Where a card says '''Pay''', that indicates a [[Cost]] (except for "[[Gishki Photomirror]]"){{Infobox/Archetype/Start | image name = Toll-TF05-JP-VG-artwork. png | image size = | image caption = Artwork of "[[Imperial OrderToll]]" is a good , an example of thisa card that imposes a cost on players.}}{{Infobox/Archetype/ExtendedName | kanji = {{ruby|払|はら}}う | japanese = | furigana = | romaji = Harau | japanese translated = | english = pay | french = payer | german = bezahlen | italian = pagare | korean = 지불한다 (支拂 ??) ''Jibulhanda''|chinese=支付 ''Zhīfù / Zi1 fu6''|portuguese= pagar | spanish = pagar}}{{Infobox/Archetype/End}}
However, with [[Spell Cards]] that require you To '''pay''' (Japanese: {{ruby|払|はら}}う ''Harau'') is to pay in give up [[Life PointsPoint|LP]] (e.g. "for a [[Dimension Fusioncard effect]]", "or [[Brain Controlcost]]". Typically, "[[Premature Burial]]"paying LP is a cost, "although some cards involve [[Final Countdown]]", etc.), this can be bypassed with "[[Spell EconomicsPays Life Points for effect|paying LP for an effect]]".
The Life Points paid for Card Effects don't count as A player cannot pay more LP than they have left. If paying LP is a requirement to activate a card or effect and the player cannot, that card or effect cannot be activated. If paying LP is part of a [[damagemaintenance cost]] inflicted to and the Player or taken by player cannot, that card is destroyed (even if the Playerpayment is mandatory).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/yugioh/en/gameplay/faqs/cardfaqs/default.aspx?first=A&last=C |title=Individual Card Rulings [A-C] |publisher=UDE |at=Archfiends |accessdate=26 January 2015 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090217182013/http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/yugioh/en/gameplay/faqs/cardfaqs/default. For example, if you activate aspx?first=A&last=C |archivedate=17 February 2009}}</ref> "[[Rainbow LifeDestructive Draw]]" and then pay 4000 is the only exception to this rule, which states in its [[Life Pointscard text]] for "that if its [[Wall of Revealing Lightcontrol]]"ler cannot pay its maintenance cost, you woninstead that player't regain the s Life Points because they aren't damage but the cost to play "Wall of Revealing Light"become 0.
In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game|OCG]]'', a player can pay LP equal to their current LP.<ref>{{cite book |author=Konami |title=Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game - Perfect Rulebook 2015 |url=https://ygorganization.com/perfectrulebook/ |page=39}}</ref> As such, if a mandatory maintenance cost (such as that of "[[Terrorking Archfiend]]") requires the player to pay the exact amount of LP they have remaining, that cost must be paid and that player loses the Duel.
"[[Spell Economics]]" allows the player to activate [[Spell Card]]s that normally require Life Points to be [[Pays Life Points for cost|paid as a cost]], such as "[[Dimension Fusion]]" and "[[Brain Control]]", without paying those Life Points.
==See also==
*[[Pays Life Points for cost]]
*[[Pay Life Points for effect]]
==References==
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