The Searching Eye functions like a player card.
Forced: After you draw this card, either exhaust each hero you control, or reveal an encounter card.
...that horrible growing sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh... -The Two Towers
When Revealed: Either raise your threat by 1 for each character you control that is committed to the quest, or deal 1 damage to each character committed to the quest.
Shadow: Raise your threat by the attacking enemy's
When Revealed: Put the topmost Undead enemy in the discard pile into play engaged with you. Each Undead enemy engaged with you makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Put the topmost Undead enemy in the discard pile into play engaged with you.
When Revealed: Either place the lowest
Harad enemy engaged with you facedown under The Black Gate or reveal the top card from under The Cross-roads and put it into play engaged with you.
"Always more people coming to Mordor. One day all the peoples will be inside." -Gollum, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player must either return an enemy engaged with him to the staging area, or search the encounter deck for a Harad enemy and put it into play engaged with him.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place attacking enemy facedown under The Black Gate.
When Revealed: Either place the lowest Harad enemy in the staging area facedown under The Black Gate and reveal an additional encounter card, or each enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against you.
"Not nice; very cruel wicked Men they look. Almost as bad as Orcs..." -Gollum, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, each Harad enemy gains Archery 2.
Shadow: Either place attacking enemy facedown under The Black Gate after this attack, or it makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Each player discards 1 random card from his hand and 1 non-objective attachment he controls.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
"Ugh! That smell!" he said. "It's getting stronger and stronger." -The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each location in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the round. If the number of locations in the staging area is less than the number of players in the game, reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X where X is the active location's
When Revealed: The first player must choose: either search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Nazgul enemy and add it to the staging area, or exhaust The One Ring and reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Either flip Sméagol to Gollum, or Gollum makes an immediate attack. The first player may spend 1
resource and exhaust The One Ring to cancel this effect.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if the attacking enemy is Gollum).
When Revealed: Attach to a hero you control and exhaust that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero. Treat attached hero's text box as blank, except for Traits. Attached hero cannot ready.")
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Shelob, resolve the 'When Revealed' effect on Shelob's Poison.
When Revealed: Shelob gets +2 until the end of the phase. Then, she makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Shelob, she makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Each player with a threat of 35 or higher deal 1 damage to each exhausted character he controls.
Shadow: If your threat is 35 or higher, defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
When Revealed: Either attach a set aside Overcome by Fear to your threat dial, or each character you control gets -1
-1 and -1
until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if undefended).
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either attach a set aside Overcome by Fear to your threat dial, or discard an ally you control
Shadow: Either attach a set aside Overcome by Fear to your threat dial, or attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Either return each Corsair enemy engaged with you to the staging area, or discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until a Corsair enemy is discarded and put that enemy into play engaged with you.
"...there men of Lamedon contested the fords with fell folk of Umbar and Harad who had sailed up the river."
–Legolas, The Return of the King
When Revealed: Each Ship location in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If there are no non-unique Ship locations in the staging area, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Ship location and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either add 3 to the total in the staging area until the end of the phase, or discard the highest cost attachment you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, discard an attachment you control.
When Revealed: Either immediately end the quest phase (without resolving the quest), or assign X damage among questing characters you control. X is the number of resources on The Corsair Fleet.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Shadow: Either deal 3 damage to Minas Tirith or attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Attach to a Nazgûl enemy. Limit 1 per enemy. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and -10 engagement cost.Forced: At the end of the round, return attached enemy to the staging area.
...horrible as carrion–fowl yet greater than eagles, cruel as death. –The Return of the King
When Revealed: Remove a hero you control from the quest and attach Black Dart to that hero. Limit 1 per hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the end of the round, deal 1 damage to attached hero.")
Shadow: If this attack damages a hero, attach Black Dart to that hero.
When Revealed: Either deal 1 damage to each exhausted character, or deal 5 damage to Minas Tirith.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, deal 2 damage to Minas Tirith.
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a hero he controls. Until the end of the round, treat the printed text box of each damaged character as if it were blank, except for Traits.
...a great cloud streamed slowly westward from the Black Land, devouring light... –The Return of the King
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, each enemy gets +1 for each damage on it. If there are no enemies in the staging area, Orcish Howls gains surge.
Shadow: If you are engaged with another enemy, resolve this attack against that enemy.
When Revealed: Either search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Nazgûl enemy and add it to the staging area, or attach Hell-hawk to a Nazgûl enemy in play. (Counts as a Mount attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per enemy. Attached enemy gets +2 +2 +2 and is immune to play card effects.")
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each character you control, or discard the highest cost ally you control.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the number of resources on The Black Gate.
Shadow: Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each resource on The Black Gate.
When Revealed: The Mouth of Sauron makes an immediate attack against you. If this attack destroys a character, raise your threat by 4.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if it is The Mouth of Sauron).
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a questing character he controls. Until the end of the phase, each damaged character gets -1 and cannot be healed.
Shadow: Choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Engage it and deal it a shadow card.
When Revealed: Gollum makes an immediate attack against the first player. If Gollum is not in play, search the encounter deck and discard pile for Gollum and put him into play engaged with the first player.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Gollum he makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Make a Fortitude test. If The One Ring is exhausted, add (|) (|) to the test. If you fail this test, raise your threat by 10.
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Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if you failed a Fortitude test this round).
When Revealed: Each player makes a Fortitude test. If you fail this test, deal 1 damage to each character you control. Until the end of the round, treat the printed text box of each damaged character as if it were blank (except for Traits).
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Shadow: If you failed a Fortitude test this round, this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: Attach Heavy and Tired to the hero with the most attachments and exhaust that hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot commit to Fortitude tests.Forced: After you Fail a Fortitude test, exhaust attached hero and discard each non-objective attachment on it.")
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"This extra weight is killing me. It must go."
–Frodo Baggins, The Return of the King
When Revealed: The first player must choose: either exhaust The One Ring and reveal an encounter card, or discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded and put it into play engaged with him.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either discard your hand (with at least 3 cards in it), or reveal and encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either discard a questing character you control, or raise your threat by 1 for each questing character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls. If The Eye of Sauron is in the staging area, characters cannot be readied by player card effects this round.
Shadow: If The Eye of Sauron is in the staging area, attacking enemy gets +2 and returns to the staging area after this attack.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each character in play
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each character in play. Any player may discard a hero to cancel this effect
When Revealed: Resolve all burn damage from all locations in play.
Shadow: Resolve this card's 'When Revealed' effect. Any player may discard a hero to cancel this effect.
When Revealed: Smaug make an attack against Lake-Town. The last player may declare a defender against this attack. Excess damage from this attack must be placed on Lake-Town. This effect cannot be canceled.
Soon he would set all the shoreland woods ablaze and wither every field and pasture. Just now he was enjoying the sport of town-baiting more than he had enjoyed anything for years.—The Hobbit
When Revealed: Each player must choose and discard 1 ally he controls if able. Deal 2 damage to Lake-Town for each player that cannot.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, Smaug engages the next player and makes an immediate attack against that player.