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Lion's Eye Diamond
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
MirageMIR · #307
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 487.96 € · 805.65 $
- Mana value
- 0
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelBanned
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerBanned
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageRestricted
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
- Margaret Organ-Kean
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1996-10-08
Flavour text
Held in the lion's eye —Zhalfirin saying meaning "caught in the moment of crisis"
Rulings
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.
