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Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

Legendary Creature — Goblin WarlockBlack manaRed mana

The rock-paper-scissors punisher, built on a trigger you have to earn. Most edict-and-burn effects fire the moment they resolve; here the end-step payoff is locked behind descend, which means feeding your own graveyard before the trigger checks: crack a fetchland, mill yourself, chuck a creature into a bad block. Land the descend, and each opponent faces a choice with no clean answer: bleed a card, bleed a permanent, or eat three to the face. It is Cruel Edict and a burn spell folded into one body, with the opponent picking which blade lands. The deathtouch is the quiet glue: a 2/2 nobody blocks profitably keeps the clock ticking whether or not the end-step trigger connects. The elegance is that the tax recurs off activity a grindy deck was doing anyway, so incidental self-mill and fetch-cracking convert straight into pressure. The descend condition also carries a sharp edge worth respecting: it counts only a permanent card hitting your graveyard, so sacrificing a token does nothing for it. You need real cards dying, milling, or being pitched, every single turn, to keep the vise closing. A turn with nothing to throw away is a turn Zoyowa fires nothing.

Zoyowa Lava-Tongue (lci)
LCI · #245uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

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.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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