Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2 
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a 
resource icon.
"You needn't," said Bilbo. "As a matter of fact it was all mine. Except that Aragorn insisted on my putting in a green stone. He seemed to think it important. I don't know why."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 
when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.
It was rather splendid to be wearing a blade made in Gondolin for the goblin–wars of which so many songs had sung...
–The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +4 Hit Points.
"Go to the armouries of the Citadel, and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is a Dwarf.)
"But keep your bow ready to hand, and I will keep my axe loose in my belt."
–Gimli, The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
'Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir,' said Elrond, 'until you stand once more on the borders of your land, and dire need is on you.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Gandalf's Map to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Gandalf's Map to the staging area.)
Attached hero cannot attack or defend.
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Dungeon Torch to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Dungeon Torch to the staging area.)
Forced: At the end of each round, raise attached hero's controller's threat by 2.
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Shadow Key to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Shadow Key to the staging area.)
Forced: At the end of each round, attached hero suffers 1 damage.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a resource icon.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
"Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir," said Elrond, "until you stand once more on the border of your land, and dire need is on you."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1
Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Action: Exhause Cave Torch to place up to 3 progress tokens on a Dark location.
Forced: After Cave Torch exhausts, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +2
If attached hero is Aragorn, he also gains a resource icon.
"You needn't," said Bilbo. "As a matter of fact it was all mine. Except that Aragorn insisted on my putting in a green stone. He seemed to think it important. I don't know why."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.
It was rather splendid to be wearing a blade made in Gondolin for the goblin–wars of which so many songs had sung...
–The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +4 Hit Points.
"Go to the armouries of the Citadel, and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is a Dwarf.)
"But keep your bow ready to hand, and I will keep my axe loose in my belt."
–Gimli, The Two Towers
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a character is destroyed, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
'Slow should you be to wind that horn again, Boromir,' said Elrond, 'until you stand once more on the borders of your land, and dire need is on you.'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Gandalf's Map to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Gandalf's Map to the staging area.)
Attached hero cannot attack or defend.
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Dungeon Torch to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Dungeon Torch to the staging area.)
Forced: At the end of each round, raise attached hero's controller's threat by 2.
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Shadow Key to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Shadow Key to the staging area.)
Forced: At the end of each round, attached hero suffers 1 damage.
Attach to a 
character. Restricted.
Response: Exhaust A Burning Brand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack that attached character is defending.
"Keep close to the fire, with your faces outward!" cried Strider. "Keep some of th elonger sticks ready in your hands."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Silvan character with the ranged keyword. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy not engaged with you.)
...longer and stronger than the bows of Mirkwood, and strung with a string of elf–hair. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gains +1 
. (+2 instead if attached hero has the Gondor trait.)
There flowered a White Tree, and that was for Gondor...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a Noble hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 if your threat is 40 or higher).
...his sword of steel was valiant...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a 
or Rohan hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is EÌomer).
Response: After attached hero attacks alone, exhaust Firefoot to choose a non-unique enemy engaged with you. Excess damage dealt by this attack is assigned to the chosen enemy.
Attach to a Rohan hero or Merry. Restricted.
Response: When a character leaves play, if that character shares at least one trait with the attached hero, exhaust Horn of the Mark to draw 1 card.
Then ÂĂowyn gave to Merry an ancient horn, small but cunningly wrought all of fair silver with a baldric of green.
–The Return of the King
Attach to a character. Limit 1 per character. Restricted.
Attached characters gets +1 for each attachment it has with the restricted keyword.
"Gimli GlĂłin's son, have you your axe ready?"
–ÂĂomer, The Return of the King
Attach to a Rohan character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy in the staging area).
Right through the press drove ThĂ©oden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down thier chieftan. –The Return of the King
Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, exhaust Rohan Warhorse to ready attached hero.
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean–limbed... –The Two Towers
Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1
Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending enemy.
"We make good armour and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came." –Gloin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Exhaust a hero to claim this objective. Then, attach Book of Mazarbul to that hero. (If detached, return Book of Mazarbul to the staging area.)
Attached hero cannot attack and does not exhaust to commit to a quest.
Action: Exhaust a hero to claim this objective if it has no encounters attached. Then, attach Abandoned Tools to that hero. (If detached, return Abandoned Tools to the staging area.)
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Action: Exhaust Cave Torch to place up to 3 progress on a Dark location.
Forced: After Cave Torch exhausts, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character. Restricted.
When attached character attacks an enemy, that enemy gets -2 until the end of the phase.
Attach to a Dwarf or Hobbit character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 hit point and +1 .
"And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain..."
–Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a character. Restricted.
Limit 1 per character.
Response: After attached character is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gains +1 . (+2 instead if attached hero has the Gondor trait.)
There flowered a White Tree, and that was for Gondor...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a Ranger character. Restricted.
Action: Exhaust Ranger Bow and attached character to deal 1 damage to an enemy in the staging area.
Two had great bows, almost of their own height, and great quivers of long green–feathered arrows.
–The Two Towers
Attach to a Rohan character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy in the staging area).
Right through the press drove ThĂ©oden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down thier chieftan. –The Return of the King
Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, exhaust Rohan Warhorse to ready attached hero.
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean–limbed... –The Two Towers
Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if attached hero is EÌomer).
Response: After attached hero attacks alone, exhaust Firefoot to choose a non-unique enemy engaged with you. Excess damage dealt by this attack is assigned to the chosen enemy.
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 hit points and gains sentinel.
...they were tall and and clad in grey mail, and from their shoulders hung long white cloaks. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Silvan character with the ranged keyword. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy not engaged with you.)
...longer and stronger than the bows of Mirkwood, and strung with a string of elf–hair. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Each ally that shares a Trait with attached hero gets +1
When the kingdom ended the DĂșnedain passed into the shadows and became a secret and wandering people, and their deeds and labours were seldom sung or recorded.
–The Lord of the Rings
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +2 hit points.
Response: After a player's threat is reduced, heal 1 damage from attached hero.
So ended the evil realm of Angmar; and so EĂ€rnur, Captain of Gondor, earned the chief hatred of the Witch–King.
–The Lord of the Rings
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
While attacking or defending against an enemy, attached hero gets +1 and +1 if that enemy shares a Trait with an enemy in the victory display.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, add that enemy to the victory display. (Limit once per game.)
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead when attacking an Undead enemy).
Response: After you play Daechnar's Brand, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a Sorcery treachery and add it to the victory display. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1
Response: After you play Heirloom of IĂąrchon, heal all damage from attached character.
"IĂąrchon, may this pendant guide you away from the shadow that dwells within us all."
–Pendant Inscription
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead while defending against an Undead enemy).
Response: After you play Orders from Angmar discard a non-unique Undead enemy with 2 or less remaining hit points.
Attach to a character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 and +2 hit points.
Response: After attached character attacks and destroys an enemy, draw 1 card.
"It recalled to me the glory of the Eldar Days and the hosts of Beleriand."
–Elrond, The Lord of the Rings
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted.
Quest Action: If attached hero is not committed to the quest, exhaust Hobbit Pony and attached hero to commit attached hero to the quest.
He was riding a pony, and a scarf was swathed round his neck and over his chin to keep out the fog. âThe Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a or Noldor hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero commits to a quest, discard a card from your hand to place 2 progress on the active location.
In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan hero. Restricted.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to give attached hero +1 until the end of the phase. Limit 3 times per phase.
Their spears and swords shone in the gloom with a gleam of chill flame, so deadly was the wrath of the hands that held them.
–The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a card is discarded from your hand, exhaust Silver Harp to return that card to your hand.
Elrond wore a mantle of grey and had a star upon his forehead, and a silver harp was in his hand... –The Return of the King
Attach to a DĂșnedain or Gondor hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy with 5 or more printed hit points, exhaust Sword of NĂșmenor to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.
...the flowing characters of NĂșmenor glinted like fire upon the blade.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a 
or sentinel hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero defends against an attack, exhaust Armored Destrier to ready attached hero. Then, discard a shadow card from another enemy engaged with the defending player.
Attach to a hero, or to Ăowyn. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
Response: After attached character is removed from the quest, exhaust Windfola to commit attached hero to the quest.
...the great grey steed Windfola made little of the burden; for Dernhelm was less in weight than many men, though lithe and well-knit in frame. –The Return of the King
Attach to a Ranger character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead when attacking an enemy with an attachment on it).
Two had spears in their hands with broad bright heads. –The Two Towers
'
Attach to a Dwarf hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
Response: After attached hero takes damage from an enemy attack, exhaust Dwarven Shield to add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
...each of them had also a short broad sword at his side and a round shield slung at his back.
–The Hobbit
Attach to a Silvan hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 and +1 .
Legolas had a bow and a quiver, and at his belt a long white knife.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to Kahliel. Restricted.
Each Harad character gets +1 .
Refresh Action: Exhaust Kahlielâs Headdress to shuffle the topmost Harad ally in your discard pile into your deck.
Attach to a DĂșnedain or Ranger hero. Restricted.
Response: After you engage an enemy, exhaust Steed of the North to ready attached hero.
Their horses were strong and of proud bearing, but rough-haired...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a Harad character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 .
Response: After attached character is declared as an attacker, it gets +3 for this attack. After this attack resolves, discard Haradrim Spear.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 for each side quest in the victory display (Limit +3 .)
...glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago in the North-kingdom when the DĂșnedain were young...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a Dale or Warrior character. Restricted.
Response: After attached character is declared as an attacker, exhaust Bow of Yew to deal 1 damage to the defending enemy.
“They would shoot at us with their great bows of yew...”
–The Lord of the Eagles, The Hobbit
Attach to an ally. Restricted.
Limit 1 per ally.
Attached ally gets +2 hit points.
“There are no great weapon-hoards here, lord,” answered Ăomer. “Maybe a light helm might be found to fit him...”
–The Return of the King
Attach to a or Noble character. Restricted. Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gets +2 and +2 hit points.
“May it keep you well!” said ThĂ©oden. “It was made for me in Thengel's day, while still I was a boy.” –The Two Towers
Attach to a hero or Gandalf. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached character destroys an enemy, draw 1 card.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +2 .
Response: After attach hero destroys an enemy, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
Attach to a or Warrior character. Restricted.
Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you. (Limit +3
He gripped tighter on the hilt of his sword and went on doggedly.–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted
Attach hero gets +1 , +1 , and +1 .
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, deal 1 damage to that enemy.
Attach to a character. Restricted.
Response: After a shadow effect is triggered during combat, exhaust Round Shield to give attached character +2 for this attack.
Attach to a Dale or Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 and gains sentinel.
"We make good armour and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came."
–GlĂłin, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Restricted. Immune to non-Master card effects.
Setup: Attach to a hero you control and search your deck for a Master card. Add it to your hand and shuffle your deck. Your threat elimination level is reduced by 5.
If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.
Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets +2
Response: After attach hero attacks and destroys an enemy, deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +2
His hair was dark as the shadows of twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gains ranged.
Response: After attached hero is declared an as attacker against an enemy, discard up to 3 cards from your hand to deal 1 damage to that enemy for each card discarded this way.
Attach to a character. Limit 1 per character. Restricted.
Attached characters gets +1 for each attachment it has with the restricted keyword.
"Gimli GlĂłin's son, have you your axe ready?"
–ÂĂomer, The Return of the King
Attach to a Rohan hero or Merry. Restricted.
Response: When a character leaves play, if that character shares at least one trait with the attached hero, exhaust Horn of the Mark to draw 1 card.
Then ÂĂowyn gave to Merry an ancient horn, small but cunningly wrought all of fair silver with a baldric of green.
–The Return of the King
Attach to Saruman. Restricted.
Action: Exhaust Sarumanâs Staff to (choose 1): Reduce the X value of the next Doomed X. event you play this phase by 2, or search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Doomed event and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.)
His hand clutched his heavy black staff like a claw.
–The Two Towers
Attach to a Noble hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 if your threat is 40 or higher).
...his sword of steel was valiant...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Guarded (location). Restricted.
Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets +2
You draw 1 additional card during the resource phase.
Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. A great desire came over him to climb the tower and see the Sea.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted.
While attached hero is committed to the quest, each Hobbit character gets +1
Response: After you quest successfully, exhaust Red Book of Westmarch to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.
Attach to a Noble hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if your threat is 40 or higher).
...his shinning shield was scored with runs...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Warrior character.
Attached character gains ranged and sentinel.
Then he leapt forward, spurring the earth, and was gone like the north wine from the mountains.
–The Two Towers.
Attach to a hero or Gandalf. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached character destroys an Orc enemy, draw 1 card.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached hero destroys an Orc enemy, add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
"This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin–cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade." –Elrond, The Hobbit
Attach to Bilbo Baggins. Restricted.
Bilbo Baggins gets +1 +1 and +1 .
Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's 
.
"I shall call you Sting." –Bilbo, The Hobbit
Attach to a hero with the printed Ranged keyword. Restricted.
Combat Action: Choose an enemy in the staging area. Exhaust Great Yew Bow and attached hero to make a ranged attack against that enemy. Declare attached hero as the attacker. No other attackers can be declared for this attack.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +2 .
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, deal 1 damage to another enemy engaged with you.
Royal indeed did Thorin look, clad in a coat of gold–plated rings, with a silver hafted axe... –The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains Ranged.
When making a ranged attack, attached hero gets +2 .
Thorin seized a bow of horn and shot an arrow at the speaker. –The Hobbit
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat).
...these blades were forged many long years ago by Men of Westernesse: they were foes of the Dark Lord...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to Gandalf. Restricted.
Action: Exhaust Gandalfâs Staff to (choose one):
- choose a player to draw 1 card
- add 1 resource to a hero's resource pool
- discard a shadow card from a non-unique enemy.
...he held his staff aloft, and from its tip there came a feint radiance. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Hobbit hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1 and +1 .
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .
Attach to a Warrior hero or Gandalf. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached character destroys an Orc enemy, draw 1 card.
"...at his side was the elven–sword Glamdring, the mate of Orcrist that lay now upon the breast of Thorin under the Lonely Mountain." –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Noble hero or Aragorn. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 +1 and +1 .
Response: After an attack in which the attached hero defended resolves, exhaust AndĂșril to target the enemy that just attacked. Declare attached hero as an attacker against that enemy (and resolve the attack).
Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
Reduce the cost to play Herugrim on Théoden by 1.
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust Herugrim to add attached hero's to its for this attack.
"Here, lord, is Herugrim, your ancient blade." –HĂĄma, The Two Towers
Attach to a Gondor or Hobbit hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack from an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, exhaust Staff of Lebethron to discard a shadow card from that enemy.
"They are made of the fair tree lebethron, beloved of the woodwrights of Gondor..." –Faramir, The Two Towers
Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
If attached hero is Théoden, Snowmane loses the restricted keyword.
Response: After attached hero quests successfully, ready attached hero.
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. –The Return of the King
Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero is declared as a defender, exhaust Golden Shield to add attached hero's to its for this attack.
His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun...
–The Return of the King
Attach to Gondor hero. Restricted.
Response: Spend X resources from attached hero's pool to cancel X damage just dealt to attached hero.
This was the livery of the heirs of Elendil, and none wore it now in all Gondor, save the Guards of the Citadel...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust GĂșthwinĂ« to give that hero +2 for this attack. If this attack destroys an enemy, return a Rohan ally from your discard pile to your hand.
“GĂșthwinĂ«!” cried Ăomer. “GĂșthwinĂ« for the Mark!”
–The Two Towers
If unattached, the first player claims Sword of Belegost and attaches it to a hero he controls.
Attached hero gets +4
Response: Exhaust Sword of Belegost to cancel a shadow effect just triggered.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Action: Exhause Cave Torch to place up to 3 progress tokens on a Dark location.
Forced: After Cave Torch exhausts, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.