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When Revealed: Reveal the top card of the encounter discard pile and add it to the staging area, if able.
Shadow: If this attack deals at least 1 damage, shuffle this card back into the encounter deck.
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Forced: If Great Gray Wolf is dealt a shadow card with a riddle, return all Creature enemies to the staging area at the end of the combat phase.
Riddle: The first player names a card type, sphere and cost, shuffles his deck, then discards the top 3 cards. For each of those cards that matches all three items, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
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Forced: If Wild Wargs is dealt a shadow card with a riddle, it gets +2.
Riddle: The first player names a card type, shuffles his deck, and discards the top 2 cards. For each of those cards that matches, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
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Forced: At the end of each round, each player must give a hero he controls 1 poison.
...hairy legs waving, nippers an dspinners snapping, eyes popping, full of froth and rage. –The Hobbit
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This enemy gets +3 while engaged with a player who controls at least 1 poisoned character.
Shadow: Defending character gets 1 poison. (Give 2 poison to a character you control if undefended.)
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Forced: When this enemy attacks, defending player must attach 1 poison to a character he controls.
Shadow: Defending character gets 2 poison.
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Forced: After Dark Bats damages a character, attach it to that character. (While attached, counts as a Condition attachment with the text: 'Attached character gets -1 
, -1 , and -1 .")
Shadow: Attach this card to the defending character.
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Forced: When a location is revealed from the encounter deck, put 1 progress on Smaug the Golden.
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 1 card from his hand that matches the revealed card's sphere and type.
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Forced: When Ravenous Warg attacks, the defending player must declare the character he controls with the most damage as the defender. (Even if exhausted.)
Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for each quest stage in play with no progress on it.
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While Evil Crow is engaged with a player, that player adds 1 to the Hide value for each Hide test he makes.
Shadow: If you have failed a Hide test this round, this attack is considered undefended
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Cannot leave the staging area but is considered to be engaged with each player.
Forced: After placing the 6th damage here, the first player takes control of the Ring-bearer, exhausted with 1 damage on it.
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Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After Great Warg Chief enages you, discard cards from the encounter deck until a Warg enemy is discarded. Put that enemy into play engaged with you.
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Hound of Sauron gets -5 engagement cost for each enemy in the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it was engaged with round).
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Forced: After Howling Warg attacks, place 1 damage on an active location.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 damage on an active location.
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When Revealed: Either exhaust a hero you control, or engaged Crebain from Dunland.
Forced: After Crebain from Dunland engages a player, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
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Forced: When Wolf of Isengard is dealt a shadow card with a Wizardry effect, either discard 1 card from your hand, or Wolf of Isengard makes an additional attack against you after this one.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
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Indestructible.Cannot have attachments.
Shelob gets +1 for each resource on her.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, either place 1 resource on Shelob, or she makes an immediate attack against the first player.
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Cannot have attachments or take more than 3 damage each round.
Forced: After Oliphaunt engages you, exhaust each ally you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3
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Cannot have attachments or take more than 3 damage each round.
Forced: When War Mûmak is defeated, reduce each player's threat by 4.
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Forced: After Wolves from Mordor attack and destroy a character, shuffle Wolves from Mordor into the encounter deck.
Shadow: Deal 2 damage to the defending character.
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Forced: After Army of Flies engages a player, that player discards a non-objective attachment he controls.
Shadow: Defending player discards a non-objective attachment he controls.
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Cannot have attachments.
Lurker of the Depths cannot be engaged or take more than 4 damage each round.
While Lurker of the Depths is in the staging area, it is considered to be engaged with each player.
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Forced: After Warg of Carn D–m engages you, either remove 1 progress from the main quest, or exhaust a character you control.
Up from the dark plain below came the crying of fell voices, and the howling of many wolves
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Forced: After Savage Werewolf attacks and destroys a character, remove 3 progress from the main quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
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Beast of Taur-nu-Fuin cannot have attachments and its shadow cards cannot be canceled.
Forced: When Beast of Taur-nu-Fuin attacks, either remove 2 progress from the main quest or deal it an additional shadow card.
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Forced: After Battle Warg engages you, either remove 1 progress from the main quest or discard an attachment you control.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
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Forced: When Forest Flies attacks, raise the defending player's threat by 1.
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.
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While there is a copy of Eastern Crows in the discard pile, Eastern Crows gains surge.
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Forced: After Dark Bats attacks and damages a character, reveal the top card of the encounter deck. Then, discard Dark Bats.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Deal it an additional shadow card.
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When Revealed: The opposing team chooses a questing character. Remove that character from the quest.
Shadow: Shuffle Black Forest Bats into the encounter deck.
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Beast of Taur-nu-Fuin gets +1 for each damage on it.
Forced: When Beast of Taur-nu-Fuin is dealt a shadow card with no shadow effect, deal 1 damage to it and the defending character.
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X is 1 more than the stage number of the main quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X until the end of the phase, where X is the stage number of the main quest.
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Immune to player card effects.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
The Watcher gets +2 and +4 hit points per player.
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Forced: After Savage Werewolf is dealt a shadow card with no shadow effect, it makes an additional attack after this one. (Do not deal it a shadow card.)
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
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Werewolf gets -10 engagement cost while there is an active location.
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Immune to player card effects.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
The Watcher gets +2 and +4 hit points per player.
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When Revealed: Eithe raise each player's threat by 2, or reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: Either raise your threat by 2, or this attack is considered undefended.
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Players cannot declare defenders against Rock Adder.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, attacking enemy gets +2
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Forced: When Unspeakable Thing attacks you, discard the top card of your deck. Unspeakable thing gets +X for this attack, where X is the discarded card's printed cost.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1
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Cannot have non-objective player card attachments or take non-combat damage.
Forced: When Shadow Dweller attacks you, discard the top card of your deck and assign X damage among character you control, where X is the discarded card's cost.
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Cannot be optionally engaged.
While Elder Nameless Thing is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After players have committed characters to the quest, Elder Nameless Thing makes an attack against the first player.
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Forced: After Nameless Thing enters play, the first player attaches the top card of his deck to it faceup as a guarded attached. Nameless Thing gets +X +X and +X where X is that card's printed cost. When Nameless Thing leaves play, discard that card.
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When Revealed: Eithe raise each player's threat by 2, or reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: Either raise your threat by 2, or this attack is considered undefended.
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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.)
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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.
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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.