This will be a shorter review because of the similarities between this and Bladefly, which we covered (I forgot to send it in on time, but it’s up now) earlier in the week.

Star Boy, like Bladefly, is just too small to take care of itself, and again there is an easily searchable Monster that just works better Nightmare Penguin, who is also a Water/Aqua Monster.  Nightmare Penguin doesn’t drop Fire Monster’s ATK scores, but that’s okay: that Attribute isn’t too heavily used outside of a few key Monsters that are often off-type in their own decks (Command Knight) or rogue decks (and mostly burn at that).  Nightmare Penguin may not give a 500 ATK boost, but the 200 it does add is still enough for an edge… especially when you consider that it lets you return a Monster to its owner’s hand when it is flipped face up.  Better yet, even though Nightmare Penguin behaves like a Flip Effect Monster, it isn’t one, so Nobleman of Crossout won’t remove all of them.  The icing on the cake is that if you needed to, you could summon Nightmare Penguin from the deck via Mother Grizzly and forgo the chance at a the bounce portion of the effect, it still has a higher ATK/DEF than Star Boy.

Star Boy is small enough to slip under Gravity Bind and Level Limit-Area B… but with the copy of A Legendary Ocean that is sure to be in play, so would Nightmare Penguin, who would also be boosted to a 2000 DEF wall by A Legendary Ocean.  If you absolutely had to, for some reason, you could even flip Nightmare Penguin up to use the bounce effect, and then drop Level Limit-Area B to force it into DEF mode.

Ratings

Traditional       : 1/5-Just like Bladefly, Star Boy is not only shown up by a better option here, but the deck it’d be in isn’t even that great.

Advanced        : 1/5-Water decks of varying kinds see play here… and pretty much all I can think of would rather have Nightmare Penguin in them.

Limited            : 3/5-This assumes you pull most if not all the commons that are Water Monsters with decent stats to go with it.  7 Colored Fish was in Metal Raiders.  If you get really lucky, you might get Suijin as well.  Yes, this is better than Bladefly, who didn’t have the potential of boosting a Level 4, 1800 ATK common (Harpie’s Brother came later)