Restricted. Immune to non-Master card effects.

Setup: Attach to a hero you control and search your deck for a Master card. Add it to your hand and shuffle your deck. Your threat elimination level is reduced by 5.

If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.

Response: After Merry enters play, each unique ally you control gets +1 until the end of the round.

"Shire–folk have been so comfortable so long they don't know what to do. They just want a match, though, and they'll go up in fire."
–The Return of the King

Pippin gets +2 while attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.

Response: After you engage an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, ready Pippin.

"Down on your knees in the road and ask pardon, or I will set this troll's bane in you!"
–The Return of the King

Response: After Faramir enters play, choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Engage that enemy and deal 2 damage to it (4 damage instead if it has an attachment on it).

"There will be hard handstrokes nigh at hand ere the day is full."
–The Two Towers

Ranged.

Response: After Derufin participates in an attack that destroys an enemy engaged with a player, discard Derufin to reduce the engaged player's threat by X, where X is the destroyed enemy's printed .

Planning Action: Search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for an enemy. Add that enemy to the staging area to reduce the cost of the first ally you play this phase by X, where X is that enemy's Shuffle the encounter deck.

Response: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to cancel the effects of an encounter card just revealed from the encounter deck and discard that card. Then, reveal an encounter card.

“If I, wearing it, were to command you, you would obey, even if it were to leap from a precipice or to cast yourself into the fire.”
–Frodo, The Two Towers

Combat Action: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to choose a non-Nazgul enemy engaged with you. Until the end of the phase, that enemy cannot attack you.

“He vanished. I have never seen such a thing happen before...”
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to ready the hero with The One Ring Attached. That hero gets +1 , +1 , and +1 until the end of the phase.

“And behold! in our need chance brings to light the Ring of Power.”
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring

Cannot have attachments.

Setup: Shuffle 2 copies of Stinker into the encounter deck.

Response: After you travel to a location, raise your threat by 1 to draw 1 card.

Response: After Thorin Stonehelm is declared as an attacker, discard the top card of your deck to deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.

Thorin III Stonehelm, Dain's son, became King under the mountain.
–The Return of the King

Response: After Soldier of Gondor enters play, seach the top 5 cards of your deck for a Gondor ally and add it to your hand (any number of Gondor allies instead if your threat is 40 or higher). Shuffle your deck.

While your threat is less than 40, reduce the cost to play Pillars of the Kings by 4.

Action: Set your threat to 40. If this effect raised your threat, draw a card (draw 4 cards instead if it raised your threat by 10 or more).

"Behold the Argonath, the Pillars of the Kings!"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After Cautious Halfling enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is not an enemy, draw a card.

"I thought I had been both careful and clever."
–Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to the hero with The One Ring.

Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets +1

Response: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack that attached hero is defending.

If Éomer is in play, Lothíriel gains the Rohan trait.

Response: After Lothíriel commits to a quest, choose an ally in your hand. If that ally shares a Trait with her, put that ally into play exhausted and committed to the quest. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, shuffle it into your deck.

Attach to the hero with The One Ring.

Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets +1

Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to double attached hero's printed for this attack.

When a player card effect would reduce your threat by any amount, reduce that amount to 1.

While playing an event with the printed doomed keyword, Saruman gains the printed , , and icons.

Response: After you play a card with the doomed keyword, ready Saruman.

Attach to the hero with The One Ring.

Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets +1

Response: After attached hero commits to the quest, exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to give each other unique character you control +1 until the end of the phase.

Doomed 1.

Action: Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. Put them back in the same order.

...Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.
–The Two Towers

Response: After Nori participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, put the top card of your discard pile on the bottom of your deck.

"You've left the burglar behind again!"
–Nori, The Hobbit

Attach to Saruman. Restricted.

Action: Exhaust Saruman’s Staff to (choose 1): Reduce the X value of the next Doomed X. event you play this phase by 2, or search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Doomed event and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.)

His hand clutched his heavy black staff like a claw.
–The Two Towers

Action: Pay 1 resource from Gildor Inglorion's resource pool to choose a player to draw 1 card (Limit once per round.)

"Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod. We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Noble hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 (+2 if your threat is 40 or higher).

...his sword of steel was valiant...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to the hero with The One Ring.

Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets + 1 hit point.

Response: At the beginning of the round, exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to heal all damage from attached hero.

Limit 1 per deck.

Action: Choose a hero you control and discard all tokens from it. Select a different non-, non- hero from your collection with a threat cost less than or equal to the chosen hero. Swap those heroes, moving all eligible attachments to the hero from your collection.

You cannot include more than 1 copy of a card, by title, in your deck.

Response: After you play an event from your hand, choose one: reduce your threat by 1, draw 1 card, or add 1 resource to your hero's resource pool. You can only choose each option once per round.

"I must go to this lords' council and learn what I can."
–Gandalf, The Return of the King

Action: Reduce the cost of the next card you play by 1 for each Pipe you control.

Merry smiled. "Well then," he said, "if Strider will provide what is needed, I will smoke and think."
–The Return of the King

Attach to a Noble hero. Limit 1 per hero.

Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 (+2 instead if your threat is 40 or higher).

...his shinning shield was scored with runs...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Ready up to X Woodman characters you control, where X is the number of locations with player card attachments.

The Woodman said that there was some new terror abroad...
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a non-, non- hero you control.

Response: After you attach Thorongil to a hero, search your collection for a different non-, non- version of that hero and attach it to Thorongil. While Thorongil is in play, attached hero gains the game text and resource icon of the attached hero card. If Thorongil leaves play, remove the hero card attached to it from the game.

Response: After Thorin Stonehelm is declared as an attacker, discard the top card of your deck to deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.

Thorin III Stonehelm, Dain's son, became King under the mountain.
–The Return of the King

Response: After Soldier of Gondor enters play, seach the top 5 cards of your deck for a Gondor ally and add it to your hand (any number of Gondor allies instead if your threat is 40 or higher). Shuffle your deck.

If Éomer is in play, Lothíriel gains the Rohan trait.

Response: After Lothíriel commits to a quest, choose an ally in your hand. If that ally shares a Trait with her, put that ally into play exhausted and committed to the quest. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, shuffle it into your deck.

When a player card effect would reduce your threat by any amount, reduce that amount to 1.

While playing an event with the printed doomed keyword, Saruman gains the printed , , and icons.

Response: After you play a card with the doomed keyword, ready Saruman.

Attach to the hero with The One Ring.

Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets +1

Response: After attached hero commits to the quest, exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to give each other unique character you control +1 until the end of the phase.

Action: Pay 1 resource from Gildor Inglorion's resource pool to choose a player to draw 1 card (Limit once per round.)

"Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod. We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a non-, non- hero you control.

Response: After you attach Thorongil to a hero, search your collection for a different non-, non- version of that hero and attach it to Thorongil. While Thorongil is in play, attached hero gains the game text and resource icon of the attached hero card. If Thorongil leaves play, remove the hero card attached to it from the game.

If you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, add 1 additional resource to Thorin Oakenshield's pool when you collect resources during the resource phase.

"I am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror, King under the Mountain!" –Thorin, The Hobbit

Response: After you play a Dwarf character from your hand, reduce your threat by 1.

"Nori, at your service." –Nori, The Hobbit

If you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, draw 1 additional card at the beginning of the resource phase.

"He could write well and speedily, and often used the Elvish characters." –Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring

Gandalf does not exhaust to commit to a quest.

Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, discard Gandalf from play. You may raise your threat by 2 to cancel this effect.

“I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me!” –The Hobbit

Action: Exhaust 2 allies you control to shuffle your deck and discard the top 5 cards. Put up to 2 allies discarded by this effect into play under your control. The total cost of the allies put into play cannot exceed the total cost of the allies exhausted to pay for this effect.

“I was coming over the mountains with a friend or two...” –Gandalf, The Hobbit

Play during the quest phase, before the staging step.

Action: Deal 2 damage to the first enemy revealed from the encounter deck this phase.

Thorin came last - and he was not caught unawares. He came expecting mischief, and didn't need to see his friends' legs sticking out of sacks to tell him that things were not all well. –The Hobbit

Attach to Bilbo Baggins. Restricted.

Bilbo Baggins gets +1 +1 and +1 .

Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .

"I shall call you Sting." –Bilbo, The Hobbit

Sentinel.

While you control at least 5 Dwarf characters, lower the cost to play Dwalin by 2.

Action: Exhaust a hero you control to shuffle the encounter deck and look at its top card. Place progress tokens on the current quest equal to the revealed card's . Then, put that card back on top of the encounter deck.

As they worked the ravens brought them constant tidings. –The Hobbit

Action: If you control at least 1 Dwarf hero, put a Dwarf ally from your discard pile into play under your control. Put that ally on the bottom of your deck at the end of the phase.

Out leapt the King under the Mountain, and his companions followed him. –The Hobbit

Attach to a hero.

Response: After a location is added to the staging area, attach Thrór’s Key to that location. While attached to a location, Thrór’s Key gains:

Treat attached location's printed text box as blank, except for traits.

"The key that went with the map! Try it now while there is still time!" –Bilbo, The Hobbit