Forced: If Muck Adder damages a character, discard that character from play.
Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for the duration of this attack.
Forced: Remove 2 damage from Giant Marsh Worm at the end of each round.
Escape: 2
"No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lot of things, lots of nasty things."
–Gollum, The Two Towers
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, Attercop, Attercop automatically engages the player guarding Gollum, regardless of his threat.
"Attercop! Attercop! Won't you stop..."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Forced: Before Patrol Leader is dealt damage, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is an enemy, cancel that damage.
Shadow: Cancel all damage dealt to this enemy.
When Revealed: Reveal 1 card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.
When Revealed: Chieftain of the Pit gets +3 until the end of the round.
Shadow: attacking enemy attacks again after this attack. Deal it another shadow card for the next attack.
Goblin Spearman gets +2 if its attack is undefended.
Shadow: Add Goblin Spearman to the staging area.
When Revealed: Goblin Follower engages the last player.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking the last player.)
While Orc Drummer is in the staging area, each enemy gets +X . X is the number of players in the game.
X is the number of players in the game.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +X . X is the number of players in the game.
When Revealed: The first player must choose and discard an attachment from a questing character, if able.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, deal 2 additional shadow cards to attacking enemy.
If Mountain Warg is dealt a shadow card with no effect, return Mountain Warg to the staging area after it attacks.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if a Mountain is the active location.)
Each player with a threat of 25 or higher cannot optionally engage Goblin Scout.
Goblin Swordsman gets +2 if its attack is undefended.
Shadow: Add Goblin Swordsman to the staging area.
Allies cannot defend while Snow Warg is attacking.
Forced: After a character is declared as a defender against Snow Warg, deal 1 damage to the defending character, if able.
Ambush (After this enemy enters play, each player makes an engagement check against it.)
Forced: After Orc Raiders engages a player, that player discards 2 attachments he controls, if able.
Forced: When Thrashing Tentacle is attacked, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, deal the damage from the attack to 1 character an attacking player controls (ignoring defense).
Forced: When Striking Tentacle attacks, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card has a shadow effect or is a Tentacle enemy, this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: The first player draws 1 card. Then, that player must choose and discard 4 cards from his hand, if able.
Forced: After Cave Spider engages a player, that player must choose and discard 1 card from his hand, if able.
Forced: After Goblin Sneak engages a player, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If it is a treachery card, Goblin Sneak engages the next player, if able.
Shadow: Add Goblin Sneak to the staging area.
Lost: Each player must choose and discard 1 ally he controls from play, if able.
Shadow: Trigger all "Lost:" effects in play.
Rock Adder cannot be attacked unless it has dealt at least 1 damage this round.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, the defending player must discard 1 character he controls from play.
Forced: After Nameless Thing engages a player, attach the top 2 cards of that player's deck to it.
X is the printed cost of all attached cards on this card. If there are no cards attached, X is 3.
Forced: After Elder Nameless Thing engages a player, attach the top 3 cards of that player's deck to it.
X is the printed cost of all attached cards on this card. If there are no cards attached, X is 4.
Only characters with ranged can attack or defend against Moria Bats.
While Moria Bats is engaged with a player, it gets +1 for each other enemy engaged with that player.
When Revealed: Each player must deal 1 damage to a hero he controls.
Forced: After a character leaves play, shuffle Ranging Goblin and the top card in the encounter discard pile back into the encounter deck.
Forced: When the player whose hero has Alcaronâs Scroll attached raises his threat, Harbor Thug engages that player.
Shadow: Any damage dealt by this attack is dealt to the hero with Alcaronâs Scroll attached, if able.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each Battleground location in play, if able.
Shadow: Deal 2 damage to The Citadel if it is in play. Otherwise, attacking enemy gets +2 .
When Revealed: If the active location is a Battleground deal 3 damage to it.
Shadow: Deal 2 damage to The Approach if it is in play. Otherwise, attacking enemy gets +2 .
When Revealed: Deal 2 damage to the lowest Battleground location in play, if able.
Shadow: Deal 2 damage to The Banks if it is in play. Otherwise, attacking enemy gets +2 .
Forced: When Pickpocket attacks, the defending player discards 1 resource from one of his heroes' resource pools and 1 card at random from his hand.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 of his attachments. (Discard all of his attachments instead if undefended.)
Forced: When Zealous Traitor engages a player, that player must deal 1 damage to each ally he controls. (2 damage instead if Zealous Traitor was not optionally engaged.)
Forced: When Lossarnach Bandit engages a player, that player discards 1 resource from each of his heroesâ resource pools. (2 resources instead if Lossarnach Bandit was not optionally engaged.)
Forced: When Umbar Assassin engages a player, that player must deal 3 damage to a hero he controls. (Discard that hero instead if Umbar Assassin was not optionally engaged.)
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, Morgul Spider gets +1 for each character not currently committed to a quest.
Far and wide her lesser broods, bastards of the miserable mates, her own offspring, that she slew, spread from glen to glen... –The Two Towers
When Revealed: The first player deals 2 damage to a questing hero and removes that hero from the quest.
Shadow: Defending player raises his threat by X where X is the attacking enemy's .