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Lion's Eye Diamond

· Artifact · Vintage Masters (VMA)

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Times Brought

444

Decks Running

238

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

1.7%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

40.8%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 17 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 13 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 10 decks
4 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 8 decks
5 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 8 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 8 decks
7 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 7 decks
8 Flubs, the Fool 6 decks
9 Kaalia of the Vast 6 decks
10 Tymna the Weaver 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

444 brought · 163 players

Brought to game

444

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=71) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=229).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=15) — 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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=86

24%

14%

13%

14%

12%

17%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 70%

86 of 100 times cast 86%

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.