You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to play this card.
Action: The players, as a group, can put up to 2 allies into play from their hands. Each of these allies may enter play under any player's control. At the end of the phase, return each of those allies that are still in play to their owners' hands.
"Often the Rohirrim have aided us, but now the Lord Denethor asks for all your strength and all your speed..."
–Hirgon, The Return of the King
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may search the top 10 cards of his deck for an ally and put it into play under his control. Each player who did shuffles his deck.
Play only before the resolving enemy attacks step.
Combat Action: Choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage that enemy. Then, discard a shadow card from that enemy, if able.
"Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Lindir enters play, if you have less than 3 cards in your hand, draw until you have 3 cards in your hand.
"To sheep other sheep no doubt appear different," laughed Lindir. "Or to shepherds. But Mortals have not been our study. We have other business."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Elven-light can only be played from your discard pile.
Action: Return Elven-light to your hand from your discard pile. Then, draw 1 card.
Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven–light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days...
–The Return of the King
Action: Exhaust a Noldor character to ready a Dúnedain character, or vice-versa. Until the end of the phase, add the exhausted character's printed to the other character's and .
Long was the way that fate them bore,
O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
Through halls of iron and darkling door,
And woods of nightshade morrowless.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot have restricted attachments.
Enters play exhausted.
Response: After Wellinghall Preserver readies, heal 1 damage from an Ent character.
Action: Exhaust a Ranger or Scout character to discard a non-unique active location. Then, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a non-unique location and make it the active location. Shuffle the encounter deck.
"I have crossed many mountains and many rivers, and trodden many plains, even into the far countries of Rhûn and Harad where the stars are strange..."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: Exhaust a Dúnedain or Ranger hero to cancel an enemy card just revealed from the encounter deck. Then, shuffle it back into the encounter deck and reveal an additional encounter card.
"... though I cannot disappear, I have hunted many wild and wary things and I can usually avoid being seen, if I wish."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After an encounter card is revealed from the encounter deck, cancel its effects and discard it if there is a card with the same title in the victory display.
"...I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. But still the door is closed!"
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Reduce the cost of the next event that has a Valour trigger you play this phase by 2.
Valour Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for an event that has a Valour trigger and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Hope he rekindled, and in hope ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
–The Return of the King
Aragorn halted and examined the tracks closely. –The Tower Towers
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: After this stage is defeated, each player may search his deck for 1 card and add it to his hand. Each player shuffles his deck.
Action: Attach Determination to a unique character. Then ready each character with a copy of Dtermination attached, as well as each character who is "determined" in the Campaign Log. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: If you win this scenario, mark in the Campaign Log that attached character is 'determined'")
Action: Each player returns 1 card from their discard pile to their hand (2 cards instead if you are the only player in the game) and shuffles the rest of their discard pile back into their deck. Then, remove this card from the game.
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Draw 1 additional card at the beginning of the resource phase.
Forced: After drawing cards at the beginning of the resource phase, choose and discard 1 of those cards.
Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars...
–The Return of the King
Resource Action: Exhaust a Noble hero you control to add 2 resources to that hero's resource pool.
...in these days men are slow to believe that a captain can be wise and learned in the scrolls of lore and song, as he is, and yet man of hardihood and swift judgement in the field.
–Beregond, The Return of the King
Response: When an enemy attacks a player, that player may declare up to 3 eligible characters as defenders against this attack. Then, the players as a group may spend 2
resources to ready each defending character that takes no damage from this attack.
Response: After you declare a Noble character as a defender against an attack made by an engaged enemy, return that enemy to the staging area. Then, cancel the attack.
So great a power and royalty was revealed in Aragorn...that many of the wild men paused, and looked back over their shoulders to the valley, and some looked up doubtfully at the sky.
–The Two Towers
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Action: Choose a player. Each enemy engaged with that player gets -1 until the end of the phase. Then, the players as a group may spend 2
resources to have the chosen player draw 1 card each time he attacks and destroys an enemy this phase.
"Good!" said Legolas. "But my count is now two dozen. It has been knife–work up here." –The Two Towers
Play only if you control a Noldor hero.
Action: Choose a non-unique enemy. Until the end of the phase, treat the chosen enemy's printed text box as if it were blank (except for Traits).
"...seeing an Elf–lord revealed in his wrath, they were dismayed, and their horses were stricken with madness."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After you play Linhir Sea-captain from your hand, if you paid all of its resource cost from a single hero's resource pool, both that hero and Linhir Sea-captain do not exhaust to quest this round.
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Response: After Rhovanion Outrider commits to the quest, place 1 progress on a location in the staging area. If that location is not explored by this effect, give Rhovanion Outrider +1 until the end of the phase.
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While the top card of your discard pile is an event, Sailor of Lune gets +1 and gains: "Cannot be damaged while committed to the quest."
"They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea, they are going into the West and leaving us," said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking his head sadly and solemnly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Quest Action: Ready a questing character and give that character +1 until the end of the phase. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Elwing’s Flight currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).
There flying Elwing came to him
and flame was in the darkness lit;
more bright than light of diamond
the fire upon her carcanet.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After you commit characters to the quest, if each character you have commited to the quest is a Scout each of these characters gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Response: When a shadow card increases an enemy's by any amount, increase the defending character's by 3 for that attack. Then, the players as a group may spend 2 resources to ready the defending character and give it +3 for its next attack this phase.
...the tides of fate had turned against them and their doom was at hand.
–The Return of the King
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Response: After Guardian of Ithilien enters play, return an enemy engaged with you to the staging area.
From such men the Lord Denethor chose his forayers.to harry the Orcs and other enemies that roamed between the Ephel Dúath and the River.
–The Two Towers
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Lindon Navigator does not exhaust to commit to a quest, and can commit to quests while exhausted.
Forced: After resolving a quest to which Lindon Navigator was committed, either discard it from play or discard 1 card from your hand.
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Response: After Mirkwood Explorer quests successfully, place 1 progress on it.
Action: Exhaust Mirkwood Explorer to move all progress from it to a location in play.
Play Entagling Nets into the staging area, unattached.
If unattached, attach Entangling Nets to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.
Attached enemy gets -2 and -2
Action: Place 2 progress on any location. Resolve that effect again for each copy of The Evening Star currently in your discard pile (you may choose new targets).
...for ever still a herald on
an errand that should never rest
to bear his shining lamp afar,
the Flammifer of Westernesse.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
You may exhaust any number of Healer characters you control as part of this card's cost. Reduce the cost to play this card by 1 for each Healer character you exhaust in this way.
Refresh Action: Choose a hero in any player's discard pile. Put that hero into play under its owner's control, with 1 damage token on it.
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Response: After Ered Luin Miner is discarded from your deck, put it into play under your control.
Tools were to be found in plenty that the miners and quarriers and builders of old had used; and at such work the dwarves were still very skilled.
–The Hobbit
Limit 1 per deck.
Planning Action: Add Justice Shall Be Done to the victory display to draw 3 cards and add 3 resources to the resource pool of each hero you control. At the end of the round, you are eliminated from the game.
"...it is the last move in a great jeopardy, and for one side or the other it will bring the end of the game."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King
Play only if you control 2 or fewer heroes.
Action: Until the end of the phase, if your threat is higher than 20, treat your threat as if it is 20.
"I see now little hope, if we do not soon vanish from sight for a while, and cover our trail."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Guardian of Esgaroth gets +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 hit point for each different player card attachment it has. (Limit +3 to each.)
The men of the lake–town Esgaroth were mostly indoors, for the breeze was from the black East and chill, but a few were walking on the quays, and watching...
–The Hobbit
Action: Search your deck for a Guarded attachment and put it into play. Shuffle your deck.
His crown shall be upholden,
His harp shall be restrung,
His halls shall echo golden
To songs of yore re–sung
–The Hobbit
Planning Action: Choose a Dale hero you control. Add 1 resource to its pool for each character you control with a player attachment. You can only play 1 copy of Traffic from Dale each round.
The talk was all of the trade that came and went on the waterways and the growth of the traffic on the river...
The Hobbit
Action: Return an Eagle ally to your hand to shuffle a set-aside Eagle of the North into the encounter deck. Then, remove Flight of the Eagles from the game.
Behind them in long swift lines came all their vassals from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind.
–The Return of the King
Play only if you control a unique character with the Istari trait and another unique character with the Eagle trait.
Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for an Eagle or Istari ally and put it into play. Shuffle your deck. At the end of the round, if that ally is still in play, return it to your hand.
Response: After a character you control attacks and destroys an enemy, exhaust a Weapon attached to that character to ready that character and give it +2 for its next attack this phase.
The sword is sharp, the spear is long,
The arrow swift, the Gate is strong.
–The Hobbit
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Reduce the cost to play Item attachments on Descendant of Girion by 1.
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After Long Lake Fisherman enters play, name a number. Then, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a card whose printed cost is equal to that number and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
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Cannot have attachments.
Planning Action: Attach Wild Stallion to an ally you control. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Restricted. Limit 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 hit point.")
Attach to an ally.
Attached ally does not exhaust to quest.
–The Hobbit
Response: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.
"You would die before your stroke fell."
–Legolas, The Two Towers