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Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After Mordor Cave Troll attacks and destroys a character, discard the top card of your deck for each point of excess damage dealt by this attack.
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Forced: After Ash Mountain Werewolf attacks you, discard the top card of your deck (top 2 cards instead if this attack destroyed a character).
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, discard the top 2 cards of your deck.
When Revealed: Each player discard 1 card from the top of his deck for each character he controls.
Shadow: Either discard the top 2 cards of your deck, or return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among character he controls, where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in play. Exhaust each character damaged by this effect.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
While Working Fields is in the staging area, characters cannot be healed.
Travel: Each player deals 1 damage to a character he controls.
Neither he nor Frodo knew anything of the great slave–worked fields away south in this wide realm...
–The Return of the King
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a character he controls. Then, each player must choose: either deal 1 damage to each damaged character you control, or raise your threat by 1 for each damaged character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 until the end of the phase.
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Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After Mordor Olog-hai attacks and destroys a character you control, exhaust a character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
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Forced: After Guard Dogs engages you, deal 1 damage to a character you control.
Shadow: Put Guard Dogs into play engaged with you.
While Guard Tower is in the staging area, players cannot draw cards or gain resources from player card effects.
Travel: Each player exhausts a character he controls.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character. Discard an attachment from each character damaged by this effect.
Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.
"His arm has grown long."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
While Troll Camp is in the staging area, Troll enemies get +1 for each player in the game.
While Troll Camp is in play, Bilbo Baggins gains:"Action: Exhaust Bilbo Baggins and spend 1
resource to remove 1 Sack card from a character. Bilbo Baggins may trigger this effect even with a Sack card attached to him."
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When Revealed: The first player exhausts 1 character he controls.
Shadow: Defending player exhausts 1 character he controls.
While Great Cavern Room is the active location, it gains: “Forced: After a player engages a Goblin enemy, he must deal 1 damage to a character he controls.”
Forced: When faced with the option to travel, if The Great Goblin is in the victory display the players must travel to Great Cavern Room if able.
Forced: After a character takes damage from an attack made by a Creature enemy, remove 1 progress from the current quest.
Riddle: The first player names a sphere, shuffles his deck, and discards the top card. For each of those cards that matches, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
While Giant Web is the active location, each character gets -1
-1 and -1 for each poison it has.
Response: After Giant Web leaves play as an explored location, ready an unconscious character.
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Forced: When this enemy attacks, defending player must attach 1 poison to a character he controls.
Shadow: Defending character gets 2 poison.
When Revealed: Each character takes damage equal to the number of poison it has. If no characters were damaged by this effect, this card gains surge.
Shadow: Discard an unconscious character you control.
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Forced: After Dark Bats damages a character, attach it to that character. (While attached, counts as a Condition attachment with the text: 'Attached character gets -1 , -1 , and -1 .")
Shadow: Attach this card to the defending character.
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When Revealed: Each player must deal 2 damage to a character he controls.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to defending character for each quest stage in play with no progress on it.
While Northern Slopes is in the staging area, each Goblin enemy gets +1 and +1 .
While Northern Slopes is the active location, it gains: "Forced: When a character leaves play, remove 1 progress from the current quest, if able."
When Revealed: Remove a character you control from the quest and discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that character's printed is less than the discarded card's discard that character.
...it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap... –The Fellowship of the Ring
Setup: Add Overcome by Grief to the staging area.
Forced: After a character is destroyed, if Overcome by Grief is unattached, attach to a hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: After a character you control is destroyed, exhaust attached hero. Until the end of the round, attached hero cannot ready.")
When Revealed: Either immediately end the quest phase and increase the pursuit value by 3, or deal 1 damage to each character commited to the quest. This effect cannot be canceled.
"We have come at last to a hard choice," he said. "Shall we rest by night, or shall we go on while our will and strength hold?" –Aragorn, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Each character commited to the quest gets -1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
"I am weary as I have seldom been before, weary as no Ranger should be with a clear trail to follow." –Aragorn, The Two Towers
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When Revealed: Warrior of Dunland makes an immediate attack against you.
Forced: After Warrior of Dunland attacks and destroys a character, place 3 progress on the active location.
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Forced: After Soldier of Isengard attacks and destroys a character, place 1 progress on the current quest.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
When Revealed: Place 3 progress on the main quest (bypassing any active location). Until the end of the round, treat each character's text box as if it was blank (except for Traits).
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 and gains Toughness 2 until the end of the round.
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Forced: After Lieutenant of Orthanc attacks and destroys a character, that character's controller discards 1 random card from his hand.
"Saruman kept enough wisdom not to trust his Orcs. He had Men to guard his gates..." –Merry, The Two Towers
While Ring-wall of Isengard is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After any amount of damage is healed from a character, its owner discards 1 card from his hand."
Wizardry: Each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
While Underground Armoury is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After an enemy engages a player, deal it a shadow card."
Wizardry: Each player exhausts a character he controls.
The shafts ran down by many slopes and spiral stairs to caverns far under; there Saruman had treasuries, store–houses, armouries, smithies, and great furnaces. –The Two Towers
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Forced: After Uruk-hai Fighter attacks and destroys a character, return it to the staging area.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
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The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.
Forced: After Groping Dead attacks and destroys a character, place 1 mire token on the active location.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, place 1 mire token on the active location.
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The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.
Forced: After Dead Things attacks and destroys a character, the defending player raises his threat by 3.
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each Undead enemy engaged with you.
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The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.
Forced: After Candle-bearer attacks and destroys a character, it cannot take damage until the end of the round.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, attacking enemy cannot take damage.
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
While Ithilien Woods is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After a player engages a Harad enemy, he readies a character he controls."
Travel: The first player reveals an encounter card to travel here.
Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness. -The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Either exhaust Sméagol, or discard 1 random card from each player's hand.
Forced: After Sméagol's Secret Way is explored, each player either exhausts a character he controls, or discards 1 random card from his hand.
"...a stair, a narrow stair, O yes, very long and narrow. And then more stairs." -Gollum, The Two Towers
When Revealed: Make Blocked Tunnel the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area.
Action: Exhaust a character with a Weapon attachment to place 3 progress on Blocked Tunnel. (Any player may trigger this effect.)
Across the width and height of the tunnel a vast web was spun, orderly as the web of some huge spider... -The Two Towers
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).
While Port of Pelargir is in the staging area, no more than 1 damage can be healed from each character each round.
Shadow: If this attack damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.
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Cannot have attachments.
Forced: When Umbar Pirate Crew engages you, exhaust a character you control.
Shadow: If the active location is a Ship return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
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Forced: When Haradrim Pirate engages you, deal 1 damage to a character you control (2 damage instead if the active location is a Ship).
Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for each damage on it.