Forum:Some seeminly simple questions . . .

my son has me playing yu-gi-oh, & i'm quickly hooked, but i have some basic questions that he & his friends take for granted, yet we can't find the answers for. please help

1. can you discard cards from your hand to the graveyard without an effect making you do it? they do this all the time, just put cards in the graveyard

2. can you summon a monster, then use it as a tribute the same turn? i don't think so, but they say that's how you do it. and, see above, can you discard a card as a tribute?

3. can you send cards on the field to the graveyard, & i'm not talking about tributes. my son will send monsters to the graveyard to make more room, same with spell & trap cards. if the zones are full, do you just send cards to the graveyard?

4. if a card says you can only special summoning it by such-&-such, does that mean you can't normal or tribute summon it? some cards say you can't normal summon or set it PLUS you can only special summon it by such & such. . . so could i normal summon, say, gigantes?

5. and i've found different rulings on this one. if a face down monster is attacked, does it's flipped effect work? some pages, even on this site, say it as to be flipped to faceup attack position to activate it's flip effect.

thanks

Redeemed 04:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)