Toil

Many (but not all) cards with Toil tend to be expensive, making the toil exertion almost required․

Toil X is a numeric Loaded Keyword that gives the owner of that card a chance to modify its Twilight Cost by -X when it is played by exerting one or more characters of that card's Culture. You cannot exert the same character multiple times, but you also are not forced to perform any exertions at all if you can otherwise afford the hefty Twilight Cost normally associated with such cards.

Rules Entries

From the Comprehensive Rules:

When you play a card that has the toil keyword, you may reduce its twilight cost by the number specified. You do this by exerting one of your characters of the same culture as that card.

You may exert multiple characters of the same culture. Each different character you exert reduces the twilight cost by the number specified. You may exert a given character only once when playing a toil card.

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List of Cards with Toil

Portrait	Card Name	Culture	Card Type	Game Text
	Dwarven Skill (12C6)	Dwarven	Condition • Support Area	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Skirmish: Discard this condition to make a Dwarf strength +3 (or +4 if he has resistance 4 or more).
	No Pauses, No Spills (12R10)	Dwarven	Event • Fellowship	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot 2 Dwarves to draw up to 4 cards.
	Elven Marksmanship (11R17)	Elven	Condition • Support Area	To play, spot an Elf. Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Archery: Discard this condition to make the fellowship archery total +2.
	Seclusion (12U23)	Elven	Event • Maneuver	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot an Elf companion to discard a condition from play.
	Taking the High Ground (12U24)	Elven	Condition • Support Area	Toil 1. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –1.) Archery: Discard an character from hand to make the fellowship archery total +1. Each time the fellowship moves from an underground site, return your Elf to your hand.
	Take Up the Bow (13R26)	Elven	Condition • Support Area	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Archery: Discard this from play and spot 3 Elf archers to discard a minion from play. Each of those archers loses archer and cannot gain archer.
	New-awakened (11U38)	Gandalf	Event • Fellowship	Spell. Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot a Wizard to discard 2 conditions from play.
	Discoveries (12R26)	Gandalf	Event • Fellowship	Spell. Toil 3. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –3.) Spot a Wizard and X other companions to examine the top X cards of your draw deck. Replace those cards in any order.
	Guardian (12U50)	Gondor	Condition • Support Area	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Skirmish: If a companion is not assigned to a skirmish, discard this condition to have him or her replace an unbound companion skirmishing a minion.
	Protecting the Hall (11U149)	Rohan	Condition	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Bearer must be a Man. Assignment: Discard this condition from play to make bearer defender +1.
	Cast Out (12R108)	Rohan	Condition • Support Area	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Maneuver: Spot a Man and discard this condition to exert a minion. Maneuver: Spot a mounted Man and discard this condition to return an exhausted minion to its owner’s hand.
	Habits of Home (11R165)	Shire	Condition	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Bearer must be a Hobbit. Limit 1 per bearer. Each time the fellowship moves from a dwelling or forest site, remove .
	The More, The Merrier (11C169)	Shire	Event • Fellowship	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot 2 companions to remove 2 burdens.
	Bold and Cunning (11C71)	Men	Event • Skirmish	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot a minion to discard a possession from play.
	Elevated Fire (11R78)	Men	Event • Archery	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot a minion to make the minion archery total +3.
	Legion of Harad (11C88)	Men	Minion • Man	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.)
	Castamir of Umbar, Corsair Vandal (12R56)	Men	Minion • Man	Fierce. Toil 1. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –1.) Each wounded minion is strength +2.
	Gathering Strength (12U66)	Men	Event • Skirmish	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Make a minion strength +6.
	Poisonous Words (12R75)	Men	Event • Maneuver,Regroup	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Add for each card you can spot.
	Champion Orc (11C111)	Orc	Minion • Orc	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.)
	Undisciplined (11R141)	Orc	Event • Assignment	Toil 3. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –3.) Assign an minion to a companion (except the Ring-bearer).
	Barrage (12R82)	Orc	Event • Skirmish	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Make each of your minions strength +2 until the regroup phase.
	Cave Troll of Moria, Savage Menace (12R85)	Orc	Minion • Troll	Damage +1. Fierce. Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Each time an lurker wins a skirmish, you may make the Free Peoples player discard the top 2 cards of his or her draw deck.
	Storming the Ramparts (12U103)	Orc	Event • Maneuver	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot an minion to make the Free Peoples player discard one of his or her conditions from play.
	Horror of Harad (14R13)	Orc	Minion • Half-troll	Ambush . Damage +1. Fierce. Lurker. Muster. Toil 2.
	Dark Powers Strengthen (11R207)	Ringwraith	Event • Shadow	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot a Nazgûl to draw 3 cards.
	Keening Wail (11R211)	Ringwraith	Event • Maneuver	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot a Nazgûl to add a burden.
	The Witch-king, Captain of the Nine Riders (11R226)	Ringwraith	Minion • Nazgul	Fierce. Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Muster. (At the start of the regroup phase, you may discard a card from hand to draw a card.)
	Echo of Hooves (12C164)	Ringwraith	Event • Shadow	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot your Nazgûl at a battleground or forest site to play a mount on him from your draw deck.
	Minas Morgul Answers (12U167)	Ringwraith	Event • Shadow	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot a Nazgûl to discard a Free Peoples condition from play.
	Úlairë Enquëa, Black Threat (12R175)	Ringwraith	Minion • Nazgul	Fierce. Toil 1. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –1.) Response: If you are playing a event that has toil X, exert Úlairë Enquëa to reduce that event’s twilight cost by X.
	Shadow in the East (13R180)	Ringwraith	Event • Shadow	Toil 1. (For each character you exert when playing this, it is twilight cost –1.) To play, spot a card in your support area. Spot a companion to draw a card for each wound on that companion (and draw an additional card if you can spot a Nazgûl).
	Tyrannical Uruk (11C204)	Uruk-hai	Minion • Uruk-hai	Damage +1. Toil 1. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –1.)
	Berserker Torch (12U136)	Uruk-hai	Possession • Hand Weapon	Toil 1. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –1.) Bearer must be an Uruk-hai. Bearer is strength +2 for each wound on each character in its skirmish.
	Broken Heirloom (12U138)	Uruk-hai	Event • Maneuver	Toil 2. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –2.) Spot an minion to discard a possession borne by a companion who has resistance 4 or less. ​

List of Cards that Interact with the Hunter Keyword

Portrait	Card Name	Culture	Card Type	Game Text
	Úlairë Enquëa, Black Threat (12R175)	Ringwraith	Minion • Nazgul	Fierce. Toil 1. (For each character you exert when playing this, its twilight cost is –1.) Response: If you are playing a event that has toil X, exert Úlairë Enquëa to reduce that event’s twilight cost by X. ​

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