(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
With a few exceptions, eldrazi are 7/7 creatures or bigger and usually cost 7 or more mana to cast
My favorite example of this style of deck was Abzan Constellation, one of my favorite decks of all time
And the floating wolf head
When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.) Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn
Equip 4 isnt unreasonable for this amount of cards, but there are plenty of ways to cheat equip costs these days or you can just play the right creature types