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| image caption = Artwork of "[[Toll]]", an example of a card that imposes a cost on players.

| english = Paypay | french = Payerpayer | german = Bezahlenbezahlen | italian = Pagarepagare | korean = 지불한다 (支拂 ??) ''Jibulhanda''|chinese=支付 ''Zhīfù/ Zi1 fu6''|portuguese= Pagarpagar | spanish = Pagarpagar

To '''pay''' (Japanese: {{ruby|払|はら}}う ''Harau'') is to give up [[Life Point|LP]]s for a [[card effect]] or [[cost]]. In most casesTypically, paying Life Points LP is a cost; however, "[[Gishki Photomirror]]" and "[[Number 44: Sky Pegasus]]" causes the player and allows the opponent to although some cards involve [[Pays Life Points for effect|pay Life Points paying LP for an effect]], respectively.

"[[Spell Economics]]" allows the 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 [[Spell Cardmaintenance cost]]s and the player cannot, that normally require Life Points to be card is destroyed (even if the payment 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&#93; |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.aspx?first=A&last=C |archivedate=17 February 2009}}</ref> "[[Pays Life Points for cost|paid as a costDestructive Draw]]" is the only exception to this rule, such as "which states in its [[Dimension Fusioncard text]]" and "that if its [[Brain Controlcontrol]]"ler cannot pay its maintenance cost, without paying those instead that player's Life Pointsbecome 0.

Paying Life Points is distinct from taking In the ''[[damageYu-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. Whereas com/perfectrulebook/ |page=39}}</ref> As such, if a mandatory maintenance cost (such as that of "[[Terrorking Archfiend]]") requires the player takes damage that reduces their Life Points to 0 pay the exact amount of LP they lose the duel, if paying Life Points would reduce their Life Points to 0have remaining, they instead cannot perform the action that requires cost must be paid and that paymentplayer loses the Duel.

If a player cannot or does not pay for the "[[maintenance costSpell Economics]] of a card, such as "allows the player to activate [[Terrorking ArchfiendSpell Card]]", then s that card is normally require Life Points to be [[destroy]]ed (but not by Pays Life Points for cost|paid as a [[card effectcost]]); if a card forces the opponent to also pay a maintenance cost, such as "[[Battle-ScarredDimension Fusion]]", if the opponent cannot pay the Maintenance Cost and the [[control]]ler of the target can, the opponent's Life Points remain unchanged, but the controller has to pay and it is not destroyed. "[[Destructive DrawBrain Control]]" is the exception to both the aforementioned rules. If its controller cannot pay its maintenance cost, instead that player's without paying those Life Points become 0.

==See also: '''==*[[Pays Life Points for cost]]''' and '''*[[Pay Life Points for effect]]'''.

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