Tengu format ruling
Altar for Tribute
Card effect (current official text)Select 1 monster on your side of the field and send it to the Graveyard. Increase your Life Points by an amount equal to the original ATK of the monster.
Rulings
Select 1 monster on your side of the field and send it to the GY. Increase your Life Points by an amount equal to the original ATK of the monster.
- Sending a monster to the GY for Altar for Tribute is a cost.
- You can select a Token Monster as the cost for Altar for Tribute, but you won't gain any Life Points because Tokens are taken off the field instead of going to the GY.
- You can send your opponent's monster that you control to the GY as the cost for Altar for Tribute, and you would gain the Life Points.
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