The Darkness Crystal Price
3 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2025
The Darkness Crystal has been printed 3 times across 2 sets, first in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Final Fantasy #96 at $4.11, while the most expensive is Final Fantasy #335 at $11.58 — about 3× more. The median across 3 priced printings is $10.45. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 3x in the last 2 years.
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Every The Darkness Crystal Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy #96 (R) Cheapest | 2025 | $4.11 | $3.70 |
| Final Fantasy Promos #96s (R) Foil | 2025 | $10.45 | $9.00 foil |
| Final Fantasy #335 (R) | 2025 | $11.58 | $8.00 |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
less to cast.If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
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: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 3 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
5 PrecedentsIf 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.