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Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

· Legendary Creature — Goblin Warlock · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

103

Decks Running

In Decks

220

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

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.)

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Campbell White

Final zone distribution

25 instances

8.0%

Library

28.0%

Battlefield

56.0%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Great Goblin 4 decks
2 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 2 decks
3 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 2 decks
4 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 2 decks
5 Gut, True Soul Zealot 2 decks
6 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger 2 decks
7 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 2 decks
8 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 1 decks
9 Carnage, Crimson Chaos 1 decks
10 Coram, the Undertaker 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

103 brought · 36 players

Brought to game

103

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -22.8pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=18) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=74).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap -6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -22.8pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.