Mikanko Phantom Knights

The recently added MIkanko archetype in Amazing Defenders is an Equip-based warrior archetype that was originally designed to be a towers.dek focused strategy.

With this, we are completely going to ignore all of that in favor for the cards that give us a lot of gas. Why are we doing this? Since Kashtira is a big meta threat and that deck dies to nibiru, we need something to help us gas through it (and by extention also gas past many other forms of handtraps.) This is where the mikanko package comes in! With Isolde, we can use it to summon renaud, sending a copy of arabesque, renaud will fetch the arabesque from the GY which will let us get Ha-Re from deck, this level 3 warrior can let us grab Fire Dance, another equip spell that lets us summon a mikanko from hand or GY.

with all of this extention we have so much gas that we can end on practically any board we want. In this build, I'm personally not going too crazy with it as saving stuff like your Fire Dance for the crackback is so much more effective. Even though I'm not going crazy with it, that doesn't mean the turn 1 endboards are anything to scoff at, enter Knightmare Gryphon! 

Knightmare Gryphon is a really power piece to end your board on because of it's second effect to basically just be a skill drain on legs. This means it outright kills any deck that doesn't play too many links, I;e EVERY META DECK THIS FORMAT!!! Kash? dead, Branded? Hella dead, Swordsoul? you best believe it's dead! Spright? they have to try pretty hard to get anything done.

And last but not least, since this endboard is almost entirely links, you're immune to all of the book of moon-type cards that people are bound to be main-decking for Kashtira!

But, with all good things, there are the bad. First off, this build has a horrendus matchup vs Kashtira and Labrynth going second. and lastly, Artifact Lancea, Chaos Hunter and Dimension Shitter still rain on your parade, but at least 2 of those 3 also cripple Kashtira!

So what do ya say? are you willing to take on the challenge? Command these ghostly warriors to your victory!