Lion's Eye Diamond
Artifact$809.21
Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.
colorlessLegal in Commander
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Combos 33
Lion's Eye Diamond + Underworld Breach + Brain Freeze
- Infinite self-mill
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite mill
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have at least six other cards in hand and/or graveyard.
Steps
Activate Lion's Eye Diamond by discarding your hand and sacrificing it, adding {U}{U}{U}. Cast Lion's Eye Diamond from your graveyard for its escape cost by exiling three cards besides Brain Freeze from your graveyard. Cast Brain Freeze from your graveyard for its escape cost by paying {1}{U} and exiling three cards from your graveyard. Brain Freeze's storm ability triggers, creating at least one copy of Brain Freeze targeting yourself, and any remaining copies targeting an opponent. Resolve each Brain Freeze, causing yourself to mill six cards and, if applicable, an opponent to mill three cards for each Brain Freeze remaining. Repeat.
Lion's Eye Diamond + Underworld Breach + Wheel of Fortune
- Infinite looting
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have at least six other cards in hand and/or graveyard.
Steps
Activate Lion's Eye Diamond by discarding your hand and sacrificing it, adding {R}{R}{R}. Cast Wheel of Fortune from your graveyard for its escape cost by paying {2}{R} and exiling 3 cards from your graveyard. Resolve Wheel of Fortune, causing each player to discard their hand and draw seven cards. Cast Lion's Eye Diamond from your graveyard for its escape cost by exiling 3 cards from your graveyard. Repeat.
Lion's Eye Diamond + Auriok Salvagers
- Infinite colored mana
- Return some artifact cards from your graveyard to your hand
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Activate Lion's Eye Diamond by sacrificing it and discarding your hand, adding {W}{W}{W}. Activate Auriok Salvagers by paying {1}{W}, returning Lion's Eye Diamond from your graveyard to your hand. Cast Lion's Eye Diamond by paying {0}. Repeat any number of times, adding mana of any color in step 1 once you have an arbitrary amount of white mana. Once you have infinite mana, you may activate Auriok Salvagers once for each valid target.
Lion's Eye Diamond + Saw in Half + Eternal Witness
- Infinite creature tokens
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Cast Saw in Half by paying {2}{B}, targeting Eternal Witness. Holding priority, activate Lion's Eye Diamond by sacrificing it and discarding your hand, adding {B}{B}{B}. Resolve Saw in Half, destroying Eternal Witness and creating two token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time. The Eternal Witness tokens enter the battlefield, returning Lion's Eye Diamond and Saw in Half from your graveyard to your hand. Cast Lion's Eye Diamond by paying {0}. Repeat.
Lion's Eye Diamond + Muldrotha, the Gravetide + Displacer Kitten
- Infinite colored mana
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have not cast an artifact spell using Muldrotha this turn.
Steps
Activate Lion's Eye Diamond by sacrificing it and discarding your hand, adding three mana of any color. Cast Lion's Eye Diamond from your graveyard by paying {0}. Displacer Kitten triggers, blinking Muldrotha. Repeat.
Lion's Eye Diamond + Emry, Lurker of the Loch + Mirran Spy
- Infinite colored mana
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Activate Emry by tapping it, targeting Lion's Eye Diamond. Cast Lion's Eye Diamond from your graveyard by paying {0}. Mirran Spy triggers, untapping Emry. Activate Lion's Eye Diamond by sacrificing it. Repeat.
Lion's Eye Diamond + Deadeye Navigator + Eternal Witness
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite recursion of cards in your graveyard
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
Deadeye Navigator paired with Eternal Witness.
Steps
Activate Lion's Eye Diamond, sacrificing it to add {U}{U}{U}. Activate Eternal Witness's soulbond ability, exiling it and then returning it to the battlefield. Eternal Witness triggers on ETB, returning Lion's Eye Diamond to your hand. Deadeye Navigator triggers, pairing itself with Eternal Witness. Repeat for infinite blue mana. Once you have infinite blue mana, repeat for infinite colored mana and graveyard recursion.
Lion's Eye Diamond + Lurrus of the Dream-Den + Displacer Kitten
- Infinite colored mana
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have not cast a spell using Lurrus this turn.
Steps
Cast Lion's Eye Diamond from your graveyard by paying {0}. Displacer Kitten triggers, blinking Lurrus. Activate Lion's Eye Diamond by discarding your hand and sacrificing it. Repeat.
Lion's Eye Diamond + Emry, Lurker of the Loch + Chakram Retriever
- Infinite colored mana
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Activate Emry by tapping it, targeting Lion's Eye Diamond. Cast Lion's Eye Diamond from your graveyard by paying {0}. Chakram Retriever triggers, untapping Emry. Activate Lion's Eye Diamond by sacrificing it. Repeat.
Lion's Eye Diamond + Six + Groundskeeper
- Infinite colored mana
- Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have at least one basic land card in your hand or in your graveyard.
Steps
Activate Lion's Eye Diamond by sacrificing it and discarding your hand, adding {G}{G}{G}. Activate Groundskeeper by paying {1}{G}, returning a basic land card from your graveyard to your hand. Cast Lion's Eye Diamond from your graveyard for its retrace cost by paying {0} and discarding the basic land card. Repeat. Once you have infinite mana, you may cast any other card(s) in your graveyard for their retrace costs, and return the basic land using Groundskeeper.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook. Only combos of 2 or 3 named cards are listed.