Live Play Data

Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

155

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=38

26%

16%

11%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 29% (10 / 38 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

155 brought · 63 players

Brought to game

155

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -15.2pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=30) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=104).

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 -0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -15.2pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances

4.4%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

44.4%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Great Goblin 8 decks
2 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 5 decks
3 Gut, True Soul Zealot 3 decks
4 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger 3 decks
5 Carnage, Crimson Chaos 2 decks
6 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 2 decks
7 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 2 decks
8 Lyzolda, the Blood Witch 2 decks
9 Shattergang Brothers 2 decks
10 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 2 decks

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

Frequently Asked

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.