X is the number of locations in the staging area.
Travel: Each player must discard 1 random card from his hand to travel here.
When Revealed: The first player must exhaust The One Ring. If The One Ring is already exhausted, the first player must discard 2 cards at random from his hand.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 card at random from his hand.
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When Revealed: Either discard 1 random card from your hand, or reveal an encounter card.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, attacking enemy gets +2
3
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4
Forced: After Man of Harad engages you, discard 1 random card from your hand.
Shadow: Discard 1 random card from your hand.
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2
3
When Revealed: Either discard 1 random card from your hand, or reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard 1 random card from your hand.
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5
When Revealed: Either discard 1 random card from each player's hand, or Orc of Cirith Ungol makes an immediate attack against you.
"I say, something has slipped. And we've got to look out. Always the poor Uruks to put slips right." -Gorbag, The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Morgul Vale is explored, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Morgul Wraith and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. Then, the first player must either exhaust The One Ring or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Either exhaust Sméagol, or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Forced: After Sméagol's Secret Way is explored, each player either exhausts a character he controls, or discards 1 random card from his hand.
"...a stair, a narrow stair, O yes, very long and narrow. And then more stairs." -Gollum, The Two Towers
3
1
3
When Revealed: Discard 1 random card from your hand. Snaga gets +X until the end of the round, where X is the discarded card's printed cost.
Round them were many smaller goblins. –The Two Towers
X is the number of locations in the staging area.
Travel: Each player must discard 1 random card from his hand to travel here.
When Revealed: Each player may choose and discard 1 card at random from his hand. If all players did not discard 1 card, Fouled Well gains Surge.
When Revealed: Attach Many Thonged Whip to Durin's Bane as a Weapon attachment with the text:
Forced: When Durin's Bane attacks, the defending player must discard 1 card at random from his hand.
...in its left it held a whip of many thongs.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
5
2
3
When Revealed: Discard the character with the fewest remaining hit points. That character's controller may discard 3 cards at random from his hand to prevent this effect.
Eagles are not kindly birds. Some are cowardly and cruel. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Each player must discard 3 random cards from his hand or place 1 progress token on To the Tower.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
When Revealed: Each player must discard a random card from his hand. Each player then searces his deck for each other copy of the card he discarded, and discards those as well. Shuffle each searched deck.
Shadow: Discard a random card from the defending player's hand.
3
3
3
Forced: When Vicious Marauder engages you, discard a random card from your hand and place resources on it equal to that card's printed cost.
Forced: When Vicious Marauder attacks you, distribute damage among characters you control equal to the number of resources on it.
Forced: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Dreary Hills, each player must discard 1 card at random from his hand.
Response: After Dreary Hills leaves play as an explored location, Bilbo Baggins gains 1 resource.
When Revealed: The first player must exhaust The One Ring. If The One Ring is already exhausted, the first player must discard 2 cards at random from his hand.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 card at random from his hand.
2
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3
When Revealed: Either discard 1 random card from your hand, or reveal an encounter card.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, attacking enemy gets +2
3
1
3
When Revealed: Discard 1 random card from your hand. Snaga gets +X until the end of the round, where X is the discarded card's printed cost.
Round them were many smaller goblins. –The Two Towers
3
1
4
Forced: After Man of Harad engages you, discard 1 random card from your hand.
Shadow: Discard 1 random card from your hand.
3
2
3
When Revealed: Either discard 1 random card from your hand, or reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard 1 random card from your hand.
4
2
5
When Revealed: Either discard 1 random card from each player's hand, or Orc of Cirith Ungol makes an immediate attack against you.
"I say, something has slipped. And we've got to look out. Always the poor Uruks to put slips right." -Gorbag, The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Morgul Vale is explored, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Morgul Wraith and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. Then, the first player must either exhaust The One Ring or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Either exhaust Sméagol, or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Forced: After Sméagol's Secret Way is explored, each player either exhausts a character he controls, or discards 1 random card from his hand.
"...a stair, a narrow stair, O yes, very long and narrow. And then more stairs." -Gollum, The Two Towers
5
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Bane of Amon Lanc attacks you, discard a random card from your hand. Bane of Amon Lanc gets +X for this attack, where X is that card's printed cost.
5
2
5
6
Forced: After Boar Clan Ambusher attacks and destroys a character, discard a random card from your hand.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard a random card from your hand.
Forced: When Cursed Temple is flipped over while active, discard 3 cards at random from each player's hand.
While Cursed Temple is the active location, each player cannot draw cards by card effects.
Cannot have player card attachments.
Forced: After Edge of the Temple becomes the active location, flip it over.
Action: Remove 8 progress from Edge of the Temple to look at its facedown side.
Action: Exhaust Bilbo
and spend 1 resource to place 5 progress on Dim Valley.
Forced: At the end of the round, each player must discard a random card from his hand.
They were high up in a narrow place, with a dreadful fall into a dim vally at one side of them. –The Hobbit
3
2
3
When Revealed: Discard 1 random card from your hand and assign X damage among characters you control. X is the discarded card's printed cost.
"There was no answer, except arrows and stones from the walls." –Merry, The Two Towers
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4
Forced: When Half-orc of Isengard attacks, either discard 1 random card from your hand, or Half-orc of Isengard gets +3 for this attack.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard 1 random card from your hand.
3
2
4
When Revealed: Either discard a random card from your hand, or engage Orc of Minas Morgul and reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
5
3
5
Forced: After Under-gate Sentry attacks and destroys a character you control, discard a random card from your hand.
Shadow: Either discard a random card from your hand, or exhaust a character you control.