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While Corsair Loyalist has 4 or more resources on it, its attacks are considered to be undefended.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Raider either add 2 resources to attacking enemy, or attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Deal Ispiring Fury to the enemy with the highest as a shadow card.
Shadow: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and deal attacking enemy 3 additional shadow cards. During this attack, shadow effects cannot be canceled.
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Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, if Umbar Patrol is in the staging area, add 2 resources to the Raider enemy with the most resources on it.
Shadow: Add 1 resource to each Raider enemy engaged with you.
When Revealed: Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until a Raider enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area and place 3 resources on it.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Raider after this attack ends, add 1 resource to attacking enemy for each damage dealt by this attack.
When Revealed: Each player deals 2 damage to an ally he or she controls. For each ally destroyed by this effect, place resources on a Raider enemy in play equal to that ally's resource cost.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control. If attacking enemy is a Raider add resources to it equal to that attachment's printed cost.
Forced: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Wicked Hilltops, each player must discard an ally he controls without an attached Sack card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 (+3 instead if attacking enemy is a Troll.)
When Revealed: Each engaged Troll enemy makes an immediate attack. If the players are at stage 1, immediately advance to stage 2A.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll return it to the staging area after this attack.
While Narrow Ledge is the active location, each player cannot commit more than 3 characters to the quest.
Shadow: Shuffle all copies of Galloping Boulders from the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Each player must assign damage among characters he controls equal to the total number of Goblin enemies engaged with him and in the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage this round.
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Forced: If Wicked Wolf is dealt a shadow card with a riddle, the defending player must exhaust a character he controls.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
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Bilbo's Magic Ring does not ready during the refresh phase.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if Bilbo's Magic Ring is exhausted.)
Forced: Each time a
resource is spent or discarded, raise each player's threat by 1.
Shadow: Deal attacking enemy 2 additional shadow cards for this attack.
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Forced: After a character is declared as a defender against Venomous Spider give it 1 poison.
Shadow: Give 2 poison to the defending character.
X is the number of poison in play.
Forced: When this location is explored, make 1 hero unconscious.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each poisoned character you control.
While Patch of Midnight is the active location, treat the text box of each poisoned character as if it were blank (except for Traits).
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each poisoned character you control.
When Revealed: Each player must either give 1 poison to each hero he controls, or reveal an encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against the defending player after this one.
Foced: At the end of the planning phase, each player who played at least 1 ally this phase must raise his threat by 1.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 If this attack destroys a character, raise each player's threat by 3.
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Forced: After Great Warg attacks and destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 attachment he controls.
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Forced: When Frenzied Warg-Rider attacks, remove 1 progress from each quest stage.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character (2 damage instead if the current quest has no progress on it).
Forced: At the end of the round, raise each player's threat by 1 for each quest stage with no progress on it.
Shadow: Until the end of the phase, attacking enemy gets +1 for each quest stage with no progress on it.
When Revealed: Bolg makes an attack against each player in turn order. If at least 1 character is destroyed by one of these attacks, the players cannot place progress on the current quest phase this round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 .
While Green-Hill Country is in the staging area, add 1 to each Hide X value.
Travel: The first player makes a Hide 1 test.
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player then makes an immediate attack.
While Stock Woods is in the staging area, players cannot commit more than 2 characters to a Hide test.
Travel: The first player makes a Hide 1 test.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 (+3 instead if you have failed a Hide test this round).
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player makes a Hide 2 test. Each player who fails this Hide test raises his threat by 5.
Shadow: If the defending player has failed a Hide test this round, this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: The first player must either exhaust the One Ring and reveal an encounter card, or make a Hide 3 test.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 If this attack destroys a character, raise your threat by 3.
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When Revealed: Either shuffle an out of play Ringwraith into the encounter deck, or Southern Spy makes an immediate attack against you.
Shadow: Defending character gets -1 (-3 instead if The One Ring is exhausted).
While the players are at stage 1, progress cannot be placed here.
While The One Ring is exhausted, Weather Hills gets +2
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by 5. This effect cannot be canceled by the Ring-bearer's effect, or if The One Ring is exhausted.
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player then makes an immediate attack.
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
Forced: After Fell Rider attacks and destroys a character, reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if The One Ring is exhausted).
X is 1 plus the number of Nazgûl enemies in play.
While Great East Road is in the staging area, each Nazgûl enemy gets -5 engagement cost.
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player then makes an immediate attack.
Forced: When Ettendales is explored, shuffle the top card of the burden deck into the encounter deck.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 If this attack destroys a character, reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1.
When Revealed: Reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1 and remove all progress from the current quest.
Shadow: Either reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1, or this attack is considered undefended.
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When Revealed: Misty Mountain Warg makes an immediate attack against you. If it destroys a character, place 2 damage on each active location.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, place 1 damage on an active location.
While Darkened Mine is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.
Shadow: Discard 1 random card from your hand.
When Revealed: Attach Fiery Whip to The Balrog (even if out of play) as a Weapon attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 and gains Archery 4."
Shadow: If attacking enemy is The Balrog attach Fiery Whip to it.
When Revealed: Attach Fiery Whip to The Balrog (even if out of play) as a Weapon attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 and gains Regenerate 4. (At the end of the refresh phase, remove 4 damage from the attached enemy.)"
Shadow: If attacking enemy is The Balrog attach Flaming Sword to it.
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a questing character he controls. Until the end of the phase, each damaged character gets -2
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
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Forced: After Isengard Archer enters the staging area, each player at this stage deals 2 damage to a character he controls.
Shadow: Deal 2 damage to an ally you control.
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Forced: After Isengard Tracker destroys a character, move it to the first player's staging area.
Shadow: After this attack, move attacking enemy to the first player's staging area.
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, add 6 to the archery total at this stage. You may discard X cards from hand to reduce the archery total at this stage by X until the end of the round.
Shadow: Discard 1 random card from your hand.
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, players cannot trigger Action or Response effects.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot ready.
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While Lugdush is engaged with a player, each other enemy cannot take damage.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is unique, it cannot take damage until the end of the round.
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Forced: After Orc of the White Hand attacks and destroy a character, increase the pursuit value by 1.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, increase the pursuit value by 1.
Action: Increase the pursuit value by 1 to place 1 progress on Wold of Rohan.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
...the land sloped down into a wide shallow depression, where the ground was soft and wet. –The Two Towers
Forced: After an encounter card effect is canceled, increase the pursuit value by 1.
Shadow: Either increase the pursuit value by 1, or attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the round.
When Revealed: Either increase the pursuit value by 4, or Uglúk makes an immediate attack against you.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X where X is the tens digit of the pursuit value.
