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Magic · FINAL FANTASY · #96 · Rare

The Darkness Crystal

Magic card price for The Darkness Crystal: $5.99 market, from $4.27 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since May 15, 2025 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$5.99
−2.6% this week · −11.3% in 30 days
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1 day−1.2%
7 days−2.6%
30 days−11.3%
90 days+14.1%
1 year+4.4%
All time−66.0%

Sellers right now

$4.27lowest listing$25.00highest
Market price$5.99
Mid listing$6.15
Direct$7.49
30-day avg$6.25

Market price is what a near-mint copy actually sold for. The cheapest listing is what a seller asks today — on thin markets the two differ a lot.

Where to buy

TCGplayer$5.99
Cardmarket$4.92 €4.37

EUR converted at 1.1253 (ECB reference rate). Shipping and condition not included.

One year

$3.5852-week low$6.9452-week high
In the range72%
All-time low$2.96
All-time high$17.60
First priceMay 15, 2025
Foil · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$2.71$4.24$5.77$7.30
$5.99
Oct 2025Feb 2026Jun 2026Oct 2026
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

The Darkness Crystal (Foil) came out in June 2025; we leave the first weeks out of this story, because early prices are set before real supply exists. Over the past twelve months it moved +4.4%, trading between $3.58 and $6.94. The current price is in the middle of that range. Listings currently start at $4.27; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $6.25.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$5.99$4.27$25.00−2.6%
Normal$4.06$2.75$999.00+16.3%

The card in play

Type line
Legendary Artifact
Rules text

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.

4BB, 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.

Other printings of The Darkness Crystal

2 more · $5.99 – $17.61
All printings
The Darkness Crystal (Borderless) (335), FINAL FANTASY — Magic card price +0.7% 7d The Darkness Crystal (Borderless) FINAL FANTASY · #335 $17.61 The Darkness Crystal (96), Prerelease Cards — Magic card price +1.4% 7d The Darkness Crystal Prerelease Cards · #96 $10.60

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