Response: After Mirkwood Explorer quests successfully, place 1 progress on it.
Action: Exhaust Mirkwood Explorer to move all progress from it to a location in play.
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.
Response: After Ered Luin Miner is discarded from your deck, put it into play under your control.
Tools were to be found in plenty that the miners and quarriers and builders of old had used; and at such work the dwarves were still very skilled.
–The Hobbit
Response: After Marksman of Lórien enters play, choose an enemy. That enemy gets -2 until the end of the round.
"Keen are the eyes of the Elves."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
Response: After Woodland Courier enters play, place 1 progress on a location (2 progress instead if that location has the Forest trait).
Response: After you travel to a location, spend 1 resource to raise the engagement cost of each enemy in play by X until the end of the round, where X is that location's quest points. Any player may trigger this response.
"Gave me a chance of walking round the country and seeing folk, and hearing the news, and knowing where the good beer was."
–The Return of the King
Veteran Sword-elf gets +1 and +1 for each copy of Veteran Sword-elf in your discard pile.
The elves were the first to charge. Their hatred for the goblins is cold and bitter.
–The Hobbit
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.
Cannot attack or defend.
Action: Spend 1 resource and exhaust Ioreth. Then, heal 3 points of damage on a character. Any player may trigger this action.
Thus spake Ioreth, wise–woman of Gondor: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.
–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
Response: After Guardian of Ithilien enters play, return an enemy engaged with you to the staging area.
From such men the Lord Denethor chose his forayers.to harry the Orcs and other enemies that roamed between the Ephel Dúath and the River.
–The Two Towers
Response: After Greenwood Archer enters play, ready a hero.
They dwelt most often by the edges of the woods, from which they could escape at times to hunt...
–The Hobbit
Response: When you play Erebor Guard from your hand, discard the top 2 cards of your deck to reduce its cost by 2.
...the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise. –The Hobbit
While there is a side quest in the victory display, Halfling Bounder gains:"Response: Discard Halfling Bounder to cancel the 'when revealed' effects of an encounter card that was just revealed from the encounter deck."
"The Bounders have never been so busy before."
–Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
While there is a side quest in the victory display, Vigilant Dúnadan does not exhaust to defend.
"I don't think we've rightly understood till now what they did for us."
–Barliman Butterbur, The Return of the King
Response: After you play Andrath Guardsman from your hand, choose a non-unique enemy engaged with you. That enemy cannot attack you this round.
They forgot or ignored what little they had known of the Guardians, and of the labours of those that made possible the long peace of the Shire.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Firyal commits to the quest, look at the top card of the encounter deck. Then, you may discard the looked at card.
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
Forced: After this ally enters play, search the top 5 cards of the encounter deck for a non-unique location and add it to the staging area. If no location enters play by this effect, discard Dúnedain Pathfinder. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Response: When the active location leaves play as an explored location, discard Eryn Galen Settler to discard a location in the staging with the same title as the just explored location.
Response: When you play an event, give it Doomed 1. to draw a card. You cannot trigger this ability if you have already triggered the ability of a Steward of Orthanc this round.
"...the power of Orthanc cannot be lightly thrown aside..."
–Saruman, The Two Towers
While a side quest is in the victory display, Rider of Rohan does not exaust to quest.
"Who are you, and what are you doing in this land?" said the Rider, using the Common Speech of the West...
–The Two Towers
Response: Discard Dúnedain Lookout to cancel the 'When Revealed' effects of an enemy just revealed from the encounter deck.
"Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen gives us scornful names."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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.
Action: Exhaust Southron Refugee to reduce the cost of the next Harad ally you play this phase by 1.
...to the land of the Haradrim came only a tale from far off...
–The Return of the King
Response: After Riddermark Knight is declared as an attacker, it gets +2 for this attack. At the end of this attack, discard Riddermark Knight.
As long as you do not have cards in your hand, Eregion Survivor gets +1 +1 and +1
Cannot have restricted attachments. Enters play exhausted.
Leaflock gets +1 for each damaged Ent you control (limit +4
Reduce the cost to play Halfast Gamgee by 1 for each side quest in the victory display.
Response: After Halfast Gamgee enters play, add 1 resource to a hero's resource pool.
"He works for Mr. Boffin at Overhill and goes up to the Northfarthing for the hunting."
–Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Beorning Guardian participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, discard Beorning Guardian to place X progress on a location, where X is the destroyed enemy's printed
"...if it were not for the Beornings, the passage from Dale to Rivendell would long ago have become impossible."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After Emyn Arnen Ranger commits to the quest, choose an enemy with a Trap attachment. Until the end of the phase, Emyn Arnen Ranger gets +X where X is the chosen enemy's printed
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
Action: Exhaust Long Lake Trader to move an Item attachment from a character you control to another eligible character.
"Nowhere are there any men so friendly to us as the Men of Dale."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring
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
Combat Action: Choose a Beorning ally with printed cost 3 or more in your hand or discard pile. Discard Beorning Skin-changer to put that ally into play.
"...sometimes he is a huge black bear, sometimes he is a great strong black–haired man with huge arms and a great beard."
–Gandalf, 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.
Response: After you play Wiglaf, play an Item attachment on him from your hand for no cost.
Action: Exhaust an attachment on Wiglaf to ready him. (Limit once per phase.)