Zoyowa's Game by ErasKing

Format: Commander

Commander: Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos "descend matters" attrition deck helmed by Zoyowa Lava-Tongue. The game plan is to put a permanent card into the graveyard every turn - via fetchlands, cycling lands, Faithless Looting, sacrificed Treasures, Reassembling Skeleton, or recursive Squees - then use Zoyowa's end-step trigger to make each opponent discard, sacrifice a permanent, or take 3 damage. The 99 layers that same tax repeatedly: Sire of Insanity, Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger, both Rankles, Court of Ambition, Perforating Artist, and Osseous Sticktwister all punish empty hands, while Tinybones, Bauble Burglar and Chainer, Nightmare Adept turn the graveyard into a second hand. The deck has no infinite combos; it wins by grinding three opponents out of cards and permanents, then closing with repeated drains, Kroxa escape beats, and Rankle and Torbran damage amplification.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Buried Treasure
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Conduit Pylons
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Dawnhand Dissident
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Fury
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Goldhound
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Gut, True Soul Zealot
  • 1 Hidden Necropolis
  • 1 Highway Robbery
  • 1 Hoarder's Overflow
  • 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
  • 1 Koh, the Face Stealer
  • 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magmatic Channeler
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mephitic Draught
  • 1 Mimic
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Necrogoyf
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 Osseous Sticktwister
  • 1 Pain Magnification
  • 1 Perforating Artist
  • 1 Quest for the Necropolis
  • 1 Rankle and Torbran
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Restless Vents
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Sire of Insanity
  • 1 Smoldering Crater
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snort
  • 1 Soulcoil Viper
  • 1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Stinging Cave Crawler
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traveler's Amulet
  • 1 Ultimate Green Goblin
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
  • 1 Zoyowa's Justice