Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
Legendary Creature — Goblin Warlock
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, each opponent may discard a card or sacrifice a permanent of their choice. Zoyowa deals 3 damage to each opponent who didn't. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #7282
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue forces an opponent to discard a card and lose 2 life the moment it enters — repeated recursion turns that into a draining engine fast. The comparison point is Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger, and Zoyowa is cheaper to keep recurring, even if Kroxa hits harder when it sticks.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger is already built around escape and graveyard recursion, so Zoyowa Lava-Tongue slots in as a cheaper, low-cost trigger that stacks discard pressure alongside Kroxa's own ETB.
Wort, Boggart Auntie
Wort, Boggart Auntie returns a Goblin from the graveyard at end of turn, which means Zoyowa Lava-Tongue can fire its discard-and-drain trigger nearly every turn cycle for free.
Shattergang Brothers
Shattergang Brothers wants a steady supply of fodder to sacrifice across all three permanent types, and Zoyowa Lava-Tongue doubles as a repeatable discard engine while feeding that sacrifice outlet.
Grub, Storied Matriarch
Grub, Storied Matriarch cares about creatures with power 2 or less entering, and Zoyowa Lava-Tongue at 2/1 qualifies — triggering Grub while also stripping an opponent's hand piece by piece.
Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Chainer, Nightmare Adept lets you cast creatures from the graveyard with haste, so Zoyowa Lava-Tongue becomes a recurrable discard-and-drain piece that resets every time Chainer finds it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Zoyowa Lava-Tongue is a role-player in graveyard loops and discard-matters builds — not a staple, but exactly what specific engines want. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, the effect is too low-impact as a one-shot: three mana to force a single discard doesn't compete with dedicated hand-disruption at lower cost. Legacy and Vintage have even less patience for it. Standard is where Zoyowa Lava-Tongue has the most incidental playability if a graveyard or Goblin synergy deck needs the effect, but it isn't pushing into competitive lists there either.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Zoyowa Lava-Tongue is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing to test it. Bulk rares with narrow synergy homes tend to stay at this price floor indefinitely, so there's no reason to hesitate on picking up copies.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
- Wort, Boggart Auntie
- Shattergang Brothers
- Grub, Storied Matriarch
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.