Besieger

Besieger is an unloaded keyword appearing on Minions from the Sauron culture. Besieger cards are generally focused on affecting Engines, controlling sites, and stacking besieger minions on controlled sites.

Besiegers are a common Shadow deck in King Block and Movie Block. Generally, the deck seeks to set up a support area full of engine conditions, and uses them to buff besieger orc minions with cards like Great Siege-towers (7U281) and Tower Walkway (7C315) and/or get significant twilight cost discounts on besieger troll minions like Troll of Gorgoroth, Abomination of Sauron (8R108) . Different versions of the deck may place more or less emphasis on site control. The deck generally plays few if any non-besieger minions.

List of Cards with the Besieger Keyword

Portrait	Card Name	Culture	Card Type	Game Text
	Gorgoroth Attacker (7U270)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. When you play this minion from a site you control, add a burden for each site you control.
	Gorgoroth Axeman (7U271)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Skirmish: Discard this minion to make a minion strength +1 for each site you control (or +2 if you have initiative).
	Gorgoroth Engineer (7U272)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. When you play this minion from a site you control, add 2 threats.
	Gorgoroth Garrison (7C273)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Regroup: Discard 2 cards from hand to stack a Orc on a site you control (or discard 1 card from hand if that Orc is a besieger).
	Gorgoroth Officer (7R274)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Skirmish: Discard 2 cards from hand to play a Orc stacked on a site you control. That Orc is fierce and strength +6 until the regroup phase.
	Gorgoroth Pillager (7C275)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. While this minion is stacked on a site you control, besiegers are fierce.
	Gorgoroth Ransacker (7C276)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Skirmish: If this minion is stacked on a site you control, discard him to make a Orc strength +5 (or +10 if you have initiative).
	Gorgoroth Sapper (7C277)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Shadow: Discard 2 cards from hand to play a Orc stacked on a site you control (discard 1 card from hand instead if that Orc is a besieger).
	Gorgoroth Soldier (7U278)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Response: If a besieger is about to take a wound, discard 2 cards from hand to prevent it.
	Gorgoroth Troop (7R279)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Skirmish: Stack a besieger on a site you control to make Gorgoroth Troop strength +2.
	Siege Commander (7R311)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Skirmish: Discard 2 cards from hand to make a besieger fierce until the regroup phase.
	Gorgoroth Agitator (8U94)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. To play, spot a Orc. When you play this minion, if you can spot another besieger, you may add a threat for each companion over 4. Shadow: Remove a threat to play a engine from your discard pile.
	Gorgoroth Assassin (8R95)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Assignment: Spot a engine or site you control to assign this minion to an unbound companion.
	Gorgoroth Berserker (8R96)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Enduring. To play, spot a Orc. Maneuver: If you have initiative, exert Gorgoroth Berserker twice to take control a site. Maneuver: Remove a threat and exert Gorgoroth Berserker twice to take control a site.
	Gorgoroth Breaker (8U97)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Archery: Exert this minion or stack it on a site you control to make the fellowship archery total –2.
	Gorgoroth Looter (8U98)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. When you play this minion, you may remove a burden to play a besieger stacked on a site.
	Gorgoroth Patrol (8U99)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Regroup: If this minion is stacked on a site you control, discard this minion to make the move limit for this turn –1.
	Gorgoroth Servitor (8U100)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Archery: Return this minion to your hand to make the fellowship archery total –2 and prevent the Free Peoples player from using archery special abilities.
	Gorgoroth Stormer (8C101)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Shadow: If you have initiative, exert this minion to add a burden and make the Free Peoples player draw a card.
	Great Hill Troll (8C102)	Sauron	Minion • Troll	Besieger. Fierce. The twilight cost of this minion is –1 for each engine you spot. When you play this minion at sites 5 to 9, you may discard a Free Peoples condition.
	Olog-hai of Mordor (8R105)	Sauron	Minion • Troll	Besieger. Fierce. The twilight cost of this minion is –2 for each minion stacked on a site. Each time this minion wins a skirmish, you may play a besieger stacked on a site you control. That besieger is fierce and damage +1 until the regroup phase.
	Siege Troop (8C106)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Regroup: Exert this minion twice to take control of a site.
	Troll of Gorgoroth, Abomination of Sauron (8R108)	Sauron	Minion • Troll	Besieger. Fierce. To play, spot a Orc. The twilight cost of this minion is –2 for each engine you spot. Regroup: Exert Troll of Gorgoroth to stack a besieger on a site you control.
	Gorgoroth Keeper (10C86)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. While you control a site, this minion's twilight cost is –2. Regroup: Stack this minion on a site you control.
	Gorgoroth Swarm (10C87)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. When you play this minion, you may spot another besieger and 6 companions to play a besieger from your discard pile and control a site.
	Gothmog, Lieutenant of Morgul (10R88)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. When you play Gothmog, the Free Peoples player must wound a companion for each site you control. While you control a site, Gothmog is fierce.
	Mordor Pillager (10U92)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Besieger. Fierce. Shadow: Exert this minion and spot another minion to control a site. If you cannot spot 3 Free Peoples cultures, the Free Peoples player may exert a companion to prevent this. ​

List of Cards that Interact with the Besieger Keyword

Portrait	Card Name	Culture	Card Type	Game Text
	Fearing the Worst (2R100)	Shire	Condition	Stealth. To play, exert 2 Hobbits. The twilight cost of each search card and each tracker is +2.
	Brought Back Alive (4U143)	Isengard	Event	Search. Assignment: Exert an tracker to assign it to an unbound companion. That companion may exert to prevent this (unless that companion is a Hobbit).
	Get Back (4U152)	Isengard	Event	Assignment: Prevent an tracker from being assigned to a skirmish by any player.
	Kill Them Now (4C156)	Isengard	Event	Skirmish: Make an tracker strength +2 (or +4 if skirmishing a character bearing a search card).
	Many Riddles (4U159)	Isengard	Condition	Search. To play, exert an tracker. Plays on a companion (except the Ring-bearer). Assignment: Exert an tracker and remove to assign that tracker to bearer. Bearer may exert to prevent this.
	Mauhúr, Patrol Leader (4R160)	Isengard	Minion • Uruk-hai	Tracker. Fierce. Skirmish: Remove to prevent an tracker from taking wounds.
	Rest While You Can (4R171)	Isengard	Condition	Search. To play, spot an tracker. Plays on a companion. Limit 1 per companion.If bearer is killed, reveal the top 10 cards of opponent’s draw deck and discard 1 Shadow card and 1 Free Peoples card. Your opponent reshuffles that deck.
	Uglúk, Servant of Saruman (4R176)	Isengard	Minion • Uruk-hai	Tracker. Fierce. The roaming penalty for each tracker you play is -2. While you can spot 2 trackers, Uglúk is strength +3. While you can spot 3 trackers, Uglúk is damage +1.
	Vengeance (4U208)	Isengard	Event	Skirmish: Make an tracker strength +2 for each card borne by the character it is skirmishing.
	Weary (4C212)	Isengard	Condition	Search. Plays on a companion or ally. Limit 1 per character. Each time the Free Peoples player assigns bearer to skirmish an tracker, bearer must exert.
	What Did You Discover? (4R213)	Isengard	Condition	Search. Each time the fellowship moves during the regroup phase, you may discard 2 cards from hand to take an tracker from your discard pile into hand.
	Back on the Menu (V2_18)	Isengard	Condition • Support Area,Support Area	Skirmish: Discard a <symbol>Sauron</symbol> tracker to make an <symbol>Isengard</symbol> tracker strength +2. Skirmish: Exert an tracker to make a tracker fierce until the regroup phase.
	Uneasy Alliance (V2_32)	Isengard	Condition • Support Area,Support Area	Search. While you can spot an <symbol>Isengard</symbol> tracker and a <symbol>Sauron</symbol> tracker, trackers are strength +1. Shadow: Discard a tracker from hand to play an tracker from your discard pile. Discard this condition.
	Uruk Grumbler (V2_33)	Isengard	Minion • Uruk-hai	Tracker. Fierce. Each time this minion is assigned to skirmish a companion, you may spot a tracker and discard this minion to wound that companion.
	Seeking It Always (1U275)	Sauron	Condition	Search. Plays to your support area. Response: If a stealth event is played, exert a tracker to cancel that event.
	Under the Watching Eye (1C281)	Sauron	Condition	Search. To play, exert a tracker. Plays to your support area. Each time the fellowship moves, the Free Peoples player must exert a companion.
	Spies of Mordor (2U92)	Sauron	Condition	Search. To play, spot a Orc. Each time the fellowship moves during the regroup phase, you may draw a card (or 2 cards if you spot a tracker).
	No One's Going to Save You Now (V2_62)	Sauron	Event • Skirmish	Search. Make a <symbol>Sauron</symbol> tracker strength +1 for each search card you can spot (limit +5).
	Orc Searcher (V2_64)	Sauron	Minion • Orc	Tracker. The site number of each <symbol>Sauron</symbol> orc is -1. Skirmish: Discard this minion to cancel a skirmish involving an tracker. ​

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