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Forced: After Isengard Archer enters the staging area, each player at this stage deals 2 damage to a character he controls.
Shadow: Deal 2 damage to an ally you control.
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Forced: After Isengard Tracker destroys a character, move it to the first player's staging area.
Shadow: After this attack, move attacking enemy to the first player's staging area.
While Langflood River is in the staging area, no more than 4 progress can be placed on this quest stage each round.
Forced: When Langflood River leaves play as an explored location, add it to the staging area to the left, if able.
While Western Emyn Muil is in the staging area, each Uruk-hai enemy at this stage gains Toughness 1.
Travel: A player at this stage must engage the highest toughness enemy in the staging area to travel here.
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, add 6 to the archery total at this stage. You may discard X cards from hand to reduce the archery total at this stage by X until the end of the round.
Shadow: Discard 1 random card from your hand.
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. (Counts a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the end of the round, each player at this stage raises his threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area. Then, discard Hunting the Ring and move each enemy in this staging area to the first player's staging area.")
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, players cannot trigger Action or Response effects.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot ready.
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Forced: After Orc of the White Hand attacks and destroy a character, increase the pursuit value by 1.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, increase the pursuit value by 1.
Action: Increase the pursuit value by 1 to place 1 progress on Wold of Rohan.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
...the land sloped down into a wide shallow depression, where the ground was soft and wet. –The Two Towers
Forced: After an encounter card effect is canceled, increase the pursuit value by 1.
Shadow: Either increase the pursuit value by 1, or attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the round.
While The Uruk's Trail is the active location, it gains:"Response: After The Uruk's Trail is explored, reduce the pursuit value by 3."
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a non-unique Uruk-hai enemy and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Either increase the pursuit value by 4, or Uglúk makes an immediate attack against you.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X where X is the tens digit of the pursuit value.
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Cannot have attachments.
While Host of Isengard is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 progress on the current quest (bypassing any active location)."
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Forced: When Bloodied Berserker is dealt a shadow card with no effect, either place 2 progress on the active location, or Bloodied Berserker makes an additional attack against you.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1
While Helm's Dike is the active location, each enemy gets -10 engagement cost.
Forced: When Helm's Dike is explored, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy to the staging area.
Each enemy gains Toughness 1.
Forced: When Hornburg Wall is explored, exhaust each ally in play.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
When Revealed: Either remove 1 resource token from Theof Helm's Deep, or each location in the staging area gains archery 1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls. Until the end of the round, characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot ready.
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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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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.
While Poisonous Shaft is in the staging area, damaged characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Wizardry: Each player discards a damaged character he controls.
At night plumes of vapour steamed from the vents, lit from beneath with red light, or blue, or venomous green.
–THe Two Towers
While Fortress of Isengard is in the staging area, each Orc enemy gets +1 +1 and +1
Wizardry: Return the topmost enemy in the encounter discard pile to the staging area.
This was the stronghold of Saruman, as fame reported it; for within living memory the men of Rohan had not passed its gates...
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among questing characters he controls, where X is the of the active location. If there is no active location, Fire and Foul Fumes gains surge.
Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control. X is the of the active location.
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, characters cannot be declared as attackers. If there are no engaged enemies, raise each player's threat by 4.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot ready.
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The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.
Forced: When Pale Faces attacks, raise your threat by 4.
Shadow: Attacking enemy get +X where X is the Mire X value of the active location.
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Cannot have attachments.
The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.
Forced: After Rotting Thing attacks and destroys a character, place 1 mire token on the active location for each excess point of damage.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each questing character you control, or deal 1 damage to each character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 mire token on the active location.
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Forced: After Southron Warrior engages you, discard an ally you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending character is damaged.
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Cannot have attachments or be placed under The Black Gate.
Southron Rearguard gets -1 engagement cost for each progress token on stage 1B.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area.
While Wooded Glade is the active location, treat each non-objective attachment's text box as if it were blank.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
While Dense Fern-brake is the active location, enemies in the staging area are immune to player card effects.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
Shadowy Thicket gets +2 for each facedown card under The Black Gate.
Travel: The first player reveals the top facedown card under The Cross-roads and adds it to the staging area to travel here.
...presently the noise of fighting broke out near at hand, just above their hiding–place.
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, each Harad enemy in the staging area gets +2 -30 engagement cost, and cannot be optionally engaged.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
Forced: When Foul-smelling Cave is explored, place 1 resource on Shelob, if able.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking enemy is Shelob).
While Torech Ungol is in the staging area, Shelob gets +1 and +1
Travel: Exhaust Sméagol to travel here.
There agelong she had dwelt, and evil thing in spider–form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea...
–The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
While Cobwebbed Tunnel is in the staging area, each Underground location in the staging area gets +1 and +5 quest points.
Travel: The first player reveals an encounter card to travel here.
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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
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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.
When Revealed: Each player removes a character he controls from the quest and exhausts that character. Until the end of the round, characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control. Until the end of the round, that character cannot ready.
When Revealed: Deal Growing Stench to Shelob as a facedown shadow card.
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready. If the attacking enemy is Shelob and this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on Shelob.