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Forced: When Wraith of Carn Dûm leaves play, attach it to a character in play. Counts as a Sorcery attachment with the text:
Attached character has -1, -1
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.
Travel: Each player must assign damage among characters he controls equal to the amount of damage on Elven Caravel.
Forced: When Elven Caravel is placed underneath The Havens Burn, deal 1 damage to each character in play.
When Revealed: If you are off-course, deal 1 damage to each character in play. If your heading is at the worst setting (
), this effect cannot be canceled.
Shadow: Either shift your heading off-course or treat this attack as undefended.
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Captain Sahír engages the first player.
For each point of damage Captain Sahír would take, discard 1 resource from him and cancel that damage.
Forced: After Captain Sahír attacks, place 2 resource tokens on him (4 instead if his attack destroyed a character).
While Weather Deck is in the staging area, each other Deck location in play gains:
Travel: Each player must exhaust a character he controls to travel here.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: Exhaust each character with 1 or less
Shadow: If the defending character has 0 discard it. Otherwise, the defending character gets -2 for this attack.
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Grapple ( lowest printed Threat ).
Forced: At the end of the combat phase, if Thrashing Arm is engaged with you, deal 3 damage to a character you control.
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Grapple ( highest printed Threat ).
Forced: When Grasping Arm attacks, the engaged player must exhaust a character he controls.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, resolve Grasping Arm's Grapple keyword.
While Temple Halls is the active location, each character gets -1 and -1
Forced: When Temple Halls is flipped over while active, put Temple Guardian into play from the victory display, engaged with the player with the highest threat.
Uncharted. Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Exhaust the Gate Key to travel here.
Forced: After Temple of the Deceived becomes the active location, flip it over.
While Jungle Path is the active location, the locations immediately above and below it are not considered to be in the staging area.
Forced: When Jungle Path is flipped over while active, each player must exhaust a character with at least 2
Cannot have player card attachments.
Forced: After Lost Island becomes the active location, flip it over.
Action: Remove 4 progress from Lost Island to look at its facedown side.
While Dark Abyss is the active location, characters cannot attack.
Forced: If Dark Abyss is the active location at the end of the quest phase, deal 1 damage to each character in play. Then, you may flip Dark Abyss to its Grotto side.
While Twisting Hollow is the active location, characters cannot ready from card effects.
Forced: If Twisting Hollow is the active location at the end of the quest phase, each player must discard 1 character. Then, you may flip Twisting Hollow to its Grotto side.
When Revealed: Each player must remove a character from the quest. If the active location is Underwater deal 2 damage to each character removed from the quest by this effect.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
Forced: After an enemy attacks and destroys a character, remove X progress from the main quest, X is the attacking enemy's
At the end of the round, if the main quest has been in play the entire round and there are no progress tokens on it, the players lose the game.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each character you control, or discard a character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise each player's threat by 1.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls. Until the end of the combat phase, exhausted characters cannot ready.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot ready.
While Desert Oasis is the active location, it gains:"Response: When Desert Oasis is explored, heal 4 damage from among characters in play."
Forced: After Desert Oasis becomes the active location, each player exhausts a character he controls.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls and deals 1 damage to that character.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
Some of your companions have been poisoned! They need a remedy to counteract the venom.
Treat the printed text box of each damaged character as if it were blank (except for Traits).
Response: When this is defeated, heal 1 damage from each character in play.
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Forced: After Giant Scorpion damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.
Shadow: If this attack deals damage, the defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
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Uruk Warg-Rider gets +X while attacking a character with less than Uruk Warg-rider's X is the difference.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
Response: After a character defends an attack against the attached enemy, if the defending character has more remaining hit points than the attached enemy, add Noose of Vines and attached enemy to the victory display.
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Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: After Harad Tiger attacks and destroys a character, return it to the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
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Forced: After Giant Centipede damages a character, treat that character's text box as if it were blank until the end of the round (except for Traits).
Shadow: Treat the defending character's text box as blank until the end of the round.
While a character is attached to an encounter card, it is considered to be a guarded objective with a blank text box.
Forced: When a character is attached to an encounter card, discard each token and attachment on that character.
Forced: When an objective is free of encounters, it is 'rescued' and that character's owner takes control of it, exhausted.
X is the number of characters controlled by the player with the most characters.
Quest Action: Exhaust a character to reduce Hills of Wilderland by 1 until the end of the phase. Only the first player can trigger this effect.
When Revealed: Each player removes a character he controls from the quest and discards the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card's printed is greater than the removed character's discard that character.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 and +2 if it is guarding a card.
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Cannot have non-objective attachments.
Forced: After Stone-troll attacks and destroys a character you control, discard 1 card from your hand for each excess point of damage dealt.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
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Forced: After Giant Spider attacks and damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
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Cannot have player card attachments.
Forced: After Snow-troll attacks and destroys a character, return it to the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Exhaust a character. Until the end of the round, characters cannot be readied by player card effect.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
Response: After the players travel to Slopes of Ered Mithrin, the first player may ready a character he controls.
Shadow: If the first player controls Urdug, exhaust him.
Arrows and spears bounce off Dagnir's armored hide like raindrops. Nothing seems to slow her assault. Perhaps if you cold strike at her underbelly you wold find a way to injure the Dragon.
Forced: After Dagnir attacks and destroys a character, heal 5 damage from her.
Forced: After Face the Dragon is defeated, deal 5 damage to Dagnir.
When Revealed: Each character gets -1 -1 and -1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise the defending player's threat by 3.
When Revealed: Each player chooses and exhausts a character he controls. Until the end of the round, character cannot be readied by player card effects.
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Forced: After Urdug's Elite engages you, either exhaust a character you control, or place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: Urdug makes an immediate attack against the first player. If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on The Goblins' Assault.
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls and deals 1 damage to it.
Shadow: Either exhaust a character you control, or return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
Each non-unique enemy gets +1
Forced: After an enemy attacks and destroys a character, place 1 damage token here. Then, if there are X damage tokens here, the players lose the game. X is 4 more than the number of players.
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
X is 1 more than the number of quest stages in the victory display. Cannot be engaged unless X is equal to 5.
Forced: When Thane Ulchor attacks and destroys a character, place 1 damage token on Tribute to Mordor.
X is 1 more than the number of quest stages in the victory display.
Forced: When Hall of Horrors leaves play, each player deals X damage to a character he controls.
...they had worshipped Sauron in the Dark Years.
–The Return of the King
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, treat the printed text box of each character as if it were blank (except for Traits).
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
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Forced: After Easterling Skirmisher attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller must return the location he controls with the highest to the staging area.
Forced: After an enemy is defeated, place 1 progress on Contested Square if it is in the staging area.
While you control Contested Square, it gains:"Forced: After a character you control is destroyed, if you control Contested Square, returns Contested Square to the staging area."
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While The Challengers is ahead of the The Wainriders, Aggressive Racer gains surge.
Forced: After Aggressive Racer attacks and destroys a character, place 2 damage on The Wainriders' stage.
Crowded Track gets +1 for each character controlled by the first player.
Forced: After Crowded Track becomes the active location, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.