


Response: After an ally card leaves play, that card's controller draws 2 cards.
"He fell defending the Hobbits, while I was away upon the hill."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers



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 .








While committed to a quest, Escort from Edoras gets +2
Forced: After resolving a quest to which Escort from Edoras was committed, discard Escort from Edoras from play.







Response: After you play West Road Traveller from your hand, switch the active location with any other location in the staging area.
The dark world was rushing by, and the wind sang loudly in his ears.
–The Return of the King







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







Response: After Westfold Lancer quests successfully, discard it to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Deal 2 damage to the chosen enemy.
...the white fury of the Northmen burned the hotter, and more skilled was their knighthood with long spears...
–The Return of the King



Response: Cancel the “when revealed” effects of a card that was just revealed from the encounter deck.
"There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it"
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring



Action: Until the end of the phase, all Rohan characters get +2
With astonishing speed and skill they checked their steeds, wheeled, and came charging round. –The Two Towers













Response: After Fastred defends an enemy attack, return that enemy to the staging area to reduce your threat by 2. (Limit once per phase.)
"King's man! King's man!" his heart cried within him.
–The Return of the King







Action: Exhaust and discard The Riddermark’s Finest to place 2 progress tokens on any location.
"And there are no horses like the ones that are bred in that great vale between the Misty Mountains and the White."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring






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






Veteran of Osgiliath gets +1 , +1
, and +1
while your threat is 40 or higher.
"So do we ever watch the shores nigh Osgiliath, which our enemies now partly hold, and issue from it to harry our lands."
–Faramir, The Two Towers






Response: After Weather Hills Watchman enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Signal card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
"Rangers use runes, and they come here sometimes." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring




Ready up to X Dúnedain characters you control. X is the number of enemies engaged with you.
"But when dark things come from the houseless hills, or creep from sunless woods, they fly from us."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring


Planning Action: Until the end of the round, players do not raise their threat from questing unsuccessfully.
Valour Planning Action: Raise each player's threat by 2 to skip the quest phase this round.
"Dooms hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can stand but unconquered for a little while."
–Gandalf, The Two Towers


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.






Fornost Bowman gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you.
To the last battle at Fornost with the Witch–lord of Angmar they sent some bowmen to the aid of the king...
–The Fellowship of the Ring






Action: Discard 2 cards from the top of your deck to give Longbeard Sentry sentinel and +1 until the end of the phase. (Limit once per phase.)
"...many of them have had experience in the dreadful dwarf and goblin wars, of which you have no doubt heard."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit


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


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






Forced: After the active location is explored, place Curious Brandybuck on the bottom of its owner's deck.
Response: After you travel to a location, put Curious Brandybuck into play from your hand, under any player's control.






Warden of Annúminas gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you.
Rangers passed at times beyond the hills, but they were few and did not stay. –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
.






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






Cannot have restricted attachments.
Enters play exhausted.
Response: After Wellinghall Preserver readies, heal 1 damage from an Ent character.


Attach to a Dúnedain or Healer character.
Action: Discard Athelas and exhaust attached character to heal all damage on a character. You may discard a Condition attachment from that character.
"...it is a healing plant that the Men of the West brought to Middle–earth. Athelas they named it..." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring


Attach to a Ranger character. Limit 1 per character.
While attached character is commited to the quest, Weather-stained Cloak gains:
Response: Exhaust Weather-stained Cloak to cancel 1 point of damage just dealt to attached character.
They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks...
–The Return of the King


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

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.

Attached character gets +1
Response: Add Iârion's Pendant to the victory display to cancel the 'when revealed' effects of a card that was just revaled from the encounter deck, or to cancel a shadow effect just triggered.
"That is just what the Rangers are: the last remnant in the North of the great people."
–Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings

Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1
Response: Cancel up to 2 points of damage just dealt to attached hero. (Limit once per game.)

Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1
Action: Move any amount of damage from attached hero to an enemy engaged with you. (Limit once per game.)

Setup: Attach to Amarthiúl. Otherwise, remove Amarthiúl's Courage from the game.
Amarthiúl gets +1 and +1 hit point.
Action: Ready Amarthiúl. (Limit once per game.)





Response: After an enemy engages you, ready Elrond's Champion.
"That is a chapter of ancient history which it might be good to recall: for there was sorrow then too, and gathering dark, but great valour, and great deeds that were not wholly vain."
–Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings





Response: After Rivendell Skirmishers exhausts to defend an attack from a non-unique enemy, discard each shadow card from that enemy.
It was said that Angmar was for a time subdued by the Elvenfolk coming from Lindon and from Rivendell.
–The Lord of the Rings







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







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













While the top card of your discard pile is an attachment, Warden of the Havens gets +2 and gains sentinel.
"...and if he comes, assailing the White Towers and the Havens, hereafter the Elves may have no escape from the lengthening shadows of Middle-earth."
–Galdor, The Fellowship of the Ring


Attach to a character.
Attach character gains the Gondor trait.
But be it known that I have sworn him to my service...
–The Return of the King


Attach to a or a Scout character.
Response: At the beginning of the travel phase, exhaust Mariner’s Compass and attached character to search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location. Switch that location with a location in the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.