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"Find me cards equivalent to: The Darkness Crystal"

Closest equivalent cards to The Darkness Crystal (Legendary Artifact, Black):
1. The Darkness Crystal (your card, for reference)
2. Helm of the Host—Legendary artifact, reanimates creatures (colorless, but popular for repeatable creature recursion)
3. Tormod's Cryptkeeper—Exiles opponents’ graveyards (artifact, colorless)
4. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled—Returns exiled creatures to battlefield (not an artifact, but Black-White; reanimation/exile interaction)
5. Bolras’s Citadel—Legendary artifact, black, strong black synergy but not about exile
6. Contamination Engine—Fictional, no official card exactly matches all three abilities


Reason:
No exact match exists, but Helm of the Host and Athreos, Shroud-Veiled touch on reanimation/exile, and Bolas's Citadel is a powerful black artifact. Use combinations of exile/removal (e.g., Soul-Guide Lantern) and reanimation (e.g., Whip of Erebos) for similar effects.

Conclusion:
Closest match: Helm of the Host, Whip of Erebos, Soul-Guide Lantern. No single existing card does all three things in a black legendary artifact.

Found Cards

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Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Bolas's Citadel

Helm of the Host

Soul-Guide Lantern

The Darkness Crystal

Tormod's Cryptkeeper

Whip of Erebos

Athreos, Shroud-Veiled #269 Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 6
Power/Toughness: 4/7
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  • Enchantment
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • God
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Indestructible

    Rules

  • As a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color will determine whether any replacement effects that affect creatures entering the battlefield apply to that God. Because replacement effects are considered before the God is on the battlefield, the mana symbols in its mana cost won't be counted when determining this.
  • Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
  • Counters put on a God remain on it while it's not a creature, even if they have no effect.
  • Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
  • If Athreos and a creature with a coin counter on it are both put into graveyards and/or exiled at the same time, the other creature will be returned to the battlefield.
  • If Athreos leaves the battlefield, creatures with coin counters on them keep them. The counters won't have any meaning or effect unless another Athreos is on the battlefield later.
  • If Athreos somehow gets a coin counter on itself, its last ability will return it when it dies or is exiled.
  • If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat. It won't rejoin combat if it resumes being a creature later during that combat.
  • If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and the creature type God. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.
  • If a creature with a coin counter on it is put into a graveyard or exile but leaves that zone before Athreos's last ability resolves, that card stays in its new zone, even if that zone is also a graveyard or exile. You don't return it to the battlefield.
  • If a creature with a coin counter on it stops being a creature, it keeps its coin counter, but Athreos's last ability won't trigger when that permanent dies or is exiled unless it's a creature again by that time.
  • If a creature you don't own has a coin counter on it, that permanent will return to the battlefield under your control when it dies or is exiled while you control Athreos. In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any creatures you control from Athreos's ability are exiled.
  • If a token with a coin counter on it dies or is exiled, Athreos's last ability triggers, but won't return it to the battlefield.
  • If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
  • If an effect causes a God to lose all abilities, its ability that causes it to stop being a creature still applies if appropriate.
  • If an effect exiles a creature with a coin counter on it and immediately returns it to the battlefield, Athreos's last ability triggers but will have no effect. If an effect exiles a creature with a coin counter on it and would return it to the battlefield at a later time, Athreos's last ability will return that card to the battlefield and it won't be returned later.
  • If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.
  • In a two-player game, if both players control an Athreos when a creature with a coin counter on it dies, the nonactive player (the one whose turn it isn't) will return the creature under their control. If that happens in a multiplayer game, the nonactive player closest to the right of the player whose turn it is will return the creature under their control.
  • Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
  • The abilities of Gods function as long as they're on the battlefield, regardless of whether they're creatures.
  • The creature returns to the battlefield without a coin counter on it.
  • The type-changing ability that can make a God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It's always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color. It's always a creature spell while it's on the stack.
  • When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.
  • Your devotion to two colors is the number of mana symbols among mana costs of permanents you control that are the first color, the second, or both. If an effect counts your devotion to two colors, a hybrid symbol that is both of those colors is counted just once.

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    Legalities

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    Text

    Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature. At the beginning of your end step, put a coincounteron another target creature. Whenever a creature with a coincounteron it dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

    Bolas's Citadel #1187 Legendary Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: /
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    Rules

  • Bolas's Citadel lets you look at the top card of your library whenever you want (with one restriction—see below), even if you don't have priority. This action doesn't use the stack. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand.
  • Bolas's Citadel may be one of the permanents you sacrifice to activate its last ability.
  • If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, you can't look at the new top card until you finish doing so. This means that if you cast the top card of your library, you can't look at the next one until you're done paying for that spell.
  • If you cast a spell for another cost "rather than pay its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Spark Harvest, those must be paid to cast the card.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, the last ability of Bolas's Citadel causes the opposing team to lose 20 life.
  • You can play a land card from the top of your library only if you have available land plays remaining.
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the cards you play from your library.

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    Legalities

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    Text

    You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. ,Sacrificeten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

    Helm of the Host #217s Legendary Artifact — Equipment

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
    • SubTypes:
  • Equipment
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    Normal
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    Tokens:
    Copy

    Abilities/Keywords

    Equip

    Rules

  • Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the chosen creature will also work.
  • If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
  • If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token.
  • If the copied creature is copying something else (for example, if the copied creature is a Clone), then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.
  • If the equipped creature leaves the battlefield before the triggered ability of Helm of the Host resolves, or if there is no equipped creature, no token is created. However, if Helm of the Host leaves the battlefield while its triggered ability is on the stack, a token will be created of the creature it last equipped. If that creature has also left the battlefield, its last known information is used to determine what the token looks like.
  • The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
  • The token gains haste indefinitely, and this effect isn't copiable. If something else copies the token later, that copy won't have haste.
  • The token isn't legendary, and this exception is copiable. If something else copies the token later, that copy also won't be legendary. If you control two or more permanents with the same name but only one is legendary, the "legend rule" doesn't apply.

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    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste. Equip

    Soul-Guide Lantern #143 Artifact

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
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    Text

    When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. ,Sacrificethis artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. , ,Sacrificethis artifact: Draw a card.

    The Darkness Crystal #96s Legendary Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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    Rules

  • If The Darkness Crystal leaves the battlefield at the same time as one or more nontoken creatures an opponent controls would die, those creature cards will be exiled and you'll gain 2 life for each of them.
  • If a creature token an opponent controls dies, it goes to that player's graveyard as normal before ceasing to exist.
  • The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of black spells you cast.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of The Darkness Crystal's first ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.
  • While you control The Darkness Crystal, abilities that trigger whenever a nontoken creature an opponent control dies won't trigger because that card is exiled instead.

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    Text

    Black spells you cast cost less to cast. If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life. , : Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

    Tormod's Cryptkeeper #239 Artifact Creature — Golem

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 3/2
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
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  • Golem
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Vigilance

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    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Vigilance ,Sacrificethis creature: Exile target player's graveyard.

    Whip of Erebos #2218 Legendary Enchantment Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • At the beginning of the next end step, the creature returned to the battlefield with Whip of Erebos is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability. If the ability is countered, the creature will stay on the battlefield and the delayed trigger won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the creature when it eventually leaves the battlefield.
  • If a creature returned to the battlefield with Whip of Erebos would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead. However, if that creature is already being exiled, then the replacement effect won't apply. If the spell or ability that exiles it later returns it to the battlefield (as Chained to the Rocks might, for example), the creature card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The effects from Whip of Erebos will no longer apply to it.
  • The exiled creature is never put into the graveyard. Any abilities the creature has that trigger when it dies won't trigger.
  • Whip of Erebos grants haste to the creature that's returned to the battlefield. However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that creature. If that creature loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.

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    Creatures you control have lifelink. , : Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.