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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
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Attach to a Dwarf hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
Response: After attached hero takes damage from an enemy attack, exhaust Dwarven Shield to add 1 resource to attached hero's pool.
...each of them had also a short broad sword at his side and a round shield slung at his back.
–The Hobbit
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Action: Exhaust Kahliel's Tribesman to choose another Harad character. That character gets +1 +1
and +1
until the end of the phase.
But the Haradrim, being now driven to the brink, turned at bay, and they were fierce in despair...
–The Return of the King
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Response: After Hirgon quests successfully, play a ally from your hand, reducing its cost by 1 (to a minimum of 1). Then, you may raise your threat by 1 to give that ally +1
and +1
until the end of the round.
"Hirgon I am, errand–rider of Denethor, who bring you this token of war."
–The Return of the King
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Defender of Cair Andros gets +X where X is the tens digit of your threat. (Limit +4
Valour Response: After Defender of Cair Andros is declared as a defender, deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
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As long as you do not have cards in your hand, Eregion Survivor gets +1 +1
and +1
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Attach to a Dale or Warrior character. Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gets +1 (and +1 hit point if attached character has the sentinel keyword).
Each one of his folk was clad in hauberk of steel mail that hung to his knees...
–The Hobbit
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Response: After a character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy with an attachment, that character gets +3 and +3
until the end of this attack.
"Dwarf–mail may be good, but they will soon be hard put to it."
–Bard the Bowman, The Hobbit
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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
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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
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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.")
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Forest Road Traveler gets +1 +1
and +1
for each attachment on the active location.
Only on the Road would travellers be found...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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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
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Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted
Attach hero gets +1 , +1
, and +1
.
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, deal 1 damage to that enemy.
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Attach to a character. Restricted.
Response: After a shadow effect is triggered during combat, exhaust Round Shield to give attached character +2 for this attack.
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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
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Bywater Shirriff gets +1 +1
and +1
while you are engaged with an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat.
The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed.
–The Hobbit
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Action: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to ready the hero with The One Ring Attached. That hero gets +1 , +1
, and +1
until the end of the phase.
“And behold! in our need chance brings to light the Ring of Power.”
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to the hero with The One Ring.
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets +1
Response: Exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to cancel a shadow effect just triggered during an attack that attached hero is defending.
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Attach to a Noble hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2
instead if your threat is 40 or higher).
...his shinning shield was scored with runs...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Action: Bilbo Baggins gets +2 +2
and +2
until the end of the phase. (You may spend a
resource from Bilbo Baggins' resource pool to play this card even if you do not control Bilbo Baggins.)
“You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do.”
– Glóin, The Hobbit
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Response: After you engage an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat, ready Sam Gamgee. He gets +1 , +1
, and +1
until the end of the round.
"I'm going with him...and if any of those Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with" –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Action: Choose a Hobbit character. That character gets +2 , +2
, and +2
until the end of the phase.
"I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me." –Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to a Hobbit hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +2 while defending against an attack by an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.
In their dark cloaks they were invisible as if they all had magic rings. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 defense and gains the Ranger trait.
"What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the Dúnedain were asleep, or were all gone into the grave?"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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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.
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Attach to a Hobbit hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1
and +1
.
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .
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Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero gets +1 and +1 hit point.
"I should feel happier if I knew you were wearing it. I have a fancy it would turn even the knives of the Black Riders..." –Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to a Noble hero or Aragorn. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 +1
and +1
.
Response: After an attack in which the attached hero defended resolves, exhaust Andúril to target the enemy that just attacked. Declare attached hero as an attacker against that enemy (and resolve the attack).
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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
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Play only if you control Aragorn.
Quest Action: Choose 3 heroes committed to the quest. Ready those heroes. Until the end of the round, each of the chosen heroes gets +1 , +1
, and +1
.
"We shall makes such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" –Aragorn, The Two Towers
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Setup: Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1
+1
and cannot have treachery card attachments.
"Beyond all hope you return to us in our need!"
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
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Response: After a sentinel character is declared as a defender, it gets +2 for this attack. If this attack deals no damage, ready the defending character.
...but alone in the porch upon the topmost step stood Beregond, clad in the black and silver of the Guard; and he held the door against them.
–The Return of the King
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While Elladan is in play, Elrohir gets +2
Response: After you optionally engage an Orc enemy, ready Elrohir.
"From the North we came with this purpose, and from Elrond our father we brought this very counsel."
–The Return of the King
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Attach to a Hobbit hero. Limit 2 copies of Friend of Friends in play.
While another hero has Friend of Friends attached, attached hero gets +1 +1
+1
and +1 hit point.
"Come, Mr. Frodo!" he cried, "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well"
–Sam Gamgee, The Return of the King
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Response: After a Silvan ally enters play, that ally gets +1 +1
and +1
until the end of the round.
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Response: After you engage an enemy with a higher engagement cost than your threat, ready Sam Gamgee. He gets +1 , +1
, and +1
until the end of the round.