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X
4
X is the number of quest cards in play.
The first player gains control of Iârion.
Response: After a side quest is revealed from the encounter deck, ready Iârion.
If Iârion leaves play, the players lose the game.
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4
9
Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After a treachery card with the Sorcery trait is revealed from the encounter deck, Thaurdir makes an immediate attack against the first player.
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2
6
Forced: After Thaurdir’s Damned engages you, discard the top 2 cards of your deck and assign X damage among characters you control. X is the combined printed cost of the discarded cards.
"I saw them; grim faces and evil..." –Frodo, The Two Towers
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1
5
Forced: When Baleful Shade attacks, the defending player discards the top card of his deck. If the discarded card is an ally, Baleful Shade gets +2 for this attack.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
Forced: After the last time counter is removed from Broken Battlements, each player discards the top 5 cards of his deck and places 1 time counter here.
Travel: Each player discard the top card of his deck.
"Men call it Deadman's Dike, and they fear to tread there." –Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
While Norbury Tombs is the active location, it gains:
Respnse: When Norbury Tombs is explored, each player shuffles the top 5 cards of his discard pile into his deck.
Travel: Return the topmost enemy in the encounter discard pile to the staging area.
Fornost Square gets +1 for each resource token on it.
Forced: After the first player discards any number of cards from the top of his deck, place 1 resource token here.
"...the heirs of Valandil removed and dwelt at Fornost on the high North Downs, and that now too is desolate." –Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
While Deadmen’s Gate is the active location, it gains:
Forced: After a player triggers an 'Action' or 'Response' effect, he must discard the top card of his deck.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
When Revealed: Each player must either discard 1 card from the top of his deck for each questing character he controls, or remove each character he controls from the quest.
The mist was flowing past him now in shreds and tatters. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, each player discards the top X cards of his deck, where X is the number of Undead enemies engaged with him.
The more you struggle against the undead, the deeper you are drawn into the wraith–world. You must escape before madness or despair takes you...
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1
2
When Revealed: Put each copy of Cursed Dead in the discard pile into play in the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if there is a copy of the defending character in its owner's discard pile).
Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, discard the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. Return the topmost Undead enemy in the encounter discard pile to the staging area.
The undead keep rising from the grave. For each one that you strike down, another takes its place. You must do something to stem the tide...
When Revealed: Each player discards the top 3 cards of his deck. Until the end of the round, add 2 to the total in the staging area for each different card type discarded this way.
Shadow: Defending player discards the top 3 cards of his deck. Attacking enemy gets +1 for each different card type discarded this way.
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
When a player plays a card, increase its cost by 1 if there is a card that has the same title in its owner's discard pile.
"Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid." –Frodo, The Two Towers
Cards in each player's discard pile cannot leave that player's discard pile by player card effect.
Forced: After this stage is defeated, each player shuffles the top 5 cards of his discard pile back into his deck.
You must uncover the source of this evil that sets its will against yours.
You've brought the prisoners you rescued from the Weather Hills to Fornost. The Rangers gathered there are shocked to hear what you discovered at Amon Forn. Before their Chieftain can decide what to do, an unnatural fog covers the ruins in darkness, and the spectres of dead warriors emerge from the mists to attack you!
Setup: Put Iârion into play. Set Thaurdir aside, out of play. Add 1 copy of Fornost Square to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Each player must search the encounter deck for a Baleful Shade and put it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck and reveal 1 encounter card per player.
Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, each player discards the top card of his deck.
If a player has no cards in his deck, he is eliminated from the game.
The foul sorcery that drives the ghouls against you attacks your mind as well, and you fight to master your fear in the face of an unrelenting enemy. The question of who works the evil spell is answered by the appearance of a dark figure. The old man you had thought to be the Orcs' prisoner has revealed himself to be a powerful wraith. He must be stopped!
When Revealed: Add Thaurdir to the staging area. Then, reveal 1 encounter card per player.
Forced: After Thaurdir attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller must either discard the top 3 cards of his deck, or return Thaurdir to the staging area.
If a player has no cards in his deck, he is eliminated from the game. The players cannot defeat this stage while Thaurdir has any hit points remaining. If the players defeat this stage, they win the game.
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Each player's deck cannot include more than 50 total cards.
Setup: Each player searches the encounter deck for a copy of Cursed Dead and places it in the encounter discard pile. Shuffle the encounter deck.
"Men call it Deadmen's Dike, and they fear to tread there. For the folk of Arnor dwindled, and their foes devoured them..."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Deadmen's Dike scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
2x Fornost Square
3x Broken Battlements
2x Norbury Tombs
2x Restless Evil
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Deadmen's Dike encounter deck.
Finally, flip this setup card over and place it next to the quest deck. Its effect remains active throughout the game, which is now ready to begin.
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3
8
Cannot have attachments.
For each excess point of combat damage deal by Undead Horde (damage that is dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by its attack) you must discard 1 card from the top of your deck.
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1
2
When Revealed: Put each copy of Cursed Dead in the discard pile into play in the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if there is a copy of the defending character in its owner's discard pile.
Action: Discard the top X of your deck to reduce Palace Ruins' by X until the end of the phase. Any player may trigger this action. (Limit once per phase.)
Shadow: Discard 1 card from the top of your deck for each Undead enemy engaged with you.
While Fornost Street is in the staging area, each other Fornost location gets +1
Travel: Return the topmost enemy in the encounter discard pile to the staging area.
Shadow: Each Undead enemy engaged with you gets +1 and +1 until the end of the phase.
While Decrepit City is the active location, 'when revealed' effects cannot be canceled.
Shadow: Either discard 3 cards from the top of your deck, or this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: Each player discards each card in his hand that has the same title as a card in his discard pile. If no cards are discarded by this effect, Curse of Angmar gains surge.
...the Dúnedain were now few and all the peoples of Eriador diminished. –The Return of the King
Battling the dead drains your spirit as well as your body.
When Revealed: Each player placed the top 8 cards fo his deck facedown under this quest.
Forced: When this quest is defeated, shuffle each card under this quest into its owner's deck.