Brood of Cockroaches
Visions (VIS) #53 · Uncommon · Creature — Insect
Mana cost: {1}{B}
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.
"It's like waking on a bed of a thousand olives during an earthquake of subtle force."
—Afari, *Tales*
Power/toughness 1/1 · Illustrated by Geofrey Darrow & I. Rabarot · Released February 3, 1997
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.48 USD · €0.37 EUR
Nonfoil price over the last 90 days: up $0.15 USD (45.5%) to $0.48 USD; low $0.33 USD, high $0.48 USD.
Printings
- The List #VIS-53 (PLST) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.17 USD
- Visions #53 (this printing) · Uncommon · 1997 · $0.48 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — 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.
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — The loss of life is not optional.