






Action: Pay 1 resource from a hero's resource pool to add 1 resource to Bifur's resource pool. Any player may trigger this ability. (Limit once per round.)
"And winter comes after autumn." – Bifur, The Hobbit







The first player draws 1 additional card in the resource phase.
"Well, my dear fellow," said Bilbo, "now you've heard the news, can't you spare me a moment? I want your help in something urgent."
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Attach to an ally.
Action: Discard Born Aloft from play to return attached ally to its owner's hand.
"Very well," said Gandalf. "Take us where and as far as you will!" –The Hobbit







Response: After Brand son of Bain attacks and defeats an enemy engaged with another player, choose and ready one of that player's characters.
"The grandson of Bard the Bowman rules them, Brand son of Bain son of Bard."
–GlĂłin, The Fellowship of the Ring







Action: Pay 1 resource from a hero's resource pool to add 1 resource to Bifur's resource pool. Any player may trigger this ability. (Limit once per round.)
"And winter comes after autumn." – Bifur, The Hobbit
















Action: Exhaust Bombur to choose a location. That location gets -1 until the end of the phase. (That location does not contribute its
instead if it is an Underground location.)







Lower the cost to play Weapon and Armor attachments on Beregond by 2.
"It is over-late to send for aid when you are already besiged." –The Return of the King










Action: Choose another player. That player gains control of Blue Mountain Trader. Then, that player moves 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero he controls to the resource pool of a hero you control, or Blue Mountain Trader is discarded. (Limit once per round.)







Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.
Booming Ent gets +1 for each damaged Ent character you control.
"...a man that hacks once at an Ent never gets a chance of a second blow." –Merry, The Two Towers







Cannot have restricted attachments.
Enters play exhausted.
Response: After Beechbone is declared as an attacker, deal 1 damage to him to deal X damage to the defending enemy. X is the amount of damage on Beechbone.



Play only before the staging step.
Quest Action: Exhaust a hero you control to immediately declare it as an attacker (and resolve its attack) against any eligible enemy target. Then, the players as a group may spend 1 resource to commit that hero to the quest.
Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins...
–The Return of the King







Each Dale character you control with a player attachment gets +1
Response: After you play an attachment on a Dale character without an attachment, draw a card.
"He is a strong king, and his realm now reaches south and east of Esgaroth."
–GlĂłin, The Fellowship of the Ring



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



Planning Action: Choose a ready player attachment on a character you control. Return that attachment to its owner's hand to reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by X, where X is the chosen attachment's cost.



Response: After a Beorning character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, that enemy gets -2 and -2
until the end of the phase.
Swiftly he returned and his wrath was redoubled, so that nothing could withstand him, and no weapon seemed to bite upon him. –The Hobbit


Your deck must be exactly 50 players cards and include exactly 10 cards from each of these four spheres: and
You cannot include more than 2 copies of any card by title in your deck.
When choosing your starting heroes, you may choose 4 heroes instead of 3. Each of your heroes must belong to a different sphere.
"You can trust us to stick to you through think and thin – to the bitter end."
–Merry, The Fellowship of the Ring







Action: Exhaust Bofur to search the top 5 cards of your deck for 1 Weapon attachment. Add that card to your hand and shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
There is no knowing what a dwarf will not dare and do for revenge or the recovery of his own. –The Hobbit



Action: Bilbo Baggins gets +2 +2
and +2
until the end of the phase. (You may spend a
resource from Bilbo Baggins' resource pool to play this card even if you do not control Bilbo Baggins.)
“You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do.”
– GlĂłin, The Hobbit







Response: Pay 1 resource from Balin's resource pool to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack. Then, deal the attacking enemy another shadow card. (Limit once per attack.)
"Well, it is the first time that even a mouse has crept along carefully and quietly under my very nose and not been spotted." –The Hobbit







When Bard the Bowman makes a ranged attack, the enemy he attacks gets -2 until the end of the phase.
Now he shot with a great yew bow, till all his arrows but one were spent. –The Hobbit





Attach to Bilbo Baggins.
Action: Exhaust Bilboâs Magic Ring and raise your threat by 1 to gain 1 resource. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend an attack, exhaust Bilboâs Magic Ring and raise your threat by 3 to cancel all damage from this attack.







Cannot have attachments.
Lower the cost to play Bill the Pony by 2 if you control Sam Gamgee.
Each Hobbit character gets +1 hit point.
"He gave me a look as plain as Mr. Pippin could speak it: if you don't let me go with you, Sam, I'll follow on my own" –Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring







Boromir gets +2 while defending against an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.
Response: After Boromir takes any amount of damage, ready him.


Play only if you control the Ring-bearer.
Planning Action: Brace of Coneys to the victory display to (choose 2): heal up to 2 damage from a hero, add 2 resources to a hero's pool, draw 2 cards, or reduce a player's threat by 2.
“'SmĂ©agol always helps,' he said. 'He has brought rabbits, nice rabbits.'”
—Gollum, The Two Towers







Response: After Beregond defends an attack and takes no damage, reduce the defending player's threat by 1. (Limit once per round.)
“The Lord does not permit those who wear the black and silver to leave their post for any cause...”
–The Return of the King







The first player draws 1 additional card in the resource phase.



Action: Choose a character. Until the end of the phase, that character gains +1 and +1
.
Throwing back his cloak, he laid his hand on the hilt of a sword that had hung concealed by his side. They did not dare to move.
–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 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



Action: Ready a defending Gondor character. That character gets +1 until the end of the phase.
...seven walls of stone so strong and old that it seemed to have been not builded by carven by giants out of the bones of the earth. –The Return of the King


Response: After an Ent character takes any amount of damage, ready it. That character gets +3 until the end of the phase.
"They roared and boomed and trumpeted, until stones began to crack and fall at the mere noise of them." –Merry, The Two Towers

Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1
+1
and cannot have treachery card attachments.
"Beyond all hope you return to us in our need!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers


Attach to Aragorn.
While Aragorn is questing, each other questing character you control gets +1 Willpower.
While Aragorn is attacking, each other attacking character you co
Seven stars were about it, and a high crown above it, the signs of Elendil that no lord had borne for years beyond count.
-The Return of the King



Action: Choose a character. Until the end of the phase, that character gains +1 and +1
.
Throwing back his cloak, he laid his hand on the hilt of a sword that had hung concealed by his side. They did not dare to move.
–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 +1 when attacking an Orc.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 progress token on the current quest.



Action: Ready a defending Gondor character. That character gets +1 until the end of the phase.
...seven walls of stone so strong and old that it seemed to have been not builded by carven by giants out of the bones of the earth. –The Return of the King



Attach to a Gondor or DĂșnedain hero.
Action: Spend 1 resource from attached hero's resource pool to give attached hero +1 for each resource in its resource pool until the end of the phase. (Limit once per phase.)
"Believe not that in the land of Gondor the blood of Numenor is spent, nor all its pride and dignity forgotten." –Boromir, 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



Response: After an Ent character takes any amount of damage, ready it. That character gets +3 until the end of the phase.
"They roared and boomed and trumpeted, until stones began to crack and fall at the mere noise of them." –Merry, The Two Towers



Play only if the main quest has no keywords.
Action: Remove X progress from the main quest to place X progress on a location in the staging area.
"Well," said Boromir, "when heads are at a loss bodies must serve..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring



Action: Ready each hero with a Song attachment.
And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
–The Return of the King



Action: Discard an ally you control to choose and discard a Condition attachment.
"By our valour the wildfolk of the East are still restrained, and the terror of Morgul kept at bay; and thus alone are peace and freedom maintained in the lads behind us...
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring