Notes & Combos

Some general thoughts

Not gonna lie, this deck might still be a menace. Super chill and quick blind second climb. Even with a lot of vovos around this time, I got to face far less omni negates than before.

Having duster is actually important now and it's not just a bm tool anymore. wow

Tried sntch steal and didn't like it. While in theory it offers a lot if you manage to actually steal something good, but in reality axe of fools still proves to be much more versatile and you usually have means to get only one OR another.

Hidden Armory is goated as always. You normally search for Double edged or Axe of fools with it, but if you don't have access to engine this card can also be a starter. That secret mill one effect sometimes wins games on its own. I would strongly suggest against cutting or replacing it in any blind second variants of mikanko deck.

Triple tactics thrust is a crazy good card as well, unless you draw multiples. It gets you anything in this deck, be it duster, armory or prep. Talents are a good tech as well, but not as good and therefore can be replaced.

Extra deck almost didn't come up, except for Dyna Mondo, S:P and Ty-phoon. However, having Zeus package and almiraj is fairly important too.

Matchups

Yubel is fine i guess but you need at least a half-decent hand to play into it. That deck is why duster is here. Nightmare pain makes things a bit difficult as it forces us to give a little cheek kisses to their 0\0 things. Reflection rondo their yubel before BP and bounce the spirit back to hand with mayowashidori second effect. If it was not possible for you to OTK, usually their only way to deal with Hu-Li is Goddess, so it is realistic to win a grind game if you can recover after it.

Iblee lock can be outed with axe of fools or if you have a normal summon. Toss Linguriboh in the extra deck if not feeling confident.

SEFK - you have to have a way to summon or equip hu-li twice. No other way around it. It is important to mention that mikanko equip spells are making ANY equiped monster indestructable so it is reasonable to equip things on their fire monsters if you have means to do so (and it's quite amusing too if they rely on Promethean to start a chain reaction)

Voiceless Voice - Not sure what is the optimal way to play into it, but the fact that one of their dudes is 4100 attack helps a lot.

Centurion - Not a threat at all with Calamity being gone. Only way to lose is by hard bricking.