Mitsurugi no Miko, Wousu – #ALIN-EN051
You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by Tributing 1 other Reptile monster from your hand and 1 monster your opponent controls, but you cannot Special Summon nor activate monster effects for the rest of this turn, except Reptile monsters. You can only Special Summon “Mitsurugi no Miko, Wousu” once per turn this way. If this card is Tributed: You can discard 1 card, and if you do, add this card to your hand. You can only use this effect of “Mitsurugi no Miko, Wousu” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: August 5th, 2025
Rating: 3.25
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Mitsurugi no Miko, Wousu is a little different from the other Mitsurugi monsters, as it is a higher level monster than the Normal Summon targets we’ve seen.
Special Summon ability eliminates the worry of it being Level 8 (though it is a Trade-In target alongside the Ritual Monsters). Tribute a Reptile and an opponent’s monster to summon Wousu is a way to get rid of an opponent’s monster while also activating one of your Reptile’s effects when tributed. Not a card you can drop turn zero, but something of a tech card to hold onto. It does lock you into Reptile monsters for the rest of the turn, making it not the best card for archetypes using Mitsurugi for tech choices…though it says “rest of the turn” so you could just activate it after you’ve done your usual plays. 2000/2000 stat line limits the damage Wousu can do being Special Summoned its way, especially in the late game when you could drop a small monster via Special Summon and then tribute this out, thus clearing the board (we’ve all been in a top-decking war).
If you tribute Wousu, because what would a Mitsurugi monster be without this style of effect? If tributed, Wousu can cycle itself back to the hand through discarding any card in your hand. This is likely the worst tribute effect of any of the Mitsurugi monsters. It feeds a tribute effect, but you discard to add this back to the hand. Unless you are immediately activating its first effect you aren’t getting anything out of this. In fact, you are going -1 and that isn’t something Mitsurugi do. It being a Level 8 does help it eat all of the Levels required for a Ritual Summon, but that’s about it.
Probably the most balanced Mitsurugi as it doesn’t get you incredible advantage. Sure, it can be the fuel for the entire Ritual Summon, and it can get rid of an opponent’s monster while also tributing a Reptile of your own to activate that Reptile’s effect, which will get you further advantage. But then you are locked into Reptiles for the turn, and if you tribute Wousu you don’t gain advantage with its tribute. Players want to keep playing effects that aren’t Reptile monster after using Mitsurugi monsters, and Wousu locking them out helps the opponent counter their monsters with their own monster effects. Under Wousu, their other monsters (like Detonator) won’t be able to trigger. It is useful, but not as useful as the other Mitsurugi monsters, and being able to be the entire fuel for the Ritual Summon was never the desire of the players who use Mitsurugi as tech choices. Bottom line: A good card on the first effect. It will be used in Pure Mitsurugi, but likely not where Mitsurugi are splashed in.
Advanced- 3/5 Art- 3/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
Next up we got a Level 8 Mitsurugi that isn’t a Ritual Monster and can help with an opponent’s threat: Mitsurugi no Miko, Wousu.
Wousu is a Level 8 DARK Reptile with 2000 ATK and DEF. Basically, apply what was said yesterday about stats, Type, and Attribute here. You can Special Summon this from the hand by tributing another Reptile in your hand and a monster the opponent controls, but you cannot Special Summon or activate monster effects for the rest of the turn, except Reptile monsters. Outting the major threat while tributing a Mitsurugi to trigger its effect seems nice, basically making this a Kaiju that goes to your field instead of the opponent’s. The lock is fine, Reptiles might not have the best end board pieces on their own, but they also don’t have half bad boss monsters either. You can only Special Summon Wousu once a turn this way, also if this is tributed, you can discard a card to add it back to your hand, giving an optiton for recovery at the very least. HOPT on recovering it, though. It’s a nice card for pure Mitsurugi or any builds focusing on Reptiles like an Ogdoadic version. It’s highly searchable in the Deck and you don’t want to see multiple, but having a copy in the pure/Ogdoadic version of the Deck, at least in the side, would be fine for going second or getting rid of a boss monster.
Advanced Rating: 3/5
Art: 4/5 Good for Wousu, I wouldn’t want to ride a giant snake.
Mighty
Vee
Practically the entirety of Mitsurugi’s wave 2 was a cake, but today’s card is a cherry on top; Mitsurugi no Miko, Wousu continues our Mitsurugi coverage, a level 8 DARK Reptile monster and their only level 8 monster so far that isn’t a Ritual monster. That helpfully means it’ll provide the entire Tribute for their Ritual monsters (not that you can’t use the other Ritual monsters as fodder themselves). Like with Aramasa, there are a million ways to access it both in and outside of the archetype, though in my experience you’ll usually either directly search it with Mitsurugi Prayers or end up recycling it after using it as fodder with Mitsurugi Ritual. Statwise, Wousu is not as impressive as the Ritual monsters, with a paltry 2000 attack and defense for its level. Though, its stats won’t be the reason you’ll run Wousu…
Wousu’s primary effect is its own hard once per turn summoning condition, which will let you summon it from your hand by Tributing a Reptile from your hand and a monster your opponent controls at the cost of a crazy lock, locking you into not only Special Summoning Reptiles for the rest of the turn, but also preventing you from activating the effects of monsters that aren’t Reptiles. This is an inherent summon, so yep, Wousu is effectively a Kaiju, which means Mitsurugi has an easily searchable monster that can delete (almost) every boss monster in the game. While not as exciting as its summoning condition, Wousu also has a hard once per turn effect that triggers if it’s Tributed, letting you discard a card to recycle it back to your hand. This gives us a couple of fun applications; obviously, it’ll make Mitsurugi Ritual a way to search it by Tributing it from the deck, so you can field a Ritual monster then get rid of an opponent’s monster immediately afterward. This also lets you recycle Wousu every turn as long as you Tribute it every turn, which shouldn’t be too difficult between Mitsurugi Prayers and Mitsurugi Great Purification– the latter helpfully only requiring a level 5 or higher Reptile. There’s not a lot to complain about with Wousu, but it does fall into the classic Kaiju issue of not being very useful going first; its combo potential is considerably worse than the level 4 monsters and even the Ritual monsters themselves. Furthermore, while Wousu might’ve been fairly popular last format to get rid of cards like Allied Code Talker @Ignister, the current format features heavily layered endboards where simply getting rid of 1 monster usually isn’t a huge deal– Yummy and K9 Vanquish Soul are both decks with extraordinary swarming ability and can easily bounce back during your turn. Still, you never know when you’ll need a Kaiju, so Wousu’s always a safe option to put in the Side Deck at 1 copy.
+Highly accessible Kaiju that can be recycled every turn
+Can be high-level Tribute fodder in a pinch
-Low stats and hard locks you into Reptiles
-Not very useful against decks with larger boards
Advanced: 3.75/5
Art: 3.75/5 Looks a little masculine for a priestess, but we do not judge!
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