To pay (Japanese: 払（はら）う Harau) is to give up LP for a card effect or cost. Typically, paying LP is a cost, although some cards involve paying LP for an effect. A player cannot pay more LP than they have left. If paying LP is a requirement to activate a card or effect and the player cannot, that card or effect cannot be activated. If paying LP is part of a maintenance cost and the player cannot, that card is destroyed (even if the payment is mandatory). "Destructive Draw" is the only exception to this rule, which states in its card text that if its controller cannot pay its maintenance cost, instead that player's Life Points become 0.