In the Yu-Gi-Oh card game, how do you know which is the correct lower level monster to sacrifice?

Yu-Gi-Oh card game: how do you know which lower level monster needs to be sacrificed in order to summon a higher level monster

In the Yu-Gi-Oh card game, how do you know which is the correct lower level monster to sacrifice?
only certain monsters need certain other monsters to be tributed. the majority of monsters can be tribute summoned with any monster. say you have a lord of D. and a destiny hero - defender on the field (2 random cards). you can tribute them for blue-eyes white dragon. even if you had a mobius the frost monarch on the field (which requires 1 tribute), you could still tribute it and a Lord of D. for the blue-eyes. it doesn't matter which monsters, as long as they don't have a condition in which they can't be tributed, or the tributed monsters needs to be summoned with a special condition. an example is archlord zerato. this is his effect:


"This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except by offering 1 face-up "Warrior of Zera" on your side of the field as a Tribute while "The Sanctuary in the Sky" is on the field."





Some monsters cant be tribute summoned at all. they have special conditions for them to be summoned instead of sacrficing a monster. an example of this is doom dozer. its effect is:


"This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except by removing from play 2 Insect-Type monsters in your Graveyard."





since in any other occasion other than when the card says otherwise, you can tribute any monster, you pretty much want to tribute the monster that does you the least good.
Reply:Any monster can be tributed to summon a monster unless the card text says otherwise.
Reply:any monsters can be offered as a tribute for another monster.





they have to meet certain requirements for card effects.
Reply:it depends on what the card says, if it says you can't normal or set then you need to specail it, if it says you can't specail it then you can't unless it says by a card effect, but if your talking about which cards to sacrifice for a tribute summon but don't want to use any of the monsters you already have on the field and your stuck choosing do what i do.





1- find the lowest un need cards you don't need on the field


2- if all your monsters have effects you need, pick some with the worst effects


3- if you have monsters you never want to tribute i suggest you add in cards that say "this cards can act as 2 tributes for ____ type of monster" into your deck





(i used #3 for my gilford the lightning, i added in kiaser sea horse to keep more monsters on the field, since you need 3 tributes to use gilfords the lightning effect)
Reply:most monsters can be tributed ... if they cant it says so on the card ... it is rare that a monster will be tributed for a lower level or a monster with the same level (although i have done this a few times tributing cyber dragon) ... some cards need certain types etc for it to be summoned (cards like lich, lord of dark world, and raviel)
Reply:you can tribute any monster to summon another.
Reply:Yeah you can sacrafice them to put a bigger monster out.
Reply:You can sacrifice any of your lower level monsters on the field to summon the highered level one.