When Revealed: Return all engaged enemies to the staging area. Then, the first player either removes 1 time counter from the current quest or each Spy enemy in the staging area gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Concealment was no longer possible, and they could only hope that no enemy or spy was observing them. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Remove 1 time counter from the current quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
When Revealed: Each player must search the encounter deck or discard pile for a Creature enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck. This effect cannot be canceled.
"An evil of the Ancient World it seemed, such as I have never seen before..."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Either trigger each Scour effect currently in play, or each player places a random card from his hand facedown underneath The Orcs’ Search.
Shadow: If this attack destroy's a character, place that character facedown underneath The Orcs' Search.
When Revealed: Each player must exhaust X characters he controls. X is the number of cards underneath The Orcs’ Search. If no characters are exhausted this way, Spies from Mordor gains Surge.
Shadow: Defending player discards a non-objective attachment he controls.
When Revealed: Remove 1 time counter from each location in play. Place X time counters on each location in play with no time counters on it. X is the "Time X" value on that location. If there are not locations in the staging area, Raising the Cry gains Surge.
...a cry went up into the shuddering air...
–The Return of the King
When Revealed: If the total of characters committed to the quest is greater than the total in the staging area, each enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the first player. If no attach is made this way, search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Orc War Party and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. This effect cannot be canceled.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the number of quest cards in play. Then, exhaust each damaged character.
Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control. X is the number of quest cards in play.
When Revealed: Each player must either discard 1 card from the top of his deck for each questing character he controls, or remove each character he controls from the quest.
The mist was flowing past him now in shreds and tatters. –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Either search the encounter deck and discard pile for an encounter side quest and reveal it, or choose a different quest card in play to be the current quest until the end of the phase. Shuffle the encounter deck.
"But often I must put mirth aside." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Reveal 1 encounter card for each quest card in play.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 attachment for each quest card in play.
When Revealed: Assign X damage among characters commited to the quest. X is the number of characters committed to the quest.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a hero he controls. Attach Cold from Angmar to the current quest. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
Treat each damaged character's printed text box as if it were blank, except for keywords and Traits.
"...the weather may prove a more deadly enemy than any." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by the of the active location.
Shadow: Defending player either raise his threat 3, or this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: Each player discards the top 3 cards of his deck. Until the end of the round, add 2 to the total in the staging area for each different card type discarded this way.
Shadow: Defending player discards the top 3 cards of his deck. Attacking enemy gets +1 for each different card type discarded this way.
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
When a player plays a card, increase its cost by 1 if there is a card that has the same title in its owner's discard pile.
"Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid." –Frodo, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player must either deal 1 damage to each exhausted character he controls, or remove each exhausted character he controls from the quest.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: Each player chooses one of his allies and captures it underneath the encounter card with the highest .
Shadow: If this attack would damage an ally, capture that ally underneath the attacking enemy instead.
When Revealed: Each player discards the top card of his captured deck and raises his threat by that card's printed resource cost. If at least 1 player discarded no cards from this effect, Interrogation gains doomed 2
Shadow: Discard a random card from your hand and raise your threat by its printed cost.
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player must either engage an enemy in the staging area with a higher engagement cost than his threat, or search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Troll or Giant enemy and add it to the staging area. Deal each enemy that engages a player through this effect 2 shadow cards.
When Revealed: Attach to an exhausted hero, or a ready hero is there are no exhausted heroes. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot ready and does not collect resources during the resource phase. Discard No Rest if the players travel to a safe location.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character. Each player with a threat of 35 or higher must also discard each exhausted attachment he controls.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if the defending player does not control at least 1 Clue objective.)
When Revealed: Discard the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. The first player must either remove X progress from among the quests in play, or assign X damage among characters he controls. X is the total of the discarded cards.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, raise your threat by the destroyed character's .
When Revealed: Each player must exhaust a character he controls. Attach Haunting Fog to the current quest. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached quest gets +6 quest points."
Fog still hung in veils upon the crumbling rock-wall...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each player must discard a random card from his hand. Each player then searces his deck for each other copy of the card he discarded, and discards those as well. Shuffle each searched deck.
Shadow: Discard a random card from the defending player's hand.
When Revealed: Each player must distribute damage among questing characters equal to the printed cost of the highest cost card in that player's discard pile.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys an ally, search your deck for another copy of that ally and discard it, if able.
When Revealed: Attach Death and Calamity to the current quest. Then, the first player reanimates the top X cards of his deck, where X is the number of copies of Death and Calamity in play.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +X where X is the number of Sorcery cards in play.
When Revealed: Either each player must exhaust a character he controls, or each Lost Island in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Discard the bottom card of your deck. If that card's printed cost is 2 or less, exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: The first player discards the bottom card of his deck. Then, he discards each card in his hand with a printed cost higher than that of the discarded card.
Shadow: Discard the bottom card of the defending player's deck. If that card's printed cost is 2 or less, attacking enemy gets +2 .
When Revealed: Add 1 copy of Lost Island from the top of the Uncharted deck to the staging area. Then, remove all progress from each Uncharted location in the staging area and shuffle them so that the players do not know which one is which.