Diamond Lion
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Modern Horizons 2MH2 · #225
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Cat
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.18 € · ★ 0.41 € · 0.30 $ · ★ 0.40 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
, Discard your hand, Sacrifice this creature: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Howard Lyon
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-06-18
Flavour text
"The merchant asked for riches no one had ever dreamed of. The djinn, smiling, granted his wish." —Afari, *Tales*
Rulings
Even though you can only activate this as an instant, it is still a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and cannot be responded to.
You can't cast an instant (or activate an ability as an instant) while casting a spell. Therefore, much like Lion's Eye Diamond, you can't activate the ability intending to use the mana to cast a spell from your hand.
