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The Darkness Crystal

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{2}{B}{B}
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All Printings

3 printings across 2 sets
Card details
Artist
Pablo Mendoza
Frame
legendary
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
triangle
Format legality
AlchemyLegal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardLegal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Oracle text

Legendary Artifact

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.

Abilities
StaticBlack spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
ReplacementIf a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
Activated{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.
Plays as
Counter DoublerGraveyard HateCost Reducer
Flavor & art
Illustrated by
Pablo Mendoza
Rulings
  • WotCJun 6, 2025

    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.

  • WotCJun 6, 2025

    If a creature token an opponent controls dies, it goes to that player's graveyard as normal before ceasing to exist.

  • WotCJun 6, 2025

    The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of black spells you cast.

  • WotCJun 6, 2025

    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.

  • WotCJun 6, 2025

    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.