play it with a Burning Wish on the stack
Posted By:
NeverendingDream
(6/23/2010 3:08:24 AM)
I use this in a deck in which I can cycle cards for free by using Fluctuator. The trick is that you put all of the cycling abilities on the stack, sacrifice Lion's Eye Diamond (you usually discard nothing), and then after everything resolves you have a new hand and three mana. 5/5
Posted By:
GoblinNaysayer93
(6/14/2011 5:17:35 PM)
Simplest, and a turn two combo, is to have two lands, a grindstone, a painter's servant and the LED in your opening hand.
Turn 1: land, grindstone
Turn 2: land, painter's servant, call any color, LED, sacrifice the LED for three mana to activate the grindstone on your opponent's deck. The painter's servant turns their entire deck the chosen color, including the lands, so it will mill the whole thing.
Obviously this can be accelerated to the first turn with other cards, but this is the base case.
Posted By:
kiseki
(4/19/2012 3:23:39 PM)
Break with Wheel of Fortune on the stack.
Posted By:
lastwarrior2010
(7/15/2012 3:53:31 PM)
Turn 1: Whatever land, this, discarding Unburial Rites and Griselbrand. No wonder Gris got banned. Though even that combo into one of the Avacyn Restored mythic angels (well, aside from Bruna) would be backbreaking.
Posted By:
CarlosLiberated
(7/21/2012 5:54:58 PM)
I would use this in my Discard/mill deck if it didn't cost so freaking much.
If I had a worthless hand, I'd tap it, use Jace's Archivist's ability, and cycle my hand.
You could do all of this in reaction to a spell being cast, so even if you're tapped out, you can cycle into a Counterspell and use it.
Posted By:
Xycolian
(11/16/2012 1:47:56 AM)
Funny, playset of these about equal to a cheap diamond.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(12/16/2012 10:36:20 AM)
Nerfed pretty well with rulings, but still an effective card in the right deck. Unlike Lotus, it no longer belongs in every Vintage deck, though.
Posted By:
Technetium
(5/3/2013 1:50:15 PM)
So let me get this straight... I'd have to pay 
to discard my hand with One with Nothing... or I could get the same effect AND 3 mana, for free? Hmm...
Posted By:
Callahan09
(5/23/2013 7:09:59 AM)
This may be a stretch, but look at the picture. They tried to make the picture say what it was:
Lion Indian Diamond.
Lion's I ('Eye') Diamond.
Maybe not; but why else such a weird picture?
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(10/15/2013 12:49:45 PM)