Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Response: After a card is discarded from your hand, exhaust Silver Harp to return that card to your hand.
Elrond wore a mantle of grey and had a star upon his forehead, and a silver harp was in his hand... –The Return of the King
Attach to a or Noldor hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero commits to a quest, discard a card from your hand to place 2 progress on the active location.
In the dusk its headstall flickered and flashed, as if it were studded with gems like living stars.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Elven-light can only be played from your discard pile.
Action: Return Elven-light to your hand from your discard pile. Then, draw 1 card.
Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven–light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days...
–The Return of the King
Lords of the Eldar can only be played from your discard pile.
Action: Place Lords of the Eldar on the bottom of your deck from your discard pile. Then, until the end of the round all Noldor characters get +1 , +1 , and +1 .
Action: Exhaust a Noldor character to ready a Dúnedain character, or vice-versa. Until the end of the phase, add the exhausted character's printed to the other character's and .
Long was the way that fate them bore,
O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
Through halls of iron and darkling door,
And woods of nightshade morrowless.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
He was taking a wandering course with many turns and doublings, to put off any pursuit. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, reduce each player's threat by 5.
Draw 1 additional card at the beginning of the resource phase.
Forced: After drawing cards at the beginning of the resource phase, choose and discard 1 of those cards.
Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars...
–The Return of the King
Response: After an encounter card with surge is revealed, either ready Lanwyn or give her +2 until the end of the phase. (Limit twice per phase.)
“The Men of Dale used to have the trick of understanding their language, and used them for messengers to fly to the Men of the Lake...”
–Thorin, The Hobbit
Glorfindel can be played from your discard pile.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to ready Glorfindel. (Limit once per phase.)
"He is an Elf-lord of a house of princes."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After you play Linhir Sea-captain from your hand, if you paid all of its resource cost from a single hero's resource pool, both that hero and Linhir Sea-captain do not exhaust to quest this round.
Response: After Rhovanion Outrider commits to the quest, place 1 progress on a location in the staging area. If that location is not explored by this effect, give Rhovanion Outrider +1 until the end of the phase.
While the top card of your discard pile is an event, Sailor of Lune gets +1 and gains: "Cannot be damaged while committed to the quest."
"They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea, they are going into the West and leaving us," said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking his head sadly and solemnly.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Woodland Courier enters play, place 1 progress on a location (2 progress instead if that location has the Forest trait).
Attach to a location. Limit 1 per location
Response: After a player plays a Silvan ally from his hand, place 1 progress on attached location.
He made his end of the rope fast about another tree, and then ran lightly along it, over the river and back again, as if he were on a round.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Noldor character.
Action: Exhaust To the Sea, to the Sea! and discard X cards from your hand to reduce the cost of the next Noldor ally played this phase by X (to a minimum of 1).
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
–The Return of the King
Attach to a hero, or to Éowyn. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
Response: After attached character is removed from the quest, exhaust Windfola to commit attached hero to the quest.
...the great grey steed Windfola made little of the burden; for Dernhelm was less in weight than many men, though lithe and well-knit in frame. –The Return of the King
Play only after the staging step.
Quest Action: Choose X questing Hobbit characters you control. Ready each chosen character and remove them from the quest. Then, reduce your threat by X.
"The road goes on for ever," said Pippin; "but I can't without a rest. It is high time for lunch."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Quest Action: Ready a questing character and give that character +1 until the end of the phase. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Elwing’s Flight currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).
There flying Elwing came to him
and flame was in the darkness lit;
more bright than light of diamond
the fire upon her carcanet.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a hero you control. Each hero with lower threat cost than the chosen hero gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, the players as a group may spend 2 resources to give +2 to each hero with lower threat cost than the chosen hero until the end of the phase.
Wherever he came men's hearts would lift again, and the winged shadows pass from memory.
–The Return of the King
Response: After you commit characters to the quest, if each character you have commited to the quest is a Scout each of these characters gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Response: When a shadow card increases an enemy's by any amount, increase the defending character's by 3 for that attack. Then, the players as a group may spend 2 resources to ready the defending character and give it +3 for its next attack this phase.
...the tides of fate had turned against them and their doom was at hand.
–The Return of the King
Action: Place X progress on a non-unique location in the staging area. X is the level of Galdor's Counsel
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: spirit
Add Galdor's Counsel to the victory display.Action: Add Command
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: spirit
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.
• Each character with Círdan's Blessing on it does not exhaust to commit to a quest this round.
• Place 2 progress on a non-unique location.
• Put Spyglass into play, attached to a hero.
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: spirit
Action: Exhaust Círdan's Blessing and remove 1 resource from it to give attached hero +3 until the end of the phase.
Surge.
When Revealed: Choose one: resource, planning, combat, or refresh. After the current phase, there is an additional instance of the chosen phase. If Send for Help
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: spirit
is upgraded, choose two instead (resolve them in any order). Remove Send for Help from the gameShadow: Resolve this card's when revealed effect.
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While playing an Item attachment, Bard son of Brand is considered to have the printed , , and icons.
Response: When a character leaves play, return each attachment attached to that character to its owners hand. (Limit once per phase.)
While Dáin Ironfoot is defending, he gains,"Action: Discard the top card of your deck to give Dáin Ironfoot +1 for this attack. (Limit 3 times per phase.)"
"The time of my thought is my own to spend."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Reduce the cost to play Item attachments on Descendant of Girion by 1.
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After you play Erebor Toymaker from your hand, reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by 2.
There were toys the like of which they had never seen before, all beautiful and some obviously magical.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Cannot attack or defend.
Response: After Galion enters play, he gets +1 until the end of the round.
"Here am I waiting and waiting down hero, while you fellows drink and make merry and forget your tasks. Small wonder if I fall asleep from weariness!"
–The Hobbit
Response: After Long Lake Fisherman enters play, name a number. Then, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a card whose printed cost is equal to that number and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
North Realm Lookout gets +1 and does not exhaust to quest while it has an Item attachment.
There were people on the look–out on the banks.
–The Hobbit
Cannot have attachments.
Planning Action: Attach Wild Stallion to an ally you control. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Restricted. Limit 1 per ally. Attached ally gets +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 hit point.")
Attach to a Dale or Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 and gains sentinel.
"We make good armour and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a or Scout character. Limit 1 per character.
Encounter Action: Exhaust attached character and discard Grey Cloak to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. That enemy does not make engagement checks against you this phase.
Attach to a Dale or Esgaroth hero.
Planning Action: Exhaust King of Dale to reduce the cost of the next Dale ally you play this phase by 1 for each different player attachment on attached hero. That ally does not require a resource match.
Then Bard II, Brand's son, became King of Dale..
–The Return of the King
Attach to a hero.
Response: When attached hero is dealt any amount of damage, reduce that damage by 1.
It was of silver-steel which the Elves call mithril, and with it went a belt of pearls and crystals. –The Hobbit
Attach to an ally.
Attached ally does not exhaust to quest.
–The Hobbit
Response: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during combat.
"You would die before your stroke fell."
–Legolas, The Two Towers
Action: Choose an attachment with a printed cost of X in any player's discard pile and play that attachment for no cost. (The chosen attachment can belong to any sphere of influence.)
The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths... –The Fellowship of the Ring
Travel Action: Choose a location in the staging area with a player card attachment and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Reduce each player's threat by X, where X is the number of attachments on the active location.
South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day.
–The Hobbit
Action: Choose an ally with a player attachment. Ready that ally.
...the grim–voiced fellow ran hotfoot to the Master. "The dragon is coming or I am a fool!" he cried. "Cut the bridges! To arms! To arms!"
–The Hobbit
Action: Exhaust Fatty Bolger to choose an enemy in the staging area and raise your threat by that enemy's . Until the end of the phase, that enemy does not contribute its . (Limit once per round.)
"I only hope that you do not need rescuing before the day is out" –The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Bilbo Baggins enters play, search your deck for a Pipe attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"Elves may thrive on speech alone, and Dwarves endure great weariness, but I am an old Hobbit, and I miss my meal at noon." –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Hobbit character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After your threat is reduced by an event card effect, exhaust Hobbit Pipe to draw a card.
But even the Dúnedain of Gondor allow us this credit: Hobbits first put it into pipes. Not even the Wizards first thought of that before we did. –The Fellowship of the Ring