Hi,

I have a question on the forced effect of the enemy card "Dead Lord" from "The Lost Realm":

If there is no undead enemy in the discard pile, can I still optionally engage the Dead Lord? Or can I only engage him optionally if I can fulfill all conditions (i.e. if there is an undead enemy in the discard pile)?

Thanks in advance for clarifying!

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You can still engage him if there's no undead enemy the discard.

His ability says: "Forced: After Dead Lord engages you, put the topmost Undead enemy in the discard pile into play engaged with you."

If it there was text like on this card "Do X to do Y," then you would need to do X before you were allowed to do Y (because X is worded as the "cost" of the effect).

An example of that would be the travel effect on this card:

I don't think enemies are generally worded this way, because they tend to have "Forced" effects (which work like Responses, and trigger after something happens, such as a player engaging the enemy). Locations on the other hand can have Forced effects or Travel effects, and Travel is like an action, which has a cost that you need to pay before you can travel to that location.

Some enemies may have passive text that makes you do something in order to engage it, though. I can't think of many examples, but I found this one:

Hi, GrandSpleen,

Thanks for the quick reply, explanation and additional examples, much appreciated!

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