Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for any number of Eagle cards and add them to your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
"The Eagles! The Eagles!" –Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Action: Discard Beorning Beekeeper from play to deal 1 damage to each enemy in the staging area.
"We are getting near," said Gandalf. "We are on th eedge of his bee pastures." – The Hobbit
Attach to an ally.
Action: Discard Born Aloft from play to return attached ally to its owner's hand.
"Very well," said Gandalf. "Take us where and as far as you will!" –The Hobbit
Sentinel. Landroval cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After a hero card is destroyed, return Landroval to his owner's hand to put that hero back into play, with 1 damage token on it. (Limit once per game.)
Response: After Brand son of Bain attacks and defeats an enemy engaged with another player, choose and ready one of that player's characters.
"The grandson of Bard the Bowman rules them, Brand son of Bain son of Bard."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Descendant of Thorondor cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After Descendant of Thorondor enters or leaves play, deal 2 damage to any 1 enemy in the staging area.
Action: Choose an Eagle ally. Return that character to its owner's hand.
Not event an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of doom...
–The Two Towers
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
Ranged.Vassal of the Windlord cannot have restricted attachments.
Forced: After an attack in which Vassal of the Windlord attacked resolves, discard Vassal of the Windlord from play.
Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust Song of Mocking to choose another hero. Until the end of the phase, attached hero takes all damage assigned to the chosen hero.
Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop. Stop your spinning and look for me!
-Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Eagles of the Misty Mountains cannot have restricted attachments. Eagles of the Misty Mountains gets +1 and +1 for each facedown attachment it has.
Response: After another Eagle character leaves play, you may attach that card facedown to Eagles of the Misty Mountains.
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
Attach to a Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1
Response: After attached character attacks, deal 1 damage to the defending enemy.
"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." –Gloin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Choose a character you control. Until the end of the phase, that character gets +3 while attacking an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat.
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 for each resource token on another copy of Keeping Count that is above the current number of resource tokens on this card.
Forced: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, place 1 resource token on this card.
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character. Restricted.
When attached character attacks an enemy, that enemy gets -2 until the end of the phase.
Action: Exhaust X characters to deal X damage to an enemy in the staging area.
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.
Attach to a Noldor or Silvan character, or to Aragorn. Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gains ranged.
If attached character has the printed ranged keyword, it gets +1 during a ranged attack.
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 .)
Attach to a Dwarf or Hobbit character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 hit point and +1 .
"And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain..."
–Gimli, The Fellowship of the Ring
Trollshaw Scout does not exhaust to attack.
Forced: After Trollshaw Scout attacks, either discard it from play or discard 1 card from your hand.
Response: After a Dwarf deals X damage to an enemy during combat, deal an additional X damage to that enemy. (Limit once per phase.)
"Beside them Gimli stood with his stout legs apart, wielding his dwarf–axe." –The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Exhaust a character you control with ranged to immediately declare it as an attacker (and resolve its attack) against an enemy in the staging area. It gets +1 during this attack.
"We live now upon an island amid perils, and our hands are more often upon thr bowstring than upon the harp."
–Haldir, 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
Action: Ready a defending Gondor character. That character gets +1 until the end of the phase.
...seven walls of stone so strong and old that it seemed to have been not builded by carven by giants out of the bones of the earth. –The Return of the King
Attach to a character. Restricted.
Limit 1 per character.
Response: After attached character is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
Each Outlands character you control gets +1 .
...foremost on the field rode the swan–knights of Dol Amroth with their Prince and his blue banner at their head. –The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gains +1 . (+2 instead if attached hero has the Gondor trait.)
There flowered a White Tree, and that was for Gondor...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a hero hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, deal 1 damage to another enemy that shares a Trait with the enemy just destroyed.
He slew many of them and the rest fled. –The Two Towers
Response: Cancel up to 2 points of damage just dealt to a Gondor character.
At last, less than a mile from the City, a more ordered mass of men came into view, marching not running, still holding together. –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.
If there is at least 1 Rohan hero in play, lower the cost to play Guthlaf by 1.
If there is at least 1 Gondor hero in play, Guthlaf gains sentinel.
Encounter Action: Engage each enemy in play.
..we have this honour: ever we bear the brunt of the chief hatred of the Dark Lord, for that hatred comes down out of the of the depths of time and over the deeps of the Sea.
–Denethor, The Return of the King
Attach to a Rohan character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking an enemy in the staging area).
Right through the press drove Théoden Thengel's son, and his spear was shivered as he threw down thier chieftan. –The Return of the King
Action: Discard Westfold Outrider to choose an enemy not engaged with you. Engage the chosen enemy.
"Erkenbrand of Westfold has drawn off those men he could gather towards his fastness at Helm's Deep. The rest are scattered."–Rider of Rohan, The Two Towers
Attach to a or Rohan hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, exhaust Rohan Warhorse to ready attached hero.
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean–limbed... –The Two Towers