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The Darkness Crystal

· Legendary Artifact · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

662

Decks Running

295

In Decks

1606

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

179 instances

2.2%

Library

43.0%

Battlefield

25.7%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 16 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 15 decks
3 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 10 decks
4 Umbris, Fear Manifest 8 decks
5 Ardyn, the Usurper 7 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 7 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 7 decks
8 Baron Helmut Zemo 5 decks
9 Doctor Doom 5 decks
10 The Lord of Pain 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

662 brought · 253 players

Brought to game

662

Ever drawn

158

Reached battlefield

111

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=104) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=434).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=42) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=111

11%

14%

16%

41%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 32% (16 / 111 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

652 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.