The Darkness Crystal

Final Fantasy · #96 · rare · EN

€2.39 · Foil $4.33

cheapest of 21 store offers · see all

market $5.06 · Foil $6.29

Mana cost: {2}{B}{B}

Type: Legendary Artifact

Commonly played as: Recursion, Graveyard Hate, Lifegain

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.

Artist: Pablo Mendoza

Released: 2025-06-13

Finishes: Nonfoil, Foil

Market price

  • TCGplayer: $5.06
  • TCGplayer foil: $6.29
  • Cardmarket: €3.17
  • Cardmarket foil: €4.60
  • MTGO tix: 0.02
$7.13$2.45
234 days of daily prices for The Darkness Crystal: $2.45 to $5.06
2026-01-252026-11-12
regular foil · 234 days tracked · $2.45 → $5.06 (+107%) · low $2.45 · high $7.13
Daily USD snapshots; a flat stretch is a day with no new price recorded.

Other languages

The same printing (Final Fantasy #96) in 5 other languages.

Store prices

The 3 cheapest per condition and finish, in stock at the last check. Offers not re-confirmed within 60 days are not shown. Prices in different currencies are compared at the current exchange rate.

StoreConditionFinishPriceChecked
CardTraderNM · yesterdayNMregular€2.39yesterday
CardmarketNM · todayNMregular€3.18today
ManaPoolSP · todaySPregular$3.66today
ManaPoolNM · todayNMregular$3.99today
ManaPoolNM · foil · todayNMfoil$4.33today
ManaPoolSP · foil · todaySPfoil$4.34today
CardmarketNM · foil · todayNMfoil€4.29today
CardTraderSP · yesterdaySPregular€4.31yesterday
CardTraderSP · foil · yesterdaySPfoil€4.31yesterday
ManaPoolMP · todayMPregular$4.80today
CardTraderNM · foil · yesterdayNMfoil€4.35yesterday
Recycled EntertainmentSP · todaySPregular$4.95today
CardTraderMP · yesterdayMPregular€5.25yesterday

Truncated: 8 further offers are available at a higher price in the same conditions, out of 21 in total.

Format legality

  • standard: legal
  • pioneer: legal
  • modern: legal
  • legacy: legal
  • vintage: legal
  • commander: legal
  • pauper: not legal
  • brawl: legal

In Gestic collections

  • Held in 53 lists
  • 77 copies tracked

All printings of The Darkness Crystal

USD · low $5.06 · high $11.04

Set#RarityUSD
Final Fantasy#96 · rare96rare$5.06
Final Fantasy Promos#96s · rare96srare$11.04 foil
Final Fantasy#335 · rare335rare$10.62