Play only after making engagement checks.

Encounter Action: If no enemies were engaged this phase, deal 1 damage to each enemy in the staging area. Then, the players as a group may spend 3 resources to deal 2 additional damage to each enemy in the staging area.

Action: Choose a player. That player searches the top 5 cards of his deck for a card, adds it to his hand, and shuffles his deck. Then, the players as a group may spend 3 resources to have that player search his deck for another card, add it to his hand, and shuffle his deck.

Action: Choose an enemy with an attached Trap card. Look at the top X cards of the encounter deck, where X is that enemy's printed . You may discard 1 of those cards. Return the rest to the top of the deck, in the same order.

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.

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

Attach to Círdan the Shipwright or Gandalf.

Attached character gains a resource icon.

Action: Exhaust Narya and attached character to choose and ready up to 2 allies. Each of those allies gets +1 and +1 until the end of the phase.

"For this is the Ring of Fire, and with it you may rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill."
–Círdan, The Return of the King

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

When Ballista leaves play, remove it from the game.

Attached Ship gets +1 .

When Ballista leaves play, remove it from the game.

Attached Ship gets +1 and gains ranged.

Response: After attached Ship attacks, deal 1 damage to a non-unique enemy and remove 1 resource from that enemy.

When Spyglass leaves play, remove it from the game.

Action: Exhaust Spyglass to choose one:

• Look at a shadow card.
• Look at the top and bottom card of your deck.
• Place 1 progress on a location (2 progress instead if it is Uncharted).

When Spyglass leaves play, remove it from the game.

Action: Exhaust Spyglass to choose one:

• Look at a shadow card. You may discard it.

• Look at the top and bottom card of your deck.

• Place 1 progress on a location (4 progress instead if it is Uncharted).

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

Permanent. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if it has 2 or more damage on it).

Permanent. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +2 (+3 instead if it has 2 or more damage on it).

Action: Either deal 1 damage to an enemy, or toss Throwing Axe. If it travel at least two feet across the playing area and stops on any enemies, deal 4 damage to one of them. Reattach Throwing Axe to its hero. (Limit once per game.)

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

...get +2 if you control a

UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: tactics

...get +2 if you control a

UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: spirit

...get a Trait of your choice and heal 2 damage from each of them if you control a

UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: lore

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.

Action: Add Command

UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: lore

• Remove X resources from a non-unique enemy.

• Add 2 resources to each Círdan's Blessing.

• Add the bottom card of your deck to your hand.

• Look at the top 10 cards of the encounter deck, discard any number of them, and shuffle it.

Action: Add Command

UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: tactics

• A hero gets +2 until the end of the round.

• An enemy gets -2 until the end of the round.

• Deal 2 damage to an enemy. You may engage it.

• Ready an attachment. You may move it to an eligible character.

Attach to a character.

Círdan's Blessing enters play with X resources on it. X is 1 more than the level of Círdan's Blessing

UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: leadership

Response: When attached character defends, remove 1 resource from Círdan's Blessing to give that character +3 for this attack.

Attach to a character.

Círdan's Blessing enters play with X resources on it. X is 1 more than the level of Círdan's Blessing

UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: tactics

Response: When attached character attacks, remove 1 resource from Círdan's Blessing to give that character +3 for this attack.

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

Shadow: Resolve this card's when revealed effect.
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Sentinel.

Response: After Grimbeorn the Old defends an attack, spend 1 resource from his pool to declare him as an attacker against that enemy (and resolve his attack). The defending enemy gets -2 for this attack.

While Dáin Ironfoot is defending, he gains,"Action: Discard the top card of your deck to give Dáin Ironfoot +1 for this attack. (Limit 3 times per phase.)"

"The time of my thought is my own to spend."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

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

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.

Action: Discard the top 3 cards from your deck to ready Soldier of Erebor. (Limit once per round.)

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +2 .

Response: After attach hero destroys an enemy, add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.

Bywater Shirriff gets +1 , +1 , and +1 while you are engaged with an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat.

The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed.
–The Hobbit

Cannot have attachments.

Action: Ready Giant Bear. At the end of the phase in which you trigger this effect, shuffle Giant Bear into your deck. (Limit once per phase.)

"As a bear he ranged far and wide"
–Gandalf, The Hobbit

Reduce the cost to play Weapon attachments on Warrior of Dale by 1.

Warrior of Dale gets +1 and gains ranged while it has a Weapon attachment.

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

Play into your play area unattached.

If unattached, attach to the next eligible enemy that engages you.

Response: After attached enemy resolves its attack, ready the defending character.

Attach to a character. Restricted.

Response: After a shadow effect is triggered during combat, exhaust Round Shield to give attached character +2 for this attack.

Attach to a or Warrior character. Restricted.

Limit 1 per character.

Attached character gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you. (Limit +3

He gripped tighter on the hilt of his sword and went on doggedly.–The Fellowship of the Ring

Guarded (enemy).

Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted

Attach hero gets +1 , +1 , and +1 .

Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, deal 1 damage to that enemy.

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

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

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

Cannot attack or defend.

Response: After Galion enters play, he gets +1 until the end of the round.

"Here am I waiting and waiting down hero, while you fellows drink and make merry and forget your tasks. Small wonder if I fall asleep from weariness!"
–The Hobbit

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.")

Travel Action: Choose a location in the staging area with a player card attachment and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Reduce each player's threat by X, where X is the number of attachments on the active location.

South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day.
–The Hobbit

Forest Road Traveler gets +1 , +1 , and +1 for each attachment on the active location.

Only on the Road would travellers be found...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Combat Action: Return Gaffer Gamgee to your hand to choose an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot attack you.

"Why? Why's none of my business, or yours."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero or Gandalf. Restricted.

Attached character gets +2 .

Response: After attached character destroys an enemy, draw 1 card.

Attach to a or Ranger character. Limit 1 per character.

Response: After a Location is revealed from the encounter deck, exhaust Leather Boots to ready attached character.

His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather the fitted him well...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a location with no progress tokens on it.

While attached location is the active location, reduce its quest point value to 1.

It was a path made by strong arms and heavy feet.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: At the beginning of the quest phase, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Then, reveal 1 less encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0). Shuffle the encounter deck.

Encounter. Surge.

Cannot have restricted attachments.

When Revealed: The first player chooses a player to take control of Eagle of the North. The chosen player may choose and discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.