Card Rulings:Monster Token

The following rulings apply to all Token Monsters:


 * 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 as 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.


 * Token Monsters are Normal Monster Cards. Normal, Monsters AND Cards. All three. Anything that you could generally do on the field with, say, 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, and they are not Effect Monsters. Any effect from a Token Monsters 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 card's face-down, and they are unaffected by "blanket" effects that flip Monster Cards face-down. You cannot select Token Monsters with "Book of Moon", for example, and Token Monsters are unaffected by the "flipping face-down" effect of "Swords of Concealing Light", although they are shifted to Defense Position.


 * Token Monsters can be Tributed unless an effect prevents it. The no-Tribute restriction that is placed on some Token Monsters is due to the card effects that generated them, and are not the default action of all Token Monsters.