When Revealed: Each player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls. (2 characters instead if this attack is undefended.)
Forced: After Hummerhorns engages you, deal 5 damage to a single hero you control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each character the defending player controls. (2 damage instead if this attack is undefended.)
When Revealed: Each character currently committed to a quest gets -1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Raise defending player's threat by 4. (Raise defending player's threat by 8 instead if this attack is undefended.)
Travel: Each player must exhaust 1 hero he controls to travel here.
As he drew nearer, he saw that it was made with spider–webs one behind and over and tangled with another.
–The Hobbit
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck and add it to the staging area to travel here.
Response: After Mountains of Mirkwood leaves play as an explored location, each player may search the top 5 cards of his deck for 1 card and add it to his hand. Shuffle the rest of the searched cards back into their owners' decks.
When Revealed: Each player discards all event cards in his hand.
...he would see gleams in the darkness around them, and sometimes pairs of yellow or red or green eyes would stare at him from a little distance, and then slowly fade and disappear and slowly shine out again in another place.
–The Hobbit
When Revealed: The player with the highest threat level attaches this card to one of his heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: 'Attached hero does not ready during the refresh phase unless you pay 2 resources from that hero's pool.')
When Revealed: The first player chooses 1 character currently committed to a quest. Deal 2 damage to that character.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if this attack is undefended.)
Chieftain Ufthak get +2 for each resource token on him.
Forced: After Chieftain Ufthak attacks, place 1 resource token on him.
Forced: When Dol Guldur Beastmaster attacks, deal it 1 additional shadow card.
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: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.
There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep. He knew that it had become aware of his gaze. A fierce eager will was there. – The Fellowship of the Ring
Travel: The first player must discard 2 cards from his hand at random to travel here.
"It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where the trees strive one against another and their branches rot and wither. In the midst upon a stony height stands Dol Guldur, where long the hidden Enemy had his dwelling."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
While Enchanted Stream is the active location, players cannot draw cards.
"There is one stream, I know, black and strong which crosses the path. That you should neither drink of, nor bathe in; for I have heard that it carries enchantment and a great drowsiness and forgetfulness."
–Beorn, The Hobbit
Forced: After Forest Spider engages a player, it gets +1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and discard 1 attachment he controls.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (If this attack is undefended, also raise your threat by 3.)
When Revealed: Each player must choose 1 character currently committed to a quest, and remove that character from the quest. (The chosen character does not ready.)
They could not stand that, nor the huge bats, black as a top–hat, either...
–The Hobbit
Response: After you travel to Old Forest Road the first player may choose and ready 1 character he controls.
...Beorn had warned them that that way was now often used by the goblins, while the forest–road itself, he had heard, was overgrown and disused on the eastern end and led to impassable marshes where the path had long been lost.
–The Hobbit
Response: After you travel to Forest Gate the first player may draw 2 cards.
The path itself was narrow and wound in and out among the trunks. Soon the light in the gate was like a little bright hole far behind, and the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while the trees leaned over them and listened.
–The Hobbit
Setup: Search the encounter deck for 1 copy of the Forest Spider and 1 copy of the Old Forest Road, and add them to the staging area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
You are traveling through Mirkwood forest, carrying an urgent message from King Thanduil to the Lady Galadriel of Lorien. As you move along the dark trail, the spiders gather around you...
The nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs; dark dense cobwebs, with threads extradionairly thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them. There were none stretched across the path, but whether because some magic kept it clear, or for what other reasons they could not guess. - The Hobbit
As you move through Mirkwood, hounded by spiders, the forest path forks before you...
Forced: When you defeat this stage, proceed to one of the 2 "A Chosen Path" stages, at random.
Unsure of what lies ahead but spurred by the urgency of your message, you choose a path and proceed...
The trail winds into one of the darkest, most tangled parts of the forest...
You sense that foul, dark presence is hunting you, and you move quickly in an attempt to avoid its evil.
When Revealed: Each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for 1 Spider card of his choice, and add it to the staging area.
The players must find and defeat Ungoliant's Spawn to win this game.
The shadows grow darker, and you realize that a foul presence is aiming to draw you from the path. You must defeat it to pass this way.
The trail winds into one of the darkest, most tangled parts of the forest...
You sense that foul, dark presence is hunting you, and you move quickly in an attempt to avoid its evil.
Players cannot defeat this stage while Ungoliant's Spawn is in play. If players defeat this stage, they have won the game.
You attempt to follow a secret, hidden trail to avoid the enemy...
You are playing Campaign Mode.
Setup: Put Mendor into play.
If Mendor leaves play, the players lose the game.
King Thranduil has assigned a guide, Mendor, to assist you in your passage through Mirkwood Forest.
Resolution: Each player earns 1 copy of the Mendor's Support boon card. Add the earned cards to the Campaign Pool.
If Stage 3B was Beorn's Path, add the Ungoliant's Swarm burden card to the Campaign Pool.
If Stage 3B was Don't Leave the Path, add the Lingering Venom burden card to the Campaign Pool.
“The forest is dangerous, but that was beyond what one might expect to find.” Mendor seems shaken. “I fear something is not right in the land. I shall continue to travel with you.”
Forced: After Ungoliant's Swarm engages a player, that player must choose and exhaust 2 characters they control.
Shadow: Put Ungoliant's Swarm into play engaged with you.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either exhaust each damaged character you control, or deal 2 damage to the hero you control with the most damage on it.
Shadow: Exhaust each damaged character you control.
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Forced: During setup, each player reveals 1 card from the encounter deck and adds it to the staging area.
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Passage Through Mirkwood scenario found in the LOTR LCG core set.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
Ungoliant's Spawn x1
Black Forest Bats x1
Forest Spider x3
Dol Guldur Orcs x3
Old Forest Road x1
Forest Gate x2
Mountains of Mirkwood x3
Caught in a Web x2
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Passage Through Mirkwood 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.
When Revealed: Until the end of the phase, each character currently committed to the quest gets -2 and is discarded if its is 0.
Shadow: Raise defending player's threat by 5. (Raise defending player's threat by 10 instead if undefended.)
Forced: After you engage Ungoliant's Brood, your cards cannot ready for the remainder of the round.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, exhaust all characters you control.
Forced: After you engage Forest Flies, deal 1 damage to each exhausted character you control.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is an Insect deal it 2 additional shadow cards.
While it is engaged with you, Spiders of Mirkwood gets +1 for each exhausted character you control.
Shadow: Choose and exhaust 1 character you control. If this attack is undefended, also deal that character 2 damage.
When Revealed: The player with the highest threat exhausts all heroes he controls. Then, attach this card to one of that player's heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text, "Each time attached hero readies, deal it 1 damage.")
When Revealed: The topmost enemy or location card in the encounter discard pile is returned to the staging area.
Shadow: Deal and resolve the topmost Shadow effect in the encounter discard pile for this attack.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Abandoned Camp leaves play, each player must deal 2 damage to each exhausted character he controls.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, discard all attachment cards players control.
While Glade of the Spawn is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After a Spider enemy enters play, each player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls."
...black even for that forest, like a patch of midnight that had never been cleared away. –The Hobbit