5
9
20
Immune to player card effects.
When Revealed: Smaug the Mighty makes an immediate attack against each player (deal and resolve a shodow card for each attack).
7
7
20
Immune to player card effects.
When Revealed: Resolve all burn damage from all locations in play
"My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurrican, and my breath death!"—The Hobbit
8
8
20
5
4
12
Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Old Man Willow attacks, discard a random location from the victory display. The defending player raises his threat by X, where X is that location's victory point value.
6
4
9
Immune to player card effects.
Lieutenant of Angmar cannot take damage unless there is at least 10 progress on the main quest.
Forced: At the end of the round, Lieutenant of Angmar moves to the staging area with the lowest total and makes an immediate attack against the first player.
9
4
12
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Host of Angmar attacks and destroys a character, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or return Host of Angmar to the staging area.
5
3
9
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.
6
2
9
Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Sorcerer of Dol Guldur attacks you, discard the top card of your deck. Then, discard each copy of that card from play.
"A great kind and sorcerer he was of old, and now he wields a deadly fear."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
3
4
8
Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Chieftain Morlug attacks you, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded and put it into play engaged with you.
6
3
10
Immune to player card effects.
X is 1 more than the stage number of the main quest.
Cannot leave the staging area unless the players are at stage 3B.
4
1
4
Immune to player card effects.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
The Watcher gets +2 and +4 hit points per player.
4
1
4
Immune to player card effects.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
The Watcher gets +2 and +4 hit points per player.
8
5
7
Immune to player card effects. Pillage 8.
Engaged player cannot attack the Dreadnaught.
Forced: At the end of the combat phase, if engaged player has no cards in their deck, that player is eliminated from the game.
5
2
9
Immune to player card effects.
Engaged player cannot attack the Dreadnaught.
Forced: After Commander of the Dreadnaught attacks you, the Dreadnaught attacks you.
If the Dreadnaught is fated to go under, its commander will surely try to take his foes down with it.
3
2
5
Immune to player card effects.
Engaged player cannot attack the Dreadnaught.
Forced: After Descendant of Castamir engages you, put the top 2 cards of the Corsair deck into play engaged with you and deal each of them 1 shadow card.
6
1
8
Immune to player card effects. No more than 1 character can attack Ophidian each round.
Engaged player cannot attack the Dreadnaught.
Forced: When a character defends against Ophidian, deal 2 damage to that character.
7
3
6
Archery 3. Immune to player card effects.
Engaged player cannot attack the Dreadnaught.
For each point of excess combat damage dealt by Varjax, defending player deals 1 damage to a Ship they control.