When Revealed: Deal 2 shadow cards to each enemy in play. Deal 2 damage to each Battleground location in play.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
Rise to Power contributes X to the staging area during the quest phase, where X is the number of resources on it.
Forced: At the end of the round, place 2 resources on Rise to Power.
When Revealed: Attach Assassination to the hero with the highest threat cost. (Counts as a Plot attachment with the text: "Each enemy gets +1 Attached hero cannot be healed. Damage from undefended attacks and A Knife in the Back must be assigned to attached hero. If attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.")
When Revealed: Murderous Turncoat makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Forced: At the end of the combat phase, place Murderous Turncoat facedown underneath the active location if you are not at stage 3.
If the active location has at least 1 facedown card underneath it, Faithless Conspirator cannot take damage.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
Forced: At the end of the round, place 1 resource token on Traitors' Den. Then, if it has 4 or more resource tokens on it, remove all tokens from it and reveal at random one of the Plot cards removed from the game during setup. Add that card to the staging area.
While Rath Celerdain is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, reveal the top card of the underworld deck. If it is an objective, discard it."
"...go down to the lowest circle and ask for the Old Guesthouse in the Rath Celerdain, the Lampwrights' Street." –Beregond, The Return of the King
Travel: Reveal all facedown cards underneath Arched Tunnel, one at a time. Then, place the top card of the underworld deck facedown underneath Arched Tunnel, if able.
And each time that it passed the line of the Great Gate it went through an arched tunnel... –The Return of the King
When Revealed: Each player must either raise his threat by 5 or exhaust each ready character he controls.
Shadow: After this attack, return attacking enemy to the staging area. Then, it makes engagement checks against each player.
Dr–-buri-Dr– cannot take more than 1 damage each round.
While Dr–-buri-Dr– is in play, other Wose enemies get +1 and +1
Unless Dr–-buri-Dr– is in the victory display, the players cannot win the game.
Each hero with no resources in its resource pool cannot be declared as an attacker or defender against Drúadan Warrior.
As an additional cost to optionally engage Drúadan Stalker, you must spend 2 resources.
Immune to player card effects.
While Devil's Mirk is in the staging area, characters cannot be healed.
While Devil's Mirk is the active location, each Wose enemy gets +2
Players cannot travel to Eilenach unless there is at least 1 resource in each hero's resource pool.
Shadow: If the defending character has no resources, deal it 1 damage.
...standing up from the long ridges of the Drúadan Forest... –The Return of the King
While Stonewain Valley is in the staging area, resources discarded or spent by the first player for any reason are placed on Stonewain Valley.
Stonewain Valley gets +1 for each resource on it.
"Way is wide for four horses in Stonewain Valley yonder," he waved his hand southwards: "but narrow at beginning and at end." –Ghân–buri–Ghân, The Return of the King
When Revealed: Each player must trigger the prowl keyword on each enemy engaged with him, as if that enemy had been revealed from the encounter deck. Then, return each engaged Wose enemy to the staging area. If no enemies are returned to the staging area by this effect, Drums of the Wild Men gains surge.
When Revealed: Either discard 1 villager token from Rescued Villagers, or Orc Raiders makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Either discard 1 villager token from Rescued Villagers, or reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: Deal attacking enemy 1 shadow card for each villager token on the active location.
Forced: When any amount of progress is placed on a location in the staging area, discard 1 villager token from that location.
Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck for an enemy, reveals it, and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Overrun Village is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy engages a player, discard 1 villager token from Overrun Village."
Travel: Place 1 damage token on Dead Villagers.
When Revealed: Place 3 damage tokens on Dead Villagers. Until the end of the round, add 1 to the total in the staging area for each damage token on Dead Villagers.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 If this attack destroys an ally, place 1 damage token on Dead Villagers.
When Revealed: Discard 1 villager token from Rescued Villagers. Assign X damage among characters in play. X is the number of damage tokens on Dead Villagers.
Shadow: Either discard 1 villager token from Rescued Villagers, or this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either discard 2 villager tokens from Rescued Villagers, or search the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy, reveal it, and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Deal is another shadow card.
Forced: After Invading Orc attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller returns a location he controls to the staging area.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, return a location you control to the staging area.
X is the number of locations controlled by the first player.
Forced: After Haradrim Warrior engages a player, it gets +X and +X until the end of the round.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to defending character.
Immune to player card effects. Palace Remains gets +1 for each resource token on it.
The players cannot travel here unless there are at least 5 resource tokens on Palace Remains.
While Palace Remains is in the staging area, it gains"Forced: After a player takes control of a location, place 1 resource token here."
Forced: When you take control of Crumbled Battlements, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded. Put the discarded enemy into play engaged with you.
"Here they come pouring through the breaches!" –Man of Gondor, The Return of the King
Forced: When you take control of Eastern Quarter, discard each event card in your hand.
While a player controls Eastern Quarter it gains:"Forced: After the 'when revealed' effect of a treachery is canceled, return Easter Quarter to the staging area."
Forced: When you take control of Western Quarter, discard the highest cost attachment you control.
While a player controls Western Quarter it gains:"Forced: After the 'when revealed' effect of a treachery is canceled, return Western Quarter to the staging area."
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Each enemy gets -X engagement cost. X is the number of locations controlled by players.Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, if there are fewer than X enemies in the staging area, reveal an encounter card.")
When Revealed: Add X to the total in the staging area this phase. X is the number of locations the players control. If X is less than 4, Overrun Defenses gains doomed 2.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control (2 characters instead of you control 4 or more locations).
When Revealed: If the total of locations controlled by players is greater than the total in the staging area, raise each player's threat by 2 and immediately end the quest phase without resolving the quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each location you control.
X is the total number of hidden cards in the game.
Forced: When Black Númenorean engages you, turn all hidden cards in your play area faceup.
Forced: At the end of the round, each player must raise his threat by 1 for each hidden card in his play area.
Forced: After Orc Trickster is turned faceup as a hidden card, it makes an immediate attack against the engaged player.
Forced: When Orc Trickster would be damaged, a random player takes it facedown as a hidden card in his play area instead.
Forced: After Uruk Marksman is turned faceup as a hidden card, deal 3 damage to a character controlled by the engaged player and return Uruk Marksman to the staging area.
X is the highest number of hidden cards in any player's play area.
Shadow: Turn 1 hidden card in your play area faceup. If it is a treachery card, attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
While Mountains of Shadow is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After you turn 1 or more hidden cards faceup, take 1 hidden card."
Shadow: Either take 2 hidden cards, or this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: Each player must either take 1 hidden card for each questing hero he controls, or remove one hero he controls from the quest for each hidden card in his play area.
When Revealed: Each player turns each hidden card in his play area faceup. Each player then takes hidden cards equal to the number of hidden cards he just turned faceup.
Shadow: Take 1 hidden card. Then, turn 1 hidden card in your play area faceup.
Each Captain enemy gets +1
Forced: At the end of the round, heal all damage from each Captain enemy in play.
Shadow: Heal all damage from each Captain enemy in play.
Forced: At the end of the round, if Orc Captor is in the staging area, place 1 progress token on To the Tower.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3 until the end of the combat phase.
X is the number of progress tokens on To the Tower.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on To the Tower.
Forced: When Banks of Morgulduin is explored, deal it facedown as a shadow card to a Captain enemy.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Captain deal it 3 additional shadow cards for this attack.
While Ephel Dúath is in the staging area, each Captain enemy gets +2
Shadow: Defending player must either place 1 progress token on To the Tower or treat this attack as undefended.
Forced: At the end of the round, each player must either exhaust a hero he controls or place 1 progress token on To the Tower.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
When Revealed: Place 1 progress token on To the Tower. Until the end of the phase, The Towers Beckons adds X to the total in the staging area, where X is the number of progress tokens on To the Tower.
Shadow: Place 1 progress token on To the Tower.
When Revealed: Place 1 progress token on To the Tower. Each player must assign damage among characters he controls equal to the number of progress token on To the Tower.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on To the Tower.