Card Rulings:Monster Token

The following rulings apply to all Token Monsters:

===TCG Rulings===
 * When Token Monsters leave the field, they cease to exist. If an effect tries to put Tokens in the Graveyard, hand, Main Deck or Removed from Play Zone, they simply disappear.


 * Token Monsters can be used to pay costs as long as the cost doesn't require it to go to a specific place outside the field; the Graveyard, Main Deck, hand or Removed from Play Zone. You can use Token Monsters to Summon "Destiny Hero - Plasma", but you cannot use them to Summon "Arcana Force EX - The Dark Ruler". This is because "Destiny Hero - Plasma" merely Tributes, but "Arcana Force EX - The Dark Ruler" requires the monsters to be sent to the Graveyard, a condition that Token Monsters cannot fulfil. The same would also be true for "Dark Magician of Chaos" as a comparison.


 * Token Monsters are fundamentally treated as Normal Monster Cards in every respect. Anything that you can generally do on the field with a face-up "Skull Servant", you can do with a Token Monster (unless an effect specifically forbids it). You can even equip a Token Monster to "Relinquished".


 * Token Monsters are never considered to have effects. They are always treated as Normal Monsters and are never treated as Effect Monsters. Any effect from a Token Monster is placed upon it by the effect that generated it. The effect is considered to come from the generating card, a "Lingering Effect".


 * Token Monsters cannot be flipped face-down. This is their only on-the-field restriction. Thus, they cannot be targeted by effects that flip cards face-down (like "Book of Moon"), and they are unaffected by "blanket" effects that flip Monster Cards face-down; You carry out as many actions that the effect requires, short of flipping the Token Monster face-down; Cards like "Swords of Concealing Light" will still cause the Token Monsters to shift to Defense Position, however.


 * Token Monsters can be Tributed unless an effect prevents it. The "No-Tribute Restriction" that is placed on some Token Monsters (Such as "Sheep Tokens") is due to the card effects that generated them, and are not the default action of all Token Monsters.


 * Token Monsters belong to the controller of the card that Special Summoned them. If you use "Ojama Trio", you are still treated as the owner of the "Ojama Tokens", and they will shift back to you if cards like "Owner's Seal" are used.

OCG Rulings

 * You can target a Monster Tokens with "Dark End Dragon"'s effect. In this case, the target is still removed from the field.


 * The ATK of "Kasha" is determined by the number of returned monsters which are Zombie-Type while they are in the Deck. If "Zoma the Spirit" is returned to the Deck, it is not a Zombie-Type monster while in the Deck, so it is not counted.  Token Monsters are not returned to the Deck, so they will not be counted.


 * An Ojama Token can be used as a Fusion Material Monster for "Ojama Knight".


 * Monster Tokens cannot be sent to the Graveyard, since they disappear when they are removed from the field. Thus, they cannot be sent to the Graveyard as a Fusion Material Monster to Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon".


 * Token Monsters are treated as Normal Monsters, so you can activate "Attack of the Cornered Rat" when a Level 3 or lower Token Monster battles.


 * Token Monsters, like the "Sheep Token", cannot be flipped face-down. Thus, you cannot activate "Book of Moon" by targeting a "Sheep Token".


 * If ":" destroys a monster such as a "Sheep Token" or "Embodiment of Apophis" by battle, then you do not inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points.


 * The ATK of ":" is increased by half of the original ATK of the Fusion Material Monster.
 * If you use a "Double Dude Token" (1000 ATK) from "Destiny Hero - Double Dude" as a Fusion Material Monster for ":", then the ATK of ":" is increased by 500.


 * You can remove from play a monster like a Token Monster or an "Embodiment of Apophis" as an activation cost for the effect of ":". In this case, you will still Special Summon a Synchro Monster whose Level is equal to or lower than the combined Levels of ":" and the removed from play monster.