LIGHT
4Starry Knight Ciel
Archetype:
Starry Knight
ATK:
1700
DEF:
800
View:
3491
If this card is in your hand: You can return 1 "Starry Knight" monster or 1 Level 7 LIGHT Dragon monster you control to the hand, except "Starry Knight Ciel"; Special Summon this card. If you control no monsters: You can banish this card from your GY; Special Summon 1 Level 7 LIGHT Dragon monster from your hand. You can only use each effect of "Starry Knight Ciel" once per turn.
Starry Knight Ciel — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Extender, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Starry Knight Ciel is a hand-activated Level 4 body that converts a Starry Knight monster or a Level 7 LIGHT Dragon you already control into a 1700-ATK Special Summon, and it can also come back from the GY to summon a Level 7 LIGHT Dragon from hand when your board is empty. Its reliability is strong inside Starry Knight (it appears in all 54 sampled decks with 100% partner overlap), but the card has no recorded board appearances, so its conversion value rests on text inference. Its 1700 ATK and Level 4 body earn little on their own, and the score does not rise from the high deck count (Guardrail 3), which only confirms it is a consistent home-theme piece.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Activates from hand given a Starry Knight or Level 7 LIGHT Dragon to return, and from the GY when the board is empty; present in 54 of 54 sampled decks (verified text, observed deck count). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Converts one returned monster into a Special Summoned body with no recorded board evidence, so the conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The bounce is card-neutral recycling of your own monster, and the GY route banishes itself to summon a Level 7 Dragon from hand, which is roughly even (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap interaction in its text (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 4 LIGHT Fairy body with 1700 ATK, but no material-use evidence was supplied (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Works from hand and GY across two zones, but both routes need specific board states and each effect is once per turn (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Typically runs 2 copies with a max of 3 in Starry Knight decks, with no garnet or lock restriction, but it is only clean inside its home archetype (observed usage statistics, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 54, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Activates from hand with a clear, once-per-turn-per-effect text
- Present in every sampled Starry Knight deck (54/54) with 100% overlap with core partners Starry Knight Flamel and Starry Knight Arrival
- Two activation zones (hand and GY) give some redundancy
Weaknesses
- No recorded combo boards, so conversion value is unverified
- Needs a Starry Knight or Level 7 LIGHT Dragon on board, or an empty board for the GY route
- Little value outside the Starry Knight home (about 6 distinct archetypes, mostly Starry Knight variants)
- No interaction or disruption on its own
Counters / choke points
- Monster removal or bounce on the board that leaves no monster to return
- Negating the hand-activated effect (a generic hand-trap or negation interaction)
Best use
Hand-activated Special Summon body that feeds Starry Knight engines and recurs from the GY when the board is empty. Decks: Starry Knight (archetype 860, 53.7% of sampled decks), Starry Knight (archetype 1069, 24.1%), Starry Knight (archetype 1044, 13.0%). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Hand effect: return 1 Starry Knight or Level 7 LIGHT Dragon you control, then Special Summon this card; GY effect: banish from GY when you control no monsters, then Special Summon a Level 7 LIGHT Dragon from hand; Each effect is once per turn; 54 of 54 sampled decks run it, with 100% overlap with Starry Knight Flamel and Starry Knight Arrival
- Observed: Usage statistics: 100% inclusion in Starry Knight (860) and 66.7% in Odd-Eyes (258), typical copies 2; Copies per deck averages 1.57 with a max of 3
- Inferred: The bounce is card-neutral and the GY route is roughly even on resources; Level 4 LIGHT Fairy body converts well when a Starry Knight engine is already running
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no rulings supplied for the hand-activation timing and the empty-board condition