Forced: At the end of the round, if Orc Captor is in the staging area, place 1 progress token on To the Tower.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3 until the end of the combat phase.
X is the number of progress tokens on To the Tower.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on To the Tower.
Dunland Assassin cannot be optionally engaged by a player with 3 or more cards in his hand.
While Dunland Assassin is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After the first player draws any number of cards, Dunland Assassin makes an immediate attack against him."
Forced: After Vengeful Hillman attacks and destroys a character, remove 1 progress the current quest card for each card in the defending player's hand.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
While the engaged player has 3 or more cards in hand, Savage Hillman cannot take damage.
While the engaged player has 5 or more cards in hand, Savage Hillman gets +2
Forced: After Vigilant Orc enters the staging area, it makes an immediate attack against the first player. If this attack destroys a character, remove 1 time counter from the current quest.
Fierce and shrill rose the yells of the Orcs, and suddenly horn–calls ceased. –The Two Towers
While Methedras Lookout is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, remove 1 time counter from the current quest."
Shadow: Either exhaust a character you control, or return attacking enemy to the staging area.
Forced: After the engaged player discards any number of cards from his out-of-play deck, Guard Warg makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Hinder. Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the beginning of each resource phase, the engaged player discards 1 attachment he controls.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Hinder. Cannot have attachments.
While Blocking Huorn is engaged with a player, it adds its to the staging area.
Shadow: Put Blocking Huorn into play engaged with you.
Hinder. Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the beginning of each resource phase, the engaged player exhausts a hero he controls.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the round.
Forced: After Boar Clan Ambusher attacks and destroys a character, discard a random card from your hand.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard a random card from your hand.
Forced: After the engaged player draws any number of cards, deal 1 damage to a hero he controls.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to a hero you control (2 damage instead if undefended).
While a player controls 5 or more allies, Bellach's Hunter gets -20 engagement cost.
Forced: When Bellach's Hunter engages a player, that player must either remove all time counters from the current quest or deal 5 damage to a hero he controls.
When Revealed: Either reduce each player's threat elimination level by 2, or Orc Seeker engages the first player and makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Reduce each player's threat elimination level by 2 (5 instead if undefended).
Forced: When Blood Hound engages you, raise your threat by 5.
Shadow: Either raise your threat by 10, or attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
Forced: After Deadly Marsh Adder engages you, discard a damaged character you control.
Forced: After the players advance to a quest stage return Deadly Marsh Adder to the staging area.
Cannot have attachments.
While Swarm of Mosquitoes is in the victory display, it gains:"Forced: After the players advance to a quest stage, return Swarm of Mosquitoes to the staging area."
Bellach cannot take damage.
Scour: Heal all damage from Bellach's Bodyguard.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the phase.
When Revealed: Trigger Little Snuffler's Scour effect.
Scour: The first player discards a random card from his hand and assigns X damage among locations in the staging area. X is the discarded card's cost.
Cannot have attachments or take non-combat damage.
Forced: After the engaged player draws any number of cards, heal all damage from Dunlending Horde.
When Revealed: Either remove 1 time counter from a location in play, or Raven Clan Elite make an immediate attack against the first player.
"Death to the Fogoil! Death to the Strawheads!"
–Dunlending, The Two Towers
Forced: After the engaged player draws any number of cards, remove 1 time counter from a location play.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X where X is the Time X value on the active location.
Forced: At the end of the round, if Orc Abductor is in the staging area, search the encounter deck, discard pile and victory display for Rescue Iârion and reveal it. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to defending character.
Forced: After Soldier of Angmar attacks and destroys an ally, search the encounter deck, discard pile and victory display for Orc Ambush and reveal it. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: After Rearguard Ambusher engages you, exhaust each damaged character you control.
His broad flat face was swart, his eyes were like coals, and his tongue was red; he wielded a great spear.
–THe Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: After a character the engaged player controls is healed, Angmar Raider makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 until the end of the phase.
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.
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.
While it is Night Pack Hunters gets -30 engagement cost.
Forced: When you engage Pack Hunters, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a Warg enemy, and put it into play engaged with you (top 10 cards instead if it is Night). Shuffle the encounter deck.
Forced: After Jailor Gorn kh enters playt each player searches his captured deck for each hero and captures thme underneath Jailor Gorn kh.
Forced: After a player rescues any number of cards, Jailor Gorn kh attacks that player.
While you are engaged with Prison Guard, it gainst: "Planning Action: Rescue a random card from underneath Prison Guard. Then, raise each player's threat by X, where X is that card's printed cost. (Limit once per round)."
Forced: When Orc of Thaurdir attacks you, either discard the top 2 cards of your captured deck, or deal Orc of Thaurdir 2 additional shadow cards.
Shadow: For each damage dealt by this attack, discard the top card of your captured deck.
As an additional cost to travel to a safe location, one player must engaged Hoarwell River Serpent.
Forced: When you engage Hoarwell River Serpent, deal 1 damage to each damaged character you control.
You cannot travel to a safe location while Scavenging Stone-troll has no damage on it.
While Scavenging Stone-troll is in the staging area, cards in each player's discard pule cannot leave that discard pile.
While Giant Beetle is engaged with a player, it gains: "As an additional cost to travel to a safe location, Giant Beetle makes an immediate attack against the engaged player."
Damaged characters cannot be declared as attackers or defenders against Giant Beetle.
Forced: When Thaurdir's Hunter attacks, either remove 1 time counter from the main quest, or treat this attack as undefended.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, either remove 1 time counter or 5 progress from a quest.
Shadow: Put Undead Thrall into play engaged with the defending player and deal it a shadow card.
While you are engaged with Apostate of Angmar, you cannot attack Thaurdir.
Shadow: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. Attacking enemy gets +X where X is that card's printed threat.
Forced: After Orc Wight enters play, deal it 2 shadow cards.
Shadow: If attacking enemy has at least 1 other shadow card currently dealt to it, return it to the staging area after this attack.
Forced: If there are 3 shadow cards dealt to Thaurdir's Elite discard all shadow cards dealt to it and each player must discard an ally he controls.
Shadow: Either raise your threat by 4, or discard an ally you control.
While you are engaged with Silent Guardian it gains:"Forced: The first time you play an event card each round, instead of discarding that card after playing it, reanimate it."
Forced: When Necromancer of Carn D–m would attack you, instead reanimate the top card of your deck and deal it each of the Necromancer of Carn D–m's shadow cards.
Forced: When the engaged player exhausts a Ship objective. Brash Corsair makes an immediate attack.
Boarding 1. Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, if Sahír's Pursuer is in the staging area, the first player must either engage it or shift your heading off-course.
Forced: After attackers are declared during an attack against Guardian of the Golden King, look at the bottom card of the first player's deck. Choose and remove characters from the attack until only X or fewer characters are attacking, where X is the looked-at-card's printed cost (those characters do not ready).
Durin the combat phase, Corsair Pillager makes 1 additional attack for each resource token on it.
Forced: After the players travel to an Aflame location, place 1 resource on Corsair Pillager for each damage on that location.