Mountain

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Mountain[edit]

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[edit]

Portrait Card Name Culture Card Type Game Text
Pass of Caradhras (1U348) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Shadow: Spot a Culture Isengard.svg minion to play a weather card from your draw deck (limit 1 per turn).
Ered Nimrais (4U343) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. The twilight cost of each companion and ally played at Ered Nimrais is +3.
White Mountains (4U345) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. When the fellowship moves to White Mountains, Théoden or 2 companions must exert.
Barazinbar (11S229) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. At the start of your fellowship phase, you may exert a Dwarf to play a Culture Dwarven.svg possession from your draw deck.
Crags of Emyn Muil (11S234) Culture Site.svg 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) Culture Site.svg 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) Culture Site.svg Site Site 'Mountain.'Maneuver: Exert your Culture Orc.svg minion to discard a card at random from the Free Peoples player's hand.
Emyn Muil (12S187) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Maneuver: Remove Twilight 2.svg and exert your minion that is not fierce to make that minion fierce until the regroup phase.
Slopes of Orodruin (12U192) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Shadow: Remove Twilight 2.svg and discard 2 Free Peoples cards from hand to draw a card.
Starkhorn (12U193) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Each time your Dwarf wins a skirmish, you may draw a card.
Redhorn Pass (13U194) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Culture tokens cannot be added, removed, or reinforced.
Mount Doom (15R193) Culture Site.svg Site Site Battleground. Mountain. Underground. Until the end of the game, sites in this region cannot be replaced.
Doorway to Doom (18U134) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. When the fellowship moves to this site, each player wounds two of his or her characters.
Foot of Mount Doom (18U135) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Each card that is about to be placed into the discard pile is removed from the game instead.
Erebor (30S55) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. River. Shadow: Exert 2 minions and spot 6 companions to draw 2 cards.
Smaug's Den (30S56) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Underground. Shadow: Play Smaug from your draw deck or discard pile.
Battle of the Five Armies (30S57) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Battleground. Shadow: Remove 2 doubts to play a minion from your discard pile (except Smaug).
Dale (30FP64) Culture Site.svg 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) Culture Site.svg 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) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Underground. If you cannot spot the [Dwarven] Arkenstone, the twilight cost of each minion is -1.
Secret Door (32HF48) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. While you can spot Thrór's Key, the Shadow number of Secret Door is -3.
Northern Slopes (32HB49) Culture Site.svg Site Site Mountain. Battleground. Shadow: Exert a [Dwarven] character for each Shadow culture you can spot (limit once per turn).
Wooded Steep Cliff (32FP64) Culture Site.svg 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[edit]

Portrait Card Name Culture Card Type Game Text
Axe of Khazad-dûm (11U3) Culture Dwarven.svg Dwarven Possession • Hand Weapon Bearer must be a Dwarf.

While bearer is at a mountain site, he is Damage +1.

Mountain Homestead (11U12) Culture Dwarven.svg 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) Culture Dwarven.svg 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) Culture Dwarven.svg 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) Culture Dwarven.svg Dwarven Condition • Support Area To play, exert 2 Dwarves.

When you play this, add a Culture Dwarven.svg 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) Culture Dwarven.svg Dwarven Condition • Support Area Tale.

Maneuver: Exert a Culture Dwarven.svg companion to make the fellowship's current site gain mountain until the regroup phase.

Safe Passage (11R50) Culture Gollum.svg 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 Twilight 4.svg.
Gondorian Steed (12U49) Culture Gondor.svg Gondor Possession • Mount Bearer must be a knight.

Bearer is damage +1.

Each time the fellowship moves from a mountain site, add Twilight 2.svg.

Slippery as Fishes (9R+29) Culture Gollum.svg 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) Culture Gollum.svg 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) Culture Gollum.svg Gollum Event • Skirmish Exert Gollum to make another minion strength +2 (or +3 if Gollum is at a mountain site).
Strange and Terrible (11U52) Culture Gollum.svg Gollum Event • Shadow Spot a Culture Gollum.svg minion at a mountain site to play a minion from your discard pile.
Not Alone (12U39) Culture Gollum.svg Gollum Condition • Support Area Each time the fellowship moves to a mountain or underground site, you may discard a Culture Gollum.svg event from hand to take a minion from your discard pile into hand.
Uruk-hai Scout (14R15) Culture Uruk-hai.svg 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) Culture Dwarven.svg 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) Culture Dwarven.svg 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) x20px 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) x20px 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).​




Unloaded Keywords
Race Decipher [Raceless] • BalrogCreatureDwarfElfEntHalf-trollHobbitMaiaManNazgûlOrcSpiderTreeTrollUruk-haiWizardWraith
Player's Council CrowEagle
Hobbit Draft Game BirdDragonEagleGiantGoblin
Site
Decipher BattlegroundDwellingForestMarshMountainPlainsRiverUnderground
General Decipher BesiegerCorsairEasterlingEngineFellowshipFortificationKnightMachinePipeweedRangerRing-boundSearchSouthronSpellStealthTaleTentacleTrackerTwilight • [Unbound] • ValiantVillagerWeatherWarg-rider
Player's Council Pony
Hobbit Draft Game BurglarCunningWise