Giant Cockroach
Ninth Edition 133★ • common
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 133★
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Heather Hudson
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
Toren had stepped on a lot of bugs during his life, so he couldn't help feeling embarrassed when a bug stepped on him.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Giant Cockroach card was released in the Ninth Edition core set of Magic: The Gathering in 2005. As a core set, Ninth Edition was designed to provide a foundational pool of cards for players, featuring a mix of reprints from earlier sets alongside new artwork and updated border designs. The set represented a transitional era for the game, marking the final time core sets would utilize the classic white-border aesthetic before the shift to permanent black borders.
The illustration for this iteration of the Giant Cockroach was created by artist Daren Bader. Known for his work across numerous fantasy properties, Bader sought to capture the visceral, unsettling nature of the creature, emphasizing its oversized, rugged anatomy to fit the game's creature-type mechanics. The card was received as a functional, low-rarity common intended for Limited play, where its straightforward mechanics served as a reliable, if unremarkable, utility creature for players drafting the set.
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