MITICA THE FINISHER

Mitica riding in to kebab the enemies

I love Earth Splinter. It's my 2nd favorite Splinter to use, especially because of Mylor Crowling and Mitica Headhunter among other related great cards.
In this battle, the rule set forbid Water, Death, and Dragon so it felt safe to use Earth Splinter. Predicting some melee attacks, I chose Mylor Crowling for my summoner due to his shared Thorns ability. Stone Golem felt like a good choice for my front-line tank since I didn't really expect my opponent to bring out any magic monsters. I did expect them to use a bit of armor if they went with Life Splinter so I got the armor-destroying half of the Super Mushroom Bros, Sporcerer with his Rusty ability. After that I wanted someone to do some heavy damage all the way from the backline, so I went with Mitica Headhunter and sent a prayer up to the Splinter Gods that my opponent didn't pick any Sneak monsters. On the other side, they went Shieldbearer with the Taunt ability, Divine Healer with the Tank Heal ability, Peacebringer, and Venari Crystalsmith who also had the Tank Heal ability. Damage-wise it was 1 Melee/ 2 Magic/ 4 Ranged/ 6 Armor versus 2 Melee/ 3 Range/ 8 Armor or 7 damage/ 6 protect versus 5 damage/ 8 protect. I was a little worried about all that Healing and armor but Sporcerer's Magic cuts through Armor that and Mitica Headhunter's 4 ranged damage is like getting hit by a cannon which I hoped to be hard to come back from.

After Stone Golem knocked out Shieldbearer, Mitica went to work -- and took out Divine Healer

After the old lady was gone, Mitica went back at it again and showed Peacebringer the meaning of the word "headhunter." I found it funny that the character with their spear raised defeated the character whose spear wasn't ready.

Once Peacebringer was shown war, Mitica Headhunter finished the job with Venari Crystalsmith who at the end looked like a rat caught in a trap.

I won 23 Rating and almost 10 Dark Energy Crystals from this battle.

If you'd like to see something other than screenshots, here's the Desktop Replay & Mobile Replay. Hope you enjoy it as much I did.

Javelin Thrower, Mitica's other spear-ready cousin

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