The Earth Crystal

Combos with The Earth Crystal

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

• Mindless Automaton Wizard Class Infinite
  • Infinite card draw
  • Infinite draw triggers
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• Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Chromatic Orrery Infinite
  • Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
  • Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
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• Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian Mycosynth Lattice Infinite
  • Infinite colorless mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
  • Infinite colored mana that can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells
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• Experiment Kraj Devoted Druid Infinite
  • Infinite green mana
  • Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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• Resourceful Defense Crystalline Crawler Infinite
  • Infinite colored mana
  • Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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• Warbeast of Gorgoroth Carrion Feeder Infinite
  • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite death triggers
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• Rite of Passage Walking Ballista Infinite
  • Infinite damage
  • Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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• Vigor Walking Ballista Infinite
  • Infinite damage
  • Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
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Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

• 2025-06-06

  If one of the creatures is an illegal target and the other one isn't as The Earth Crystal's last ability tries to resolve, the original distribution of counters applies and the counter that would have been put on the illegal target is lost. It won't be put on the remaining legal target instead.

• 2025-06-06

  If the rare case where you control two of The Earth Crystal, the number of +1/+1 counters put on a creature is four times the original number. Three of The Earth Crystal multiplies the original number by eight, and so on.

• 2025-06-06

  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 Earth 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

  If a creature you control would enter the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it, it enters with twice that many instead.

• 2025-06-06

  You choose how many targets The Earth Crystal's last ability has and how the counters are distributed as you activate it. Each target must receive at least one counter. This means, for example, that you can't target two creatures and assign them two and zero counters respectively.

• 2025-06-06

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

• 2025-06-06

  If two or more effects attempt to modify how many counters would be put onto a creature you control, you choose the order to apply those effects, no matter who controls the sources of those effects.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes The Earth Crystal, whatever its commander.