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Guarded (location). Restricted.
Attach to a hero. Attached hero gets +2
You draw 1 additional card during the resource phase.
Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. A great desire came over him to climb the tower and see the Sea.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted.
While attached hero is committed to the quest, each Hobbit character gets +1
Response: After you quest successfully, exhaust Red Book of Westmarch to add 1 resource to attached hero's resource pool.
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Land-of-Sorrow/Spare-Pipe.jpg)
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Attach to a character.
Attached character gets +1 hit point.
Response: After you play Spare Pipe search the top 5 cards of your deck for an event and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"I have carried it a long way, though I don't know why."
–Pippin, The Two Towers
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Attach to a Noble hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2
instead if your threat is 40 or higher).
...his shinning shield was scored with runs...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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![](/Images/Cards/Challenge-of-the-Wainriders-Preorder-Promotion/Golden-Belt.jpg)
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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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![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-Over-Hill-and-Under-Hill/Cram.jpg)
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Attach to a hero.
Action: Discard Cram to ready attached hero.
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining...
–The Hobbit
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Attach to a character.
Action: Exhaust Spare Hood and Cloak and exhaust attached character to ready another character. Then, attach Spare Hood and Cloak to that character.
"You will have to manage without pocket–handkerchiefs, and a good many other things, before you get to the journey's end. As for a hat, I have got a spare hood and cloak in my luggage." –Dwalin, The Hobbit
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-Over-Hill-and-Under-Hill/Thrór's-Map.jpg)
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Attach to a hero.
Travel Action: Discard Thrór’s Map to choose a location in the staging area. Make that location the active location. (If there is another active location, return it to the staging area.)
"This was made by Thror, your grandfather, Thorin." he said in answer to the dwarves' excited questions. "It is a plan of the Mountain." –Gandalf, The Hobbit
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Attach to Bilbo Baggins. Restricted.
Bilbo Baggins gets +1 +1
and +1
.
Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .
"I shall call you Sting." –Bilbo, The Hobbit
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Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached hero destroys an Orc enemy, add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
"This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin–cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade." –Elrond, The Hobbit
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Attach to a hero or Gandalf. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached character destroys an Orc enemy, draw 1 card.
“This, Gandalf, was Glamdring, Foe-hammer that the king of Gondolin once wore.” –Elrond, The Hobbit
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If Troll Key is discarded, add it to the staging area.
If Troll Key is unattached and in the staging area, attach it to a Troll enemy, if able.
Response: After attached Troll enemy takes damage as the result of an attack, the first player may exhaust Bilbo Baggins to claim this objective and attach it to him.
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-On-the-Doorstep/Great-Yew-Bow.jpg)
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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.
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-On-the-Doorstep/Thrór's-Key.jpg)
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Attach to a hero.
Response: After a location is added to the staging area, attach Thrór’s Key to that location. While attached to a location, Thrór’s Key gains:
Treat attached location's printed text box as blank, except for traits.
"The key that went with the map! Try it now while there is still time!" –Bilbo, The Hobbit
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Attach to Bilbo Baggins.
Action: Exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise your threat by 1 to gain 1 resource. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend an attack, exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise your threat by 3 to cancel all damage from this attack.
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Attach to a hero.
Action: Exhaust The Arkenstone and raise your threat by X to lower by X the cost of the next ally you play this phase that matches the attached hero's sphere.
"...the Heart of the Mountain; and it is also the heart of Thorin. He values it above a rive of gold." –Bilbo, The Hobbit
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Attach to Bilbo Baggins.
Attached hero gets +1 and +1 hit point.
"Mr. Baggins!" he cried. "Here is the first payment of your reward! Cast off your old coat and put on this!" – Thorin, The Hobbit
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Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +2 .
Response: After attached hero attacks and destroys an enemy, deal 1 damage to another enemy engaged with you.
Royal indeed did Thorin look, clad in a coat of gold–plated rings, with a silver hafted axe... –The Hobbit
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Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gains Ranged.
When making a ranged attack, attached hero gets +2 .
Thorin seized a bow of horn and shot an arrow at the speaker. –The Hobbit
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Attach to a Hobbit hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +2 while defending against an attack by an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat.
In their dark cloaks they were invisible as if they all had magic rings. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +1 (+2
instead if attacking an enemy with an engagement cost higher than your threat).
...these blades were forged many long years ago by Men of Westernesse: they were foes of the Dark Lord...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to a Hobbit character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After your threat is reduced by an event card effect, exhaust Hobbit Pipe to draw a card.
But even the Dúnedain of Gondor allow us this credit: Hobbits first put it into pipes. Not even the Wizards first thought of that before we did. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to the active location. Attached location gets +1 quest point.
Response: After attached location leaves play as an explored location, the first player puts 1 ally into play from his hand.
"It is a beryl, an elf–stone. Whether it was set there, or let fall by chance, I cannot say, but it brings hope to me"
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.
If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.
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Attach to Gandalf. Restricted.
Action: Exhaust Gandalf’s Staff to (choose one):
- choose a player to draw 1 card
- add 1 resource to a hero's resource pool
- discard a shadow card from a non-unique enemy.
...he held his staff aloft, and from its tip there came a feint radiance. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to an Istari character. Limit 1 per character.
Action: Exhaust Wizard Pipe to exchange a card in your hand with the top card of your deck.
...there was a long silence, broken only by the soft puffs of Gandalf's pipe, as he blew white smoke–rings out of the window. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to a Hobbit hero.
Attached hero gets +1 +1
and +1
.
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .
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Attach to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero gets +1 and +1 hit point.
"I should feel happier if I knew you were wearing it. I have a fancy it would turn even the knives of the Black Riders..." –Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to a Warrior hero or Gandalf. Restricted.
Attached character gets +2 .
Response: After attached character destroys an Orc enemy, draw 1 card.
"...at his side was the elven–sword Glamdring, the mate of Orcrist that lay now upon the breast of Thorin under the Lonely Mountain." –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Attach to a Noble hero or Aragorn. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 +1
and +1
.
Response: After an attack in which the attached hero defended resolves, exhaust Andúril to target the enemy that just attacked. Declare attached hero as an attacker against that enemy (and resolve the attack).
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Setup: Attach to a hero in play.
Add Phial of Galadriel to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool, to give each enemy engaged with you -4 until the end of the round.
"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Setup: Attach to a hero in play.
Action: Add Three Golden Hairs to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool, to lower each player's threat by 3. Then, each player draws 3 cards.
"...your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Setup: Attach to a hero in play.
Action: Add Leaf-wrapped Lembas to the victory display, and remove it from the campaign pool, to ready all heroes in play.
Often in their hearts they thanked the lady of Lórien for the gift of lembas, for they could eat of it and find new strength even as they ran. –The Two Towers
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Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.
If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.
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Play only if you control at least 1 Ent character.
Attach to a character. Limit 1 per character.
Attached character gets +2 hit points.
The effect of the draught began at the toes, and rose steadily through every limb, bringing refreshment and vigour as it coursed upwards, right to the tips of the hair. –The Two Towers
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Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
Reduce the cost to play Herugrim on Théoden by 1.
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust Herugrim to add attached hero's to its
for this attack.
"Here, lord, is Herugrim, your ancient blade." –Háma, The Two Towers
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Quest Action: Exhaust Aragorn and Palantír of Orthanc to discard the top card of the encounter deck. If Aragorn's is greater than the discarded card's
you may add Palantír of Orthanc to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool to choose a player. That player reveals 1 fewer encounter card this phase (to a minimum of 0).
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Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, Saruman attacks that player. Deal and resolve 2 shadow cards for this attack. Then, remove 1 damage from Saruman.
While Saruman has any hit points remaining, the players cannot win the game.
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Attach to a Gondor or Hobbit hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack from an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, exhaust Staff of Lebethron to discard a shadow card from that enemy.
"They are made of the fair tree lebethron, beloved of the woodwrights of Gondor..." –Faramir, The Two Towers
![](/Images/Cards/The-Land-of-Shadow/The-One-Ring.jpg)
Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.
If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.
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Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero is declared as a defender, exhaust Golden Shield to add attached hero's to its
for this attack.
His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun...
–The Return of the King
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Attach to Gondor hero. Restricted.
Response: Spend X resources from attached hero's pool to cancel X damage just dealt to attached hero.
This was the livery of the heirs of Elendil, and none wore it now in all Gondor, save the Guards of the Citadel...
–The Return of the King
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Attach to Aragorn.
While Aragorn is questing, each other questing character you control gets +1
While Aragorn is attacking, each other attacking character you control gets +1
Seven stars were about it, and a high crown above it, the signs of Elendil that no lord had borne for years beyond count.
–The Return of the King
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Attach to a Rohan hero. Restricted.
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker, exhaust Gúthwinë to give that hero +2 for this attack. If this attack destroys an enemy, return a Rohan ally from your discard pile to your hand.
“Gúthwinë!” cried Éomer. “Gúthwinë for the Mark!”
–The Two Towers
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Mountain-of-Fire/Orc-Disguise.jpg)
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Attach to the Ring-bearer. Limit 1 per hero.
While an Orc is making an enagement check with you, it gets +5 engagement cost.
Response: After an Orc engages you, discard Orc Disguise. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot attack you.
![](/Images/Cards/The-Mountain-of-Fire/The-One-Ring.jpg)
Setup: The first player claims The One Ring and attaches it to the Ring-bearer.
Attached hero does not count against the hero limit. The first player gains control of attached hero.
If The One Ring leaves play, the players lose the game.