Editing Pay

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	| image name           = Toll-TF05-JP-VG-artwork.png
	| image size           = 
	| image caption        = Artwork of "[[Toll]]", an example of a card that imposes a cost on players.
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	| kanji                = {{ruby|払|はら}}う
        | japanese             = 払う
	| furigana             = はらう
	| 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
}}
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To '''pay''' (Japanese: {{ruby|払|はら}}う ''harau'') is to give up [[Life Point|LP]] for a [[card effect]] or [[cost]]. Typically, paying LP is a cost, although some cards involve [[Pays Life Points for effect|paying LP for an effect]].

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 [[maintenance cost]] and the player cannot, that 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> "[[Destructive Draw]]" is the only exception to this rule, which states in its [[card text]] that if its [[control]]ler cannot pay its maintenance cost, instead that player's Life Points 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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