Revive

Source: Yugioh Wikia

"Revive" is an informal term to describe Special Summoning a monster from the Graveyard. The ability to return a monster from the Graveyard to the Field is a relatively common yet nonetheless important card effect since it helps a player maintain field advantage and can, in some cases, allow them to bring back a monster that was difficult to Summon in the first place. ost of the more general-use cards that deal with this, such as "| Premature Burial", are Limited or Forbidden, though there are much fewer legal restrictions on cards that deal with only specific kinds of monsters.

Sometimes it is easier to dump a Monster Card into the Graveyard before it has been Summoned and then revive it onto the field using one of the many revival cards available; to restrict this, many very powerful monster cards do not allow this, in particular nomi, Special Summon-only, Fusion, Ritual and Synchro Monsters.