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The Darkness Crystal FIN 0096 · rare

The Darkness Crystal · {2}{B}{B} · 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.

The Darkness Crystal · {2}{B}{B} · 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.

Price
from $4.763 printings
Win rate
54.2% GIH 6,095 instances · Premier Draft
Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 3,304 wins in 6,095 card-in-hand instances.

6,057 distinct games · 2,398 distinct drafts · games recorded Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025.

17Lands file dated Jul 18, 2025 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

54.2%when drawn (GIH)

−1.5 pp vs 55.7% average · 6,095 instances

Premier Draft · Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025 · average from 769,659 games

#213 of 330 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 3.6 on average (23,746 packs).

40 of 51 black cards · 9 of 14 black rare cards.

Taken at pick4.74,287 picks
Makes the deck59.9%4,287 picks with known usage
When played53.2%13,879.8 matchesBenched 54.6%
8,410.2 matches
When drawn54.2%6,095 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 52.0% · 2,434 instances
● Drawn later 55.7% · 3,661 instances

In hand 54.2% · 6,095 instances
Unseen in deck 52.8% · 8,003 instances
+1.4 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn54.2%6,095 instances40 of 51
Opening hand52.0%2,434 instances39 of 51
Drawn later55.7%3,661 instances40 of 51
In the deck53.5%14,298 instances40 of 51
Without seeing it52.8%8,003 instances41 of 51
Improvement when drawn+1.4 pp6,095 instances / 8,003 instances29 of 51
When benched54.6%8,410.2 matches43 of 51
Makes the deck59.9%4,287 picks with known usage36 of 51
Pick (last seen)3.623,746 packs18 of 51
Taken at4.74,287 picks19 of 51

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Graveyard Value BG56.8%822 instancesBlack Mage Aggro BR55.5%723 instancesControl UB54.2%971 instancesSacrifice WB53.1%941 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (54.2% · 6,095 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Usually played with

Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.

Vayne's Treachery7,542 games with both in the deckSephiroth's Intervention7,248 games with both in the deckCornered by Black Mages6,628 games with both in the deck
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 36% of 330 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jun 10–Jul 14, 2025

Collect

3 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

FIN 0096 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster$4.76
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster$6.47

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 84 packs (1.19%) · 13.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 1,345 packs (0.07%) · 2.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 79 packs (1.26%) · 31.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterWildcard100%Wildcard
Play BoosterRare or mythic rare100%Rare or mythic rare
Play BoosterTraditional foil100%Traditional foil
Collector BoosterTraditional foil rare or mythic100%Traditional foil rare or mythic

Wizards · Collecting FINAL FANTASY ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Pablo Mendoza, FIN 96 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting FINAL FANTASY · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗