The Darkness Crystal
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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, 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.
Combos with The Darkness Crystal
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Chthonian Nightmare Patron of the Arts Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite energy counters
- Oathsworn Vampire Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite storm count
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Pontiff of Blight Mourning Infinite
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite storm count
- Chthonian Nightmare Greedy Freebooter Shambling Ghast Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite energy counters
- Haakon, Stromgald Scourge Morophon, the Boundless Nameless Inversion Infinite
- Reduce the toughness of creatures opponents control to 0
- Reduce the toughness of each creature opponents control to 0 upon entering
- Rakdos, the Muscle Priest of Gix Haunted Crossroads Blasting Station Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite damage
- Infinite storm count
- Exile your library with the ability to play the exiled cards until your next end step
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-06-06
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.
- 2025-06-06
If a creature token an opponent controls dies, it goes to that player's graveyard as normal before ceasing to exist.
- 2025-06-06
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.
- 2025-06-06
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.
- 2025-06-06
The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of black spells you cast.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes The Darkness Crystal, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghoulcaller Gisa | 1 | 1 | — |
| Marrow-Gnawer | 1 | 0 | — |
| Olinda the Oblivious | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sahir, Visitor in Darkness | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel | 1 | 0 | — |
| Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 6 decks
Every version of The Darkness Crystal
3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Inverted
- Normal
- $12.45
- Foil
- $16.97
- Normal
- $4.17
- Foil
- $6.53
Promo
Final Fantasy Promos
- Foil
- $10.24
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for The Darkness Crystal — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
