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NormalStars Align across the Milky Way
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Reveal 1 Ritual Monster in your hand; add 1 Ritual Monster with the same Level but a different name from your Deck to your hand. You can banish this card from your GY and send 1 Ritual Spell from your hand to the GY; this effect becomes that card's effect that Ritual Summons a monster when the card is activated. You can only use each effect of "Stars Align across the Milky Way" once per turn.
Stars Align across the Milky Way — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
The card's main value is a level-matched Ritual Monster search from the Deck, which gives reliable access to a Ritual target. Its GY banish effect adds recursion by sending a Ritual Spell from hand to the GY to set up a Ritual Summon, but no combo recordings confirm that this line converts into board presence. It runs in 67% of the sampled decks, almost always alongside the Shinobird engine, so that presence confirms a real role without raising the score on its own. It has no negation, removal or body value, so those axes stay low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, mostly Shinobird at 1 copy, but its activation window from hand or Set is not stated in the evidence text (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No combo boards were supplied, so the Ritual Summon route is only inferred from the description text (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The Deck search is +1 card, offset by the Ritual Spell sent from hand to GY as a cost, and the GY banish gives limited recursion (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect in its text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 20 | The card is a Trap, so it provides no body and no material value (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The GY-activated second effect gives a second zone to use, but the card is a Trap and can be answered by a single Spell/Trap negate (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Typically runs at 1 copy with no garnet or locking restriction, and Shinobird usage statistics show 100% inclusion at 1 copy (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level-matched Ritual Monster search gives reliable access to a Ritual target
- GY banish effect gives recursion from the graveyard
- Typically runs at 1 copy, so deckbuilding cost is low
- Consistently included in the Shinobird engine across several archetype homes
Weaknesses
- No combo data supports the Ritual Summon conversion
- No negation, removal or body value
- Trap card that a single Spell/Trap negate can answer
- Value depends on a Ritual Monster and Ritual Spell being present in hand
Best use
Searcher/Tutor with recursion support for the Shinobird Ritual line. Decks: Shinobird (archetype 2258). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Ritual Monster search from Deck, banish from GY, send Ritual Spell from hand to GY as cost, once-per-turn per effect; 400 of 400 sampled decks run it, 1 copy in 367 of them; Partners co-occur in 97% of sampled decks
- Observed: 67.2% of sampled decks are Shinobird archetype 2258; Shinobird gameplay type 6 shows 100% inclusion at 1 copy in usage statistics; One guide lists the card among key cards in the Shinobird main deck section
- Inferred: The Deck search and GY effect are the main value route, with the Ritual Summon conversion dependent on a Ritual Spell in hand; Recursion gives moderate resource value because the GY effect costs a hand card; Trap status means the card is a single-use interaction piece, not an engine body
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so 3 copies are assumed legal activation window for effect 1 (hand, Set, or GY) is not stated in the evidence text 21 archetype labels are mostly Shinobird name variants, so GenericUtility is capped no counter or answer data supplied