First printed in Final Fantasy (2025)
Legendary Artifact
Green spells you cast cost 
less to cast.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.
, 
: Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.
- Illustrated by
- Pablo Mendoza
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders
Rulings (7)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The cost reduction applies only to generic mana in the total cost of green spells you cast.
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy (FIN), Premier Draft | 47.7% | -8.0 | -4.1 | 4519 |
| Final Fantasy (FIN), Sealed | 50.3% | -7.1 | -6.2 | 717 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
134 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite damage, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature: Gatta and Luzzu + The Earth Crystal + Walking Ballista
- Infinite damage, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: The Earth Crystal + Vigor + Walking Ballista
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: Crystalline Crawler + Resourceful Defense + The Earth Crystal
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, Infinite colored mana…: Crystalline Crawler + Hardened Scales + Simic Ascendancy + The Earth Crystal
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, Infinite colored mana…: Branching Evolution + Crystalline Crawler + Simic Ascendancy + The Earth Crystal
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, Infinite colored mana…: Crystalline Crawler + Kami of Whispered Hopes + Simic Ascendancy + The Earth Crystal
- Infinite damage, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: Rite of Passage + The Earth Crystal + Walking Ballista
- Infinite damage, Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control: The Earth Crystal + Triskelion + Vigor
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, Infinite colored mana…: Crystalline Crawler + Ozolith, the Shattered Spire + Simic Ascendancy + The Earth Crystal
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control: Devoted Druid + Hardened Scales + Leyline of Abundance + The Earth Crystal
