The card originally said: " Sacrifice Lion’s Eye Diamond, Discard your hand: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. In the right shell, the card is not only as strong as a Black Lotus, but it is a Black Lotus with an upside. It requires a build-around plus its player needs to pay attention to how it is played to fully benefit from it. Lion’s Eye Diamond is a unique card with its own timing restrictions. Spiking once again later of the same year, the price took a dive followed by a steady decline until yet another spike in 2018 brought it up to around three times its pre-spike price! With the no reprint policy in place, the price of Lion’s Eye Diamond is expected to be on a steady increase, at least for the foreseeable future. Oddly enough, it took nearly two decades from its printing until the card seriously spiked, nearly doubling in price over a few weeks in early 2016 before once again stabilizing at its new level. Eventually, it did find some niche uses in conjunction with its place on the Reserved List, making its price rise slowly but steadily over the years. Brewers, however, did not give up on the card.
Upon seeing that Lion's Eye Diamond required the player to discard their hand to actually get access to the promised three mana, many were simply disgusted and considered the card a useless bulk rare and a very bad joke. Wizards of the Coast had trolled players promising them a zero-cost artifact that could produce three mana of any color and until the card list was revealed, expectations for a Black Lotus reprint or at least something very similar were high. When Lion’s Eye Diamond first entered the stage with the release of Mirage on October 1996, it was widely greeted with great disappointment.
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