Action: Discard the top 3 cards from your deck to ready Soldier of Erebor. (Limit once per round.)
Boromir gets +2 while defending against an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.
Response: After Boromir takes any amount of damage, ready him.
Response: After a Rohan ally you control is discarded from play, exhaust Gamling to return that ally to your hand.
"...we have a thousand fit to fight on foot," said Gamling, an old man, the leader of those that watched the Dike. –The Two Towers
Combat Action: Ready Háma. He gets +3 until the end of the phase. At the end of the phase, discard Háma. (Limit once per round.)
"I am the Doorward of Théoden," he said. "Háma is my name." –The Two Towers
Response: After Beregond defends an attack and takes no damage, reduce the defending player's threat by 1. (L
"The Lord does not permit those who wear the black and silver to leave their post for any cause..."
-The Return of the King
Combat Action: Discard Grimbold to choose an enemy engaged with a player. That enemy cannot attack th
Grimbold's men turned aside and passed round to a great gap in the wall further eastward.
-The Return of the King
The first player gains control of Aragorn.
Action: Spend 1 resource from Aragorn's pool to ready him. (Limit once per phase.)
If Aragorn leaves play the players lose the game.
"As I have begun, so I will go on."
-The Return of the King
Response: After Éomer commits to the quest, spend 1 resource from his resource pool to immediately declare him as an attacker (and resolve his attack) against an enemy in the staging area.
...he was young, and he was king; the lord of a fell people.
-The Return of the King
Action: Spend 1 resource from a Rohan hero's resource pool to put Elfhelm into play from your hand under your control. At the end of the phase, discard Elfhelm if
"...my lord sends word that we must set ourselves in readiness; orders may come for a sudden move."
-The Return of the King
Response: After Théodred commits to a quest, choose a hero committed to that quest. Add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
"Not all is dark. Take courage, Lord of the Mark..."
–Gandalf, The Two Towers
Gimli gets +1 for each damage token on him.
"Men need many words before deeds. My axe is restless in my hands."
–The Two Towers
While Thalin is committed to a quest, deal 1 damage to each enemy as it is revealed by the encounter deck.
There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
The delver mined, the mason built.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Dúnhere can target enemies in the staging area when he attacks alone. When doing so, he gets +1 .
Captains rode to meet him at the ford, bearing messages from Gandalf. Dúnhere, chieftain of the folk of Harrowdale, was at their head.
–The Return of the King
Action: Pay 1 resource from Glorfindel's pool to heal 1 damage on any character. (Limit once per round.)
"You saw him for a moment as he is upon the other side: one of the mighty of the firstborn."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Pero los Senores de Minas Tirith continuan
luchando, desafiando a nuestros enemigo,
guardando el pasaje del rio, desde Argonath al
mar.” –Elrond, La Comunidad del Anillo
Response: After Longbeard Orc Slayer enters play, deal 1 damage to each Orc enemy in play.
Five dead Orcs lay there. They had been hewn with many cruel strokes, and two had been beheaded. The ground was wet with their dark blood.
–The Two Towers
Respuesta: Después de que un Héroe Enano que controles abandone el juego, pon a Brok Ironfist en jeugo desde tu mano.
...nadie sabe de lo que es capaz en enano, por venganza o por recobrar lo que le pertenece.
—El Hobbit
"I am glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe." –Legolas, The Two Towers
Response: After Gondorian Spearman is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
More than a thousand were there mustered. Their spears were like a springing wood. –The Two Towers
Acción: Beorn gana +5 hasta el final de la fase. Al final de la fase en la que actives este efecto, devuelve a Beorn a tu mazo y barajalo. Limite de una vez por ronda.
“No necesito vuestro servicio, gracias... pero espero que vosotros necesiteis del mio.”
–El Hobbit
Response: After a Silvan ally you control leaves play, ready Defender of the Naith.
"You cannot cross the rivers again, and behind you there are now secret sentinels that you cannot pass."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Pay 1 resource from Glorfindel's pool to heal 1 damage on any character. (Limit once per round.)
"You saw him for a moment as he is upon the other side: one of the mighty of the firstborn."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Thorin Stonehelm is declared as an attacker, discard the top card of your deck to deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.
Thorin III Stonehelm, Dain's son, became King under the mountain.
–The Return of the King
Response: After Legolas participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, draw 1 card.
"He stands not alone," said Legolas, bending his bow and fitting an arrow with hands that moved quicker than sight.
–The Two Towers
Response: After Galadhon Archer enters play, deal 1 damage to an enemy not engaged with you.
"...you breathe so loud that they could shoot you in the dark."
–Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring
"And the Enemy must pay dearly for the crossing of the River."
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Action: Raise your threat by 1 to ready Boromir. (Limit once per phase.)
Action: Discard Boromir to deal 2 damage to each enemy engaged with a single player.
"...in Gondor we must trust to such weapons as we have." –The Fellowship of the Ring
While Elfhelm is ready, he gains:
Response: After your threat is raised as the result of questing unsuccessfully, or by an encounter or quest card effect, reduce your threat by 1.
"But my lord sends word that we must set ourselves in readiness: orders may come for a sudden move." –The Return of the King
Veteran of Nanduhirion enters play with 1 damage on it.
With cries of "Moria!" and "Dain, Dain!" the dwarves of the Iron Hills plunged in... –The Hobbit
Watcher of the Bruinen does not exhaust to defend.
Forced: After Watcher of the Bruinen defends, either discard it from play or discard 1 card from your hand.
Response: After Háma is declared as an attacker, return a event from your discard pile to your hand. Then, choose and discard 1 card from your hand. (Limit 3 times per game for the group.)
"Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom." –The Two Towers
Erebor Battle Master gets +1 for each other Dwarf ally you control. (Limit +4 .)
Forced: After Glorfindel exhausts to commit to a quest, raise your threat by 1.
Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and has voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Lower the cost to play Weapon and Armor attachments on Beregond by 2.
"It is over-late to send for aid when you are already besiged." –The Return of the King
"And the Enemy must pay dearly for the crossing of the River." –Denethor, The Return of the King
If each of your heroes has a printed resource icon, Knight of Minas Tirith gains:
Response: After Knight of Minas Tirith enters play, choose an enemy in the staging area. Engage that enemy and exhaust Knight of Minas Tirith to declare it as attacker (and resolve its attack) against that enemy.