Ring-bearer
Your Ring-bearer is a companion who you place on the table before your starting fellowship, bearing the One Ring. He or she is the key component of your deck, as all strategies rely on killing or corrupting the Ring-bearer, and you only win if your Ring bearer is alive at the regroup phase at site 9.
Alternate Ring-bearers[edit]
At the game's initial release with Fellowship of the Ring, the only playable Ring-bearer was Frodo, and if Sam was in play when he died, the One Ring would pass to Sam and you would continue on with Sam as your Ring-bearer. This remained true until the release of Reflections, when 6 new Alternate Ring-bearers (or ARBs) became available. Alternate Ring-Bearers represented what would happen if Frodo had given or had the One Ring taken by someone else. These ARBs typically have lower resistance than Frodo, but compensated by having higher strength or powerful effects.
The primary impact this has was to permit true monoculture decks to exist; 
Gondor, 
Elven, 
Dwarven, and 
Gollum could all dispense with any 
Shire cards used to keep Frodo alive.
Once Bloodlines was released, two new alternate Ring-bearers were made of Sam and Gandalf, allowing every Free Peoples culture except 
Rohan to have a Ring-bearer.
Rules Entries[edit]
You may choose any character with the ringed resistance icon, or any version of Frodo, to be your Ring-bearer. You may choose any version of The One Ring. These two cards are not part of your draw deck (they do not count against your total of Free Peoples cards).
- Ring-bearer and The One Ring section
One Free Peoples character always begins the game as your Ring-bearer. (See building your deck.) He bears The One Ring for you, much as when Frodo carried the Ring in his pocket or on a chain around his neck.
If a character other than Frodo is your Ring-bearer, you cannot play any version of Frodo with the Ring-bearer keyword during the game.
While wearing The One Ring, your Ring-bearer can perform all normal actions such as moving and skirmishing. He may defend against attacking minions as usual.
The Ring-bearer cannot be discarded or returned to your hand, and skirmishes involving the Ring-bearer cannot be cancelled.- Ring-bearer section
List of Ring-Bearers[edit]
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer (resistance 10).
At the start of each of your turns, you may heal a Hobbit ally. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer (resistance 10).
Fellowship: Exert another companion who has the Frodo signet to heal Frodo. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound. Ring-bearer (resistance 10).
The cost of each artifact, possession, and <a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> tale played on Frodo is -1. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer (resistance 10).
While you can spot 3 unbound companions, Shadow cards may not discard cards from your hand or from the top of your draw deck. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer (resistance 10).
Fellowship: Play a Ring-bound companion to remove a burden. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer (resistance 10).
Fellowship: Add a burden to play Sméagol from your discard pile. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer (resistance 10).
Ring-bound. Each time the fellowship moves, you may add <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 3.svg" src="/images/Twilight_3.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> to remove a threat. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer (resistance 10).
Ring-bound. Skirmish: At sites 6<a href="/wiki/Sites#Block_Symbols" title="Sites#Block Symbols"><img alt="King block.svg" src="/images/King_block.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> to 8<a href="/wiki/Sites#Block_Symbols" title="Sites#Block Symbols"><img alt="King block.svg" src="/images/King_block.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="24" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>, add 4 burdens to wound a minion skirmishing Frodo. |
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<a href="/wiki/Dwarven_Culture" title="Dwarven Culture"><img alt="Culture Dwarven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Dwarven.svg" decoding="async" width="40" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Dwarf | Damage +1.
While Gimli is the Ring-bearer, at the start of each skirmish involving him, add 2 burdens or 2 threats. While Gimli is damage +X, he is resistance +X. |
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<a href="/wiki/Elven_Culture" title="Elven Culture"><img alt="Culture Elven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Elven.svg" decoding="async" width="22" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Elf | While Galadriel bears an artifact or The One Ring, she is resistance +1 for each <a href="/wiki/Elven_Culture" title="Elven Culture"><img alt="Culture Elven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Elven.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="24" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> companion you can spot. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gollum_Culture" title="Gollum Culture"><img alt="Culture Gollum.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gollum.svg" decoding="async" width="15" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion | Ring-bound. To play, add a burden.
Each time the fellowship moves, place an unbound companion in the dead pile. Regroup: If Sméagol is the Ring-bearer, add 2 burdens to discard each minion. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Man | While Boromir is the Ring-bearer, at the start of each skirmish involving him, add 3 burdens or wound him twice.
Each time Boromir wins a skirmish, discard each minion he is skirmishing. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | 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 <a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="28" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> knight is strength +1. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound.
Each time the fellowship moves, if the twilight pool has 2 or fewer twilight tokens, add 2 burdens or add <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 3.svg" src="/images/Twilight_3.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>. Regroup: Add a burden to play a <a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> tale. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer (resistance 12). |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer. Ring-bound. At the start of the regroup phase, you may exert Frodo to make him gain muster until the end of the regroup phase. (At the start of the regroup phase, you may discard a card from hand to draw a card.) |
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<a href="/wiki/Gandalf_Culture" title="Gandalf Culture"><img alt="Culture Gandalf.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gandalf.svg" decoding="async" width="32" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Wizard | While Gandalf is the Ring-bearer, each time the fellowship moves, add 3 burdens unless you spot 2 other companions and discard 2 <a href="/wiki/Gandalf_Culture" title="Gandalf Culture"><img alt="Culture Gandalf.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gandalf.svg" decoding="async" width="35" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> cards from hand. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound.
Sam is resistance +1 for each Hobbit you can spot. Regroup: Exert Sam and transfer a follower he is bearing to your support area to discard a minion from play. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer. Ring-bound.
While skirmishing a minion of strength 8 or less, Frodo is strength +2. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Man | While Faramir is the Ring-bearer, at the start of each skirmish involving him, add 2 burdens or 2 threats.
Skirmish: While Faramir is the Ring-bearer, you may wound Faramir to make a minion skirmishing a <a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="28" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Man roaming until the end of the turn. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Fellowship. Ring-bearer. Ring-bound.
While you cannot spot 4 threats, Shadow cards cannot discard cards from your hand or from the top of your draw deck. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound. Ring-bearer (resistance 10).
The cost of each artifact, possession, and <a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> tale played on Frodo is -1. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bearer. |
Cards That Interact With the Ring-Bearer[edit]
Free Peoples[edit]
| Portrait | Card Name | Culture | Card Type | Game Text |
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<a href="/wiki/Gandalf_Culture" title="Gandalf Culture"><img alt="Culture Gandalf.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gandalf.svg" decoding="async" width="32" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Spell.
Skirmish: Make Gandalf strength +2 (or +4 if there are 4 or fewer burdens on the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Response: If the Ring-bearer is about to heal, remove a burden instead. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Skirmish: Add 1 burden to wound each minion skirmishing the Ring-bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Fellowship: Play Bill the Pony from your draw deck.
Response: If Frodo dies, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Fellowship: Exert Sam to remove a burden.
Response: If Frodo dies, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | Tale. Bearer must be the Ring-bearer.
Skirmish: Discard this condition to take off The One Ring or to cancel a skirmish involving the Ring-bearer and a Nazgûl. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Maneuver: Exert Sam twice to make him defender +1 until the regroup phase.
Response: If Frodo dies, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Elven_Culture" title="Elven Culture"><img alt="Culture Elven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Elven.svg" decoding="async" width="22" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Elf | Ranger.
Response: If the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound, discard 3 cards from hand to prevent that wound. |
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<a href="/wiki/Elven_Culture" title="Elven Culture"><img alt="Culture Elven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Elven.svg" decoding="async" width="22" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Possession | To play, exert an Elf. Bearer must be the Ring-bearer.
Bearer’s resistance is +2. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Fellowship: Spot a Hobbit companion (except the Ring-bearer) to reveal a card at random from an opponent’s hand. Remove <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight x.svg" src="/images/Twilight_x.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>, where X is the twilight cost of the card revealed. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Skirmish: Exert the Ring-bearer to discard Merry. Any Shadow player may remove <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 2.svg" src="/images/Twilight_2.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound.
Fellowship: Play Sam’s Pack from your draw deck. Response: If Frodo is killed, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound.
Response: If a Shadow card is about to add any number of burdens, spot Frodo and exert Sam to prevent this. Response: If Frodo is killed, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound.
While you can spot Frodo and Sméagol, Sam may not be overwhelmed unless his strength is tripled. Response: If Frodo is killed, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound.
Fellowship: Play a Hobbit companion to remove a burden. Response: If Frodo is killed, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound.
Fellowship: If you have initiative, discard a card from hand to heal Sam. Response: If Frodo is killed, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Gandalf_Culture" title="Gandalf Culture"><img alt="Culture Gandalf.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gandalf.svg" decoding="async" width="32" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Fellowship | Spot Gandalf and place a companion (except the Ring-bearer) in the dead pile to take 3 cards from that companion's culture into hand from your draw deck. Shuffle your draw deck. |
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<a href="/wiki/Dwarven_Culture" title="Dwarven Culture"><img alt="Culture Dwarven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Dwarven.svg" decoding="async" width="40" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Dwarf | Damage +1.
While Gimli is the Ring-bearer, at the start of each skirmish involving him, add 2 burdens or 2 threats. While Gimli is damage +X, he is resistance +X. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gollum_Culture" title="Gollum Culture"><img alt="Culture Gollum.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gollum.svg" decoding="async" width="15" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion | Ring-bound. To play, add a burden.
Each time the fellowship moves, place an unbound companion in the dead pile. Regroup: If Sméagol is the Ring-bearer, add 2 burdens to discard each minion. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Man | While Boromir is the Ring-bearer, at the start of each skirmish involving him, add 3 burdens or wound him twice.
Each time Boromir wins a skirmish, discard each minion he is skirmishing. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | 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 <a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="28" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> knight is strength +1. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Artifact • Support Area | Tale. To play, spot a <a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="28" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Man.
The Ring-bearer is resistance +1 for each <a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="28" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> artifact you can spot (limit +3). Fellowship: Discard this artifact to play a ring from your discard pile. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Skirmish | If a Hobbit companion is not assigned to a skirmish, exert that Hobbit to have him or her replace a companion (except the Ring-bearer) in a skirmish. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound.
Sam is strength +1 for each <a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> companion you can spot. Response: If Frodo dies, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Dwarven_Culture" title="Dwarven Culture"><img alt="Culture Dwarven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Dwarven.svg" decoding="async" width="40" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Skirmish | Exert the Ring-bearer and a Dwarf to make that Dwarf strength +X, where X equals that Dwarf's resistance. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gandalf_Culture" title="Gandalf Culture"><img alt="Culture Gandalf.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gandalf.svg" decoding="async" width="32" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | To play, spot a <a href="/wiki/Gandalf_Culture" title="Gandalf Culture"><img alt="Culture Gandalf.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gandalf.svg" decoding="async" width="35" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> companion.
Bearer must be a companion (except the Ring-bearer). Limit 1 per bearer. Each time bearer wins a skirmish, you may remove a burden. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Man | Ranger.
Skirmish: Exert Faramir to make him strength +1 for each wound on the Ring-bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | Each time you play a Hobbit, you may remove a burden. Then, if the fellowship is at dwelling site, heal the Ring-bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | To play, spot a Hobbit.
Skirmish: If your Ring-bearer is assigned to a skirmish, discard this condition to make each companion who has resistance 7 or more strength +2 until the regroup phase. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Man | Ranger.
While the Ring-bearer has resistance 9 or more, Halbarad’s twilight cost is –1. At the start of the maneuver phase, you may discard a <a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="28" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> card from hand to heal a <a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="28" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> companion. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Each <a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> follower is twilight cost –1.
Skirmish: If Pippin is skirmishing a hunter minion, exert the Ring-bearer to make Pippin strength +2. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Ring-bound. While Sam bears the One Ring, he is resistance –4.
Maneuver: If Sam is bearing a follower, exert him to heal another Hobbit. Response: If Frodo is killed, make Sam the Ring-bearer. |
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Skirmish: While Faramir is the Ring-bearer, you may wound Faramir to make a minion skirmishing a <a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="28" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Man roaming until the end of the turn. |
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<a href="/wiki/Rohan_Culture" title="Rohan Culture"><img alt="Culture Rohan.svg" src="/images/Culture_Rohan.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Man | While the Ring-bearer is assigned to a skirmish, Éowyn cannot take wounds while skirmishing.
Assignment: Exert Éowyn and assign a minion to the Ring-bearer to make that minion lose all keywords and unable to gain keywords until the regroup phase. |
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<a href="/wiki/Elven_Culture" title="Elven Culture"><img alt="Culture Elven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Elven.svg" decoding="async" width="22" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | 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 <a href="/wiki/Elven_Culture" title="Elven Culture"><img alt="Culture Elven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Elven.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="24" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> skirmish event, you may reinforce an <a href="/wiki/Elven_Culture" title="Elven Culture"><img alt="Culture Elven.svg" src="/images/Culture_Elven.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="24" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> token. |
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<a href="/wiki/Rohan_Culture" title="Rohan Culture"><img alt="Culture Rohan.svg" src="/images/Culture_Rohan.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Archery | Discard a <a href="/wiki/Rohan_Culture" title="Rohan Culture"><img alt="Culture Rohan.svg" src="/images/Culture_Rohan.svg" decoding="async" width="36" height="28" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> possession from play to choose one: Wound an unwounded minion; exert a minion; or discard a Shadow card the Ring-bearer is bearing. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gondor_Culture" title="Gondor Culture"><img alt="Culture Gondor.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gondor.svg" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Man | Fellowship. Ranger.
While the Ring-bearer is the only other companion you can spot, Aragorn is an archer, defender +1, and can take no more than 1 wound each skirmish. |
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<a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Companion • Hobbit | Fellowship. Ring-bound.
While Sam bears The One Ring, he is resistance -4. While you can spot 3 <a href="/wiki/Shire_Culture" title="Shire Culture"><img alt="Culture Shire.svg" src="/images/Culture_Shire.svg" decoding="async" width="49" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> companions, Sam is strength +2. Response: If Frodo dies, make Sam the Ring-bearer. |
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Response: If Frodo dies, make Sam the Ring-bearer (Resistance 5). |
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Response: If Frodo is killed, make Sam the Ring-bearer (resistance 5). |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Spell. Weather.
Maneuver: Exert a <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion and spot 5 companions to discard an exhausted companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Spell. Weather.
Maneuver: Exert a <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion to make the opponent choose to either exert the Ring-bearer or add a burden. |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | To play, spot an Uruk-hai.
Maneuver: Spot 6 companions and remove <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 2.svg" src="/images/Twilight_2.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> to wound a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Search.
Maneuver: Exert an Uruk-hai to make the opponent choose to either exert 2 companions or make the Ring-bearer put on The One Ring until the regroup phase. |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | Search. To play, spot an Uruk-hai.
While the Ring-bearer is exhausted or you can spot 5 burdens, the move limit for this turn is -1 (to a minimum of 1). |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Uruk-hai | Response: If the Ring-bearer puts on The One Ring, exert this minion. Discard a card from the top of your draw deck for each <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion you spot. Add a burden for each Shadow card discarded in this way. |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | To play, exert an Uruk-hai.
Each time an Uruk-hai wins a skirmish, the opponent must choose to either exert the Ring-bearer or add a burden. |
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<a href="/wiki/Moria_Culture" title="Moria Culture"><img alt="Culture Moria.svg" src="/images/Culture_Moria.svg" decoding="async" width="22" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Assignment: Spot 5 <a href="/wiki/Moria_Culture" title="Moria Culture"><img alt="Culture Moria.svg" src="/images/Culture_Moria.svg" decoding="async" width="27" height="24" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minions to make the Free Peoples player assign the Ring-bearer to a skirmish. |
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<a href="/wiki/Moria_Culture" title="Moria Culture"><img alt="Culture Moria.svg" src="/images/Culture_Moria.svg" decoding="async" width="22" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Shadow: Spot a Hobbit (except the Ring-bearer) to reveal cards from the top of your draw deck until you reveal one that is not a <a href="/wiki/Moria_Culture" title="Moria Culture"><img alt="Culture Moria.svg" src="/images/Culture_Moria.svg" decoding="async" width="27" height="24" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion. Take the revealed cards into hand. |
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<a href="/wiki/Moria_Culture" title="Moria Culture"><img alt="Culture Moria.svg" src="/images/Culture_Moria.svg" decoding="async" width="22" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Response: If the Ring-bearer exerts or takes a wound, discard a card from the top of your draw deck for each <a href="/wiki/Moria_Culture" title="Moria Culture"><img alt="Culture Moria.svg" src="/images/Culture_Moria.svg" decoding="async" width="27" height="24" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion you spot. For each Shadow card discarded in this way, add a burden (limit 3 burdens). |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Skirmish: Make a Nazgûl strength +2 (or +5 if the Ring-bearer wears The One Ring). |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Maneuver: Exert a Nazgûl to discard a Free Peoples possession or Free Peoples condition. If you can spot no such card, discard an ally or companion (except the Ring-bearer) instead. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Skirmish: Make a Nazgûl strength +2 (or +3 if the Ring-bearer is assigned to a skirmish that has not resolved). |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Response: If a Nazgûl wins a skirmish, the Free Peoples player chooses to either exert the Ring-bearer or add a burden. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | Search.
Each time you play a Nazgûl, you may exert a Hobbit (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Response: If the Ring-bearer wears The One Ring at the end of a skirmish phase, cancel all remaining assignments and assign a Nazgûl to skirmish the Ring-bearer; The One Ring’s game text does not apply during this skirmish. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Response: If Ring-bearer puts on The One Ring, exert a Nazgûl to add 2 burdens. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Nazgul | Fierce.
Maneuver: Spot 6 companions (or 5 burdens) and exert Úlairë Enquëa to wound a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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Assignment: Spot 4 burdens to assign a companion (except the Ring-bearer) to skirmish Úlairë Toldëa. |
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<a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="71" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Maneuver: If the total number of burdens and companions in the dead pile is at least 12, spot a <a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" style="vertical-align: sub" class="whitebg" /></a> Orc to corrupt the Ring-bearer. |
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Maneuver: Spot a <a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" style="vertical-align: sub" class="whitebg" /></a> Orc and 6 companions to wound a companion (except the Ring-bearer). Do this once for each companion over 5. |
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If you can spot 5 burdens and the Free Peoples player has no cards in his or her draw deck, the Ring-bearer is corrupted. |
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Add a burden at the end of each turn during which bearer was not assigned to a skirmish (and another companion was). |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Response: If the Ring-bearer puts on The One Ring, spot an <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion to make the Free Peoples player discard the top 5 cards of his or her draw deck. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Maneuver: Exert a twilight Nazgûl to exert the Ring-bearer.
If the Ring-bearer is then exhausted, he puts on The One Ring until the regroup phase. |
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Each time Úlairë Enquëa wins a skirmish, you may exert him to wound the Ring-bearer once (or twice if you spot 5 burdens). |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Nazgul | Twilight.
While you can spot 2 burdens or 2 wounds on the Ring-bearer, Úlairë Nelya is fierce and damage +1 |
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Return to Its Master may not be played. Each time The Witch-king wins a skirmish, you may exert him to wound the Ring-bearer twice. |
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Each time the Free Peoples player draws a card (or takes a card into hand) during the fellowship phase, add a burden. |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | While you can spot another <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Orc, no player may use archery special abilities.
Regroup: Exert this minion and spot 3 wounds on the Ring-bearer to exert every companion. |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | Regroup: Exert Orc Overseer twice to exhaust a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Uruk-hai | Damage +1.
Maneuver: Spot 5 burdens and exert Orthanc Berserker twice to exhaust a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Wizard | Saruman may not take wounds during the archery phase and may not be assigned to a skirmish.
Assignment: Exert Saruman to assign an <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion to a companion (except the Ring-bearer). That companion may exert to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Nazgul | Twilight.
Each time Úlairë Otsëa wins a skirmish, you may exert him to transfer Blade Tip from your support area to the Ring-bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="71" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | Regroup: Exert this minion to wound a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="71" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | Regroup: Exert this minion to wound a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | Search. To play, exert an <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> tracker.
Plays on a companion (except the Ring-bearer). Assignment: Exert an <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> tracker and remove <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 2.svg" src="/images/Twilight_2.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> to assign that tracker to bearer. Bearer may exert to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Man | Southron. Archer.
Archery: Exert Desert Lord to exert a companion (except the Ring-bearer); Desert Lord does not add to the minion archery total. |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Man | Southron. Archer.
Archery: Exert this minion to exert a companion (except the Ring-bearer); this minion does not add to the minion archery total. |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Regroup: Exert a <a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="39" height="27" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Man to add a burden for each companion over 4. The Free Peoples player may discard 2 companions (except the Ring-bearer) to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Man | Southron. Archer.
Archery: Exert this minion to exert a companion (except the Ring-bearer); this minion does not add to the minion archery total. |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Man | Southron. Ambush <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 1.svg" src="/images/Twilight_1.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>.
Assignment: Spot 6 companions to assign this minion to the Ring-bearer. The Free Peoples player may discard an unbound companion to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Man | Southron. Archer. Ambush <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 1.svg" src="/images/Twilight_1.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>. To play, spot a Southron.
Assignment: Spot 7 companions to assign this minion to the Ring-bearer. The Free Peoples player may make you discard a companion (except the Ring-bearer) to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Assignment: Assign an Easterling to the Ring-bearer. The Free Peoples player may add a burden to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gollum_Culture" title="Gollum Culture"><img alt="Culture Gollum.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gollum.svg" decoding="async" width="15" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Response: If Gollum wins a skirmish, wound a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | To play, spot an <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Man. Plays on a companion (except the Ring-bearer). Assignment: Assign an <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion with less strength than bearer to skirmish bearer. Discard this condition. |
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<a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="26" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Regroup: Discard 4 <a href="/wiki/Isengard_Culture" title="Isengard Culture"><img alt="Culture Isengard.svg" src="/images/Culture_Isengard.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Orcs to wound a companion 4 times (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event | Maneuver: Spot a mounted <a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="39" height="27" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Man to discard a companion (except the Ring-bearer). The Free Peoples player may add <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 4.svg" src="/images/Twilight_4.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Nazgul | Regroup: Exert Úlairë Lemenya and discard 3 cards from hand to return a companion (except the Ring-bearer) to owner’s hand. |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | To play, spot 2 <a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="39" height="27" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Men and add a threat. Each time a companion is about to be killed, you may remove a threat to discard a companion (except the Ring-bearer).
Discard this condition at the start of the regroup phase. |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Regroup | Spot 2 <a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="39" height="27" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Men to discard a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Man | Southron.
Archery: Spot 4 Free Peoples cultures and either exert this minion or remove a threat to wound a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Raider_Culture" title="Raider Culture"><img alt="Culture Raider.svg" src="/images/Culture_Raider.svg" decoding="async" width="29" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Man | Southron. Archer.
While you have initiative, the Ring-bearer may not take wounds during the archery phase and this minion is ambush <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 8.svg" src="/images/Twilight_8.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | Assignment: Remove 5 threats to assign a Nazgûl to a companion (except the Ring-bearer). The Free Peoples player may discard that companion. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Possession • Hand Weapon | Bearer must be a <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Orc.
While you can spot 2 wounds on the Ring-bearer, bearer is damage +1. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | While the Ring-bearer is exhausted, this minion is strength +3, fierce and damage +1. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | When you play this minion, you may spot a Nazgûl to add a burden. The Free Peoples player may wound the Ring–bearer to prevent this.
Skirmish: Remove a burden to make this minion strength +3. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | When you play this minion, you may spot a Nazgûl to add 2 threats. The Free Peoples player may wound the Ring–bearer to prevent this.
Skirmish: Remove a threat to make this minion strength +3. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | While you can spot 2 wounds on the Ring–bearer, this minion is strength +4 and fierce. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | While you can spot 3 wounds on the Ring–bearer, this minion is fierce and damage +1. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | While you can spot a wound on the Ring–bearer, this minion is strength +6. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | To play spot a Nazgûl.
Shadow: If you have initiative and there are 3 characters in the dead pile, spot 3 burdens, 3 threats and a Nazgûl to corrupt the Ring–bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | Response: If your <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion wins a skirmish, place a <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> token here (limit 1 per site).
Regroup: Spot 3 <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> tokens here to exhaust the Ring–bearer. Discard this condition. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Nazgul | Fierce.
While you can spot 6 companions, Úlairë Enquëa is Damage +1. Each time a companion is killed, you may exert Úlairë Enquëa to exert the Ring–bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Skirmish | Make a <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Orc strength +2 (or +4 if you spot 2 wounds on the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Nazgul | Fierce.
When you play The Witch-king, you may remove a threat to take a <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> card into hand from your discard pile. The Ring-bearer cannot take threat wounds. |
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<a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="71" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | Response: If a companion is overwhelmed during a skirmish involving a <a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" style="vertical-align: sub" class="whitebg" /></a> Orc, remove a threat to assign this minion to the Ring-bearer (even if the Ring-bearer is already assigned). |
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<a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="71" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | Regroup: Discard a <a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" style="vertical-align: sub" class="whitebg" /></a> minion, spot a companion (except the Ring-bearer), and remove X burdens, where X is that companion's vitality, to return that companion to its owner's hand. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gollum_Culture" title="Gollum Culture"><img alt="Culture Gollum.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gollum.svg" decoding="async" width="15" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion | Shadow: Exert Gollum twice to exert the Ring-bearer.
Shadow: Remove a burden to add <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 1.svg" src="/images/Twilight_1.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>. Skirmish: Remove a burden to add <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 2.svg" src="/images/Twilight_2.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>. Regroup: Remove a burden to add <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 3.svg" src="/images/Twilight_3.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>. Regroup: Exert Gollum twice to wound the Ring-bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Orc | For each wound on the Ring-bearer, each <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Orc is strength +1. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Skirmish | Make a <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Orc strength +2 for each wound on the Ring-bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Men_Culture" title="Men Culture"><img alt="Culture Men.svg" src="/images/Culture_Men.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | To play, spot a <a href="/wiki/Men_Culture" title="Men Culture"><img alt="Culture Men.svg" src="/images/Culture_Men.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion.
Bearer must be a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Orc_Culture" title="Orc Culture"><img alt="Culture Orc.svg" src="/images/Culture_Orc.svg" decoding="async" width="13" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Assignment | Toil 3. (For each <a href="/wiki/Orc_Culture" title="Orc Culture"><img alt="Culture Orc.svg" src="/images/Culture_Orc.svg" decoding="async" width="17" height="26" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –3.) Assign an <a href="/wiki/Orc_Culture" title="Orc Culture"><img alt="Culture Orc.svg" src="/images/Culture_Orc.svg" decoding="async" width="17" height="26" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion to a companion (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | Regroup: Discard your Nazgûl from play to add a <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> token here. The Free Peoples player may return a companion to hand to prevent the placement of that token. When you can spot 4 <a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="28" height="22" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> tokens on this condition, the Ring-bearer is corrupted. |
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<a href="/wiki/Orc_Culture" title="Orc Culture"><img alt="Culture Orc.svg" src="/images/Culture_Orc.svg" decoding="async" width="13" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | To play, exert an <a href="/wiki/Orc_Culture" title="Orc Culture"><img alt="Culture Orc.svg" src="/images/Culture_Orc.svg" decoding="async" width="17" height="26" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion.
If you can spot 5 burdens, and the Free Peoples player has no cards in his or her draw deck, the Ring-bearer is corrupted. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | Each time you play a Nazgûl, you may heal the Ring-bearer twice to add a burden. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Response | If a Nazgûl wins a skirmish, the Free Peoples player chooses to either exert the Ring-bearer or add a burden. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Nazgul | Fierce.
The Witch-king is twilight cost –1 for each wound on the Ring-bearer. Each time a companion is played, you may reveal this card from hand to exert the Ring-bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gollum_Culture" title="Gollum Culture"><img alt="Culture Gollum.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gollum.svg" decoding="async" width="15" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Event • Regroup | To play, discard Gollum from play. Heal the Ring-bearer to add a burden. If the fellowship is not in region 1, you may repeat this for each other wound on the Ring-bearer. |
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<a href="/wiki/Men_Culture" title="Men Culture"><img alt="Culture Men.svg" src="/images/Culture_Men.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Man | When you play this, you may spot another <a href="/wiki/Men_Culture" title="Men Culture"><img alt="Culture Men.svg" src="/images/Culture_Men.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> minion to make this minion twilight cost –1 for each wound on the Ring-bearer.
While each companion is wounded, this minion is fierce. |
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<a href="/wiki/Gollum_Culture" title="Gollum Culture"><img alt="Culture Gollum.svg" src="/images/Culture_Gollum.svg" decoding="async" width="15" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion | At the start of each skirmish involving Gollum, he is strength +X until the end of that skirmish, where X is the Ring-bearer’s strength. |
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<a href="/wiki/Men_Culture" title="Men Culture"><img alt="Culture Men.svg" src="/images/Culture_Men.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Man | Maneuver: Exert Mûmak Commander twice to exert a companion twice (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Men_Culture" title="Men Culture"><img alt="Culture Men.svg" src="/images/Culture_Men.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition | To play, spot a <a href="/wiki/Men_Culture" title="Men Culture"><img alt="Culture Men.svg" src="/images/Culture_Men.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Man.
Bearer must be a companion (except the Ring-bearer). Limit 1 per companion. Each time the fellowship moves, add <a href="/wiki/Twilight_Cost" title="Twilight Cost"><img alt="Twilight 1.svg" src="/images/Twilight_1.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a>. |
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<a href="/wiki/Orc_Culture" title="Orc Culture"><img alt="Culture Orc.svg" src="/images/Culture_Orc.svg" decoding="async" width="13" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Troll | For each companion over 5, this minion is damage +1.
Assignment: Exert this minion twice to assign it to a companion (except the Ring-bearer). If you cannot spot 6 companions, the Free Peoples player may exert a companion to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Uruk-hai_Culture" title="Uruk-hai Culture"><img alt="Culture Uruk-hai.svg" src="/images/Culture_Uruk-hai.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Uruk-hai | Fierce. Hunter 1. (While skirmishing a non-hunter character, this character is strength +1.)
Assignment: Exert Mauhúr to assign him to a non-hunter character (except the Ring-bearer). |
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<a href="/wiki/Orc_Culture" title="Orc Culture"><img alt="Culture Orc.svg" src="/images/Culture_Orc.svg" decoding="async" width="13" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Troll | Hunter 2. (While skirmishing a non-hunter character, this character is strength +2.)
To play, spot an <a href="/wiki/Orc_Culture" title="Orc Culture"><img alt="Culture Orc.svg" src="/images/Culture_Orc.svg" decoding="async" width="17" height="26" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> Orc. When you play this minion, add 2 threats. The Free Peoples player may exert the Ring-bearer to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Moria_Culture" title="Moria Culture"><img alt="Culture Moria.svg" src="/images/Culture_Moria.svg" decoding="async" width="22" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | Each time a tentacle wins a skirmish, you may stack it here.
Assignment: Spot 4 tentacles stacked here and discard this condition to assign a <a href="/wiki/Moria_Culture" title="Moria Culture"><img alt="Culture Moria.svg" src="/images/Culture_Moria.svg" decoding="async" width="27" height="24" style="vertical-align: bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> creature to the Ring-bearer. The Free Peoples player may exert the Ring-bearer twice to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Minion • Nazgul | Twilight.
This minion is strength +1 for each wound on the Ring-bearer. At the start of the maneuver phase, you may exert this minion to make it fierce until the regroup phase. The Free Peoples player may exert the Ring-bearer to prevent this. |
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<a href="/wiki/Ringwraith_Culture" title="Ringwraith Culture"><img alt="Culture Ringwraith.svg" src="/images/Culture_Ringwraith.svg" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | To play, spot a twilight Nazgul.
Each time the fellowship moves, you may spot a wound on the Ring-bearer to draw a card (or 2 cards if the Ring-bearer is exhausted). |
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<a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="71" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Condition • Support Area | The site number of each <a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" style="vertical-align: sub" class="whitebg" /></a> minion is
-1 for each burden you can spot. Each <a href="/wiki/Sauron_Culture" title="Sauron Culture"><img alt="Culture Sauron.svg" src="/images/Culture_Sauron.svg" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" style="vertical-align: sub" class="whitebg" /></a> minion with site number of 1 or less is strength +1. When the Ring-bearer takes off The One Ring, discard this condition. |
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<a href="/wiki/Site_Culture" title="Site Culture"><img alt="Culture Site.svg" src="/images/Culture_Site.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Site | Underground. The Free Peoples player wins the game only if the Ring-bearer survives until Shadow players reconcile. |
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<a href="/wiki/Site_Culture" title="Site Culture"><img alt="Culture Site.svg" src="/images/Culture_Site.svg" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | Site | Shadow: Spot 8 burdens to make the Ring-bearer wear The One Ring until the regroup phase. |
The One Ring[edit]
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<a href="/wiki/The_One_Ring_Culture" title="The One Ring Culture"><img alt="Culture The One Ring.svg" src="/images/Culture_The_One_Ring.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | The One Ring | Response: If bearer is about to take a wound, he wears The One Ring until the regroup phase.
While wearing The One Ring, each time the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound, add two burdens instead. |
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<a href="/wiki/The_One_Ring_Culture" title="The One Ring Culture"><img alt="Culture The One Ring.svg" src="/images/Culture_The_One_Ring.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | The One Ring | Response: If bearer is about to take a wound in a skirmish, he wears The One Ring until the regroup phase.
While wearing The One Ring, each time the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound during a skirmish, add a burden instead. |
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<a href="/wiki/The_One_Ring_Culture" title="The One Ring Culture"><img alt="Culture The One Ring.svg" src="/images/Culture_The_One_Ring.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | The One Ring | While wearing The One Ring, the Ring-bearer is strength +2, and each time he is about to take a wound in a skirmish, add a burden instead.
Skirmish: Add a burden to wear The One Ring until the regroup phase. |
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<a href="/wiki/The_One_Ring_Culture" title="The One Ring Culture"><img alt="Culture The One Ring.svg" src="/images/Culture_The_One_Ring.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | The One Ring | Maneuver: Add a burden to wear The One Ring until the regroup phase.
While wearing The One Ring, each time the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound, add a burden instead. |
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<a href="/wiki/The_One_Ring_Culture" title="The One Ring Culture"><img alt="Culture The One Ring.svg" src="/images/Culture_The_One_Ring.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | The One Ring | Fellowship: Add 2 burdens to play a ring from your draw deck.
Maneuver: Exert bearer to wear The One Ring until the regroup phase. While wearing The One Ring, each time the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound, add a burden instead. |
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<a href="/wiki/The_One_Ring_Culture" title="The One Ring Culture"><img alt="Culture The One Ring.svg" src="/images/Culture_The_One_Ring.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | The One Ring | Response: If the Ring-bearer is about to take a wound, he or she wears The One Ring until the regroup phase. While the Ring-bearer is wearing The One Ring, each time he or she is about to take a wound, add a burden instead. |
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<a href="/wiki/The_One_Ring_Culture" title="The One Ring Culture"><img alt="Culture The One Ring.svg" src="/images/Culture_The_One_Ring.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | The One Ring | While wearing The One Ring, the Ring–bearer gains hunter 3, and each time he or she is about to take a wound in a skirmish, add a burden instead.
Skirmish: Add a burden to wear The One Ring until the regroup phase. |
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<a href="/wiki/The_One_Ring_Culture" title="The One Ring Culture"><img alt="Culture The One Ring.svg" src="/images/Culture_The_One_Ring.svg" decoding="async" width="21" height="20" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" class="whitebg" /></a> | The One Ring | While wearing The One Ring, each time bearer is about to take a wound, add a burden instead.
Maneuver: Wear The One Ring until the regroup phase. Skirmish: Add a burden to make the Ring-bearer strength +3. |
