Child of the Volcano
Creature — Elemental
Trample
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #21475
Child of the Volcano enters as a 1/1 and immediately deals 1 damage to each opponent and each non-Volcano creature — a board wipe and a threat rolled into one red card. The cost is that your own creatures take the hit too, so you need a deck built around that symmetry rather than against it. Zoyowa Lava-Tongue is the poster commander for exactly that.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue converts every point of damage dealt to opponents into card draw, so Child of the Volcano's enter-the-battlefield ping to each opponent immediately replaces itself and then some — and if opponents have creatures that survive, the board-wide damage clause keeps feeding Zoyowa's engine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Child of the Volcano is a role-player in damage-matters and sacrifice-loop strategies — the ping to all opponents scales with the number of players at the table, which is exactly where you want a cheap repeatable effect to live. Outside Commander, it's legal across every major format but unlikely to see play; a 1/1 for its cost that deals 1 to everything is too slow and too symmetrical for the faster, more linear demands of Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy. Pauper is where a second look is warranted if a dedicated ping-loop shell ever emerges, but the card pool hasn't assembled that deck yet.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Child of the Volcano is deep bulk — pick it up in any common box without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow synergy windows rarely move off the floor unless a breakout commander pulls them up, so don't expect price appreciation, just grab it when you need it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.