Magic: The Gathering 's designers haven't just made recreating this moment possible, they are basically encouraging it
For such an expensive card to be playable, it usually needs to top the curve and win the game
There have been so many busted combo decks making use of Lotus Petal and Lions Eye Diamond, but my favorite will always be what I believe to be the most broken deck in Magic history (at least since the advent of the four-of rule and restricted list), a turn 1 kill deck detailed here , making use of the temporary abusability of Lions Eye Diamond when you could use it to play a spell from your hand before discarding your hand
This is all amplified by the flying side of the card and is well worth the life cost
Upon death, Smaug creates a huge hoard of 14 Treasure tokens, but few decks can easily kill a 6/6 flying creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Card draw, removal, and proliferation all wrapped into one