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When Revealed: Discard 1 random card from your hand. Snaga gets +X until the end of the round, where X is the discarded card's printed cost.
Round them were many smaller goblins. –The Two Towers
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When Revealed: Either discard 1 random card from your hand, or reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard 1 random card from your hand.
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When Revealed: Either discard 1 random card from each player's hand, or Orc of Cirith Ungol makes an immediate attack against you.
"I say, something has slipped. And we've got to look out. Always the poor Uruks to put slips right." -Gorbag, The Two Towers
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When Revealed: Put the topmost Orc enemy in the discard pile into play engaged with you.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
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When Revealed: Either deal 2 damage to a hero you control, or deal 2 damage to Minas Tirith.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it has the Mordor trait).
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While Minas Tirith is in play, undefended damage dealt by Mordor Orc must be dealt to Minas Tirith.
Shadow: If Minas Tirith is in play, engage Mordor Orc and deal it a shadow card.
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Cannot have attachments. Cannot take non-combat damage.
Allies cannot attack or defend against Shagrat.
Forced: After progress is placed on the quest, Shagrat gets -X engagement cost until the end of the round. X is the amount of progress just placed.
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Wounded Uruk enters play with 2 damage on it.
Forced: After Wounded Uruk engages you, it gets +2 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each damage on it.
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Forced: After Orc Captain engages you, make a Fortitude test. If you fail this test, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
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Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
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Forced: After Big Uruk engages you, either raise your threat by 4, or Big Uruk makes an immediate attack against you.
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Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each ally you control.
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Forced: After Orc of Mordor engages you, exhaust a character you control.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
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Forced: After Snaga Archer engages you, deal 2 damage to a character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending character is damaged).
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Forced: After Uru Soldier engages you, raise your threat by 2.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
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Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, all copies of Snaga Scouts engage the player with the lowest threat. (The first player chooses in case of a tie.)
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If the players have crossed the Anduin, Uruk Vanguard gets +3 .
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if players have crossed the Anduin).
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When Revealed: Orc of Ered Luin makes an immediate attack against each player that controls at least 1 Loot objective (in turn order).
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player, then makes an immediate attack.
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Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Host of Angmar attacks and destroys a character, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or return Host of Angmar to the staging area.
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Forced: When Orc of Angmar attacks, either remove 1 progress from the main quest, or it gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Defender gets -2 until end of round.
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Forced: After Angmar Warg-rider engages you, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or it makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
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Cannot have attachments.
While Vanguard of Carn D–m is in the staging area, no more than 5 progress can be placed on the main quest each round.
Shadow: Defender cannot ready this round.
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Chieftain Morlug attacks you, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded and put it into play engaged with you.
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X is the number of players.
Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, if Host of Dol Guldur is in the staging area, remove X progress from the main quest.
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Forced: After Amon Lanc Archer engages you, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or deal 2 damage to an ally you control.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
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Dol Guldur Marauder gets +1 and +1 for each resource on it.
Forced: When Dol Guldur Marauder attacks, either remove 1 progress from the main quest or place 1 resource on Dol Guldur Marauder.
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Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: At the end of the combat phase, easy player deals 1 damage to a hero he controls.
Shadow: Defending character does not count it's
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Forced: After Dol Guldur Beastmaster engages you, the opposing team searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a Necromancer's Warg and puts it into play engaged with you. Shuffle the enconter deck.
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When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a character he controls.
Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for each damage on it.
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Cannot have non-objective player card attachments or take non-combat damage.
Forced: After Chieftain Ufthak engages you, the opposing team searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an Orc enemy of cost 1 or less and puts it into play engaged with you. Shuffle the encounter deck.
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When Revealed: If there is another Orc enemy in the staging area, Wolf Rider gains surge.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is an Orc put Wolf Rider into play engaged with you.
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While Mirkwood Patrol is in the staging area, enemies cannot be optionally engaged.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it was engaged this round).
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When Revealed: Ambushing Orcs makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Shadow: Engaged the lowest engagement cost enemy in the staging area and deal it a shadow card.
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Goblin Follower cannot be optionally engaged.
While Goblin Follower is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy engages a player, Goblin Follower engages that player.
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Cannot have non-objective player card attachments or take non-combat damage
Forced: After Goblin Warlord enters play, the opposing team searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a 0-cost Goblin enemy and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
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While Goblin Archer is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, assign X damage among characters in play, where X is the number of enemies in play."
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When Revealed: The opposing team searches the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a Goblin enemy with cost 1 or less and adds it to the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1
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When Revealed: Return each copy of Swarming Goblins in the encounter discard pile to the staging area.
Shadow: If the attacking enemy is a Goblin put Swarming Goblins into play engaged with you.
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Forced: After Hobgobling engages a player, it cannot take damage until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage this phase.
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Forced: At the beginning of the combat phase, deal each engaged enemy an additional shadow card.
Shadow: Deal attacking enemy 2 additional shadow cards.
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While Black Uruks is attacking, it gets +1 for each shadow card dealt for this attack.
Shadow: The opposing team searches the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a card and deals it to attacking enemy as a shadow card.
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Forced: After Orc Raider engages a player, deal it a shadow card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Deal it an additional shadow card.
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Cannot have non-objective player card attachments or take non-combat damage.
Shadow effects cannot be canceled.
Forced: When Chieftain of the Pit attacks, deal it an additional shadow card.
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When Revealed: Add 1 resource token to each Dol Guldur location in play.
Shadow: Any hero damaged but not defeated by this attack is turned face down, as a "prisoner." Then, if the players are on stage 3, return to stage 2B of the quest.
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Goblin Eagle-hunter gets +1 hit point per player.
Forced: At the end of the combat phase, deal 1 damage to Wilyador
Shadow: If Wilyador has 10 or less damage on him, deal 2 damage to Wilyador.
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Orc Interceptor gets +1 and +1 for each resource token on it.
Forced: After a location leaves play as an explored location, place a resource token on Orc Interceptor.
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When Ambushing Orcs is dealt a shadow card that targets the player guarding Gollum that shadow card also targets each other player
"It was that very night of summer, yet moonless and starless, that Orcs came on us at unawares." –Legolas, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: After the player guarding Gollum changes, Pursuing Warg-rider engages the player guarding Gollum and makes an immediate attack against that player.
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Forced: After Cave Torch exhausts, Patrol Sentry makes an immediate attack against the engaged player, if able.
Shadow: Add Patrol Sentry to the staging area.