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The monster selected for Soul Exchange is eligable for any effect or cost that requires one of your monsters as a tribute. Provided you meet the conditions for the Spell Card (like number of stars, etc.) then it will work if the Ritual requires a tribute.
 
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I wouldn't see why you couldn't.

The only thing to watch out for would be your opponent's face down monsters since YOU don't know what level they are, and could possibly have to give up an unwanted monster from your side of the field or hand in order to satisfy the level requirement for the Ritual Monster you are attempting to Special Summon.
 
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Buriko said:
well i am goign to use Paladin of White Dragon, and since he is only lv 4, it should work out with face down, but just to be safe i ususually seem to have a peten, but i won't use it if i don't have back up.
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I'd say that you wouldn't be able to tribute a face-down monster with Soul Exchange for any ritual summon.

But if that's not the case, then this is:

If you wanted to summon a Paladin of White Dragon by tributing a face-down mosnter with Soul Exchange, you must have monsters whose total level equals exactly "3" in your hand. [1x lv3 , 1x lv2 1x lv1 , 3x lv1).
 
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squid said:
why would the level have to be exact? The text of Paladin requires 4* or more. Similar to other Ritual monster cards.
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There is/was an issue with tributing more monsters than are necessary for Ritual Summoning. If it says 5 stars, people used to ditch 4 star and 6 or 7 star monsters just to be able to "CotH" the 6 or 7 star back that turn.

He's saying it would best if you didn't have any monsters in your hand that had 4 or more stars if you attempt to tribute your opponent's face-down monster via "Soul Exchange". Otherwise, it could be viewed as you trying to 'ditch' a monster just because.

That's how I read it at least...
 
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I would have to say no you can't use a face down monster for a Ritual Summon mostly because of the same logic with Metamorphosis. Regardless of whether or not you use a Ritual Spell card that requires an exact level (Contract with the Abyss, Earth Chant) or the original one (at least the same levels), there is no guarentee that the monster you wish to tribute will have the required amount of levels (like the way with Metamorphosis, there's no guarentee you have that level fusion in your deck).

Now you're saying "well I could add it from my hand!" Maybe, maybe not. Say you are trying to tribute for Paladin of White Dragon and you have Manju (4 Stars) on the field and you use Soul Exchange on your opponent's face down monster which happens to be Sangan (3 Stars). Well, you still need 1 more level. But if Manju is the only other monster you have, you cannot offer that and Sangan since Manju alone would have fulfilled the requirements. Or say you're looking at summoning Black Luster Solder and you only have Jinzo as tribute material and you try to Soul Exchange your oppenent's face down monster which turns out to be Sinister Serpent. You're 1 level shy. So because of that you won't have enough Tribute material for the Ritual Summon.

Now you might thinking "What about Relinquished"? Hey, you could have gotten lucky with tributing a face down monster for Metamorphosis too (even if you knew what it was and you flipped it thanks to Tsukuyomi or Book of Moon).

So all and all, because you don't know what the level is ahead of time, you wouldn't be able to Soul Exchange a face-down monster for a Ritual Summon. The only time you could tribute a face-down monster for Soul Exchange is when you don't need to know the specifics of the card like for Cannon Soldier or a Tribute Summon.
 
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For that reason, I can understand. But Im still unclear as to the problem of "ditching" a level 7+ monster, that Skey23 was referring to. Seems like a logical thing to attempt. Sure, your opponent wont like it. I wouldn't like it pulled on me. But, is it illegal?
 
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I'd say that you wouldn't be able to tribute a face-down monster with Soul Exchange for any ritual summon.
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You can't. Remember that all the monsters are sacrificed at one time, so you won't know what the monster is during the sacrifice.
There is/was an issue with tributing more monsters than are necessary for Ritual Summoning. If it says 5 stars, people used to ditch 4 star and 6 or 7 star monsters just to be able to "CotH" the 6 or 7 star back that turn.
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That was never allowed. All the monsters are sacrificed at once so you can't sacrifice more monsters than necessary.
 
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squid said:
For that reason, I can understand. But Im still unclear as to the problem of "ditching" a level 7+ monster, that Skey23 was referring to. Seems like a logical thing to attempt. Sure, your opponent wont like it. I wouldn't like it pulled on me. But, is it illegal?
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I guess 'ditching' is the wrong term to use. What I'm talking about is this...

Let's say you want to Ritual Summon "Paladin of White Dragon". On the field you have "Sinister Serpent".
In your hand you have "Spirit Reaper" and "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".

You play "White Dragon Ritual" and claim you will be using "Sinister Serpent" and "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" to summon the "Paladin".

As Raijinili stated, this type of thing was never allowed, and that's the 'ditching' that I am referring to. You have the necessary monsters to meet or exceed the star level requirement, but you are trying to 'cheat' the game by choosing 1 monster that doesn't meet the requirements just so you can choose a 2nd one that exceeds the requirements.

That's all I was trying to say...

[edit]Now, there certainly is NO ISSUE with just choosing the "BEWD" in my example above to use since it does meet/exceed the level requirements.
 
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