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The Water Crystal

Blue

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The Water Crystal, Final Fantasy printing
Final Fantasy FIN · No. 333 2025-06-13

Card text

{2}{U}{U}
Legendary Artifact
Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill that many cards plus four instead. {4}{U}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Keywords: Mill
EDHREC rank #1441 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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The 3 printings

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Standard ✓ Legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ✓ Legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

5 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

In the rare case where you control two of The Water Crystal, each opponent mills eight more cards than originally instructed. If you control three, your opponents mill twelve more, and so on.

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

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 Water 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.

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of blue spells you cast.

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

Some older cards have received errata to instruct a player to mill cards rather than to put the top cards of their library into their graveyard. Use the Oracle™ card reference at Gatherer.Wizards.com to determine whether a specific card has received such errata. As a rule of thumb, if an effect instructs a player to look at or reveal a card before it's put into its owner's graveyard, it's unlikely to have received errata.

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

If an opponent is instructed to put a card into their graveyard without using the word "mill," The Water Crystal's second ability doesn't apply.

2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

The Water Crystal, Final Fantasy Promos printing
Final Fantasy Promos
PFIN · #85s
Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Face to Face Games · Foil