Response: After an enemy is added to the staging area, deal 1 damage to that enemy. Players ignore that enemy while making engagement checks this round.

Secrecy 3.

Action: Look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. You may select 1 card and move it to the bottom of the encounter deck. Return any unselected cards to the top of the encounter deck, in any order.

Action: Exhaust Ithilien Tracker to lower the of the next enemy added to the staging area to 0 until the end of the phase.

Green gauntlets covered their hands, and their faces were hooded and masked with green, except for their eyes, which were very keen and bright. –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 .

Attach to a hero.

Reduce the cost to play Book of Eldacar by 1 for each hero you control with a printed resource icon.

Action: Discard Book of Eldacar to play any event card in your discard pile as if it were in your hand. Then, place that event on the bottom of your deck.

Play Poisoned Stakes into the staging area unattached.

If unattached, attach Poisoned Stakes to the next eligble enemy that enters the staging area.

At the end of each round, deal 2 damage to attached enemy.

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

Secrecy 2.

Response: After Ithilien Lookout enters play, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If it is an enemy, you may discard it.

All had swords at their sides... –The Two Towers

Action: Choose a hero. That hero gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, if your threat is 20 or less and this is the first time you played a copy of Courage Awakened this round, return this card to your hand instead of discarding it.

But the courage that had been awakened in him was now too strong: he could not leave his friends so easily. –The Fellowship of the Ring

You may give Mirkwood Pioneer doomed 1 when you play it from your hand. If you do it gains:

Response: After you play Mirkwood Pioneer, choose a card in the staging area. Until the end of the round, the chosen card does not contribute its .

Sentinel.

While Erkenbrand is defending, he gains:

Response: Deal 1 damage to Erkenbrand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered.

Down from the hills leaped Erkenbrand, lord of Westfold. –The Two Towers

Response: After you engage an enemy, exhaust a Scout or Ranger character to place X progress tokens on a location. X is the engaged enemy's printed .

"At last!" said Aragorn. "Here are the tracks that we seek!" –The Two Towers

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.

Action: Reduce the cost of the next event that has a Valour trigger you play this phase by 2.

Valour Action: Search the top 10 cards of your deck for an event that has a Valour trigger and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Hope he rekindled, and in hope ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
–The Return of the King

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

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

As an additional cost to play Skyward Volley, exhaust a ranged character you control.

Combat Action: Deal 2 damage to an enemy engaged with a player. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Skyward Volley currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).

Attach to a character.

Quest Action: Discard Grappling Hook and exhaust attached character to commit attached character to the quest, using its instead of its (or instead of its if the current quest has the siege keyword).

Response: After Mirkwood Explorer quests successfully, place 1 progress on it.

Action: Exhaust Mirkwood Explorer to move all progress from it to a location in play.

Ranged.

Response: After Marksman of Lórien enters play, choose an enemy. That enemy gets -2 until the end of the round.

"Keen are the eyes of the Elves."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers

Attach to a Silvan hero. Restricted.

Attached hero gets +1 and +1 .

Legolas had a bow and a quiver, and at his belt a long white knife.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Play only if the main quest has no keywords.

Action: Remove X progress from the main quest to place X progress on a location in the staging area.

"Well," said Boromir, "when heads are at a loss bodies must serve..."
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: Discard Dúnedain Lookout to cancel the 'When Revealed' effects of an enemy just revealed from the encounter deck.

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

Response: After Riddermark Knight is declared as an attacker, it gets +2 for this attack. At the end of this attack, discard Riddermark Knight.

Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.

Leaflock gets +1 for each damaged Ent you control (limit +4

Cannot have restricted attachments.

Action: Deal 2 damage to Quickbeam to ready him. (Limit once per phase.)

"...he can move like a wind when he is roused."
–Pippin, The Two Towers

North Realm Lookout gets +1 and does not exhaust to quest while it has an Item attachment.

There were people on the look–out on the banks.
–The Hobbit

Action: Exhaust Long Lake Trader to move an Item attachment from a character you control to another eligible character.

"Nowhere are there any men so friendly to us as the Men of Dale."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring

Attach to a Dale or Warrior character. Limit 1 per character.

Attached character gets +1 (and +1 hit point if attached character has the sentinel keyword).

Each one of his folk was clad in hauberk of steel mail that hung to his knees...
–The Hobbit

Combat Action: Choose a Beorning ally with printed cost 3 or more in your hand or discard pile. Discard Beorning Skin-changer to put that ally into play.

"...sometimes he is a huge black bear, sometimes he is a great strong black–haired man with huge arms and a great beard."
–Gandalf, The Hobbit

Response: After Long Lake Fisherman enters play, name a number. Then, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a card whose printed cost is equal to that number and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Attach to a or Scout character. Limit 1 per character.

Encounter Action: Exhaust attached character and discard Grey Cloak to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. That enemy does not make engagement checks against you this phase.

Guarded (enemy or location).

Attach to a hero.

Each unique character you control gains +1 .

Action: Reduce your threat by 2 to attach The Arkenstone to a hero controlled by another player and raise that player's threat by 2. (Limit once per round.)

Attach to a Silvan hero.

Action: Exhaust The Elvenking and return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to ready attached hero.

In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stong sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood.
–The Hobbit

Ranged.

Reduce the cost to play Mirkwood Hunter by 1 for each attachment on the active location.

...they were brave and well–armed and even the Wargs dared not attack them if there were many together...
–The Hobbit

Action: Count the number of cards in your hand and shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw an equal number of cards. Draw 1 additional card if you control a unique Hobbit character.

Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Response: After you play Erebor Toymaker from your hand, reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by 2.

There were toys the like of which they had never seen before, all beautiful and some obviously magical.
–The Fellowship of the Ring

Action: Search your deck for a Guarded attachment and put it into play. Shuffle your deck.

His crown shall be upholden,
His harp shall be restrung,
His halls shall echo golden
To songs of yore re–sung
–The Hobbit

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

Attach to a Rohan hero or Merry. Restricted.

Response: When a character leaves play, if that character shares at least one trait with the attached hero, exhaust Horn of the Mark to draw 1 card.

Then Éowyn gave to Merry an ancient horn, small but cunningly wrought all of fair silver with a baldric of green.
–The Return of the King

Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted.

While attached hero is committed to the quest, each Hobbit character gets +1

Response: After you quest successfully, exhaust Red Book of Westmarch to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.

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

Attach to a character.

Action: Exhaust Spare Hood and Cloak and exhaust attached character to ready another character. Then, attach Spare Hood and Cloak to that character.

"You will have to manage without pocket–handkerchiefs, and a good many other things, before you get to the journey's end. As for a hat, I have got a spare hood and cloak in my luggage." –Dwalin, 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

Action: Choose a character in play (other than Bilbo Baggins). Add Bilbo Baggins' total , , and to that character's and respectively until the end of the phase.

"I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a hero with Ranged.

Response: After attached hero declares an attack, add Black Arrow to the victory display to give attached hero +5 for this attack.

"I have saved you to the last..." –Bard, 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

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust The Arkenstone and raise your threat by X to lower by X the cost of the next ally you play this phase that matches the attached hero's sphere.

"...the Heart of the Mountain; and it is also the heart of Thorin. He values it above a rive of gold." –Bilbo, The Hobbit

Lower the cost play Take No Notice by 1 for each Hobbit or Ranger hero you control.

Action: Add 5 to each enemy's engagement cost until the end of the round.

...they made no noise that even hobbits would hear. Event the wild things in the fields and woods hardly noticed their passing. –The Fellowship of the Ring