
It's so powerful that Lotus Bloom, a version that requires you to wait three turns before you use it, was a major component in a World Championship deck. It's so powerful that Lion's-Eye Diamond, a version that requires you to discard your entire hand to use it, is not allowed in Modern play. It's so powerful that Lotus Petal, a version that only gave one mana as opposed to three, is not allowed in Modern play. note After 20 years, an exception has finally been found - Manaless Dredge, which is listed near the bottom of this page. There are millions of individual Magic decks on the planet right now, built to execute thousands of strategies it has often been said that every single one of them would benefit from using Black Lotus. That's bad enough on Turn 6 it basically wins you the game on Turn 1. One of the cardinal rules of Magic is that the amount of Mana you can access every turn only goes up by 1 the Black Lotus lets you power out something three turns early. On top of being rare, it's on this page for a reason: it enables massive Sequence Breaking. There are, at last estimates, less than 23,000 of these cards in the world, leading (genuine) articles to sell for tens of thousands of dollars at a minimum: a 2019 selling went for $166,100 USD a 2020 selling, which was autographed by the (now-deceased) artist, for $511,100. It's considered the Holy Grail of Magic cards by the playerbase. Black Lotus is the Game-Breaker of Magic.
