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.)
2 / 2
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI #245)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Artist
- Campbell White
- EDHREC rank
- #7,688
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Enterprising Scallywag
- Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
- Brass's Tunnel-Grinder
- Perforating Artist
- Stalactite Stalker
- Plaguecrafter
- Waste Not
- Forgotten Cave
- Accursed Marauder
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept
- Evolving Wilds
- Barren Moor
- Squee, Goblin Nabob
- Rankle, Master of Pranks
- Molten Collapse
- Pain Magnification
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Terramorphic Expanse
- Oversold Cemetery
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Ash Barrens
- Faithless Looting
- Matzalantli, the Great Door
- Thrill of Possibility
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Deep Goblin Skulltaker
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Geth's Grimoire
- Shriekmaw
- Victimize
- Unearth
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Ingot Chewer
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal
- Geier Reach Sanitarium
- Squee, the Immortal
- Osseous Sticktwister
- Painful Quandary
- Mogis, God of Slaughter
- Hidden Volcano
- Rottenmouth Viper
- Hidden Necropolis
- Oppression
- Troll of Khazad-dûm
- Bloodghast
- The Raven Man
- Village Rites
- Bitter Triumph
- Collector's Vault
- Megrim
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Mountain
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Enterprising Scallywag
- Faithless Looting
- Evolving Wilds
- Smoldering Marsh
- Dragonskull Summit
- Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
- Terramorphic Expanse
- Perforating Artist
- Brass's Tunnel-Grinder
- Thrill of Possibility
- Plaguecrafter
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept
- Mayhem Devil
- Accursed Marauder
- Forgotten Cave
- Stalactite Stalker
- Waste Not
- Barren Moor
- Victimize
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Deadly Dispute
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Squee, Goblin Nabob
- Rakdos Signet
- Mind Stone
- Rankle, Master of Pranks
- Foreboding Ruins
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Ash Barrens
- Blasphemous Act
- Terminate
- Molten Collapse
- Canyon Slough
- Rakdos Charm
- Village Rites
- Pain Magnification
- Blood Crypt
- Oversold Cemetery
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Bojuka Bog
- Feed the Swarm
- Mogis, God of Slaughter
- Commander's Sphere
- Demand Answers
- Sulfurous Springs
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-11-10
A permanent card is an artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card. Tokens are not cards, and while tokens are put into the graveyard before ceasing to exist, that action doesn't count as a player having descended.
- 2023-11-10
Abilities that begin with "At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn" will trigger only once during your end step, no matter how many times you descended this turn. However, if you haven't descended this turn as your end step begins, the ability won't trigger at all. It's not possible to put a permanent card into your graveyard during the end step in time to have the ability trigger.
- 2023-11-10
An opponent with zero cards in hand can't choose to discard a card. Similarly, an opponent with no permanents can't choose to sacrifice a permanent.
- 2023-11-10
In either case, it doesn't matter if those cards are still in that player's graveyard.
- 2023-11-10
Multiple cards have abilities that begin with "At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn." These cards don't need to have been under your control at the time you descended. For example, if a permanent card is put into your graveyard during your first main phase and you cast Stalactite Stalker your second main phase, its ability will trigger at the beginning of your end step.
- 2023-11-10
Some cards refer to a player who has "descended this turn." This means that a permanent card has been put into that player's graveyard from anywhere this turn.
- 2023-11-10
Some cards refer to the number of times a player descended this turn. Those cards care about the number of permanent cards put into that player's graveyard from anywhere this turn.