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Play only if you control a unique character with the Rohan trait and another unique character with the Gondor trait.
Response: At the beginning of the combat phase, you resolve the step in which you attack enemies before resolving enemy attacks this phase. (Each other player resolves the combat phase as normal after you resolve your attacks.)
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Response: After Riddermark Knight is declared as an attacker, it gets +2 for this attack. At the end of this attack, discard Riddermark Knight.
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Combat Action: Deal 3 damage to a non-unique enemy engaged with you.
Valour Combat Action: Discard a non-unique enemy engaged with you.
When thirteen had fallen the rest fled shrieking, leaving the defenders unharmed, except for Sam who had a scrath along the scalp.
—The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot have restricted attachments.
Action: Deal 2 damage to Quickbeam to ready him. (Limit once per phase.)
"...he can move like a wind when he is roused."
–Pippin, The Two Towers
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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
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Play into your play area unattached.
While unattached, attach to the next eligible enemy that engages you.
While attached enemy is engaged with you, reduce the total in the staging area by X, where X is attached enemy's printed
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Attach to a Dale or Warrior character. Restricted.
Response: After attached character is declared as an attacker, exhaust Bow of Yew to deal 1 damage to the defending enemy.
“They would shoot at us with their great bows of yew...”
–The Lord of the Eagles, The Hobbit
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Response: After a character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy with an attachment, that character gets +3 and +3
until the end of this attack.
"Dwarf–mail may be good, but they will soon be hard put to it."
–Bard the Bowman, The Hobbit
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Response: After Grimbeorn the Old defends an attack, spend 1 resource from his pool to declare him as an attacker against that enemy (and resolve his attack). The defending enemy gets -2 for this attack.
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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
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Response: After a Beorning character is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, that enemy gets -2 and -2
until the end of the phase.
Swiftly he returned and his wrath was redoubled, so that nothing could withstand him, and no weapon seemed to bite upon him. –The Hobbit
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Cannot have restricted attachments.
Response: After Meneldor enters or leaves play, place 2 progress on a location.
...Meneldor young and swift. –The Return of the King
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Action: Return an Eagle ally to your hand to shuffle a set-aside Eagle of the North into the encounter deck. Then, remove Flight of the Eagles from the game.
Behind them in long swift lines came all their vassals from the northern mountains, speeding on a gathering wind.
–The Return of the King
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Cannot have attachments.
Action: Ready Giant Bear. At the end of the phase in which you trigger this effect, shuffle Giant Bear into your deck. (Limit once per phase.)
"As a bear he ranged far and wide"
–Gandalf, The Hobbit
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Play into your play area unattached.
If unattached, attach to the next eligible enemy that engages you.
Response: After attached enemy resolves its attack, ready the defending character.
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Attach to a or Warrior character. Restricted.
Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gets +1 for each enemy engaged with you. (Limit +3
He gripped tighter on the hilt of his sword and went on doggedly.–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Response: After a character you control attacks and destroys an enemy, exhaust a Weapon attached to that character to ready that character and give it +2 for its next attack this phase.
The sword is sharp, the spear is long,
The arrow swift, the Gate is strong.
–The Hobbit
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Response: After Bilbo Baggins commits to the quest, choose an enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, Bilbo Baggins gets +X where X is that enemy's
If the players quest successfully, deal 1 damage to that enemy (2 damage instead if it is guarding a card).
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Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted
Attach hero gets +1 , +1
, and +1
.
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, deal 1 damage to that enemy.
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Attach to a character. Restricted.
Response: After a shadow effect is triggered during combat, exhaust Round Shield to give attached character +2 for this attack.
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Bywater Shirriff gets +1 +1
and +1
while you are engaged with an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat.
The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed.
–The Hobbit
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Play only if you control a unique character with the Istari trait and another unique character with the Eagle trait.
Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for an Eagle or Istari ally and put it into play. Shuffle your deck. At the end of the round, if that ally is still in play, return it to your hand.
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Pippin gets +2 while attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.
Response: After you engage an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat, ready Pippin.
"Down on your knees in the road and ask pardon, or I will set this troll's bane in you!"
–The Return of the King
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Response: After Thorin Stonehelm is declared as an attacker, discard the top card of your deck to deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.
Thorin III Stonehelm, Dain's son, became King under the mountain.
–The Return of the King
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Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets +2
Response: After attach hero attacks and destroys an enemy, deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.
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Play only after staging step.
Quest Action: You may declare and resolve an attack against each non-unique enemy in the staging area as if it were engaged with you.
Panic came upon the Goblins; and even as they turned to meet this new attack, the elves charged again with renewed numbers.
–The Hobbit
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Attach to a character. Limit 1 per character. Restricted.
Attached characters gets +1 for each attachment it has with the restricted keyword.
"Gimli Glóin's son, have you your axe ready?"
–Éomer, The Return of the King
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Attach to the hero with The One Ring.
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero gets +1
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust The One Ring and raise your threat by 1 to double attached hero's printed for this attack.
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Response: After Nori participates in an attack that destroys an enemy, put the top card of your discard pile on the bottom of your deck.
"You've left the burglar behind again!"
–Nori, The Hobbit
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Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero can have 1 additional restricted attachment.
The lady bowed her head, and she turned to Boromir and to him she gave a belt of gold...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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You cannot play Northern Bowmaster from your hand unless you are engaged with an enemy.
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Action: Each player deals 2 damage to an enemy engaged with him.
Down, heedless of order, rushed all the dwarves of Dain to his help.
–The Hobbit
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Response: After you attack and destroy an enemy, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area to discard a non-unique location with equal to or less that that enemy's
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Response: After Westfold Lancer quests successfully, discard it to choose a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Deal 2 damage to the chosen enemy.
...the white fury of the Northmen burned the hotter, and more skilled was their knighthood with long spears...
–The Return of the King
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Attach to a Warrior character.
Attached character gains ranged and sentinel.
Then he leapt forward, spurring the earth, and was gone like the north wine from the mountains.
–The Two Towers.
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Response: After Thorin Stonehelm is declared as an attacker, discard the top card of your deck to deal 1 damage to an enemy engaged with you.
Thorin III Stonehelm, Dain's son, became King under the mountain.
–The Return of the King
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Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero can have 1 additional restricted attachment.
The lady bowed her head, and she turned to Boromir and to him she gave a belt of gold...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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You cannot play Northern Bowmaster from your hand unless you are engaged with an enemy.
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Sentinel. Cannot have attachments.
Immune to player card effects.
Beorn does not exhaust to defend.
The roar of his voice was like drums and guns; and he tossed wolves and goblins from his path like straws and feathers.
–The Hobbit
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Action: Exhaust Bofur to search the top 5 cards of your deck for 1 Weapon attachment. Add that card to your hand and shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
There is no knowing what a dwarf will not dare and do for revenge or the recovery of his own. –The Hobbit
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Combat Action: Exhaust a Weapon card attached to a hero you control to choose an enemy engaged with you. Deal 2 damage to that enemy. (Deal 3 damage instead if the enemy is an Orc.)
At this point Gandalf fell behind, and Thorin with him. They turned a sharp corner. "About turn!" he shouted. "Draw your sword, Thorin!" – The Hobbit
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When Bard the Bowman makes a ranged attack, the enemy he attacks gets -2 until the end of the phase.
Now he shot with a great yew bow, till all his arrows but one were spent. –The Hobbit
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Action: Exhaust a Weapon attachment to choose a non-unique enemy with 0 . Discard the chosen enemy.
In it smote and vanished, barb, shaft and feather, so fierce was its flight. –The Hobbit
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Attach to a hero with the printed Ranged keyword. Restricted.
Combat Action: Choose an enemy in the staging area. Exhaust Great Yew Bow and attached hero to make a ranged attack against that enemy. Declare attached hero as the attacker. No other attackers can be declared for this attack.