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

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.)

While paying for The Muster of Rohan, each Rohan hero you control is considered to have a icon.

Planning Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for up to 4 Rohan allies and put them into play. Shuffle your deck. If any of those allies are still in play at the end of the round, discard them.

Response: At the beginning of the quest phase, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for an enemy and put it into play engaged with you. Then, reveal 1 less encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0). Shuffle the encounter deck.

"We must press our Enemy, and no longer wait upon him for the move."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

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

Attach to a Rohan character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy in the staging area).

Right through the press drove Théoden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down thier chieftan. –The Return of the King

Attach to a Gondor or Rohan hero.

Response: after attached hero commits to a quest, spend 1 resource from attached hero's resource pool to ready attached hero.

...fresh horses were always in readiness to bear his errand–riders to Rohan in the Noth... –The Return of the King

Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.

Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, exhaust Rohan Warhorse to ready attached hero.

Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean–limbed... –The Two Towers

Action: Until the end of the phase, each Rohan character with a Mount attachment gets +3

"Arise, arise, riders of Théoden!" –Théoden, The Return of the King

While you are engaged with at least 1 enemy, Amarthiúl gains the resource icon.

While you are engaged with at least 2 enemies, add 1 additional resource to Amarthiúl's resource pool when you collect resources during the resource phase.

"The heirs of Elendil do not forget all things past..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King

While you are engaged with any enemy, Halbarad does not exhaust to commit to a quest.

You may optionally engage 1 additional enemy during the encounter phase.

"Little do they know of our long labour for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not." –The Return of the King

Each enemy engaged with you gets -1 .

Response: After Aragorn participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, choose an enemy not engaged with you and engage that enemy.

"I serve no man," said Aragorn; "but the servants of Sauron I pursue into whatever land they may go." –The Two Towers

Sentinel.

Response: After another hero is declared as a defender, exhaust Dori to add his to the defending hero's for this attack.

Dori was really a decent fellow in spite of his grumbling.
–The Hobbit

Action: Discard a card from your hand to add 1 resource to a Noldor's resource pool, or to Aragorn's resource pool. (Limit once per round.)

...the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one who has known many things that the years bring.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After an enemy is revealed from the top of the encounter deck, exhaust Merry to reduce your threat by that enemy's .

"We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on."
–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

If the active location shares a Trait with a location in the victory display, Rossiel gets +2 .

If the attacking enemy shares a Trait with an enemy in the victory display, Rossiel gets +2 .

"Did you not say that you wished to see Elf-magic?"
–Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After a Rohan ally is discarded from play by a card effect, ready Éothain.

"We must hasten south, lord. Let us leave these wild folk to their fancies. Or let us bind them and take them to our king."
–The Two Towers

Sentinel.

Guardian of Arnor gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you.

"Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Ingold gets +1 for each hero you control with at least 1 resource in its resource pool.

"We wish for no strangers in the land at this time, unless they be mighty men of arms in whose faith and help we can trust." —The Return of the King

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

Attach to a Dúnedain hero.

Planning Action: Exhaust Heir of Valandil to reduce the cost of the next Dúnedain ally you play this phase by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.

"But my home, such as I have, is in the North. For here the heirs of Valandil have ever dwelt in long line unbroken from father unto son for many generations." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a location. Limit 1 per location.

Response: After attached location is explored, the first player adds 1 resource to each of his heroes’ resource pools.

"Rangers have been here lately. It is they who left the firewood behind."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Dúnedain or Gondor hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 .

Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy with 5 or more printed hit points, exhaust Sword of Númenor to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.

...the flowing characters of Númenor glinted like fire upon the blade.
–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

Action: Search your deck for a side quest and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

"I called for the help of the Dúnedain, and their watch was doubled..."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After an ally leaves play, add it to its owner's hand instead of placing it in the discard pile.

Valour Action: Until the end of the phase, add each ally that leaves play to its owner's hand instead of placing it in the discard pile.

He let blow the horns to rally all men to his banner that could come thither...
–The Return of the King

Play only if you control a Dúnedain hero.

Planning Action: Shuffle 1 of your set aside Ranger of the North allies with the encounter keyword into the encounter deck. Then, remove Ranger Summons from the game.

"We rode as swiftly as we might when your summons came." –Halbarad, The Return of the King

Encounter. Surge. Ranged. Sentinel.

When Revealed: The first player chooses a player to take control of Ranger of the North. Then, either deal 2 damage to an enemy or place 2 progress tokens on a location.

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.

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.

Sentinel.

Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.

While Derndingle Warrior is defending, it gains:

Action: Deal 1 damage to Derndingle Warrior to give it +3 for this attack. (Limit once per attack.)

Forced: After Dúnedain Hunter enters play, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a non-unique enemy and put it into play engaged with you. If no enemy enters play by this effect, discard Dúnedain Hunter. Shuffle the encounter deck.

Ranged.

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

Response: Exhaust Honour Guard to cancel 1 point of damage just dealt to a character.

Valour Response: Exhaust and discard Honour Guard to cancel up to 5 damage just dealt to a character.

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

Attach to a Noldor or Silvan hero. Restricted.

Action: Discard a card from your hand to give attached hero +1 until the end of the phase. Limit 3 times per phase.

Their spears and swords shone in the gloom with a gleam of chill flame, so deadly was the wrath of the hands that held them.
–The Hobbit

Attach to a hero with Sentinel. Limit 1 per hero.

Response: Exhaust Raven-winged Helm to prevent 1 point of damage just dealt to attached character.

He had a small hauberk, its rings of forged of steel, maybe, yet black as jet; and a high-crowned helm with small raven-wings on either side, set with a silver star in the centre of the circlet.
–The Return of the King

Attach to an enemy. Limit 1 per enemy.

Attached enemy gets -1 .

Response: When attached enemy is destroyed, reduce each player's threat by the attached enemy's printed .

"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

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.