Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
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.

