About a year ago, I started a thread about tokens and Ultimate Baseball Kid's secondary effect. General consensus was that you could not send a token to the Graveyard for the cost of that effect, even though you knew you would not be inflicting any damage. Maybe you just wanted to clear a Sheep Token out of the way.
This ruling under Elemental Hero Tempest would seem to confirm that:
This ruling under Elemental Hero Tempest would seem to confirm that:
ELEMENTAL HERO TEMPEST
You cannot use a Monster Token for the cost because they are not sent to the Graveyard.
But I ran across an older ruling today that I thought you'd want to know about under Altar for Tribute:You cannot use a Monster Token for the cost because they are not sent to the Graveyard.
ALTAR FOR TRIBUTE
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 Graveyard.
In a tournament situation, and faced with these two rulings, what would you, as a judge, be forced to decide? Is it general practice to go by newer more current rulings, even when an old one clearly conflicts? Or would you default to the old ruling, in this case, until more information came to light?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 Graveyard.
