Zoyowa Lava-Tongue LCI 0245 · uncommon

Zoyowa Lava-Tongue · {B}{R} · 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.) · Power / toughness: 2/2
- Price
- from $0.222 printings
- Win rate
- 53.9% GIH 14,389 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickAttack early and arrange for a permanent card to reach your graveyard on successive turns.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 7,751 wins in 14,389 card-in-hand instances.
12,909 distinct games · 4,424 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.
17Lands file dated Dec 27, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Attack early and arrange for a permanent card to reach your graveyard on successive turns. Trade Freebooter in combat to descend, leaving Treasure while Zoyowa pressures the opponent at your end step.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Attack early and arrange for a permanent card to reach your graveyard on successive turns. Look for support such as Greedy Freebooter and Deep Goblin Skulltaker.
- What to take next
- Trade Freebooter in combat to descend, leaving Treasure while Zoyowa pressures the opponent at your end step.
- Wrong pick
- Sacrificing a Treasure token alone does not make you descend. Avoid holding back useful attacks merely to keep every creature alive.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.



More
- One-pick Draft
- Attack early and arrange for a permanent card to reach your graveyard on successive turns. Trade Freebooter in combat to descend, leaving Treasure while Zoyowa pressures the opponent at your end step.
Draft data
−1.5 pp vs 55.3% average · 14,389 instances
Premier Draft · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · average from 823,614 games
#158 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.2 on average (82,417 packs).
20 of 27 multicolor cards · 7 of 10 multicolor uncommon cards.
31,733.4 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 53.4% · 5,902 instances
● Drawn later 54.2% · 8,487 instances
In hand 53.9% · 14,389 instances
Unseen in deck 50.2% · 19,655 instances
+3.7 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Going Down! BR55.6%9,529 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (53.9% · 14,389 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Best with
Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.
Dead Weight+3.5 pp14,307 games with both in the deck · 3,671 both drawnRumbling Rockslide+4.6 pp7,935 games with both in the deck · 1,776 both drawnHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 37% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | draft · set | $0.22 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · draft · set | $0.33 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 31 packs (3.26%) · 32.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 1,656 packs (0.06%) · 2.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 40 packs (2.51%) · 59.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 552 packs (0.18%) · 5.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 29 packs (3.51%) · 65.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft Booster | Common or traditional foil | 33% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Draft Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Set Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Set Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Set Booster | Wildcards | 100% per position | Wildcards |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Campbell White, LCI 245 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Going Down! cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗

