Diamond Lion
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Cat
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 Promos #225s (rare)
{T}, Discard your hand, Sacrifice this creature: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.
Diamond Lion has 5 printings, first in Modern Horizons 2 (2021). EDHREC ranks it #11,037 among Commander cards. It appears most in Hashaton, Scarab's Fist decks (1,560 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Diamond Lion most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Hashaton, Scarab's Fist: 1,560 decks
- Gwenom, Remorseless: 748 decks
- Korvold, Gleeful Glutton: 604 decks
- Rielle, the Everwise: 442 decks
- Kozilek, the Great Distortion: 386 decks
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth: 67 decks
- Hazoret the Fervent: 52 decks
- Misty Knight, Hero for Hire: 39 decks
Often played with Diamond Lion
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can't cast an instant (or activate an ability as an instant) while casting a spell. Therefore, much like Lion's Eye Diamond, you can't activate the ability intending to use the mana to cast a spell from your hand.
- : Even though you can only activate this as an instant, it is still a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and cannot be responded to.