Live Play Data

The Darkness Crystal

· Legendary Artifact · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1048

Decks Running

448

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=168

11%

18%

15%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 37% (31 / 168 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

1049 brought · 383 players

Brought to game

1049

Ever drawn

240

Reached battlefield

168

Still on board at game end

113

Once cast, 67% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=155) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=699).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=62).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +14.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

273 instances

3.3%

Library

41.4%

Battlefield

25.6%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 27 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 21 decks
3 Ardyn, the Usurper 15 decks
4 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 14 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 11 decks
6 Umbris, Fear Manifest 11 decks
7 Baron Helmut Zemo 7 decks
8 Deadpool, Trading Card 7 decks
9 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 7 decks
10 The Lord of Pain 7 decks

Card text

The Darkness Crystal

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}

: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Pablo Mendoza

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.