Mikio

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Uncommon Personality, Anvil of Despair
Force: 2 Chi: 5
Required Honor: 5 Gold: 8 Personal Honor: 2
Unaligned Bodyguard * Toturi's Army * Samurai * Double Chi * Mikio is dishonored if he is bowed when Toturi is challenged, and is destroyed (commits seppuku) if Toturi is every destroyed.
Reaction: Bow to replace Toturi with Mikio in a duel as it is accepted.

Uncommon Personality, Time of the Void
Force: 3 Chi 5
Required Honor: 5 Gold: 9 Personal Honor: 2
Ualigned Bodyguard * Toturi's Army * Samurai * Experianced * Unique * Double Chi
Mikio is destroyed if Toturi is ever destroyed.
Limited: Once per turn, target a Personality. Mikio is guarding that Personality until he guards someone else or until that personality leaves play.
Reaction: Bow to redirect any action targeting the Personality Mikio is guarding to himself.

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Game Note:
Both Mikios are useful asset for Toturi's Army dueling decks. Their built in double chi usually means a guaranteed victory in a duel, even against Yoshi loaded Dragons. However, if you use Mikios, don't include Toturi in your deck, because if anything bad happens to your Toturi, your Mikios suffer too. The experienced Mikio can guard another personality, protecting it from future duels, go-home actions, and ninja tricks. However Mikio's gold cost may be too much for honor decks. In reality, the best duelers are the ones that initiate a duel. A Mikio is worthless without a duel, and that will rely mainly on your fate deck. The experienced Mikio can be useful in any deck guarding a big gun, but the regular Mikio is only useful in specific decks.

Story Note:
Mikio was Toturi's bodyguard during the Clan Wars. No one knows where he went after the Day of Thunder. Perhaps he committed seppuku when his master was kidnapped, as his game text suggests. Or did he leave when he felt he wasn't useful since the Emerald Champion took his job? Nothing is certain yet.
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