Shadowcraft Your Strategy
The Darkness Crystal offers a potent resource for decks that lean heavily into black mana. By reducing the cost of your black spells by one, it streamlines your ability to deploy key threats or answers more efficiently. This Legendary Artifact fits neatly into any black-centric build, enhancing your mana curve and providing a subtle but meaningful advantage over the course of a duel.
Its secondary ability provides a strong disruption element: whenever an opponent's nontoken creature would die, it is exiled instead, allowing you to gain 2 life. This adds a layer of resilience and board control, turning your opponents' losses into your gains. Additionally, its activated ability allows you to return an exiled creature card to the battlefield under your control with added +1/+1 counters, making it a flexible tool for mid-to-late game swings and synergy plays.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost: {2}{B}{B}
- Card Type: Legendary Artifact
- Card Text / Rules Text: Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead 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.