Mimighoul (WCS 2025 Qualifiers, DLv. MAX)

For the 1st stage of the WCS Qualifiers 2025, I decided to try out the newly released Mimighoul archetype. This is a control deck where the main gimmick is to gift your opponent flip monsters with negative effects, and then forcing them to be flipped face-up. I don't see it being meta, but it's really wacky and fun to play, plus it's not too expensive.

Your best starters are Mimighoul Maker and Mimighoul Dragon (and in turn, Mimighoul Dungeon, which can search Dragon or any other Mimighoul monster), but the deck really excels when you have access to 2-card combos. To play the deck optimally, you need 3 copies of Mimighoul Maker, however, I only managed to pull 2, and can't afford to spend more UR points for a fun deck at the moment. Many times, what you want to do is either lock your opponent from normal summoning with Mimighoul Dungeon, and use Mimighoul Room to summon Mimighoul Dragon or Mimighoul Archfiend to their side of the field and then flip them up with Mimighoul Maker's GY effect or Mimighoul Master.

Both the Kashtira cards and Triple Tactics have insane synergy with this archetype, since you can make the Mimighouls activate on your opponent field (even if you don't, they are still very good standalone cards). Bystial Magnamhut is non-engine that can also get you into engine (it can search Mimighoul Dragon). Silhouhatte Rabbit is a nice way to turn 2 random monsters into a disruption (without having to play a Fiendsmith package), same for I:P Masquerena (to make S:P Little Knight or Underworld Goddess of the Closed World on the opponent's turn). Number 13: Embodiment of Crime can, in theory, flip up the Mimighouls you give your opponent during your own turn (as well as your opponent's), but in practice I haven't used it yet.

I really enjoyed my time with this deck, but if there's one thing I didn't like is that Mimighoul Master feels like such an awkward card. If it either was a Level 1 monster, or it was a searcher for Mimighoul Spell/Trap cards as well, it would be an amazing card for the archetype, but the fact that it is neither of those makes it harder to use, hence why everyone runs it at 1 copy (imagine a monster that searches on summon being a soft garnet lol). I even wonder if there is a world where you could play Mimighoul without Master. Also, be aware that Dominus Impulse completely shuts down the Mimighoul effects for the entire duel, I got lucky and didn't have to deal with it though.

I hope you enjoy the deck. I also attached a video where you can see some nice duels I had, even though it doesn't really showcase the standard Mimighoul combos (you can probably find other videos that explain those though). Happy dueling!