When Revealed: Each player must choose: either discard the highest cost ally you control, or reveal an encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 
If this attack destroys a character, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Until the end of the phase, increase the total 
in the staging area by X, where X is twice the stage number of the main quest.
Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control, where X is the stage number of the main quest.
When Revealed: The first player discards cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded, and puts that enemy into play engaged with him.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it was engaged this round).
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each character you control, or discard a character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise each player's threat by 1.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls. Until the end of the combat phase, exhausted characters cannot ready.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot ready.
When Revealed: Each player either discards his hand, or assigns X damage among characters he controls. X is the number of cards in his hand.
Shadow: Either discard the highest cost attachment you control, or assign X damage among characters you control where X is the number of attachments you control.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls and deals 1 damage to that character.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: Each ally in play gets -1
-1 and -1
until the end of the round.
Shadow: If attacking enemy's is greater than the defending character's it makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Choose a Wild M–mak in the staging area to attack the first player. If no attacks are made this way, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Mûmak Trail and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
On the great beast thundered, blundering in blind wrath through pool and thicket. –The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player discards the top 5 cards of his deck. Each player discards each card he controls that shares a title with any of the 5 cards he just discarded.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
When Revealed: Remove a hero from the quest and attach Terrible Fever to that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the end of the round, deal 1 damage to attached character.")
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
When Revealed: Each player discards a random card from his hand and assigns X damage among characters he controls. X is the discarded card's cost.
Shadow: Discard a random card from your hand and assign X damage among characters you control. X is the discarded card's cost.
When Revealed: Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an Orc enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the Orc's area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 2 progress on the Orc's stage.
When Revealed: If the players are not at the same stage as the Orcs, add the total of each card in the Orc's area to the total in the staging area until the end of the phase. If the players are at the same stage as the Orcs, each enemy gets +1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1.
When Revealed: Either flip the Search objective to Off Track, or deal 1 damage to each questing character.
Shadow: If On Track is in play, attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Either reveal 2 encounter cards, or detach a Harad objective from a hero, reveal it, and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, attach a Harad objective you control to a non-unique encounter card in the staging area.
When Revealed: The first player must choose: either raise each player's threat by 3, or progress cannot be placed on quest cards until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, remove all progress from the main quest.
When Revealed: The first player attaches an ally he controls to an unattached enemy or location in the staging area. If he cannot, Taken Prisoner gains doomed 2.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys an ally, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Each player raises his threat by 1 for each guarded objective he owns. If any player does not own a guarded objective, Tormented by Orcs gains surge.
Shadow: Until the end of the phase, attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it is guarding an objective).
When Revealed: Choose 1 random card from the set aside encounter set with the most cards remaining, Reveal that card as if it was the top card of the encounter deck.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, resolve the 'when revealed' effect of this card.
When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by X, where X is the printed quest points of the active location. If there is no active location, Mountains of Shadow gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise your threat by 2.
When Revealed: Add the top card of the Evil Creatures deck to the staging area and attach Frenzied Creature to it. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and is immune to player card effects")
Shadow: Attach this card to attacking enemy.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the total of the active location. If X is less than 3, Treacherous Crossing gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending character is damaged).
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each ally you control, or deal 1 damage to each ally you control.
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.
When Revealed: The player with the most cards in his hand without a copy of Lost in the Wilderness adds Lost in the Wild to his hand. (While in a player's hand, Lost in the Wild gains: "Cannot be discarded by player card effect.Forced: After you play a card, discard each card in your hand.")
When Revealed: Attach to the hero with the most attachments without Weighed Down attached. Then, exhaust attached hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: After attached hero readies, choose and discard an attachment from it. You cannot choose Weighed Down unless attached hero has no other non-objective attachments.")
When Revealed: Each player removes a character he controls from the quest and discards the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card's printed is greater than the removed character's discard that character.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 and +2 if it is guarding a card.
When Revealed: Until the end of the phase, each non-objective location in the staging area gets +1 (+2 instead if it has at least 1 progress token on it). If the number of non-objective locations in the staging area is less than the number of players, Vastness of Mirkwood gains surge.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each ally you control, or reveal an encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, discard an ally you control.
When Revealed: Each player discards each resource from each of his hero's resource pools and raises his threat by 1 for each resource he discarded this way. If no resources were discarded this way, Swarm of Bats gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending character has an attachment).
When Revealed: The highest enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the first player. If no attack is made this way, Denizen of the Deep gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Attach to a questing hero and remove it from the quest. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero. While the active location has the Dark trait, reduce attached hero's to 0 and treat its text box as if it were blank, except for Traits.")
When Revealed: Add the total of the active location to the total in the staging area until the end of the phase. If there is no active location, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until a location is discarded and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each questing character you control, or discard a questing character you control.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, discard an ally you control.
When Revealed: Exhaust a character. Until the end of the round, characters cannot be readied by player card effect.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: For each ready character a player controls, he must choose: either exhaust that character, or deal 1 damage to it.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if defending character is damaged).
When Revealed: The first player loses control of Urdug, then attach Urdug to a location in the staging area as a guarded objective. If he cannot, add 5 to the total in the staging area until the end of the phase. In either case, remove Sneaking Off from the game.
When Revealed: For each ready character a player controls, he must choose: either exhaust that character or raise his threat by 1.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player chooses an enemy in the staging area and engages it. Then, if any player did not engage an enemy this way, discard cards from the encounter deck until a Creature enemy is discarded and add it to the staging area.
When Revealed: Discard the active location and deal X damage to Hrogar's Hill where X is that location's . If no damage is dealt this way, Powerful in Wraith gains surge.
Shadow: Excess damage from this attack must be dealt to Hrogar's Hill.
When Revealed: Dagnir makes an immediate attack against the first player. Undefended damage from this attack must be dealt to Hrogar's Hill.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is 1 more than the number of side quests in the victory display.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each side quest in the victory display.
When Revealed: Each character gets -1 -1 and -1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise the defending player's threat by 3.
When Revealed: Each player chooses and exhausts a character he controls. Until the end of the round, character cannot be readied by player card effects.