Card
Lion's Eye Diamond
Mana cost {0}
Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.
Game Changer: not allowed in brackets 1–2, counts as one of the three allowed in bracket 3. Part of 189 known combos, one of them two-card. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Game Changer
- On the official list — none allowed in brackets 1–2, at most three in bracket 3.
- Printing
- Rare · MIR · #307
- Cheapest printing
- €472.81
- EDHREC salt
- 1.54
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B2 Core — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
- B3 Upgraded — Not in the same deck as its early two-card combo partner: Auriok Salvagers
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- On the official Game Changers list
- Two-card combo with Auriok Salvagers (early with Auriok Salvagers)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
189 known combos, one of them two-card.
- Underworld Breach + Lion's Eye Diamond + Brain Freeze
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite colored mana, Near-infinite magecraft triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Underworld Breach + Lion's Eye Diamond + Wheel of Fortune
Produces: Infinite draw triggers, Infinite looting, Infinite looting for opponents
View on Commander Spellbook - Lion's Eye Diamond + Auriok Salvagers
Produces: Infinite colored mana, Infinite storm count, Return some artifact cards from your graveyard to your hand
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
The ability is a mana ability, so it is activated and resolves as a mana ability, but it can only be activated at times when you can cast an instant. Yes, this is a bit weird.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast