






Action: Discard Westfold Horse-Breaker to choose and ready a hero.
"Your own valour has done more, and the stout legs of the Westfold–men marching through the night." –Gandalf, The Two Towers







Response: After Westfold Horse-breeder enters play, search the top 10 cards of your deck for a Mount attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"They love their horses next to their kin." –Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring



Play only if you control a unique character with the Rohan trait and another unique character with the Gondor trait.
Response: At the beginning of the combat phase, you resolve the step in which you attack enemies before resolving enemy attacks this phase. (Each other player resolves the combat phase as normal after you resolve your attacks.)












Draw 3 additional cards at the beginning of the resource phase.
At the end of the round, discard all cards in your hand.
"That is the path of despair. Of folly, I would say, if the long wisdom of Elrond did not forbid me."
–The Fellowship of the Ring






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.


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


Action: Choose and ready a sentinel character.
Valour Action: Ready all sentinel characters.
Aragorn and Boromir did not heed the command, but still held their ground, side by side, behind Gandalf at the far end of the bridge.
–The Fellowship of the Ring


Action: All enemies get -1 until the end of the phase.
Valour Action: Choose a player. Each enemy engaged with that player gets -3 until the end of the phase.
Loud the challenge rang and bellowed, like the shout of many throats under the cavernous roof.
–The Fellowship of the Ring


Action: Choose a hero. Until the end of the phase, the chosen hero does not exhaust to attack or defend.
Valour Action: Choose a player. Until the end of the phase, each of that player's heroes do not exhaust to attack or defend.
These three were unscathed, for such was their fortune and the skill and might of their arms...
–The Return of the King


We must do something to delay the enemy first.
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Battle. (Characters use their instead of
when questing here.)
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may choose and discard a non-unique enemy engaged with him.






Discard 2 cards from your hand to put Elven Jeweler into play from your hand, under your control.
"...to the Elven–smiths they were but trifles..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring


Lords of the Eldar can only be played from your discard pile.
Action: Place Lords of the Eldar on the bottom of your deck from your discard pile. Then, until the end of the round all Noldor characters get +1 , +1
, and +1
.


He was taking a wandering course with many turns and doublings, to put off any pursuit. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, reduce each player's threat by 5.






Response: After 1 or more cards are discarded from your hand, draw 1 card. Limit once per round.
"But have they the strength, have we here the strength to withstand the Enemy, the coming of Sauron at the last, when all else is overthrown?"
–The Fellowship of the Ring




Limit 3 copies of Leave No Trace in the victory display.
Response: After a non-unique location is explored, add Leave No Trace to the victory display to add that location to the victory display.


Limit 3 copies of None Return in the victory display.
Response: After a non-unique enemy is destroyed, add None Return to the victory display to add that enemy to the victory display.
"None of the Orcs will ever return out of Lórien."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring


Strider made them take cover in a thicket at the side of the Road, while he went forward to explore. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, the first player searches the top X cards of the encounter deck for 1 non-objective card worth no victory points and adds it to the victory display. Put the remaining cards back in any order. X is the number of players in the game plus 4.

Reduce the cost to play Keen as Lances by 1 for each card worth no victory points in the victory display.
Action: Add Keen as Lances to the victory display. Then, choose one: add 2 resources to a hero's resource pool, draw 3 cards, or reduce your threat by 4.







Setup: Add 2 resources to Denethor's resource pool.
Action: Move 1 resource from Denethor's resource pool to another Gondor hero's resource pool. (Limit once per round.)
"...why should I sit here in my tower and think, and watch, and wait, spending even my sons? For I can still wield a brand."
-The Return of the King







Response: After an encounter card with surge is revealed, either ready Lanwyn or give her +2 until the end of the phase. (Limit twice per phase.)
“The Men of Dale used to have the trick of understanding their language, and used them for messengers to fly to the Men of the Lake...”
–Thorin, The Hobbit







Response: After drawing your setup hand, instead of taking a mulligan, you may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw that many cards.
Action: If you have no cards in your hand, draw 6 cards. (Limit once per game.)
"What power still remains lies with us..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring









Response: After an enemy is declared as an attacker against you, declare an exhausted character you control as the defender. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Anchor Watch currently in your discard pile (all chosen characters are defending against this attack).



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



Response: After a Warrior character is destroyed while defending against an enemy attack, deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to that character's printed .
In a grave along under the shadow of the Hornburg lay Háma, captain of the King's guard. He fell before the Gate.
–The Two Towers



As an additional cost to play Skyward Volley, exhaust a ranged character you control.
Combat Action: Deal 2 damage to an enemy engaged with a player. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Skyward Volley currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).


Attach to a Noldor character.
Action: Exhaust To the Sea, to the Sea! and discard X cards from your hand to reduce the cost of the next Noldor ally played this phase by X (to a minimum of 1).
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
–The Return of the King


Play only after the staging step.
Quest Action: Choose X questing Hobbit characters you control. Ready each chosen character and remove them from the quest. Then, reduce your threat by X.
"The road goes on for ever," said Pippin; "but I can't without a rest. It is high time for lunch."
–The Fellowship of the Ring








Action: Add X resources to any hero's resource pool. X is half the level of Galdor's Counsel
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: leadership
rounded up. Add Galdor's Counsel to the victory display.

Action: Deal X damage to a non-unique enemy. X is the level of Galdor's Counsel
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: tactics
Add Galdor's Counsel to the victory display.

Action: Place X progress on a non-unique location in the staging area. X is the level of Galdor's Counsel
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: spirit
Add Galdor's Counsel to the victory display.

Action: Look at the top X or bottom X cards of your deck, add any number of them to you hand, and put the rest on the top and/or bottom of your deck in any order. X is half the level of Galdor's Counsel
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: lore
rounded up. Add Galdor's Counsel to the victory display.
Action: Choose up to X characters. X is the level of Come Together, then add it to the victory display. Until the end of the round, each of those characters...
...get +2 if you control a
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: leadership
hero....get +2 if you control a
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: tactics
hero....get +2 if you control a
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: spirit
hero....get a Trait of your choice and heal 2 damage from each of them if you control a
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: lore
hero.




X is half the level of Starla, rounded up.
Response: After Starla is discard from your hand or deck, play her.
Response: After Starla exhausts, place 1 progress on a location.


Surge.
When Revealed: Choose a player to search the top 10 cards of their deck for a card, draw it or play it at no cost, and shuffle their deck. If Send for Help
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: leadership
is upgraded, repeat this effect. Remove Send for Help from the game
Shadow: Resolve this card's when revealed effect.
☸


Surge.
When Revealed: Search the players' collections for a hero and put it into play under any player's control. If Send for Help
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: tactics
is upgraded, repeat this effect. At the end of the round, or if those heroes leave play, remove them from the game. Remove Send for Help from the game
Shadow: Resolve this card's when revealed effect.
☸


Surge.
When Revealed: Choose one: resource, planning, combat, or refresh. After the current phase, there is an additional instance of the chosen phase. If Send for Help
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: spirit
is upgraded, choose two instead (resolve them in any order). Remove Send for Help from the game
Shadow: Resolve this card's when revealed effect.
☸


Surge.
When Revealed: Search the players' collections for Gandalf ally (Core Set 73) and put him into play under any player's control, ignoring uniqueness. If Send for Help
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: lore
is upgraded, that player chooses up to 3 of Gandalf's options instead of 1. Remove Send for Help from the game.
Shadow: Resolve this card's when revealed effect.
☸







While playing an Item attachment, Bard son of Brand is considered to have the printed ,
, and
icons.
Response: When a character leaves play, return each attachment attached to that character to its owners hand. (Limit once per phase.)







While the active location has an attachment on it, Haldan does not exhaust to quest.
Response: When the active location is explored, draw 1 card for each attachment on it.






Cannot attack, defend, or have attachments.
Refresh Action: Return Messenger Raven to it's owner's hand and name a card type. Choose a player to look at the top card of his deck. If that card is the named type, add it to its owner's hand. If it is not, discard it.


Play only if no other copies of Man the Walls have been played this round.
Planning Action: Reduce the cost of the next ally played by each player this phase by 1. Those allies cannot quest this round.







Cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After Meneldor enters or leaves play, place 2 progress on a location.
...Meneldor young and swift. –The Return of the King



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


Response: After a character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy with an attachment, that character gets +3 and +3
until the end of this attack.
"Dwarf–mail may be good, but they will soon be hard put to it."
–Bard the Bowman, The Hobbit