommon
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.
Flavor Text
"It's like waking on a bed of a thousand olives during an earthquake of subtle force."
—Afari, *Tales*
Power/Toughness
1/1
Number
#53
Other Prints
The List
Legal Formats
Commander | Duel | Legacy | Oathbreaker | Premodern | Vintage
Availability
Magic Online | Paper
Rulings
(04/10/2004)
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.
(04/10/2004)
The loss of life is not optional.
Artist
Geofrey Darrow & I. Rabarot
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