MScore: 9.8/10
Lion's Eye Diamond
Artifactrare
Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.
Held in the lion's eye —Zhalfirin saying meaning "caught in the moment of crisis"
Illustrated by Margaret Organ-Kean · Mirage · #307
Rulings for Lion's Eye Diamond
1
2004-10-04
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.
Format Legality
4
Duelbanned
Brawlnot legal
Pennynot legal
Predhlegal
Futurenot legal
Legacylegal
Modernnot legal
Paupernot legal
Alchemynot legal
Pioneernot legal
Vintagerestricted
Historicnot legal
Standardnot legal
, Discard your hand, Sacrifice this creature: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Discover 5. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 5 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)