The Darkness Crystal
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Artifact
- Set
- Final Fantasy #96 (rare)
- Price
- $5.40 USD
Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
{4}{B}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
The Darkness Crystal has 3 printings, first in Final Fantasy (2025). EDHREC ranks it #1,121 among Commander cards. It appears most in Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel decks (8,835 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run The Darkness Crystal most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel: 8,835 decks
- Y'shtola, Night's Blessed: 4,252 decks
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth: 3,397 decks
- Umbris, Fear Manifest: 3,361 decks
- Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied: 3,184 decks
- Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival: 2,892 decks
- Ardyn, the Usurper: 2,210 decks
- Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin: 2,019 decks
Often played with The Darkness Crystal
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If The Darkness Crystal leaves the battlefield at the same time as one or more nontoken creatures an opponent controls would die, those creature cards will be exiled and you'll gain 2 life for each of them.
- : If a creature token an opponent controls dies, it goes to that player's graveyard as normal before ceasing to exist.
- : To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of The Darkness Crystal's first ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.
- : While you control The Darkness Crystal, abilities that trigger whenever a nontoken creature an opponent control dies won't trigger because that card is exiled instead.
- : The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of black spells you cast.