The Darkness Crystal

As of Aug 9, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of The Darkness Crystal is $4.23 (FIN #96), and the most expensive is $16.99 (FIN #335, Borderless, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $4.23, down 20.3% over 7 days, down 4.5% over 30 days, down 10.4% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $19.99 (2025).

The Darkness Crystal has 3 tracked printings across 2 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes, including borderless and prerelease treatments.

FIN #96

$4.23

CK $6.49 / $3.70 13%

MP $3.43 186 avail

FIN #96 Foil

$5.97 +41%

CK $6.99 / $3.50 41%

MP $5.21 61 avail

PFIN #96s Prerelease Foil

$10.15 +140%

CK $11.99 / $7.00 31%

MP $9.47 4 avail

FIN #335 Borderless

$11.91 +182%

CK $13.99 / $5.75 52%

MP $8.80 59 avail

FIN #335 Borderless Foil

$16.99 +302%

CK $22.99 / $11.50 32%

MP $14.58 21 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $11.50 cash for FIN #335 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 50% (wide).

• Jun 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.
• Jun 6, 2025 If a creature token an opponent controls dies, it goes to that player's graveyard as normal before ceasing to exist.
• Jun 6, 2025 The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of black spells you cast.
• Jun 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.
• Jun 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.

The Darkness Crystal has been reprinted 5 times. The Final Fantasy reprint cut the price 15% in 30 days.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment	Price before	Day 1	30 days	90 days
FIN #96	2025-06-13	Rare	Standard	$3.08	$3.64	$2.61	$3.15
FIN #335	2025-06-13	Rare	Borderless	$8.13	$9.55	$8.61	$8.74
FIN #335	2025-06-13	Rare	Borderless	$8.69	$15.08	$13.17	$12.07
PFIN #96s	2025-06-13	Rare	Prerelease	—	$11.87	$8.49	$8.02
FIN #96	2025-06-13	Rare	Standard	$3.13	$4.31	$3.53	$3.91

The Darkness Crystal is the #1,276 most-played card on EDHREC, up 57 places over the last 30 days.