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
Veteran Sword-elf gets +1 and +1 for each copy of Veteran Sword-elf in your discard pile.
The elves were the first to charge. Their hatred for the goblins is cold and bitter.
–The Hobbit
Glorfindel can be played from your discard pile.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to ready Glorfindel. (Limit once per phase.)
"He is an Elf-lord of a house of princes."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After you play Linhir Sea-captain from your hand, if you paid all of its resource cost from a single hero's resource pool, both that hero and Linhir Sea-captain do not exhaust to quest this round.
Response: After Rhovanion Outrider commits to the quest, place 1 progress on a location in the staging area. If that location is not explored by this effect, give Rhovanion Outrider +1 until the end of the phase.
While the top card of your discard pile is an event, Sailor of Lune gets +1 and gains: "Cannot be damaged while committed to the quest."
"They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea, they are going into the West and leaving us," said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking his head sadly and solemnly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Woodland Courier enters play, place 1 progress on a location (2 progress instead if that location has the Forest trait).
Response: After Guardian of Ithilien enters play, return an enemy engaged with you to the staging area.
From such men the Lord Denethor chose his forayers.to harry the Orcs and other enemies that roamed between the Ephel Dúath and the River.
–The Two Towers
Action: Discard a card from your hand to heal 1 damage on any character. (Limit twice per round).
"You are in Rivendell, and you need not worry about anything for the present."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Cannot attack or defend.
Action: Spend 1 resource and exhaust Ioreth. Then, heal 3 points of damage on a character. Any player may trigger this action.
Thus spake Ioreth, wise–woman of Gondor: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.
–The Return of the King
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.
Response: After you travel to a location, spend 1 resource to raise the engagement cost of each enemy in play by X until the end of the round, where X is that location's quest points. Any player may trigger this response.
"Gave me a chance of walking round the country and seeing folk, and hearing the news, and knowing where the good beer was."
–The Return of the King
Response: After Ered Luin Miner is discarded from your deck, put it into play under your control.
Tools were to be found in plenty that the miners and quarriers and builders of old had used; and at such work the dwarves were still very skilled.
–The Hobbit
As an additional cost to play Guardian of Rivendell from your hand, you must discard 2 cards from your hand.
"Indeed there is a power in Rivendell to withstand the might of Mordor, for a while."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
The first player gains control of Calphon.
Action: Exhaust Calphon to look at the bottom card of your deck. Then you may switch that card with a card in your hand.
If Calphon leaves play, the players lose the game.
When Calaerion leaves play, remove him from the game.
Action: Spend 3 resources and exhaust Calaerion to ready the Dream-chaser and give it +1 +1 and +1 until the end of the phase.
When Calaerion leaves play, remove him from the game.
Response: After a card is discarded from the encounter deck, shuffle it into that deck. (Limit once per round.)
Action: Spend 2 resources and exhaust Calaerion to ready another ally and give it +1 +1 and +1 until the end of the round.
X is half the level of Starla, rounded up.
Response: After Starla is discard from your hand or deck, play her.
Response: After Starla exhausts, place 1 progress on a location.
Surge. Ranged. When Gavin leaves play (other than by his ability), remove him from the game.
Planning Action: Shuffle Gaving and 1 random set-aside Send for Help into the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Put Gavin into play under any player's control commited to the quest. Add 1 resource to Lanwyn's resource pool, if able.
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Response: After Bilbo Baggins commits to the quest, choose an enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, Bilbo Baggins gets +X where X is that enemy's If the players quest successfully, deal 1 damage to that enemy (2 damage instead if it is guarding a card).
Response: After Grimbeorn the Old defends an attack, spend 1 resource from his pool to declare him as an attacker against that enemy (and resolve his attack). The defending enemy gets -2 for this attack.
While playing an Item attachment, Bard son of Brand is considered to have the printed , , and icons.
Response: When a character leaves play, return each attachment attached to that character to its owners hand. (Limit once per phase.)
While Dáin Ironfoot is defending, he gains,"Action: Discard the top card of your deck to give Dáin Ironfoot +1 for this attack. (Limit 3 times per phase.)"
"The time of my thought is my own to spend."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
While the active location has an attachment on it, Haldan does not exhaust to quest.
Response: When the active location is explored, draw 1 card for each attachment on it.
Response: After Greenwood Defender enters play, it does not exhaust to defend until the end of the round.
...after the coming of Men they took ever more and more to the gloaming and the dusk.
–The Hobbit
Guardian of Esgaroth gets +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 hit point for each different player card attachment it has. (Limit +3 to each.)
The men of the lake–town Esgaroth were mostly indoors, for the breeze was from the black East and chill, but a few were walking on the quays, and watching...
–The Hobbit
Cannot attack, defend, or have attachments.
Refresh Action: Return Messenger Raven to it's owner's hand and name a card type. Choose a player to look at the top card of his deck. If that card is the named type, add it to its owner's hand. If it is not, discard it.
Action: Discard the top 3 cards from your deck to ready Soldier of Erebor. (Limit once per round.)
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
Bywater Shirriff gets +1 , +1 , and +1 while you are engaged with an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat.
The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed.
–The Hobbit
Cannot have attachments.
Action: Ready Giant Bear. At the end of the phase in which you trigger this effect, shuffle Giant Bear into your deck. (Limit once per phase.)
"As a bear he ranged far and wide"
–Gandalf, The Hobbit
Cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After Meneldor enters or leaves play, place 2 progress on a location.
...Meneldor young and swift. –The Return of the King
Reduce the cost to play Item attachments on Descendant of Girion by 1.
–Glóin, 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
Cannot attack or defend.
Response: After Galion enters play, he gets +1 until the end of the round.
"Here am I waiting and waiting down hero, while you fellows drink and make merry and forget your tasks. Small wonder if I fall asleep from weariness!"
–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.