Trap
ContinuousStardust Wish
Archetype:
Stardust
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Once per turn, if a "Stardust" Synchro Monster you control is Tributed to activate its own effect (except during the Damage Step): You can target that monster; Special Summon it. Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to this effect's activation. Monsters Special Summoned by this effect cannot be destroyed by battle while in Attack Position.
Stardust Wish — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 42 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 39.7 · Deck: 44 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Stardust Wish is a one-for-one recursion trap: it Special Summons back a Stardust Synchro that was tributed for its own effect, so it converts one Synchro into another use of that Synchro rather than adding a body or card advantage. Its score comes from being reliably live in Stardust/Synchro shells (it sits beside Stardust Synchron in 74% of the sampled decks) and from costing one slot, not from the trap's own power. It offers no negation or removal, and the value of the loop depends on Stardust Synchros with tribute-activated effects, which the evidence does not include.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | It needs a face-up Stardust Synchro to tribute and a set trap slot, and it is in 31 sampled decks with 74% co-occurrence with Stardust Synchron (observed; text and deck stats). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | The text only returns the tributed monster, so it builds no extra board, and the sample has zero recorded combo boards (verified text; no combo observations). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | Trading one Synchro for the same Synchro back is card-neutral, with the tributed monster's own effect as the only gain (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 20 | It only protects the resummon from responses and gives no negation or removal (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 15 | The card itself is a trap and not material; only the monster it returns can be material (verified text, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | It is a single backrow card, exposed to trap-destruction and backrow removal, with no redundancy (inferred; 1 copy in 25 of 31 decks). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | It is a one-copy slot (average 1.35 copies per deck) that is restricted to Stardust/Synchro shells, with no garnet or lock cost (observed deck stats). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 39.7, Deck ≈ 44, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Keeps a tributed Stardust Synchro in play for one card, with no net card loss
- Opponent cannot respond to the activation
- Resummoned monster cannot be destroyed by battle while in Attack Position
- Single-copy slot cost, appearing in 31 sampled decks across 10 archetype labels
Weaknesses
- Requires a face-up Stardust Synchro on the field before it does anything
- Card-neutral, with no net advantage or board gain
- No negation, removal, or hand-trap reach
- Restricted to Stardust/Synchro shells by its text
Counters / choke points
- Trap-destruction and backrow removal before the tribute
- Removing or banishing the Stardust Synchro before it is tributed
Best use
Recovery/Recursion for Stardust Synchros. Decks: Stardust Synchro lines, Synchron-based decks with Stardust Synchro. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Once per turn, targets a tributed Stardust Synchro and Special Summons it; Opponent cannot respond to the activation; Resummoned monsters cannot be destroyed by battle in Attack Position; Continuous Trap with no negation or removal text
- Observed: Appears in 31 sampled decks, 25.8% Synchron archetype; 74.2% co-occurrence with Stardust Synchron, 71% with Stardust Trail and Junk Synchron; 25 of 31 decks run 1 copy, average 1.35 copies
- Inferred: Net card-neutral: one Synchro is traded for the same Synchro back; Needs a face-up Stardust Synchro and a set trap slot before use; Exposed to trap-destruction and backrow removal
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so inclusion is from the deck sample only no rulings supplied for the tribute timing or Damage Step exception the tribute-activated effects of the Stardust Synchros that this card depends on are not in the evidence no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited)