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Forced: When Deep-dweller engages you, it makes an immediate attack.
Forced: After Deep-dweller take any amount of damage (and survives), return it to the staging area.
Dagnir gets -10 engagement cost.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Dagnir, the defending player must assign X damage among characters he controls, where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
When faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to Narrow Stair.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot be readied by player card effects.
Deep. While there are 3 or more quest cards in the victory display, Desecrated Ruins gets +2 .
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, each player discards a random card from his hand.
When Revealed: Dagnir makes an immediate attack against each engaged player. If no attacks were made this way, Dagnir gets -30 engagement cost until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among allies he controls, where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if there are 3 or more quests in the victory display).
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
If attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.
...they tell that he slew Scatha, the great Dragon of Ered Mithrin, and the land had peace from the long-worms afterwards.
–The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +X , where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
If attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.
...they tell that he slew Scatha, the great Dragon of Ered Mithrin, and the land had peace from the long-worms afterwards.
–The Return of the King
Urdug gets +2 for each other enemy in play and cannot be dealt damage unless he had resolved an attack this phase.
Forced: After players quest unsuccessfully, place 1 progress here for each player in the game.
While there are X or more resources on The Heroes' Defense, Urdug is considered to be engaged with each player, X is five times the number of players.
Response: After an enemy is destroyed, place 1 resource here.
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Immune to player card effects. Cannot leave the staging area.
Forced: When Urdug attacks, discard the top card of the encounter deck. He gets +X for this attack, where X is the discarded card's printed
When Urdug is destroyed, the players win the game.
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Forced: After Urdug's Elite engages you, either exhaust a character you control, or place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
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Forced: After Fierce Vanguard engages you, either it gets +2 until the end of the round, or place 1 progress on the The Goblins' Assault.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 and +2 until the end of the phase.
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Forced: After Warg-rider is dealt a shadow card with no effect, either return it to the staging area or place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
Immune to player card effects.
While Gate of Gundabad is in the staging area, resources cannot be placed on The Heroes' Defense.
Travel: Search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Goblin Troop and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Hilltop Battlements is in the staging area, each non-unique enemy gets -5 engagement cost.
Forced: When Hilltop Battlements is explored, discard the top X cards of the encounter deck, where X is the number of players in the game. Add each enemy discarded by this effect to the staging area.
While Dwarven Watchtower is the active location, each hero gets +1
Response: After Dwarven Watchtower is explored, the first player chooses: either place 1 resource on The Heroes' Defense, or remove 1 progress from The Goblins' Assault.
When Revealed: Either place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault, or reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage this phase.
When Revealed: Place X progress on The Goblins' Assault, where X is in the stage number of the main quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X where X is the stage number of the current quest.
When Revealed: Urdug makes an immediate attack against the first player. If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
When Revealed: Each enemy and each location in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If the players quest unsuccessfully this phase, place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 resource here. Then if there are at lest 3 resources here, remove 3 of them and shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Discard cards from the top until X enemies are discarded, where X is the number of players. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
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Forced: After Easterling Outrider engages a player, either place 1 resource on Easterling Pursuit, or Easterling Outrider makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
While River Running is in the staging area, enemies cannot be optionally engaged.
Travel: The first player engages the highest engagement cost enemy in the staging area.
...below them were trees that looked like oaks and elms, and wide grass lands, and a river running through it all.
–The Hobbit
While Exposed Riverbank is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a 'when revealed' effect is canceled, place 1 resource on Easterling Pursuit."
Travel: Place 1 resource on Easterling Pursuit.
When Revealed: Place 1 resource on Easterling Pursuit. Then, raise each player's threat by 1 for each resource on Easterling Pursuit.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 resource on Easterling Pursuit.
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Forced: When Easterling Captain enters play, discard cards from the encounter deck until an Easterling treachery is discarded. Attach that treachery to Easterling Captain.
Forced: When Easterling Captain would take any amount of damage, discard an Easterling attachment from him. Then, cancel the damage.
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Rider of Rhûn gets -10 enagement cost for each Easterling attachment it has.
When Revealed: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Easterling Horse and attach it to Rider of Rhûn. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While attached to an enemy, counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +2 Forced: At the end of the round, return attached enemy to the staging area."
When Revealed: Attach to the lowest engagement cost Easterling enemy without an Easterling Horse and return it to the staging area. Otherwise, Easterling Horse gains surge.
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Easterling Raider gets +1 and +1 for each Easterling attachment on it.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it has an Easterling attachment).
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Forced: When Warrior of Rh–n attacks, attach the top Easterling treachery in the discard pile to it.
Shadow: Attach the top Easterling treachery in the discard pile to attacking enemy.
The Easterlings are fearless warriors, but a stern defense may dissuade them.
When Revealed: After an Easterling enemy enters play, attach the top Easterling treachery in the discard pile to that enemy.
Forced: After Warriors of the East becomes the current quest, the highest Easterling enemy in the staging area attacks the first player.
When Revealed: Each copy of Rolling Plains gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 2.
The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water–plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes...
–The Two Towers
While Rocky Outcrop is in the staging area, characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Travel: The first player exhausts a hero he controls.
When Revealed: Each exhausted character gets -1
until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls and deals 1 damage to it.
Shadow: Either exhaust a character you control, or return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
The lonely plains appear to stretch endlessly in each direction, and you tire just from looking at them.
Each player cannot ready more than 6 characters he controls during the refresh phase.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may ready a hero he controls.
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Immune to player card effects.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: After Priest of Sauron attacks and destroys an ally, raise each player's threat by 2.
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Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After a location is revealed from the encounter deck, The Governor engages the first player and makes an immediate attack.
"In all the long wars with the Dark Tower treason has ever been our greatest foe."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Immune to player card effects.
Do not discard shadow cards dealt to Black Númenórean if they have a shadow effect.
Forward: When Black Númenórean attacks, resolve each of his faceup shadow cards as if they had been dealt this round.
Add +1 to the total in the staging area for each resource here.
Forced: When the active location is explored, discard the top X cards of each player's deck, when X is that location's Then, place 1 resource here for each event discarded this way.
Each non-unique enemy gets +1
Forced: After an enemy attacks and destroys a character, place 1 damage token here. Then, if there are X damage tokens here, the players lose the game. X is 4 more than the number of players.
Sauron Worship enters play with 1 damage token on it.
Each player's threat elimination level is reduced by 1 for each damage token here.
Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 damage token here.
Attached enemy gets +1 +1 and +1
When Evidence of the Cult is free of encounters, add it to the victory display. Then, place 1 resource on the main quest.
While Hillside Manor is in the staging area, each player's threat cannot be reduced by more than 1 each round by player card effects.
Travel: Each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
The wine of Dorwinion brings deep and pleasant dreams.
–The Hobbit
When Revealed: Each player discards all ally cards from his hand. If no cards are discarded this way, Disappearances gains doomed 2.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
When Revealed: Attach to the highest attack ally in play. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached ally loses the ally card type, gains the enemy card type, and engages its owner. Treat attached ally's text box as if it were blank. If Secret Cultist is discarded, or the attached ally's owner is eliminated, discard attached ally.")
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When Revealed: Either raise each player's threat by X, where X is the active location's or Messenger from Mordor makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1