Support Area Class

Support Area is an item class for Artifacts and Possessions that is shorthand for "Plays to your support area". This class was introduced in The Two Towers, and cards before that point simply included the full text in the card's game text.

Conditions can also contain a Support Area subtype as a shorthand for the play target text, but strictly speaking this is not an Item Class.

List of Item Cards with the Support Area Item Class

Portrait	Card Name	Culture	Card Type	Game Text
	Strands of Elven Hair (9R22)	Elven	Possession • Support Area	To play, spot a Dwarf. When you play this possession, add 2 tokens here. Fellowship: Discard this possession or remove an token from here to reveal the top card of your draw deck. If it is a or card, you may take it into hand.
	Gift of the Evenstar, Blessed Light (15U16)	Elven	Artifact • Support Area	Each time an Elf wins a skirmish, you may exert that Elf or Aragorn to place an token here. At the start of each maneuver phase, you may remove an token here to draw a card.
	The Mirror of Galadriel, Dangerous Guide (15R22)	Elven	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot 3 Elves. Each time you are about to draw a card, you may exert an Elf to look at the top three cards of your draw deck instead. Take a Free Peoples card into your hand and place the other cards on the bottom of your draw deck.
	Galadriel's Silver Ewer (18R11)	Elven	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot Galadriel or Celeborn. While Galadriel is the Ring-bearer, she is strength +2 and resistance +2. Each time you play an skirmish event, you may reinforce an token.
	Library of Rivendell (V1_11)	Elven	Artifact • Support Area	Fellowship: Stack your tale or artifact from play or from hand here to draw a card. Regroup: Exert an ally to draw X cards, exert X minions, and remove up to X wounds from companions, where X is the number of Free Peoples cultures on cards stacked here. Discard this artifact.
	The Art of Gandalf (11U28)	Gandalf	Possession • Support Area	To play, spot a Wizard. Regroup: Stack a spell from hand here. Fellowship: Discard a card from hand to take a card stacked here into hand.
	Catapult (8R32)	Gondor	Possession • Support Area	To play, spot 2 knights. Maneuver: Discard 2 cards from hand to reveal the top card of an opponent’s draw deck. Choose an opponent who must discard a Shadow card that has a twilight cost that is the same as the twilight cost of the revealed card.
	Sapling of the White Tree (9R35)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot an unbound Man. Response: If a Man is about to take a wound, discard this artifact to prevent that.
	Scroll of Isildur (9R36)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	Tale. To play, spot a Man. The Ring-bearer is resistance +1 for each artifact you can spot (limit +3). Fellowship: Discard this artifact to play a ring from your discard pile.
	Seeing Stone of Minas Anor (9R37)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot a Man with 3 or more vitality (or spot a Man and add 2 threats). Regroup: Exert a Man or discard this artifact to discard your hand and draw 3 cards.
	Seeing Stone of Orthanc (9R38)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot a Man with 3 or more vitality (or spot a Man and add 2 threats). Regroup: Add a threat or discard this artifact to remove or draw a card.
	Throne of Minas Tirith (17R36)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot Denethor (or 2 companions). Each time a minion is killed or discarded from play during a skirmish, you may reinforce a token. Skirmish: Remove 3 tokens to discard a possession.
	Crown of Gondor (18R41)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot Aragorn, Elendil, or Isildur. Skirmish: Spot a Man with 3 or more vitality and discard a card from hand to make that Man strength +2.
	Gilraen's Memorial (V1_22)	Gondor	Artifact • Support Area	To play, exert Aragorn. When Aragorn is killed, discard this artifact. Fellowship: Exert a companion with the Aragorn signet to remove a burden. Then exert Aragorn or discard this artifact.
	The Red Arrow (9R46)	Rohan	Artifact • Support Area	Assignment: Exert a Man to play a Man. You may exert that Man to play a possession on him or her. Discard this artifact.
	Throne of the Golden Hall (17R98)	Rohan	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot Théoden (or 2 companions). Saruman and Gríma cannot be assigned to skirmishes. Response: If a Man is about to take a wound, exert another Man and add to prevent that.
	Golden Perch Ale (18U108)	Shire	Possession • Support Area	Each time a companion wins a skirmish, you may add a token here. Fellowship: Remove a token here to remove a burden.
	Tom Bombadil's Hat (0P60)	Shire	Possession • Support Area	To play, spot 2 companions. Each time a Shadow card adds a burden or a threat, add a token here. Fellowship: Remove 2 tokens from here to remove a burden.
	Larder (8U23)	Gollum	Possession • Support Area	To play, spot a minion. Regroup: Discard an Orc from hand to add a token here. Skirmish: Remove a token here to make Shelob strength +3 (limit +6).
	Spider Poison (8C28)	Gollum	Possession • Support Area	Skirmish: Remove a threat or a burden to transfer this possession to a companion skirmishing Shelob. Each time bearer is assigned to a skirmish, bearer must exert.
	Web (8C30)	Gollum	Possession • Support Area	Regroup: If there are fewer than 3 cards stacked here, spot your Orc or minion to stack that minion here. Shadow: Play a minion stacked here as if played from hand.
	Library of Orthanc (9R+39)	Isengard	Artifact • Support Area	Shadow: Play an minion to stack the top card of your draw deck on this card. Skirmish: Remove and discard a Free Peoples card stacked here to make an minion strength +1. Regroup: Remove to take an card stacked here into hand.
	Throne of Isengard (17R39)	Isengard	Artifact • Support Area	Each time you play Saruman, spot a minion. That minion is fierce until the start of the regroup phase. Each Wizard is strength +3 and damage +1.
	Ceremonial Armor (17R41)	Men	Possession • Support Area	Each time a minion is discarded during the maneuver phase, you may stack it here. Response: Discard a minion stacked here or discard this to prevent a wound to a minion.
	Wildman's Oath (17C66)	Men	Possession • Support Area	Each time a minion is discarded during the maneuver phase, you may stack it here. Skirmish: Discard this possession to make a Man strength +2.
	Fleet of Corsair Ships (18R66)	Men	Possession • Support Area	When you play this possession, you may add a token here. Regroup: Remove 4 tokens from here to place a card from your discard pile on the top of your draw deck.
	Grond, Forged With Black Steel (18R82)	Orc	Possession • Support Area	To play, spot an minion. Each time the fellowship moves in the regroup phase, you may discard this possession to search the Free Peoples player's draw deck and remove up to 2 Free Peoples cards from the game.
	Black Sails of Umbar (8C50)	Raider	Possession • Support Area	When you play this possession, you may add a token here. Shadow: Remove X tokens here to play a corsair from your discard pile; its twilight cost is –X. Discard this possession.
	Corsair War Galley (8U59)	Raider	Possession • Support Area	When you play this possession, you may add a token here. While you can spot 6 tokens and a Man, the Shadow has initiative, regardless of the Free Peoples player's hand. Regroup: Add for each token you can spot. Discard this possession.
	Ships of Great Draught (8R65)	Raider	Possession • Support Area	Shadow: Remove a threat or discard a card from hand to add a token here. Regroup: Remove 2 tokens here to place a card from your discard pile on top of your draw deck.
	Grond, Hammer of the Underworld (8R103)	Sauron	Possession • Support Area	Engine. Shadow: Play a minion to add a token here. Regroup: Remove X tokens here to discard a Free Peoples card (except a companion) with a twilight cost of X. Discard a minion or this possession.
	Ithil Stone (9R+47)	Sauron	Artifact • Support Area	To play, exert a or minion. At the start of each of your Shadow phases, you may draw a card. Shadow: Discard this artifact to play a minion. Its twilight cost is –3.
	Throne of the Dark Lord (17R105)	Sauron	Artifact • Support Area	To play, spot 2 minions. While you can spot Sauron, each other minion is damage +1. While the fellowship is in the same region as Mount Doom, each companion is resistance -2.
	Vile Pit (17C118)	Uruk-hai	Possession • Support Area	To play, spot an hunter. At the start of each Shadow phase, you may discard 2 cards from hand to play an hunter from your discard pile. Regroup: Discard this condition to return an hunter from play to your hand.
	Emeralds of Girion (31HD3)	Dwarven	Artifact • Support Area	Fellowship: Add [1] to take a card stacked here into hand. Regroup: Exert an [Elven] ally to stack an [Elven] event (or Lore of Imladris) from your discard pile on Emeralds of Girion.
	Great Barricade (31HE4)	Dwarven	Possession • Support Area	Fortification. To play, exert a [Dwarven] companion. If the fellowship moves during the regroup phase, discard this possession. At sites 7 and 8, each minion skirmishing a [Dwarven] companion is strength -3.
	The Arkenstone (31HE48)	Dwarven	Artifact • Support Area	Fellowship: Add [1] to take a card stacked here in your hand. Regroup: Exert a [Dwarven] companion to stack a [Dwarven] event from your draw deck on the Arkenstone (limit once per phase).
	Crown of Erebor (32HB1)	Dwarven	Artifact • Support Area	Each time you play Roäc, you may heal Thorin or Dain Ironfoot. Then, you may remove a doubt. Assignment: If you cannot spot Thorin, [Dwarven] allies may be assigned to skirmishes.​

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