Mountain

Mountain

Mountain is an Unloaded Keyword appearing on Sites. It is not often used, but typically synergises with Dwarves and the [gollum] culture.

List of Cards with the Mountain Keyword

Portrait	Card Name	Culture	Card Type	Game Text
	Pass of Caradhras (1U348)	Site	Site	Mountain. Shadow: Spot a minion to play a weather card from your draw deck (limit 1 per turn).
	Ered Nimrais (4U343)	Site	Site	Mountain. The twilight cost of each companion and ally played at Ered Nimrais is +3.
	White Mountains (4U345)	Site	Site	Mountain. When the fellowship moves to White Mountains, Théoden or 2 companions must exert.
	Barazinbar (11S229)	Site	Site	Mountain. At the start of your fellowship phase, you may exert a Dwarf to play a possession from your draw deck.
	Crags of Emyn Muil (11S234)	Site	Site	Mountain. If this site is in region 2 when the fellowship moves from it during the regroup phase, wound each companion.
	Pinnacle of Zirakzigil (11S255)	Site	Site	Mountain. At the start of your fellowship phase, you may exert 3 companions to play a Wizard from your dead pile.
	Watch-tower of Cirith Ungol (11S262)	Site	Site	'Mountain.'Maneuver: Exert your minion to discard a card at random from the Free Peoples player's hand.
	Emyn Muil (12S187)	Site	Site	Mountain. Maneuver: Remove and exert your minion that is not fierce to make that minion fierce until the regroup phase.
	Slopes of Orodruin (12U192)	Site	Site	Mountain. Shadow: Remove and discard 2 Free Peoples cards from hand to draw a card.
	Starkhorn (12U193)	Site	Site	Mountain. Each time your Dwarf wins a skirmish, you may draw a card.
	Redhorn Pass (13U194)	Site	Site	Mountain. Culture tokens cannot be added, removed, or reinforced.
	Mount Doom (15R193)	Site	Site	Battleground. Mountain. Underground. Until the end of the game, sites in this region cannot be replaced.
	Doorway to Doom (18U134)	Site	Site	Mountain. When the fellowship moves to this site, each player wounds two of his or her characters.
	Foot of Mount Doom (18U135)	Site	Site	Mountain. Each card that is about to be placed into the discard pile is removed from the game instead.
	Eastemnet Hills (V2_67)	Site	Site	Mountain. When the fellowship moves from here during the regroup phase, each player may discard 2 cards to draw 2 cards.
	Cracks of Doom (V3_126)	Site	Site	Mountain. Underground. Game text on Free Peoples items and The One Ring does not apply.
	Doom Causeway (V3_127)	Site	Site	Mountain. Underground. Battleground. Each time a card is hindered, discard it. Each time a character is exerted, wound it.
	Orodruin (V3_128)	Site	Site	Mountain. Battleground. Each time a threat is added, the Free Peoples player must assign all threat wounds.
	Pinnacle of Doom (V3_129)	Site	Site	Mountain. At the start of each phase, the Shadow player may hinder a card (except a companion or The One Ring).
	Threshold of Doom (V3_130)	Site	Site	Mountain. Shadow: Remove a burden or a threat to play a minion from your discard pile. If it costs or more, add .
	Erebor (30S55)	Site	Site	Mountain. River. Shadow: Exert 2 minions and spot 6 companions to draw 2 cards.
	Smaug's Den (30S56)	Site	Site	Mountain. Underground. Shadow: Play Smaug from your draw deck or discard pile.
	Battle of the Five Armies (30S57)	Site	Site	Mountain. Battleground. Shadow: Remove 2 doubts to play a minion from your discard pile (except Smaug).
	Dale (30FP64)	Site	Site	Mountain. Regroup: Spot your minion and 6 companions to make the fellowship move again this turn (if the move limit allows).
	Ravenhill (30FP65)	Site	Site	Mountain. Maneuver: Remove your minion from the game to play a minion from your discard pile. Its twilight cost is -2.
	Thrór's Throne (31HE47)	Site	Site	Mountain. Underground. If you cannot spot the [Dwarven] Arkenstone, the twilight cost of each minion is -1.
	Secret Door (32HF48)	Site	Site	Mountain. While you can spot Thrór's Key, the Shadow number of Secret Door is -3.
	Northern Slopes (32HB49)	Site	Site	Mountain. Battleground. Shadow: Exert a [Dwarven] character for each Shadow culture you can spot (limit once per turn).
	Wooded Steep Cliff (32FP64)	Site	Site	Mountain. Forest. When the fellowship moves to Wooded Steep Cliff, Thorin or 2 other companions must exert. ​

List of Cards that Interact with the Mountain Keyword

Portrait	Card Name	Culture	Card Type	Game Text
	Axe of Khazad-dûm (11U3)	Dwarven	Possession • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be a Dwarf. While bearer is at a mountain site, he is Damage +1.
	Mountain Homestead (11U12)	Dwarven	Condition • Support Area	To play, spot 2 Dwarf companions. While the fellowship is at a mountain site, each Dwarf is strength +2.
	Durability (12C4)	Dwarven	Event • Skirmish	Make a Dwarf strength +2. Then, if that Dwarf is at a battleground or mountain site, draw a card.
	His Father’s Charge (12C8)	Dwarven	Condition • Support Area	Skirmish: Discard this condition to make a Dwarf strength +1 for each of the following that is true: he is at a mountain or underground site; he has resistance 3 or more; he is bearing a possession; he is skirmishing a fierce minion.
	Subterranean Homestead (13R8)	Dwarven	Condition • Support Area	To play, exert 2 Dwarves. When you play this, add a token here for each mountain site and each underground site on the adventure path. Skirmish: Discard this from play or remove 2 tokens from here to make a Shadow player discard the top card of his or her draw deck.
	Thorin's Harp (18C3)	Dwarven	Condition • Support Area	Tale. Maneuver: Exert a companion to make the fellowship's current site gain mountain until the regroup phase.
	Safe Passage (11R50)	Gollum	Condition • Support Area	When you play this condition, name forest, mountain, plains, or river. Each time the fellowship moves to a site that has the named keyword, you may exert Gollum or Sméagol to remove .
	Gondorian Steed (12U49)	Gondor	Possession • Mount	Bearer must be a knight. Bearer is damage +1. Each time the fellowship moves from a mountain site, add .
	Slippery as Fishes (9R+29)	Gollum	Condition • Support Area	While Gollum is at a mountain, river, or underground site, he is strength +2. Regroup: Spot Gollum to reveal your hand. Place all Shadow cards revealed beneath your draw deck. Discard this condition.
	Final Strike (10U20)	Gollum	Condition • Support Area	Any site 9 is a mountain. Shadow: If the fellowship is at any site 9, play Gollum from your discard pile. Response: If the Free Peoples player uses a maneuver or archery special ability, exert Gollum to cancel its effect.
	No End of Wickedness (11U47)	Gollum	Event • Skirmish	Exert Gollum to make another minion strength +2 (or +3 if Gollum is at a mountain site).
	Strange and Terrible (11U52)	Gollum	Event • Shadow	Spot a minion at a mountain site to play a minion from your discard pile.
	Not Alone (12U39)	Gollum	Condition • Support Area	Each time the fellowship moves to a mountain or underground site, you may discard a event from hand to take a minion from your discard pile into hand.
	Uruk-hai Scout (14R15)	Uruk-hai	Minion • Uruk-hai	Damage +1. When you play this, choose one of the following keywords: battleground, mountain, plains, or underground. The fellowship’s current site gains that keyword until the end of the turn.
	Dwarven Axe (31HE1)	Dwarven	Possession • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be a [Dwarven] character. While bearer is at a mountain site, he is damage +1.
	Thrór's Map (32HF12)	Dwarven	Possession	Bearer must be a [Dwarven] companion. Fellowship or Regroup: Exert bearer or discard this possession to play the fellowship's next site (replacing opponent's site if necessary). Heal a [Dwarven] companion if you play a mountain site.
	Watchful Orc (30S41)	File:Culture Gundabad.svg Gundabad	Minion • Orc	When you play this minion, you may play the fellowship's next site (replacing opponent's site if necessary). Shadow: Exert this minion twice to make each site on the adventure path gain battleground, mountain, forest or underground until the end of the turn.
	Smaug, The Golden (30S66)	File:Culture Smaug.svg Smaug	Minion • Dragon	Damage +2. Fierce. Discard Smaug if not at a mountain. For each Dwarf, Man and Elf you spot, Smaug's twilight cost is -1. Regroup: Exert Smaug and discard another minion to discard a Free Peoples card (except a companion, Bard or a Ring). ​

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