Artifact

Artifact
Name	Artifact
Layout Template	Modifier
Side	Both
Subtype Class	Item Class
Notes

From the Comprehensive Rules:

An artifact is a unique weapon, suit of armor, or other kind of special object used by a character.

Most artifacts tell you who their bearer can be. Other artifacts play to your support area.

Though artifacts are played and used much like possessions, they are a different card type. Artifacts are not affected by cards that affect possessions.

See also transfer.

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Artifacts

Portrait	Card Name	Culture	Card Type	Game Text
	Ring of Accretion (9R6)	Dwarven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Dwarf. Bearer is damage +1. Maneuver: For each Dwarf you spot, reveal a card from the top of your draw deck. Take all Free Peoples cards revealed into hand and discard the rest. Discard this artifact.
	Ring of Fury (9R+7)	Dwarven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Dwarf. Bearer is damage +2. Regroup: Spot a Dwarf that is damage +X to heal X Dwarves. Discard this artifact.
	Ring of Guile (9R8)	Dwarven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Dwarf. Bearer is damage +1. Maneuver: Take a event into hand from your discard pile. Discard this artifact.
	Ring of Retribution (9R9)	Dwarven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Dwarf. Response: If bearer wins a skirmish, discard this artifact to exert each Orc.
	Ring of Artifice (17R4)	Dwarven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Dwarf. Bearer is damage +1. Bearer is strength +1 for each artifact in your discard pile. Regroup: Discard this to take a non-event card into hand from your discard pile.
	Nenya (3R23)	Elven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be Galadriel. At the start of each regroup phase, you may discard up to 2 cards from hand to draw the same number of cards.
	Vilya (3R27)	Elven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be Elrond. Maneuver: Exert Elrond twice and spot a Shadow condition to return that condition to its owner’s hand.
	Aiglos (9R+12)	Elven	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be an Elf. If bearer is Gil-galad, he is strength +1 for each artifact you can spot (limit +6). Regroup: Discard Aiglos to wound a minion for each Elf you spot.
	Narya, Ring of Fire (9R19)	Elven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be Círdan or Gandalf. Fellowship: Remove X culture tokens, where X is equal to bearer’s vitality. Discard this artifact.
	Nenya, Ring of Adamant (9R20)	Elven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be Galadriel. Maneuver: Heal 2 companions and place up to 2 cards from hand on top of your draw deck. Discard this artifact.
	Vilya, Ring of Air (9R23)	Elven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be Elrond or Gil-galad. Skirmish: Discard the top card of your draw deck. Make a minion skirmishing an Elf strength –X, where X is the twilight cost of the discarded card. Discard this artifact.
	Phial of Galadriel, Star-glass (10R13)	Elven	Artifact	Bearer must be a Hobbit. Skirmish: Until the regroup phase, remove the game text (except card type and race) of a minion skirmishing bearer and make it unable to gain game text. Discard this artifiact.
	Gift of the Evenstar, Blessed Light (15U16)	Elven	Artifact • Support Area	Each time an Elf wins a skirmish, you may exert that Elf or Aragorn to place an token here. At the start of each maneuver phase, you may remove an token here to draw a card.
	The Mirror of Galadriel, Dangerous Guide (15R22)	Elven	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot 3 Elves. Each time you are about to draw a card, you may exert an Elf to look at the top three cards of your draw deck instead. Take a Free Peoples card into your hand and place the other cards on the bottom of your draw deck.
	Galadriel's Silver Ewer (18R11)	Elven	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot Galadriel or Celeborn. While Galadriel is the Ring-bearer, she is strength +2 and resistance +2. Each time you play an skirmish event, you may reinforce an token.
	Library of Rivendell (V1_11)	Elven	Artifact • Support Area	Fellowship: Stack your tale or artifact from play or from hand here to draw a card. Regroup: Exert an ally to draw X cards, exert X minions, and remove up to X wounds from companions, where X is the number of Free Peoples cultures on cards stacked here. Discard this artifact.
	Gandalf's Staff (2R22)	Gandalf	Artifact • Staff	Bearer must be Gandalf. The twilight cost of each spell is -1. Skirmish: Exert Gandalf twice to cancel a skirmish involving him.
	Narya (3R34)	Gandalf	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be Gandalf. At the start of each of your turns, you may add to remove a burden.
	Gandalf's Staff, Walking Stick (4R91)	Gandalf	Artifact • Staff	Bearer must be Gandalf. While you can spot 2 twilight tokens, Gandalf is damage +2.
	Gandalf's Staff, Focus of Power (7R38)	Gandalf	Artifact • Staff	Bearer must be Gandalf. While you can spot 4 twilight tokens, Gandalf is strength +1.
	Gandalf's Staff, Ash-staff (11R34)	Gandalf	Artifact • Staff	Bearer must be a Wizard. If bearer is Gandalf, he gains muster. (At the start of the regroup phase, you may discard a card from hand to draw a card.) Each time bearer wins a skirmish, choose a Shadow player who must wound a minion.
	The Palantír of Orthanc, Recovered Seeing Stone (13R36)	Gandalf	Artifact • Palantir	Bearer must be Gandalf. To play this, if you can spot The Palantír of Orthanc, discard it. At the start of the fellowship phase, you may add a burden to reveal a Shadow player's hand. He or she must choose a revealed minion and discard it from hand.
	Radagast's Staff (0P57)	Gandalf	Artifact • Staff	Bearer must be Radagast. Each time the fellowship moves during the regroup phase, you may draw 2 cards.
	The Shards of Narsil (3R44)	Gondor	Artifact	Fellowship: Stack a card from hand here. Fellowship: Add to take a card stacked here into hand.
	Ring of Barahir (6R55)	Gondor	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be Aragorn. At the start of each of your turns, you may spot a culture token to heal a companion of that culture.
	Andúril, Flame of the West (7R79)	Gondor	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be Aragorn. Discard other weapons he bears. He is damage +1 and cannot bear other weapons. Fellowship or Regroup: If the fellowship is at any site 2 or any site 5, play the fellowship’s next site (replacing opponent’s site if necessary).
	Andúril, King's Blade (7R80)	Gondor	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be Aragorn. If you cannot spot a threat, Aragorn is defender +1.
	Narsil, Blade of the Faithful (9R+34)	Gondor	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be a Man. If bearer is Elendil or Isildur, he is strength +1 for each artifact you can spot (limit +6). Response: If bearer is about to take a wound, exert 2 Men to prevent that.
	Sapling of the White Tree (9R35)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot an unbound Man. Response: If a Man is about to take a wound, discard this artifact to prevent that.
	Scroll of Isildur (9R36)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	Tale. To play, spot a Man. The Ring-bearer is resistance +1 for each artifact you can spot (limit +3). Fellowship: Discard this artifact to play a ring from your discard pile.
	Seeing Stone of Minas Anor (9R37)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot a Man with 3 or more vitality (or spot a Man and add 2 threats). Regroup: Exert a Man or discard this artifact to discard your hand and draw 3 cards.
	Seeing Stone of Orthanc (9R38)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot a Man with 3 or more vitality (or spot a Man and add 2 threats). Regroup: Add a threat or discard this artifact to remove or draw a card.
	Andúril, Sword That Was Broken (17R27)	Gondor	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be Aragorn. He is damage +1. Each time Aragorn wins a skirmish, you may exert him to liberate a site or discard a condition borne by a companion.
	Narsil, Forged by Telchar (17R31)	Gondor	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be Elendil or Isildur. Bearer is damage +1. Each time bearer wins a skirmish, you may exert him to discard a Shadow possession.
	Throne of Minas Tirith (17R36)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot Denethor (or 2 companions). Each time a minion is killed or discarded from play during a skirmish, you may reinforce a token. Skirmish: Remove 3 tokens to discard a possession.
	Crown of Gondor (18R41)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot Aragorn, Elendil, or Isildur. Skirmish: Spot a Man with 3 or more vitality and discard a card from hand to make that Man strength +2.
	Gilraen's Memorial (V1_22)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, exert Aragorn. When Aragorn is killed, discard this artifact. Fellowship: Exert a companion with the Aragorn signet to remove a burden. Then exert Aragorn or discard this artifact.
	The Red Arrow (9R46)	Rohan	Artifact • Support Area	Assignment: Exert a Man to play a Man. You may exert that Man to play a possession on him or her. Discard this artifact.
	Throne of the Golden Hall (17R98)	Rohan	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot Théoden (or 2 companions). Saruman and Gríma cannot be assigned to skirmishes. Response: If a Man is about to take a wound, exert another Man and add to prevent that.
	Mithril-coat (2R105)	Shire	Artifact • Armor	Bearer must be Frodo. The minion archery total is -1. Each minion skirmishing Frodo does not gain strength bonuses from weapons and loses all damage bonuses.
	Mithril-coat, Dwarf-mail (13R153)	Shire	Artifact • Armor	Bearer must be a Ring-bound Hobbit. Each minion skirmishing bearer loses all damage bonuses. Skirmish: Exert bearer to make each minion he is skirmishing lose fierce and unable to gain fierce until the regroup phase.
	Phial of Galadriel, The Light of Earendil (13R155)	Shire	Artifact • Phial	Bearer must be a Ring-bound Hobbit. While bearer is in region 1, bearer gains muster. While bearer is in region 2, each of your companions gains muster. While bearer is in region 3, each character gains muster.
	The Palantír of Orthanc (3R67)	Isengard	Artifact • Palantir	To play, spot an minion. Shadow: Spot an minion and remove to reveal a card at random from the Free Peoples player's hand. Place that card on top of that player’s draw deck.
	The Palantír of Orthanc, Seventh Seeing-stone (4R166)	Isengard	Artifact • Palantir	To play, spot an minion. Plays to your support area. Shadow: Spot an minion and remove to reveal the top card of any draw deck. You may place that card beneath that draw deck.
	Saruman's Staff, Wizard's Device (4R174)	Isengard	Artifact • Staff	Plays on Saruman. He is fierce and damage +1. Maneuver: Make the first sentence of Saruman’s game text not apply until the regroup phase.
	Library of Orthanc (9R+39)	Isengard	Artifact • Support Area	Shadow: Play an minion to stack the top card of your draw deck on this card. Skirmish: Remove and discard a Free Peoples card stacked here to make an minion strength +1. Regroup: Remove to take an card stacked here into hand.
	Staff of Saruman, Fallen Istar's Stave (13R81)	Isengard	Artifact • Staff	Bearer must be a Wizard. Regroup: If Saruman is the only minion you can spot, discard this artifact from play to return him to your hand.
	Throne of Isengard (17R39)	Isengard	Artifact • Support Area	Each time you play Saruman, spot a minion. That minion is fierce until the start of the regroup phase. Each Wizard is strength +3 and damage +1.
	The Balrog's Sword (2R50)	Moria	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be The Balrog. It is damage +1 This weapon may be borne in addition to 1 other hand weapon.
	Whip of Many Thongs (2R74)	Moria	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be The Balrog. Skirmish: Exert The Balrog to discard a helm, shield, or armor borne by a character The Balrog is skirmishing.
	Whip of Many Thongs, Weapon of Flame and Shadow (12R80)	Moria	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be The Balrog. It is fierce. When you play this artifact, the Free Peoples player reveals his or her hand and discards all Free Peoples cards from hand that have a twilight cost of 1 or less.
	Ring of Asperity (9R42)	Ringwraith	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Nazgûl. When you play this artifact, you may wound an unwounded companion. Response: If a player reconciles, return bearer to his owner’s hand.
	Ring of Ire (9R+43)	Ringwraith	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be The Witch-king. Skirmish: Exert bearer twice to make a minion damage +1. Response: If a player reconciles, return bearer to his owner’s hand.
	Ring of Rancor (9R44)	Ringwraith	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Nazgûl. Maneuver: Remove a burden to heal each Nazgûl. Response: If a player reconciles, return bearer to his owner’s hand.
	Ring of Savagery (17R142)	Ringwraith	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Nazgûl. Each time bearer wins a skirmish, the Free Peoples player must either add a burden or exert a companion. Response: If a player reconciles, return bearer to his owner's hand.
	Ring of Terror (17R143)	Ringwraith	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Nazgûl. Bearer is damage +1. When you play this artifact, you may remove 2 threats to take a card into hand from your discard pile. Response: If a player reconciles, return bearer to his owner's hand.
	Pale Crown (V1_39)	Ringwraith	Artifact • Helm	Plays to your support area. While bearer is twilight, characters skirmishing bearer do not receive strength or damage bonuses from cards they bear. Skirmish: Remove to transfer this artifact from your support area to a Nazgul.
	Ithil Stone (9R+47)	Sauron	Artifact • Support Area	To play, exert a or minion. At the start of each of your Shadow phases, you may draw a card. Shadow: Discard this artifact to play a minion. Its twilight cost is –3.
	Sceptre of the Dark Lord (13R141)	Sauron	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be Sauron. He is damage +1. Each time Sauron wins a skirmish and the companion he is skirmishing is not killed, you may assign X wounds to other companions, where X is the current region number.
	Throne of the Dark Lord (17R105)	Sauron	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot 2 minions. While you can spot Sauron, each other minion is damage +1. While the fellowship is in the same region as Mount Doom, each companion is resistance -2.​

Cards that interact with Artifacts

Portrait	Card Name	Culture	Card Type	Game Text
	Durin III, Dwarven Lord (9R+3)	Dwarven	Companion • Dwarf	Damage +1. While you can spot 2 Dwarves, Durin III is twilight cost –2. Durin III is strength +1 for each artifact and each possession he bears.
	Thrarin, Smith of Erebor (12U15)	Dwarven	Companion • Dwarf	For each artifact and possession Thrarin bears, he is damage +1.
	Ring of Artifice (17R4)	Dwarven	Artifact • Ring	Bearer must be a Dwarf. Bearer is damage +1. Bearer is strength +1 for each artifact in your discard pile. Regroup: Discard this to take a non-event card into hand from your discard pile.
	Hospitality of the Dwarves (V1_1)	Dwarven	Condition • Support Area	Maneuver: If the fellowship is at any sites 4 to 8, make each Dwarf lose all damage bonuses until the regroup phase, and each Dwarf bearing 2 or more items takes no more than 1 wound per phase until the regroup phase.
	Gimli, Vengeful Naugrim (V1_3)	Dwarven	Companion • Dwarf	Damage +1. While Gimli bears 2 items, he is strength +2. While Gimli bears 3 items, he is damage +1.
	One Dwarf in Moria (V1_5)	Dwarven	Event • Maneuver	Spot a Dwarf bearing 2 or more items to heal that Dwarf. Return X items on that Dwarf to their owners' hands to wound X minions.
	Something Draws Near (3U26)	Elven	Event	Fellowship: or Maneuver: Exert an Elf to discard an possession or artifact.
	Elrond, Elven Lord (7R21)	Elven	Companion • Elf	To play, spot Aragorn or an Elf. At the start of each turn, you may exert Elrond to heal a character bearing an artifact.
	Aiglos (9R+12)	Elven	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be an Elf. If bearer is Gil-galad, he is strength +1 for each artifact you can spot (limit +6). Regroup: Discard Aiglos to wound a minion for each Elf you spot.
	Galadriel, Bearer of Wisdom (9R+14)	Elven	Companion • Elf	While Galadriel bears an artifact or The One Ring, she is resistance +1 for each companion you can spot.
	Celebring, Elven-smith (18R7)	Elven	Follower	Aid - (At the start of the maneuver phase, you may add to transfer this to a companion.) To play, spot 2 companions. When you play Celebring, you may play an artifact from your deck.
	Gandalf's Cart (1U73)	Gandalf	Possession	Fellowship: Stack a Free Peoples artifact (or possession) from hand on this card, or play a card stacked here as if played from hand.
	Gandalf's Wisdom (2C23)	Gandalf	Condition	Plays to your support area. The twilight cost of each possession or artifact played on Gandalf or a character who has the Gandalf signet is -1.
	Roll of Thunder (4U99)	Gandalf	Event	Fellowship or Maneuver: Spot Gandalf to discard a Shadow possession or Shadow artifact.
	Déagol, Fateful Finder (13R46)	Gollum	Follower	To play, spot Sméagol. Aid – Add a burden. Skirmish: If bearer is not assigned to a skirmish, discard this from play to play an artifact or possession from your draw deck on bearer.
	Elendil, The Tall (9R+32)	Gondor	Companion • Man	To play, spot 2 Men. Fellowship: Play an artifact on Elendil to make the move limit +1 for this turn. Regroup: Discard a artifact to liberate a site.
	Isildur, Bearer of Heirlooms (9R+33)	Gondor	Companion • Man	While Isildur is the Ring-bearer, at the start of each skirmish involving him, add 2 burdens or exert 3 companions. While Isildur bears The One Ring or an artifact, each knight is strength +1.
	Narsil, Blade of the Faithful (9R+34)	Gondor	Artifact • Hand Weapon	Bearer must be a Man. If bearer is Elendil or Isildur, he is strength +1 for each artifact you can spot (limit +6). Response: If bearer is about to take a wound, exert 2 Men to prevent that.
	Frodo, Reluctant Adventurer (2C102)	Shire	Companion • Hobbit	Ring-bound. Ring-bearer (resistance 10). The cost of each artifact, possession, and tale played on Frodo is -1.
	Frodo, Mr. Underhill (0P67)	Shire	Companion • Hobbit	Ring-bound. Ring-bearer (resistance 10). The cost of each artifact, possession, and tale played on Frodo is -1.
	Bilbo, Of Bag End (V1_50)	Shire	Ally • Home 3 • Hobbit	To play, spot 2 companions with the Frodo signet. Fellowship: If the fellowship is at a sanctuary, exert Bilbo twice to play 2 items from your draw deck on companions.
	Reclaim the Precious (10U22)	Gollum	Condition • Support Area	Assignment: Assign Gollum to a companion bearing an artifact. The Free Peoples player may add a burden to prevent this and assign Gollum. Regroup: Exert Gollum twice to discard a possession. Discard this condition.
	Crows of Isengard (V1_26)	Isengard	Minion • Crow	When you play this minion, spot a companion to add for each Free Peoples card borne by that companion (limit ). Maneuver: Spot 2 Free Peoples items (or spot Saruman) and discard this minion to place an item from your draw deck or discard pile on top of your draw deck.
	The Darkness Grew (V1_35)	Moria	Condition • Support Area	Shadow: Stack a item from hand here. Shadow: Spot The Balrog to take a card stacked here into hand.
	Beastly Olog-hai (11R108)	Orc	Minion • Troll	Damage +1. Fierce. To play, spot an minion. Assignment: Exert this minion to assign it to a companion bearing an artifact. The Free Peoples player may discard an artifact from play to prevent this.
	Black Land Chieftain (15R99)	Orc	Minion • Orc	To play, spot an minion. When you play Black Land Chieftain, you may add a threat for each Free Peoples possession and each Free Peoples artifact you can spot.
	Destructive Orc (15C108)	Orc	Minion • Orc	When you play Destructive Orc, you may discard a fortification for each possession and each artifact you can spot.
	Fell Voices Call (V1_37)	Ringwraith	Event • Shadow	Play a item from your draw deck or discard pile.
	Deathly Roar (17C113)	Uruk-hai	Condition • Support Area	Each time the Free Peoples player plays a possession or artifact, place a token here. Each time an minion wins a skirmish, you may remove an token to exert a companion.
	Trollshaw Forest (1U334)	Site	Site	Forest. Each time you play a possession or artifact on your companion, draw a card.
	Chamber of Mazarbul (11S233)	Site	Site	Underground. The Free Peoples player may transfer Free Peoples artifacts and possessions at no twilight cost.
	Trollshaw Forest (11S260)	Site	Site	Forest. Each time you play an artifact or possession on your companion, you may draw a card.​

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Card Type
	Layout Used:	Character Layout			Modifier Layout					Site Layout
Alignment (Kind / Side)	Free Peoples	Companion	Ally	Follower	Artifact	Possession	The One Ring	Condition	Event	Site
	Shadow	Minion