
When Revealed: Each enemy and each location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If there are no cards in the staging area, Driven by Shadow gains Surge.

Shadow: Choose and discard 1 attachment from the defending character. (If this attack is undefended, discard all attachments you control.)

When Revealed: Each enemy and each location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If there are no cards in the staging area, Driven by Shadow gains surge.

Shadow: Choose and discard 1 attachment from the defending character. (If this attack is undefended, discard all attachments you control.)


When Revealed: Each enemy and each location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If there are no cards in the staging area, Driven by Shadow gains Surge.

Shadow: Choose and discard 1 attachment from the defending character. (If this attack is undefended, discard all attachments you control.)



When Revealed: If the players are not on stage 1, shuffle the current quest card into the quest deck, then reveal a new quest card. Otherwise, New Devilry gains Surge.

Shadow: If this attack is undefended, raise your threat by The Nameless Fear's


When Revealed: Remove all progress tokens from the current quest card and active location. If Cave In removed no progress tokens, it gains Surge.


When Revealed: Each player may choose and discard 1 card at random from his hand. If all players did not discard 1 card, Fouled Well gains Surge.








When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by the number of questing characters. (If the current quest has the battle or siege keyword, Watcher in the Wood gains Surge.)

Shadow: Each player raises his threat by the number of enemies engaged with him.







When Revealed: Discard 1 villager token from the active location. If no villager token is discarded by this effect, Orc Ravager gains Surge.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2
instead if undefended.)

When Revealed: Discard 1 villager token from the active location for each player in the game. If no villager tokens were removed by this effect, Trapped Inside gains Surge.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard 1 villager token from Rescued Villagers.

When Revealed: Each player must take a villager token from Rescued Villagers and place it on a location in the staging area, if able. If no villager tokens were placed on a location by this effect, Panicked! gains Surge.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each damage token on Dead Villagers.

When Revealed: Add X to the archery total this round. X is the number of locations the players control. If the players control less than 4 locations, Pinned Down gains Surge.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, that character's controller must return a location he controls with the highest to the staging area.


When Revealed: Raise each players' threat by the number of progress tokens on To the Tower. If there are no progress tokens on To the Tower, The Dead City Looms gains Surge.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each progress token on To the Tower.

When Revealed: The first player draws this card into his hand. Ill Tidings cannot leave that player's hand. Then, if the first player has 5 or more cards in his hand, Ill Tidings gains Surge.
"Troubles follow you like crows, and ever the oftener the wrose." –Grรญma, The Two Towers






While any player has 3 or more cards in hand, Dunland Prowler gains Surge.
While any player has 5 or more cards in hand, Dunland Prowler gets +1 .
...the wild men of the Dunland fells. –The Two Towers

When Revealed: Each player draws a card. Each player discard each ally from his hand. If no allies were discarded this way, Frenzied Attack gains Surge.

Shadow: Until the end of the round, attacking enemy cannot take damage.

When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each non-unique character in play. If the players control 3 Key objectives, Curse of the Wild Men gains Surge.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each Key objective the players control.




When Revealed: Each player must exhaust X characters he controls. X is the number of cards underneath The Orcs%27 Search. If no characters are exhausted this way, Spies from Mordor gains Surge.

Shadow: Defending player discards a non-objective attachment he controls.

When Revealed: Remove 1 time counter from each location in play. Place X time counters on each location in play with no time counters on it. X is the "Time X" value on that location. If there are not locations in the staging area, Raising the Cry gains Surge.
...a cry went up into the shuddering air...
–The Return of the King





X is the number of quest cards in play.
While there is only 1 quest card in play, Shrouded Hills gains Surge.
As the sun rose and passed noon they glimpsed far off in the east the grey–green lines of the Downs... –The Fellowship of the Ring






While the current quest has 1 or more progress on it, Wight of Rhudaur gains
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: keywordkeyword
@surge}.While the current quest has 0 progress on it, Wight of Rhudaur gains doomed 2.
...evil spirits out of Angmar and Rhudaur entered into the deserted mounds and dwelt there.
–The Return of the King




When Revealed: Each player chooses a card type and discards each card in his hand that is not of the chosen type. If no cards are discarded by this effect, Into the Abyss gains surge.

Shadow: If the active location is Underwater search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Creature enemy, and add it to the staging area.

When Revealed: Choose a Ship enemy that is not currently guarding an objective. Attach that enemy to an unguarded objective in the staging area, guarding it (return that enemy to the staging area if it is engaged). If no Ship enemy is returned to the staging area by this effect, The Raiders' Assault gains surge.










When Revealed: Each player discards each resource from each of his hero's resource pools and raises his threat by 1 for each resource he discarded this way. If no resources were discarded this way, Swarm of Bats gains surge.

Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2
instead if the defending character has an attachment).




While attached to an enemy, counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +2 Forced: At the end of the round, return attached enemy to the staging area."
When Revealed: Attach to the lowest engagement cost Easterling enemy without an Easterling Horse and return it to the staging area. Otherwise, Easterling Horse gains surge.









When Revealed: The first player chooses a Troll enemy in the staging area and engages that enemy. If there are no Troll enemies in the staging area, this card gains Surge.

Shadow: Deal 4 damage to each character with a Sack card attached. (The first player may spend 2 resources to cancel this effect.)










When Revealed: Attach to the active location. (Countss as a Condition attachment with the text, "Limit 1 per location. No more than 3 progress can be placed on attached location each round.") If Snowdrifts is not attached to the active location, it gains surge.
Soon even Boromir found it hard to keep going. –The Fellowship of the Ring









Burn 2.
When Revealed: Discard X cards from each player's deck. X is the ammount of damage on Lake-town. (If no cards are discarded by this effect, Great Bridge gains surge.)





When Revealed: Discard all resources in play. Each player raises his threat by 1 for each resource he discarded this way. If no resources were discarded this way, Chill Fog gains surge.

Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each damage dealt by this attack.

When Revealed: The opposing team attached Smoking Blood to a Troll enemu. If they cannot, Smoking Blood gains surge.(Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per enemy.Forced: When attached enemy is dealt enough damage to destroy it, cancel the damage and discard Smoking Blood instead.")

While The Wargs' Glade is in the staging area, the first Warg enemy revealed each round gains surge.
Forced: When The Wargs' Glade is explored, the opposing team searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a non-unique Warg enemy and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
When Revealed: The opposing team attaches Driven by Shadow to an enemy and returns it to the staging area. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per enemy. Attached enemy gets +2 +2
+2
and is immune to player card effects.") If there is no enemy in play, Driven by Shadow gains surge.
When Revealed: The opposing team attaches Denizen of the Deep to a non-unique enemy and returns it to the staging area. If there are no non-unique enemies in play, Denizens of the Deep gains surge. (Counts as Condition attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1
+1
and is immune to player card effects.)
When Revealed: Return the active location to the staging area. Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the of that location. If no location is returned to the staging area this way, Cave In gains surge.

Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, return the active location to the staging area.
When Revealed: The opposing team attaches Vast and Intricate to a non-unique location in the staging area. If there are no non-unique locations in the staging area, Vast and Intricate gains surge. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached location gets +2 and is immune to player card effects.")



When Revealed: Each enemy and each location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If there are no cards in the staging area, Driven by Shadow gains surge.

Shadow: Choose and discard 1 attachment from the defending character. (If this attack is undefended, discard all attachments you control.)





When Revealed: Remove all damage from all enemies. Then, each player raises his threat by the amount of just removed from his engaged enemies. If no damage is removed by this effect, Smoking Blood gains surge.

Shadow: Move all damage on this enemy to the defending character. (If undefended, move the damage to the hero damaged by this attack.)



When Revealed: Attach to the active location and remove all progress from that location. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Limit 1 per location. Attached location contributes its during the quest phase as if it were in the staging area.")
If The Trail Goes Cold does not attach to a location as a result of this effect, it gains surge.

When Revealed: The first player chooses a hero in any player's discard pile and removes that hero from the game. Then, heal all damage from each Troll enemy in play. If no damage is removed from any Troll enemy as a result of this effect, Time for Supper gains surge.
In the end they decided to mince them fine and boil them. So they got a black pot, and they took out their knives. –The Hobbit

When Revealed: Return the top X Undead enemies in the encounter discard pile to the staging area, where X is the number of players. If no enemies were returned to the staging area as a result of this effect, Devilry of the Dark Land gains surge.
Escape: 10
'But that is an age and more ago,' said Sam. 'The Dead can't be really there!' –The Two Towers


When Revealed: Discard all attachments controlled by the player guarding Gollum. Then remove all cards in that player's discard pile from the game. If no attachments are discarded as a result of this effect, Befouled Equipment gains surge.

Shadow: Discard all attachments controlled by the player guarding Gollum.






When Revealed: Each player must trigger the prowl keyword on each enemy engaged with him, as if that enemy had been revealed from the encounter deck. Then, return each engaged Wose enemy to the staging area. If no enemies are returned to the staging area by this effect, Drums of the Wild Men gains surge.













Boarding 1. Cannot have attachments.
While you are off-course (Cloudy, Rainy, or Stormy), Tide-runner is considered to be in the Stormcaller's area and the staging area, regardless of its current location.
When Revealed: Either choose a player to engage Tide-runner, or add Tide-runner to the Stormcaller's area and it gains surge.


