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Endless Cockroaches

Creature — Insect

When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2013
Price
$0.64
EDHREC rank
#12622
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Endless Cockroaches card art
Endless Cockroaches is a recursive threat that refills your hand every time it dies — the engine cost is just paying two black mana repeatedly, which becomes trivial once Pitiless Plunderer is on board converting each recurrence into Treasure. Fumulus, the Infestation turns every death and return into layered value, making Endless Cockroaches one of the cleanest roleplayers in black sacrifice strategies.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Fumulus, the Infestation

Fumulus, the Infestation

63.0% of decks · synergy 0.62

Fumulus, the Infestation is the natural home for Endless Cockroaches — Fumulus rewards creatures dying and returning repeatedly, and Endless Cockroaches is purpose-built to do exactly that on a loop for two mana each cycle.

02
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

42.5% of decks · synergy 0.42

Every time Endless Cockroaches re-enters the battlefield under Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder, it triggers another wave of Thrull tokens — the recursion loop is free Thrull production as long as you can keep paying the two-mana buyback.

03
Xira, the Golden Sting

Xira, the Golden Sting

11.9% of decks · synergy 0.12

Xira, the Golden Sting cares about putting counters on creatures that then die for value, and Endless Cockroaches provides a repeatable death trigger on demand whenever you need to cash in a counter or fuel a sacrifice outlet.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Endless Cockroaches is a Commander card through and through — the recursive, mana-sink design is tuned for the long games and sacrifice synergies that define the format. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has never found a home; four mana to cast plus two to recur is far too slow when those formats are decided in the first few turns. Commander is where Endless Cockroaches earns its keep, particularly in black sacrifice shells where a repeatable death trigger doubles as a mana sink late in the game.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.64 bulk tier

At $0.64, Endless Cockroaches sits firmly in bulk territory — low enough that picking up extra copies costs nothing. Demand is narrow and commander-specific, so the price is stable but unlikely to move unless a high-profile reprint or new Fumulus-style commander pushes it into wider circulation.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.