Forced: After Cornered Orc engages a player, it makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending character is damaged).
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.
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
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.
When Revealed: Either discard 1 ally from play, or reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys an ally, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
Forced: After Angmar Marauder attacks and destroys an ally, return it to the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each ally the defending player controls.
Forced: After Angmar Captain attacks and destroys an ally, discard the top card of the defending player's deck. If the discarded card is an ally, Angmar Captain makes an additional attack against the defending player.
In the twilight he saw a large black Orc... –The Two Towers
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).
Cannot have attachments.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: After Pack Leader engages you, exhaust a character you control for each Warg enemy engaged with you.
When Revealed: Each Warg enemy gets +1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player, then makes an immediate attack (deal a new shadow card for that attack).
While Blood-thirsty Warg is in the staging area, it gains:
Forced: When it becomes Night, Blood-thirsty Warg engages the first player and makes an immediate attack.
The wold snarled and sprang towards them with a great leap.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Cannot have attachments.
While a player is making an engagement check against Hunting Pack, it gets -1 engagement cost for each damaged character that player controls.
"...who now will wish to journey south by night with the wild wolves on his tail?" –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: After White Warg engages you, deal 1 damage to a character you control (2 damage instead if it is Night).
Shadow: If it is Night, attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
While it is Night, Wolf of Angmar gets +2
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it is Night).
Forced: After 1 or more captured cards are rescued, Jailor Gornákh engages the player with the highest threat and makes an immediate attack.
"Come on now! We've talked enough. Let's go and have a look at the prisoner!"
–Shagrat, The Two Towers
Forced: When Cruel Torturer would damage an ally by an attack, capture that ally underneath Cruel Torturer instead.
"You'll get bed and breakfast all right: more than you can stomach"
–Uglúk, The Two Towers
Response: After the captured card(s) underneath Dungeon Guard are rescued, the players may put 1 of them into play at no cost.
X is the number of cards in play with 1 or more captured cards underneath them.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it has no captured cards underneath it).
Savage Trollspawn gets +1 for each damaged character the engaged player controls.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each damaged character the defending player controls.
Forced: After Coldfell Giant engages you, deal 1 damage to 3 different characters you control.
Shadow: If the defending character has at least 1 damage token on it, attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
For each excess point of combat damage dealt by Cruel Mountain-troll (damage that is dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by its attack) you must remove 1 progress from each quest card in play.
Trolls were abroad, no longer dull–witted, but cunning...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Ruthless Hill-troll gets +2 and +2 while it has 3 or more damage on it.
Shadow: Shuffle 1 location with the safe keyword (but not its attached encounter) back into the encounter deck.
Damaged characters cannot be declared as attackers or defenders against Goblin Pursuer.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if this attack is undefended).
Indestructible. Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After a treachery card with the Sorcery trait is revealed from the encounter deck, Thaurdir heals 3 damage and makes an immediate attack against the first player.
While the current quest has 1 or more progress on it, Wight of Rhudaur gains
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@surge}.While the current quest has 0 progress on it, Wight of Rhudaur gains doomed 2.
...evil spirits out of Angmar and Rhudaur entered into the deserted mounds and dwelt there.
–The Return of the King
Forced: When Traitorous Wight engages a player, remove 2 progress from each quest card in play.
Shadow: For each point of damage dealt by this attack, remove 1 progress from each quest in play.
Indestructible. Cannot have attachments.
Each other enemy gets +10 engagement cost.
Forced: After Thaurdir is flipped or a treachery with the Sorcery trait is revealed, deal 1 shadow card to each enemy in play.
Indestructible. Cannot have attachments.
Each other enemy gets -10 engagement cost.
Forced: After Thaurdir is flipped or a treachery with the Sorcery trait is revealed, Thaurdir heals 3 damage and makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Carn Dûm Garrison gets +1 for each shadow card currently dealt to it.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each shadow card currently dealt to it.
Forced: After an event card is played, deal 1 shadow card to Werewolf of Angmar.
Forced: If there are 3 shadow cards dealt to Werewolf of Angmar and it is in the staging area, it engages the first player and makes an immediate attack (do not deal it a shadow card for this attack).
Cannot have attachments.
Daechanar gets +1 for each Sorcery card in play, and gains indestructible while at least 1 Sorcery card is in play.
Forced: When Daechanar is damaged, if there is at least 1 Sorcery card in play, cancel all damage just dealt and remove a Sorcery card from the game.
Forced: After Dwimmerlaik attacks and destroys a character, the defending player reanimates that character and deals it 1 shadow card.
Shadow: If this attacks destroys a character, reanimate that character and deal it 1 shadow card.
Forced: When you resolve shadow cards dealt to Witch of Angmar, if they have the Sorcery trait, resolve their "when revealed" effects. (Resolve any shadow effects first.)
Forced: When Wraith of Carn Dûm leaves play, attach it to a character in play. Counts as a Sorcery attachment with the text:
Attached character has -1 , -1 , and -1 If the attached character leaves play, return Wraith of Carn Dûm to the staging area as an enemy.
Forced: When Servant of the Deceiver engages you, look at the top card of your deck. If its printed cost is 2 or less, place it on the bottom of your deck and Servant of the Deceiver gets +2 until the end of the round.
When Revealed: Either deal 2 damage to an Aflame location in play, or search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Aflame location with the highest Aflame X value, and add it to the staging area.
Forced: After Sahír’s Ravager attacks, place 1 resource on it. Then, deal X damage to the Aflame location in play with the lowest Aflame value, where X is the number of resources on Sahír’s Ravager.
While Southron Sailor is engaged with you, each Ship enemy engaged with you contributes its to the total in the staging area.
”There is a great fleet drawing near to the mouths of Anduin, manned by the corsairs of Umbar in the South.”
–Beregond, The Return of the King
Cunning Pirate gets +1 and +1 for each resource on it.
Forced: When Cunning Pirate engages you, discard an attachment you control and place resources on Cunning Pirate equal to that attachment's printed cost.
Forced: When Vicious Marauder engages you, discard a random card from your hand and place resources on it equal to that card's printed cost.
Forced: When Vicious Marauder attacks you, distribute damage among characters you control equal to the number of resources on it.
While you are engaged with Umbar Captain, characters you control cannot attack Ship enemies.
...the strength of the rebels in Umbar was a great peril to Gondor...
–The Return of the King
Umbar Raider gets +1 for each resource on it.
Forced: After Umbar Raider attacks you, move 1 resource from one of your heroes’ resource pools to Umbar Raider.
“And there men of Lamedon contested the fords with fell folk of Umbar and Harad who had sailed up the river.”
–Legolas, The Return of the King
Forced: When Corsair Infiltrator attacks, deal it 1 additional shadow card for each resource on it.
Forced: After the engaged player collects resources at the beginning of the resource phase, that player moves 1 resource from one of his heroes’ pools to Corsair Infiltrator.
Raid Leader gets +1 for each resource on it.
Forced: When Raid Leader engages you, move 1 resource from each of your heroes’ resource pools to Raid Leader.
“The Corsairs are upon us! It is the last stroke of doom!”
–Men of Gondor, The Return of the King
While you are engaged with Soulless Cadaver, your deck cannot be searched.
Forced: When Soulless Cadaver engages you, place each card in your hand with printed cost 2 or less on the bottom of your deck.
Forced: When Throngs of Unfaithful is defeated, discard the bottom card of the engaged player's deck. If that card’s printed cost is 2 or less, return Throngs of Unfaithful to the top of the encounter deck.
Captain Sahír engages the first player.
For each point of damage Captain Sahír would take, discard 1 resource from him and cancel that damage.
Forced: After Captain Sahír attacks, place 2 resource tokens on him (4 instead if his attack destroyed a character).