The Darkness Crystal
The Darkness Crystal: Legendary Artifact, Final Fantasy. Black spells you cast cost 1 less to cast. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Legendary Artifact
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Final Fantasy (FIN)
- Released
- 2025-06-13
- Collector number
- 96
- Artist
- Pablo Mendoza
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About The Darkness Crystal
The Darkness Crystal is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black legendary artifact from Final Fantasy (FIN), an expansion set released in June 2025. It is collector number 96 in that set, with art by Pablo Mendoza. It costs {2}{B}{B} (two generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $4.60 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $4.60 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of The Darkness Crystal by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of The Darkness Crystal
The Darkness Crystal has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy (FIN) #335 | Rare | 2025 |
| Final Fantasy Promos (PFIN) #96s | Rare | 2025 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to The Darkness Crystal, newest first.
- 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.
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