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Lion's Eye Diamond

· Artifact · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

406

Decks Running

240

In Decks

1816

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

120 instances

5.8%

Library

26.7%

Battlefield

45.8%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 12 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 10 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 9 decks
4 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 8 decks
5 Tymna the Weaver 8 decks
6 Flubs, the Fool 7 decks
7 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 6 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks
9 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 6 decks
10 Kenrith, the Returned King 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

406 brought · 183 players

Brought to game

406

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=64) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=221).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=18) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +14.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +27.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=81

11%

20%

17%

12%

17%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 65%

81 of 100 times cast 81%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.