Response: After an ally card leaves play, that card's controller draws 2 cards.
"He fell defending the Hobbits, while I was away upon the hill."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
While you are engaged with at least 1 enemy, Amarthiúl gains the resource icon.
While you are engaged with at least 2 enemies, add 1 additional resource to Amarthiúl's resource pool when you collect resources during the resource phase.
"The heirs of Elendil do not forget all things past..."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King
While you are engaged with any enemy, Halbarad does not exhaust to commit to a quest.
You may optionally engage 1 additional enemy during the encounter phase.
"Little do they know of our long labour for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not." –The Return of the King
Guardian of Arnor gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you.
"Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Ingold gets +1 for each hero you control with at least 1 resource in its resource pool.
"We wish for no strangers in the land at this time, unless they be mighty men of arms in whose faith and help we can trust." —The Return of the King
Veteran of Osgiliath gets +1 , +1 , and +1 while your threat is 40 or higher.
"So do we ever watch the shores nigh Osgiliath, which our enemies now partly hold, and issue from it to harry our lands."
–Faramir, The Two Towers
Response: After Weather Hills Watchman enters play, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a Signal card and add it to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
"Rangers use runes, and they come here sometimes." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Dúnedain hero.
Planning Action: Exhaust Heir of Valandil to reduce the cost of the next Dúnedain ally you play this phase by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.
"But my home, such as I have, is in the North. For here the heirs of Valandil have ever dwelt in long line unbroken from father unto son for many generations." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Dúnedain or Gondor hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy with 5 or more printed hit points, exhaust Sword of Númenor to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.
...the flowing characters of Númenor glinted like fire upon the blade.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Ready up to X Dúnedain characters you control. X is the number of enemies engaged with you.
"But when dark things come from the houseless hills, or creep from sunless woods, they fly from us."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Planning Action: Until the end of the round, players do not raise their threat from questing unsuccessfully.
Valour Planning Action: Raise each player's threat by 2 to skip the quest phase this round.
"Dooms hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can stand but unconquered for a little while."
–Gandalf, The Two Towers
Action: Search your deck for a side quest and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"I called for the help of the Dúnedain, and their watch was doubled..."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After an ally leaves play, add it to its owner's hand instead of placing it in the discard pile.
Valour Action: Until the end of the phase, add each ally that leaves play to its owner's hand instead of placing it in the discard pile.
He let blow the horns to rally all men to his banner that could come thither...
–The Return of the King
Play only if you control a Dúnedain hero.
Planning Action: Shuffle 1 of your set aside Ranger of the North allies with the encounter keyword into the encounter deck. Then, remove Ranger Summons from the game.
"We rode as swiftly as we might when your summons came." –Halbarad, The Return of the King
You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to play this card.
Action: The players, as a group, can put up to 2 allies into play from their hands. Each of these allies may enter play under any player's control. At the end of the phase, return each of those allies that are still in play to their owners' hands.
"Often the Rohirrim have aided us, but now the Lord Denethor asks for all your strength and all your speed..."
–Hirgon, The Return of the King
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, each player may search the top 10 cards of his deck for an ally and put it into play under his control. Each player who did shuffles his deck.
Setup: Add 2 resources to Denethor's resource pool.
Action: Move 1 resource from Denethor's resource pool to another Gondor hero's resource pool. (Limit once per round.)
"...why should I sit here in my tower and think, and watch, and wait, spending even my sons? For I can still wield a brand."
-The Return of the King
Knight of the White Tower's resource cost must be paid from a single hero's resource pool.
"...to be only a man of arms of the Guard of the Tower of Gondor is held worthy in the City, and such men have honour in the land." –Beregond, The Return of the King
While the top card of your discard pile is an attachment, Warden of the Havens gets +2 and gains sentinel.
"...and if he comes, assailing the White Towers and the Havens, hereafter the Elves may have no escape from the lengthening shadows of Middle-earth."
–Galdor, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a or sentinel hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero defends against an attack, exhaust Armored Destrier to ready attached hero. Then, discard a shadow card from another enemy engaged with the defending player.
Attach to a hero.
Response: After Dúnedain Remedy is attached to a hero, heal 1 damage on that hero.
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's resource pool to attach Dúnedain Remedy to another hero.
Attach to a character.
Attach character gains the Gondor trait.
But be it known that I have sworn him to my service...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a or a Scout character.
Response: At the beginning of the travel phase, exhaust Mariner’s Compass and attached character to search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a location. Switch that location with a location in the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Attach to a Gondor hero.
Action: Spend 2 resources from attached hero's resource pool to draw 1 card.
"The last Steward of Gondor begs leave to surrender his office." And he held out a white rod.
–The Return of the King
Response: After an enemy is declared as an attacker against you, declare an exhausted character you control as the defender. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Anchor Watch currently in your discard pile (all chosen characters are defending against this attack).
Resource Action: Exhaust a Noble hero you control to add 2 resources to that hero's resource pool.
...in these days men are slow to believe that a captain can be wise and learned in the scrolls of lore and song, as he is, and yet man of hardihood and swift judgement in the field.
–Beregond, The Return of the King
Response: After you declare a Noble character as a defender against an attack made by an engaged enemy, return that enemy to the staging area. Then, cancel the attack.
So great a power and royalty was revealed in Aragorn...that many of the wild men paused, and looked back over their shoulders to the valley, and some looked up doubtfully at the sky.
–The Two Towers
Action: Add X resources to any hero's resource pool. X is half the level of Galdor's Counsel
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: leadership
rounded up. Add Galdor's Counsel to the victory display.Action: Add Command
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: leadership
to the victory display to choose up to X options, where X is its level:• A hero gets +2 until the end of the round.
• An enemy gets -2 until the end of the round.
• Ready a character with Círdan's Blessing on it.
• Put an ally with cost X or less in your discard pile into play. Discard it at the end of the phase.
Attach to a character.
Círdan's Blessing enters play with X resources on it. X is 1 more than the level of Círdan's Blessing
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: leadership
Response: When attached character defends, remove 1 resource from Círdan's Blessing to give that character +3 for this attack.
Surge.
When Revealed: Choose a player to search the top 10 cards of their deck for a card, draw it or play it at no cost, and shuffle their deck. If Send for Help
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: leadership
is upgraded, repeat this effect. Remove Send for Help from the gameShadow: Resolve this card's when revealed effect.
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Response: After Greenwood Defender enters play, it does not exhaust to defend until the end of the round.
...after the coming of Men they took ever more and more to the gloaming and the dusk.
–The Hobbit
Guardian of Esgaroth gets +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 hit point for each different player card attachment it has. (Limit +3 to each.)
The men of the lake–town Esgaroth were mostly indoors, for the breeze was from the black East and chill, but a few were walking on the quays, and watching...
–The Hobbit
Cannot attack, defend, or have attachments.
Refresh Action: Return Messenger Raven to it's owner's hand and name a card type. Choose a player to look at the top card of his deck. If that card is the named type, add it to its owner's hand. If it is not, discard it.
Action: Discard the top 3 cards from your deck to ready Soldier of Erebor. (Limit once per round.)
Attach to a or Noble character. Restricted. Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gets +2 and +2 hit points.
“May it keep you well!” said Théoden. “It was made for me in Thengel's day, while still I was a boy.” –The Two Towers