I recently created a commander deck that includes Apex Altisaur. From my understanding, between its enter the battlefield trigger and enrage trigger, it has to keep fighting until it dies. Is this how the card works? Or is the enrage trigger optional? Can someone point me to a rule that answers this?
I recently created a commander deck that includes Apex Altisaur. From my understanding, between its enter the battlefield trigger and enrage trigger, it has to keep fighting until it dies. Is this how the card works? Or is the enrage trigger optional? Can someone point me to a rule that answers this?
You actually can stop the fights when you wish to, or not fight at all. That's because of the two little words "up to" that are present on both of the Altisaur's abilities. "Up to one target" means that you can choose 0 targets. If it worked as your understood it, those words wouldn't be present, it would just say "it fights target creature you don't control".
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