Action: Spend 1 resource to give control of Rider of the Mark to another player. (Limit once per round.)

Response: After Rider of the Mark changes control, discard a shadow card dealt to an enemy you are engaged with.

Attach to a hero.

Response: After Song of Eärendil enters play, draw 1 card.

Response: After another player raises his threat, raise your threat by 1 to reduce that player's threat by 1.

Secrecy 2.

Action: Search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for any 1 non-objective card worth no victory points and add it to your victory display. Shuffle the encounter deck. Add Out of the Wild to the victory display.

Response: After a character leaves play, add its to another character's until the end of the round.

"We have not the time or the tools to bury our comrade fitly, or to raise a mound up over him. A cairn we might build."
–Legolas, The Two Towers

Response: After Arwen Undómiel exhausts, choose a character. That character gains sentinel and gets +1 until the end of the round.

...in whom it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again...for she was the Evenstar of her people.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Secrecy 3.

Action: Enemies engaged with you cannot attack you this phase.

Action: Exhaust Warden of Healing to heal 1 damage on up to 2 different characters. Then, you may pay 2 resources to ready Warden of Healing.

"But for long years we healers have only sought to patch the rents made by the men of swords." –Return of the King

Action: Exhaust X Dwarf heroes to add X resources to a hero's resource pool and draw 1 card.

"You should see the stone–paved roads of many colours! And the halls and cavernous streets under the earth with arches carved like trees; and the terraces and towers upon the Mountain's sides! Then you would see that we have not been idle." –Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a hero.

Each Dwarf gets +1 hit point.

"We will seek the hidden door together. And we will come through. In the ruins of of the Dwarves, a dwarf's head will be less easy to bewilder than Elves or Men or Hobbits."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Secrecy 4.

Response: After a non-unique enemy attacks you, put that enemy on the bottom of the encounter deck. If your threat is lower than that enemy's engagement cost, set your threat equal to the engagement cost of that enemy.

Secrecy 3.

Action: Look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. You may select 1 card and move it to the bottom of the encounter deck. Return any unselected cards to the top of the encounter deck, in any order.

Action: Exhaust Errand-rider to move 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero you control to another hero's resource pool.

For the people of the City used horses very little and they were seldom seen in their streets, save only those ridden by the errand–riders of their lord. –The Return of the King

Lower the cost to play Citadel Custodian by 1 for each Gondor ally in play.

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

Action: All characters get +2 and do not exhaust to defend until the end of the round.

"The beacons of Gondor are alight, calling for aid." –Gandalf, The Return of the King

Play Ranger Spikes into the staging area unattached.

If unattached, attach Ranger Spikes to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.

Players do not make engagement checks against attached enemy. Attached enemy gets -2 .

Response: After Envoy of Pelargir enters play, add 1 resource to a Gondor or Noble hero's resource pool.

Ranged.

You may use resources from Hirluin the Fair's resource pool to pay for Outlands ally cards of any sphere.

Hirluin the Fair of the Green Hills from Pinnath Gelin... –The Return of the King

Action: Discard 2 resources from your hero's resource pool to add 3 resources to that hero's resource pool.

"Nay, my friends, I am the lawful master of the Stone, and I had both the right and the strength to use it..." –Aragorn, The Return of the King

Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .

We heard of the horns in the hills ringing,
the swords shining in the South–kingdom.
–The Return of the King

Action: Draw 1 card for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

"Let none now reject the counsels of Gandalf, whose long labours against Sauron come at last to their test." –Aragorn, The Return of the King

Play only if each hero you control has the printed resource icon.

Action: Until the end of the phase, if the current quest does not have Siege it gains Battle.

Play only if each hero you control has the printed resource icon.

Action: Until the end of the phase, characters use their instead of

"Courage will now be your best defense against the storm that is at hand..." –Gandalf, The Return of the King

Play only if each hero you control has a printed resource icon.

Action: Until the end of the phase, enemies do not make engagement checks

Suddenly he halted and listened. Had he heard a whistle or not? Or was it the call of some strange bird? –The Two Towers

If each hero you control belongs to the same sphere of influence, you may assign damage from undefended enemy attacks to White Tower Watchman instead of a hero you control.

The watchmen cried aloud, and all men in the City stood to arms. –The Return of the King

Response: Cancel up to 2 points of damage just dealt to a Gondor character.

At last, less than a mile from the City, a more ordered mass of men came into view, marching not running, still holding together. –The Return of the King

Response: After an encounter card with surge is revealed, discard Minas Tirith Lampwright to name enemy, location, or treachery. If the next encounter card revealed is the named type, discard it without resolving its effects.

Play only if each of your heroes is a Hobbit.

Combat Action: Enemies engaged with you do not attack this round. You cannot declare attacks this round.

They possessed from the first the art of disappearing swiftly and silently, when large folk whom they do not wish to meet come blundering by...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Ranged.

Faramir gets +1 for each enemy in the staging area.

"The road may pass, but they shall not! Not while Faramir is Captain." –Mablung, The Two Towers

Attach to a Gondor or Dúnedain 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.)

Pelargir Shipwright gets +1 for each hero you control with a printed hero resource icon.

"It is forty leagues and two from Pelargir to the landings at the Harlond..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

Attach to a hero.

Reduce the cost to play Map of Earnil by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

Action: Discard Map of Earnil to play any event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.

Response: After Squire of the Citadel leaves play, add 1 resource to a Gondor hero's resource pool.

As he spoke he struck a small silver gong that stood near his footstool, and at once servants came forward.
–The Return of the King

Action: Choose a Silvan or Noldor ally you control. That ally gets +2 until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, shuffle that ally into its owner's deck if it is still in play.

"For deep in the hears of all my kindred lies the sea–longing, which it is perilous to stir"
–Legolas, The Return of the King

Play Poisoned Stakes into the staging area unattached.

If unattached, attach Poisoned Stakes to the next eligble enemy that enters the staging area.

At the end of each round, deal 2 damage to attached enemy.

Action: Discard the top 2 cards of your deck. You may attach 1 attachment card discarded by this effect to an eligible Dwarf character in play.

Gimli the Dwarf alone wore openly a short shirt of steel–rings, for dwarves make light of burdens...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Pelargir Ship Captain enters play, move 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero you control to another hero's resource pool.

Combat Action: Each Rohan hero can be declared as an attacker against enemies in the staging area this phase.

"Oaths ye have taken: now fulfill them all, to lord and land and league of friendship!" –Théoden, The Return of the King

Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the phase, that hero gets +1 for each resource in its resource pool.

An Elven–maid there was of old.
A shining star by day:
Her mantle white was hemmed with hold,
Her shoes of silver–grey.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Ered Nimrais Prospector enters play, discard the top 3 cards of your deck. Then, choose and shuffle 1 card from your discard pile back into your deck.

Attach to a hero.

Reduce the cost to play Scroll of Isildur by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

Action: Discard Scroll of Isildur to play any event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.

Response: After Hidden Cache is discarded from your deck, add 2 resources to the resource pool of a hero you control.

Action: Spend 1 resource to draw 1 card.

...there was a good deal of food jumbled carlessly on shelves and on the ground, among an untidy litter of plunder...
–The Hobbit

Action: Discard Westfold Outrider to choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage the chosen enemy.

"Erkenbrand of Westfold has drawn off those men he could gather towards his fastness at Helm's Deep. The rest are scattered."–Rider of Rohan, The Two Towers

Doomed 3.

Action: Each player chooses 1 enemy engaged with him. Until the end of the phase, each chosen enemy cannot attack the player that chose it.

...it was a delight to hear the voice speaking, all that it said seemed wise and reasonable... –The Two Towers

Doomed 1.

Action: Search your deck for a card with the Doomed keyword and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

"...alone it could do nothing but see small images of things far off and days remote." –Gandalf, The Two Towers

Action: Ready a hero you control. Then, if your threat is 20 or less and this is the first time you played a copy of Swift and Silent this round, return this card to your hand instead of discarding it.

A marching host of Elves had come up silently...–The Fellowship of the Ring

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.)

Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a hero.

Response: When attached hero is destroyed, add The Fall of Gil-Galad to the victory display to reduce your threat by X, where X is the attached hero's threat cost.

...for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

X is the number of players in the game.

Action: Starting with the first player, each player chooses 1 different option:

• ready a hero he controls,
• add 1 resource to the resource pool of a hero he controls,
• draw 1 card,
• or shuffle 1 card from his discard pile into his deck.

"I it was who first summoned the White Council."
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Combat Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to choose an enemy engaged with a player. That enemy cannot attack that player this phase.

"The three of us could not challenge a hundred, so we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices, leading them on into the wood." –Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring