Tribute

"Sacrifice" redirects here. For the card known as "Sacrifice" in the OCG, see "Relinquished".

Tribute (known as Release in the OCG, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's and Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime, and as Sacrifice in the previous OCG, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX animes) is an act of moving monster the player controls to the Graveyard. Usually reference to a card bing sacrificed for another card or effect.

Unless a card specifically states that you can Tribute monster in your hand or monster under your opponent possession, you can only Tribute monster you control on the field.

Monsters can be Tributed either for Tribute Summons, or by a card that use the word "Tribute" as a term of this act ^[note].

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  A monster that requires a Tribute to Tribute Summon.

• ExiledForce5DS1-EN-C-1E.png

  An example of a card that Tributes itself as cost for its effect.

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  An example of a Ritual Spell Card that requires Tributes to Ritual Summon.

When a card is Tributed, it is sent to the Graveyard as a result.

Notes

^ Cards which involved Tributing formerly worded it as "offer as a Tribute", "Tributing" and "Tributed" are not actually words. This practice was eventually stopped.