Instructions for playing Mikanko - Part 2

The main goal of the deck is to use Mikanko monsters and equipment cards. During the battle phase, when Mikanko monsters are wearing battle equipment, these monsters cannot be destroyed and the opponent will take damage on your behalf.

• Oohime can use the above effect even without a spell card equipped on her.
• Hare supports the ability to add additional Mikanko equipment from the deck to the hand.
• Nini can capture 1 opponent's monster during their turn.

Equipped cards are also the win condition of the deck when you need to equip them to Mikanko monsters to cause damage to the opponent.

• Arabesque can summon Mikanko monsters from the deck.
• Blazing Dance can summon Mikanko from the hand or grave.
• Purifying Dance (can only be equipped to Mikanko) and Arabesque (can be equipped to both opponent's monsters) can return monsters from the field to the hand.
• Inviting Rondo can only be equipped to your opponent's monsters and take control of them.

• For a deck with ritual monsters, it is indispensable to have cards that allow ritual summoning. Kagura is a classic ritual card that helps you ritual summon Mikanko monsters and deal additional damage to your opponent.
• The Great Mikanko of Legend is a special card that allows you to summon Mikanko monsters from your hand, including Oohime . With just this 1 card, you can set up 1 disrupt during your opponent's turn.
• Promise helps you pull Mikanko monsters onto the field from the deck as well as immediately equip them with a Mikanko equipped card from your hand or grave.

1. Use Arabesque to equip your opponent's monster.
2. Activate Arabesque 's on-field effect, special summoning Hare from your deck to the field. At this time, Arabesque will change from equipping another monster to equipping Hare , so this card will not be destroyed when the previously equipped monster is returned to the hand.
3. Activate Hare 's trigger effect, add 1 Mikanko equipped spell card from your deck to your hand:

• Inviting Rondo in case you want to capture an opponent's monster.
• Blazing Dance when you can continue to summon more Mikanko monsters from your hand or grave.
• Purifying Dance when you cannot kill your opponent this turn, this card can help you create more disruption during your opponent's turn.

End combo.

Perform combos:

1. Use Oohime 's effect in your hand, reveal this monster (cost), then add The Great Mikanko of Legend from your deck to your hand. When using this effect, you must discard 1 card in your hand, and you cannot discard Oohime or The Great Mikanko of Legend in this combo, so you must discard the remaining card.
2. Activate The Great Mikanko of Legend to summon Oohime from your hand to the field.
3. Using The Great Mikanko of Legend 's grave effect, remove this card from the grave (cost) and send 1 Mikanko card from the Deck to the grave. In this combo, you have up to 3 options to send: Purifying Dance or Arabesque or Inviting Rondo .
4. During this turn, you have not used Oohime 's effects yet . Depending on the choice you make to send to the grave with The Great Mikanko of Legend , you will get different directions of the combo.

If you send Inviting Rondo to the grave, you can end your turn here. During your opponent's turn, you can activate Oohime 's effect to equip Inviting Rondo from the Graveyard to 1 opponent's monster. That monster will be taken under control as long as you have a Mikanko monster on your side of the field. Due to the effect of The Great Mikanko of Legend , at the end of your opponent's turn, Oohime will return to the player's hand, at which point that monster is returned to your opponent but Inviting Rondo remains on the field. In the next turn, you can use Oohime 's effect to get Hare or Nini into your hand. Just by normal summoning these monsters, you will be able to continue capturing your opponent's monsters thanks to Inviting Rondo .
If you send Arabesque to the grave, you can activate Oohime 's effect that turn, equipping Arabesque to Oohime . Continue using Arabesque 's effect , summon Hare or Nini from the deck, then return Oohime to the hand.

With Hare, you can continue to get 1 more equipped spell card from the deck. As for Nini, you will stop the combo here with 1 monster capture during your opponent's turn. The Oohime in your hand will be used to get more Mikanko cards the next turn.

If you send Purifying Dance to the grave, you can use Oohime 's effect to equip that card back to her.

End combo.

Because the effects of Mikanko monsters that cannot be destroyed in battle and transfer damage to opponents are monster effects, cards like Skill Drain will make the deck unplayable.

Infinite Impermanence activating in the same column as equipped cards also makes the deck relatively difficult to breathe.

Besides, Mikanko is also a deck that depends very much on equip spells. These magic cards will not be able to successfully use their effects if cards like Twin Twister or Cosmic Cyclone chain destroy the equipment of these monsters.

If Arabesque cannot successfully use the effect, Mikanko has no choice but to use the remaining cards in her hand to continue the combo.

Because the deck includes many different monster types and attributes (Fairy, Warrior, Spellcaster, LIGHT, FIRE, WATER), floodgates like Rivalry of Warlords or Gozen Match will make Mikanko monsters unable to be summoned to the field. .

Anti-Spell Fragrance will make equipped spell cards as well as other spell cards unable to be activated right from the hand, instead the player needs to place them face down on the field first and have to wait up to 2 turns to use them. get them.

Equipped magic cards always need to target the monster you want to equip before they can be activated. Taking advantage of this, you can protect your monsters from the opponent's Arabesque or Inviting Rondo activation. by making your monster anti-target ( Spright Elf ).

Hare and Nini without equipment can only use effects that do not take damage. To use effects that won't be destroyed by battle and have your opponent take damage for you, these monsters need to be equipped with equip spell cards.

Nini can only use effects during the opponent's turn.

Hare can only trigger effects when equipped with an equip card.

Oohime can use the effect in both player turns.

Equipped cards must target 1 appropriate monster on the field when activated.

Arabesque can be equipped to both your and your opponent's monsters.

Blazing Dance and Purifying Dance can only be equipped to Mikanko monsters.

Inviting Rondo can only be equipped to monsters on the opponent's field.

Kagura is a Mikanko card that can destroy trap spells on the field.

With 1 Promise or The Great Mikanko of Legend you can summon 1 Mikanko monster along with 1 equipment on that monster.

Mikanko features monsters in the deck with different systems and types, you can also play the card There Can Be Only One for the deck.

Cards like Blazing Dance and Purifying Dance can help protect Mikanko monsters from Torrential Tribute .