The Water Crystal Price
3 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2025
The Water Crystal has been printed 3 times across 2 sets, first in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Final Fantasy #85 at $4.06, while the most expensive is Final Fantasy Promos #85s at $12.12 — about 3× more. The median across 3 priced printings is $9.28. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 3x in the last 2 years.
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Every The Water Crystal Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy #85 (R) Cheapest | 2025 | $4.06 | $2.00 |
| Final Fantasy #333 (R) | 2025 | $9.28 | $5.50 |
| Final Fantasy Promos #85s (R) Foil | 2025 | $12.12 | $8.00 foil |
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 an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill that many cards plus four instead.
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: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand.Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 3 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
5 PrecedentsIn the rare case where you control two of The Water Crystal, each opponent mills eight more cards than originally instructed. If you control three, your opponents mill twelve more, and so on.
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 Water 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.
The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of blue spells you cast.
Some older cards have received errata to instruct a player to mill cards rather than to put the top cards of their library into their graveyard. Use the Oracleâ„¢ card reference at Gatherer.Wizards.com to determine whether a specific card has received such errata. As a rule of thumb, if an effect instructs a player to look at or reveal a card before it's put into its owner's graveyard, it's unlikely to have received errata.
If an opponent is instructed to put a card into their graveyard without using the word "mill," The Water Crystal's second ability doesn't apply.