Infesting Radroach
Creature — Insect Mutant
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they get that many rad counters.
Whenever an opponent mills a nonland card, if this creature is in your graveyard, you may return it to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #4799
Infesting Radroach turns every rad counter your opponents accumulate into a free 1/1 token on your side of the board — the token generation is continuous and requires zero mana after the initial one-drop investment. In The Wise Mothman decks, where distributing rad counters is the whole game plan, this card is simply mandatory.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Wise Mothman
The Wise Mothman's entire engine distributes rad counters to every player, and Infesting Radroach converts each of those triggers into a 1/1 Insect token, meaning you're building a board while your opponents mill themselves out.
The Master, Transcendent
The Master, Transcendent creates and clones creatures aggressively, and Infesting Radroach slots in as a cheap, self-sustaining token generator that keeps feeding the board without asking for extra resources.
Agent Frank Horrigan
Agent Frank Horrigan wants bodies on the board to threaten and pressure opponents, and Infesting Radroach provides a low-cost stream of tokens that scales with however much radiation is flying around the table.
Tinybones, the Pickpocket
Tinybones, the Pickpocket rewards having small, evasive creatures available, and Infesting Radroach delivers a steady supply of 1/1 tokens that can be sacrificed, buffed, or sent in for incidental damage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Infesting Radroach is a Commander card in practice — the rad counter mechanic exists almost exclusively in Fallout-themed Commander precons, so the card's power is entirely context-dependent on tables where that mechanic appears. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, a one-mana 1/1 with no immediate impact is never seeing play. Commander is the only format where Infesting Radroach does anything meaningful, and even there it's narrowly tied to radiation-themed decks rather than being a generic token producer worth slotting broadly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Infesting Radroach is bulk — you're picking it up without a second thought if you're running The Wise Mothman. It's a theme-specific card with a small target audience, so don't expect the price to move much in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.