Mikanko Deck #774924 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 50/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Mikanko equip-chain board presence (Water Arabesque, Mikanko Ceremony, Noble Twins) feeding Uzuhime the Manifested Mikanko Xyz pressure, closing with extra-deck 3000-ATK options such as Ekhajar and Underworld Goddess (Inferred); Interaction-led grind: hand traps and layered negations (Ash Blossom x2, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Harpie's Feather Duster, Crossout Designator, Herald of the Arc Light) buy time for the equip engine
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Level 3 Mikanko or Water Arabesque line toward Uzuhime; keep Ash Blossom and Impermanence up for the opponent's first activation (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 5 hand traps and Feather Duster/Crossout on the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Mikanko GY recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Banish Mikanko Spiritwalk, Mikanko Rivalry, Mikanko Ceremony and Mikanko Dance from the GY to re-add or re-summon Mikanko pieces (text-based, Inferred)
• After siding: None: the export has a 0-card side deck, so no post-side plan can be read

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its equip engine: Water Arabesque x3 and Mikanko Ceremony/Noble Twins give repeatable equip and Special Summon lines, and recursion from the GY keeps the engine alive after disruption. Its interaction is the strongest part of the system, with five hand traps, several one-copy negations and Underworld Goddess/W:P Fancy Ball in the Extra Deck. The score is held back by brick risk: four Ritual monsters (Ohime x3, Arahime) and two Preparation of Rites are dead unless a Ritual Spell is present, and the 40-card list contains none. Uzuhime needs two Level 3 Mikanko monsters, which is roughly a 20% event in an opening 5 (Inferred). No combo boards, tournament share or side deck are supplied, so the ceiling and floor are text-based and the score is not derived from averaging card scores or from the archetype's popularity. Meta power is provisional, and matchup fit was dropped from the structural score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, meta-neutral: D13 dropped and weights renormalised over 95. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 49. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); dead ritual engine and engine conflict (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*56.3 + 0.20*49 - 5 = 49.8, rounded to 50 (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Equip-recursion engine with repeatable Mikanko Special Summons from hand, Deck and GY
• Five hand traps and six negation-text cards give layered interaction on both turns
• Uzuhime the Manifested Mikanko x3 gives a consistent Xyz route when two Level 3 Mikanko are available
• Extra Deck has several 2500-3000 ATK closers (Ekhajar, Underworld Goddess, Divine Arsenal, Power Tool Braver Dragon)

Weaknesses

• Four Ritual monsters and two Preparation of Rites with no Ritual Spell in the list
• No side deck, so no post-side plan and no adaptation
• Archetype purity 47.3%; Extra Deck is a toolbox spread across unrelated archetypes
• Mikanko Kagura, the Ritual Spell the Ritual monsters require, is not in the list

Critical choke points

• Uzuhime needs two Level 3 Mikanko monsters on the field; only 7 are in the main deck
• Equip chains depend on Water Arabesque x3 and Mikanko Ceremony, so a hand without them has a thin engine start
• One-copy Limited cards (Maxx C, Herald, Feather Duster, Crossout, S:P Little Knight) cannot be backed up

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal, 40 main / 15 extra / 0 side within size rules; Banlist: five Limited cards at legal 1-copy caps and Ash Blossom at 2/2 Semi-Limited; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Usage: Ohime 100%, Mikanko Dance / Water Arabesque / Double-Edged Sword / Sanaki 90.9%; Archetype purity 47.3%
• Inferred: P(at least one Water Arabesque in opening 5) = 0.34; P(two Level 3 Mikanko in opening 5) ~0.20; Ritual monsters and Preparation of Rites are dead without a Ritual Spell; Hand-trap probability on the going-second hand of 6 is 0.58; Interaction density is high and layered; Engine recursion covers interruption
• Provisional: Meta power is null; no dated metagame sample; Matchup and format fit (D13) are not scored; Side deck performance is unknown
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for going-first, going-second or matchup results Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty: post-side adaptability cannot be measured Usage stats conflict with the card list: Elder Entity N'tss and S:P Little Knight are in the Extra Deck list but usage marks them absent, and missing_core lists N'tss as missing Mikanko Kagura (the Ritual Spell named in Ohime and Arahime text) is not in the card list Guide snippets are intro text only (section_count 0)