Dunland Assassin cannot be optionally engaged by a player with 3 or more cards in his hand.
While Dunland Assassin is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After the first player draws any number of cards, Dunland Assassin makes an immediate attack against him."
Forced: After Vengeful Hillman attacks and destroys a character, remove 1 progress the current quest card for each card in the defending player's hand.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
While the engaged player has 3 or more cards in hand, Savage Hillman cannot take damage.
While the engaged player has 5 or more cards in hand, Savage Hillman gets +2
X is the number of cards in the first player's hand.
While Western Shore is in the staging area, each enemy gets -X engagement cost.
Shadow: If you have 5 or more cards in your hand, this attack is considered undefended.
While Eastern Shore is in the staging area, each player cannot play more than 1 event each round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, remove 1 time counter from the current quest.
While Isen River is in the staging area, each player cannot discard cards from his hand.
Forced: After Isen River becomes the active location, each player draws a card
Now further, and now nearer Isen flowed in its stony bed.
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the number of cards in his hand.
Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control. X is the number of cards in your hand.
Forced: After Vigilant Orc enters the staging area, it makes an immediate attack against the first player. If this attack destroys a character, remove 1 time counter from the current quest.
Fierce and shrill rose the yells of the Orcs, and suddenly horn–calls ceased. –The Two Towers
While Methedras Lookout is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, remove 1 time counter from the current quest."
Shadow: Either exhaust a character you control, or return attacking enemy to the staging area.
Forced: After the engaged player discards any number of cards from his out-of-play deck, Guard Warg makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
X is the number of characters controlled by the first player.
Forced: After Methedras Peak leaves play as an explored location, each player searches 3.
...they had come to the feet of the mountains, and to the green roots of tall Methedras. –The Two Towers
Forced: After Orc Trail leaves play as an explored location, choose an out of play Orc enemy, either set aside or in the victory display, and add it to the staging area. Then, the first player searches 4.
"No other folk make such a trampling."
–Legolas, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player discard the top 3 cards of his out-of-play deck. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area. If no enemies are added to the staging area this way, Mugash's Cunning gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3 and +3 until the end of the round.
When Revealed: If Mugash is attached to a hero, the player who controls that hero unattaches Mugash and engages it. Then, Mugash makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the round.
Hinder. Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the beginning of each resource phase, the engaged player discards 1 attachment he controls.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Hinder. Cannot have attachments.
While Blocking Huorn is engaged with a player, it adds its to the staging area.
Shadow: Put Blocking Huorn into play engaged with you.
Hinder. Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the beginning of each resource phase, the engaged player exhausts a hero he controls.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the round.
While Tangled Forest is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After any amount of progress is removed from the current quest, assign X damage amoung characters in play. X is the number of progress just removed. This ability does not stack with other copies of Tangled Forest."
While Entwood is in the staging area, each Huorn enemy in the staging area gains: "Immune to player card effects."
Travel: The first player engages the highest engagement cost Huorn enemy in the staging area.
While Dark Corner of Fangorn is in the staging area, each Huorn enemy loses the hinder keyword.
Forced: After Dark Corner of Fangorn becomes the active location, each engaged Huorn enemy makes an immediate attack.
"...it is perilous to touch the trees of that wood, it is said."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Either remove 6 progress from the current quest, or remove 1 time counter from the current quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
Forced: After Boar Clan Ambusher attacks and destroys a character, discard a random card from your hand.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard a random card from your hand.
Forced: After the engaged player draws any number of cards, deal 1 damage to a hero he controls.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to a hero you control (2 damage instead if undefended).
Whiles Plains of Dunland is in the staging area, each Dunland enemy gets -20 engagement cost and cannot be optionally engaged.
Travel: The first player engages the highest enemy in the staging area to travel here.
While Munuv D–v River is in the staging area, it gainst:"Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, he deals 1 shadow card to an enemy engaged with him."
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each enemy engaged with you.
While Hithaeglir Woods is in the staging area, each Dunland enemy in the staging area cannot take damage.
Travel: Deal each Dunland enemy a shadow card to travel here.
When Revealed: Each engaged enemy makes an immediate attack. If no attacks are made this way, Boar Clan Assault gains surge.
Shadow: Each enemy engaged with you gets +1 until the end of the phase.
When Revealed: Each player draws 1 card. Until the end of the round, add X to the total in the staging area. X is the number of card in the first player's hand.
Shadow: Put the topmost enemy in the discard pile into play engaged with you and deal it a shadow card.
While Sacred Forest is in the staging area, each Guardian enemy gains:"Forced: After any number of time counters are removed from this enemy, heal 2 damage on it for each time counter removed."
Travel: Remove each time counter from an enemy in play to travel here.
When faced with the option to travel, players must travel to Haunted Pillars, if able.
When Revealed: Either return the active location to the staging area, or Haunted Pillars gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3 until the end of the phase.
When Revealed: Attach to a hero with a Key objective attached, if able. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot commit to the quest, and cannot attack or defend against enemies with a Trait shared by any of that hero's attached Key objectives.")
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. (Counts as Condition attachment with the text: "Each non-unique characters gets -1 and cannot attack enemies that share a Trait with the current trial's Key objective.")
Shadow: If the defending character is not unique, attacking enemy gets +10
While a player controls 5 or more allies, Bellach's Hunter gets -20 engagement cost.
Forced: When Bellach's Hunter engages a player, that player must either remove all time counters from the current quest or deal 5 damage to a hero he controls.
When Revealed: Either reduce each player's threat elimination level by 2, or Orc Seeker engages the first player and makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Reduce each player's threat elimination level by 2 (5 instead if undefended).
Forced: When Blood Hound engages you, raise your threat by 5.
Shadow: Either raise your threat by 10, or attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
While City of Spies is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When you commit a character to the quest, raise your threat by 1. This effect does not stack with other copies of City of Spies."
While Dark Pathway is the active location, the first treachery card without the printed surge keyword revealed during the quest phase gains surge.
Shadow: Either remove 1 time counter from the current quest or treat this attack as undefended.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either remove 1 time counter from the quest or discard an ally he controls from play. Then, if any player's threat is 20 or less, Waylaid by Agents gains doomed 3.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if your threat is 20 or less).
When Revealed: Attach Tharbad Patrol to a non-unique location in the staging area without a copy of Tharbad Patrol attached. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: After the players travel to attached location, each player must discard the top 2 cards from the encounter deck and engage each enemy he discarded in this way.")
Forced: After Deadly Marsh Adder engages you, discard a damaged character you control.
Forced: After the players advance to a quest stage return Deadly Marsh Adder to the staging area.
Cannot have attachments.
While Swarm of Mosquitoes is in the victory display, it gains:"Forced: After the players advance to a quest stage, return Swarm of Mosquitoes to the staging area."
While Desolate Meadow is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After any number of time counters are removed from the current quest, heal 2 damage on each Creature enemy in play."
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
While Peat Bog is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After the players advance to a quest stage, each player discards 1 random card from his hand."
Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long–forgotten summers.
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: Either remove 1 time counter from the current quest or remove each character with 3 or more from the quest.
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
When Revealed: Return the topmost location in the encounter discard pile to the staging area. Until the end of the phase, each location in the staging area gets +1
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.