Live Play Data

Lion's Eye Diamond

· Artifact · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

955

Decks Running

462

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=186

13%

12%

16%

17%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 68%

The "good card" funnel

955 brought · 317 players

Brought to game

955

Ever drawn

241

Reached battlefield

186

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=164) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=553).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=48).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +14.6pp; 95% confidence interval +6.9pp to +22.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

277 instances

4.7%

Library

28.5%

Battlefield

42.6%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 26 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 19 decks
3 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 18 decks
4 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 16 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 15 decks
6 Tymna the Weaver 15 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 13 decks
8 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 12 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 11 decks
10 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 9 decks

Card text

Lion's Eye Diamond

Artifact

Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.

Vintage Masters (VMA) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lindsey Look

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.