The fifth and penultimate Adventure Pack in the Angmar Awakened cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game!

Over the course of the Angmar Awakened cycle, the heroes of Middle-earth have become aware of an evil that threatens the North. Now, the time has come to strike. After seeking counsel at The Last Homely House, the heroes march north through the chill midwinter air to stop a dark ritual that would echo and strengthen the evils that first spilled out of Angmar centuries past. But will they arrive too late? Are they doomed to fail? An army of Orcs has already massed at the foot of Angmar, and sorcerous shadows darken the sky…

With its sixty new cards, The Battle of Carn Dûm introduces a challenging, combat-intensive scenario that takes your heroes into the heart of Angmar where you'll need to fight your way through hordes of Orcs and other creatures in order to prevent an ancient evil from returning to the world. However, if the walls of Carn Dûm and the raw might of the assembled Orcs and Werewolves aren't enough to slow you, you'll still need to deal with the dread Captain that leads them and the foul and shadowed Sorcery that fills the air.

Nonethless, your heroes and their courage are not to be underestimated. Along with its scenario, The Battle of Carn Dûm introduces a new Dúnedain hero and twenty-seven player cards (three copies each of nine different cards), including powerful events for each Sphere of influence. These continue to round out the new mechanics explored within the cycle, as Leadership and Tactics players gain new Valour effects, Lore players gain an event that allows their Dúnedain or Rangers to avoid a scenario's deadliest enemies, and Spirit players gain a Noldor-themed card that plays only from the discard pile. With their new allies and these powerful events, your heroes just might stand a chance...

The Shadow in the North
Aided by Elrond's counsel, your heroes march to Carn Dûm with a specific mission: they must stop the fell ritual that Angmar's sorcerous Captain seeks to complete. Should they fail, the North will once again suffer the presence of one of its greatest evils, a powerful Undead sorcerer long lost to the world.

The Battle of Carn Dûm unfolds over two quest stages. Throughout the first stage, your heroes must battle their way through the fortress walls and past its Orc defenders in order to confront their Captain face-to-face in its second stage. All the time, shadows continue to spread across the land.

Many of the cards in The Battle of Carn Dûm deal extra shadow cards to the scenario's enemies, a matter compounded by the facts that nearly every encounter card in the scenario comes with a shadow effect and that the first stage of the scenario guarantees you'll find no easy way around the nastiest shadow effects that its enemies are dealt:

"Do not discard unresolved shadow cards at the end of the combat phase."

This means every shadow card dealt to an enemy in the staging area becomes meaningful, and it means that if you engage an enemy like the Carn Dûm Garrison (The Battle of Carn Dûm, 129) to gets its threat out of the staging area, you can't simply discard its shadow cards by using Feint (Core Set, 34) to cancel its attack.

Worse yet, many of these shadow effects can hit you in surprising fashion, dealing blows far worse than the loss of an ally or a wound to one of your heroes. You may be forced to raise your threat, you may find Orc reinforcements flooding the battlefield, or you may see key cards suddenly stripped from your hand. Carn Dûm is a dark and sorcerous place, and the scenario's fell magic reaches beyond the traditional boundaries for encounter card effects. You may even find that this dark sorcery is capable of ripping cards straight out of your deck!

Should you survive your rush to the scenario's Captain and the ritual he's attempting to complete, you will then find that this sorcerous villain is more than capable of defending himself. In fact, his powerful Sorcery is capable of ripping apart an unwary fellowship with a Vile Affliction (The Battle of Carn Dûm, 137) or eliminating your options by forcing them out of your hand and deck. At the same time, he's a ferocious warrior who will cut at your time and again, using his dread magic to heal himself between blows. It will take a massive effort to defeat this villain, but if you fail, the North is doomed...

A Time for Uncommon Valour
Even as it introduces its epic, combat-laden scenario, The Battle of Carn Dûm introduces a new Dúnedain Leadership hero and three copies each of nine different player cards. These include two new events with the Valour trigger, and a neutral attachment to support the Valour mechanic, especially in the face of such threats as you'll face at Carn Dûm.

Valour effects trigger only when your threat level is at or above forty, meaning that you're likely at that point where the game stands on a razor's edge as you push forward to the final confrontation. At forty threat, you're only a couple of slips away from elimination, but if you don't back down from the situation, the ability to trigger your Valour effects may give you the winning edge in the heat of battle. These effects gain shape and impact throughout the Angmar Awakened cycle, and the two events that come with Valour triggers in The Battle of Carn Dûm are easily two of the most impactful, Doom Hangs Still (The Battle of Carn Dûm, 117) and Hold Your Ground! (The Battle of Carn Dûm, 119).

At five cost, Doom Hangs Still is at the top end of the game's cost curve, and it comes with two different effects, both of which are the sort you'd expect from a card of its cost. Played normally, Doom Hangs Still prevents players from raising their threat if they quest unsuccessfully. Given that you're probably not planning to quest, clear a location, and travel to a new location on a turn where you're spending five resources to ensure that you don't raise your threat from failing to quest successfully, Doom Hangs Still is most likely reserved for those occassions when you simply do not wish to commit characters to the quest. You'll still reveal cards from the encounter deck, but the event gives you a turn to focus all your efforts on dealing with the enemies in play, holding back all of your characters to attack and defend.

However, if your threat is at forty or higher, you can play Doom Hangs Still for its Valour ability and skip the quest phase entirely! You have to raise each player's threat by two to do this, but you won't reveal new encounter cards. You'll have a turn to concentrate all your efforts against the enemies currently on the table, and in scenarios that require you to defeat a final boss enemy, this might be the trump card that focuses your fellowship and brings your quest to its triumphant close.

Of course, Doom Hangs Still is only going to turn a game around for you if you're able to successfully defend and attack the enemies in play. If you need to exhaust all your characters just to survive the attacks your enemies make against you, you might not have anyone ready to defend. However, this is where Hold Your Ground! can help.

There are already a great number of cards that ready characters, and one resource to ready a character is already on the more expensive side of those. Still, the card is worth inclusion in the right decks because of its versatility. The first thing to note is that it readies a sentinel "character," not just a hero. Far more cards ready heroes than ready allies, so the fact that Hold Your Ground! allows you to ready either a Sentinel hero or a Sentinel ally is an important consideration. More than that, though, is the fact that if you trigger its Valour effect, the card allows you to ready all Sentinel characters in play: your Sentinel heroes, your Sentinel allies, and all those belonging to your teammates.

This means that for just one resource, you and your teammates can commit all of your Sentinel characters to defense and then use them all to attack, or you can commit them all to the quest and then have them ready to defend. Finally, because it only costs one resource, and because it's a Tactics event, you could very easily envision a situation in which you play it twice in a phase and recover it with Háma (The Long Dark, 76) to use it again in the next round.

Still, the more you play at a high threat level, the closer you come to finding yourself eliminated at fifty threat. That's why The Battle of Carn Dûm also introduces Favor of the Valar (The Battle of Carn Dûm, 124), an attachment that empowers the Valour archetype. Favor of the Valar attaches to your threat dial, and whenever you would lose via threat elimination, it saves you, resetting your dial to five less than your threat elimination level. Moreover, while it's limited to one per player, it's not limited to one copy per deck, so you can attach a second copy to your dial as soon as the first is discarded. In this way, you can buy yourself a number of rounds of play at high threat levels, allowing you to trigger your Valour effects even in the face of the greatest evils imaginable.

The Time of Battle Approaches
With its new Valour effects and the epic confrontations of its new scenario, The Battle of Carn Dûm is sure to add tension, drama, and high heroics to your games of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.

• The sixth and final Adventure Pack in the Angmar Awakened cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
• Middle-earth’s heroes must navigate hallways full of dark magic and tortured spirits
• Comes with a new Noldor hero and twenty-seven player cards (three copies each of nine different cards)
• Continues to explore the Dúnedain and Noldor themes introduced in the cycle
• Requires encounter sets from The Lost Realm deluxe expansion

Working against the shadow of Mordor, Middle-earth’s heroes pursue the Dark Lord’s agents into The Drúadan Forest, the second Adventure Pack in the Against the Shadow cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. In the woods, the heroes learn a startling truth and face surprising new challenges. The Drúadan Forest introduces a new hero, three copies of each player card, and an all-new scenario in which players encounter the Woses and their sneaky Prowl mechanic.

• The second Adventure Pack in the Against the Shadow cycle
• Introduces a new hero and three copies of each player card
• An all-new scenario allows players to encounter Woses
• The sneaky new Prowl mechanic presents an interesting new set of challenges
• The second chapter of a rich narrative for The Lord of the Rings: The Card

The dark shadow of Mordor reaches into the realm of Gondor. Conspiracies and conspirators that moved quietly through the alleys and underground of Minas Tirith have escaped the city walls. Now, in The Drúadan Forest, some of Middle-earth’s greatest heroes pursue Sauron’s agents into the wilderness outside the city. There, they’ll make a startling discovery: the greatest threat they face is not from the foes they seek...

The Drúadan Forest introduces players of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game to more of the realm of Gondor, and to its wild folk, the Woses. The reclusive Woses are expert hunters and archers, and The Drúadan Forest forces you to survive their attacks even as the encounter deck challenges you with its all-new Prowl mechanics.

United in Their Cause
With the seeds of corruption taking root at the heart of the Against the Shadow cycle, its Adventure Packs’ new player cards encourage Middle-earth’s heroes to rally and unite behind the righteousness of their cause. A host of new cards in the cycle support single-sphere decks, and The Drúadan Forest reinforces this theme with four two-cost events, one for each sphere, that play only if all your heroes share the same printed sphere.

As we saw with Trained for War (The Drúadan Forest, 36), which was originally revealed in the cycle’s announcement, these events both reinforce the thematic distinctions between the spheres and shore up their traditional weaknesses. Trained for War allows a fellowship composed of military-minded Tactics heroes to fight their way to victory, using their high, raw Attack strength to hack through the forces that oppose them. This gives them questing power that Tactics fellowships typically lack, due to their lower Willpower.

Likewise, Against the Shadow (The Drúadan Forest, 38) lends toughness to your Spirit heroes. Though Spirit heroes excel at questing, they are normally more vulnerable and easier to kill in combat, with the notable exception of Frodo Baggins (Conflict at the Carrock, 25). However, Against the Shadow allows a courageous hero like Éowyn (Core Set, 7) to fend off even the mightiest enemies.

Into the Wilds
Look for Trained for War and Against the Shadow to help all-new, single-sphere fellowships survive the perils of the wilderness when Middle-earth’s heroes encounter the wild, wary, and woodcrafty Woses of The Drúadan Forest.

The third Adventure Pack in the Against the Shadow cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.

Emerging from the Drúadan Forest, the heroes seek to return to Minas Tirith, but dark plumes of smoke rise across the lands of Anórien. Amon Dîn is burning, and it falls to your heroes to save the village’s citizens from the spreading fires and the threat of an Orcish siege!

In Encounter at Amon Dîn, players control Middle-earth’s greatest heroes during a dramatic rescue mission.

• Players control Middle-earth’s greatest heroes during a dramatic rescue mission
• An all-new scenario introduces exciting mechanics for rescuing villagers
• A new Hobbit hero permits the game’s first all-Hobbit fellowships

Emerging from The Drúadan Forest, Middle-earth’s heroes begin their return journey to Minas Tirith, but dark plumes of smoke rise across the lands of Anórien. Amon Dîn is burning, and it falls to your heroes to save the village’s citizens from the spreading fires and the threat of an Orcish siege.

Encounter at Amon Dîn is the tale of a dramatic rescue mission, but whether the mission succeeds or fails is up to you! You’ll have to move quickly, battle Orcs, and fight fires, and you’ll need to take advantage of whatever assistance you can find. This time, you’re not just fighting for your lives; your fighting for the lives of everyone in Amon Dîn!

Hobbits to the Rescue
As you race to the aid of Amon Dîn’s besieged villagers, Encounter at Amon Dîn opens up some all-new, all-Hobbit strategies with the game’s third Hobbit hero, Pippin (Encounter at Amon Dîn, 56), and a pair of events that provide your all-Hobbit fellowship some sneaky, potent tricks.

At six starting threat and two Willpower, Pippin is an excellent, efficient questing hero. However, it’s when he’s partnered solely with other Hobbit heroes that he shines. In such company, Pippin becomes quite resourceful, gaining an extra line of text:

“Response: After an enemy engages you, raise your threat by 3 to return it to the staging area. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot engage you.” We’ve long known that the short-statured Hobbits are good at hiding from their foes, and Pippin gives your all-Hobbit company the means to do so.

Right now, building a deck around Pippin’s ability means starting him with Frodo Baggins (Conflict at the Carrock, 25) and Bilbo Baggins (The Hunt for Gollum, 1). It also means that while your heroes may be able to avoid some enemies with Pippin’s ability and survive them with Frodo’s ability, it will be hard-pressed to fight back.

This problem can be mitigated in multiplayer games by partnering one player’s Hobbits with another player’s hefty fighters. In such games, Pippin’s ability allows the Hobbit player to focus on questing and controlling threat while other heroes defeat the enemies.

In a single player game, the situation is a bit trickier. Gandalf (Core Set, 73) will likely join the Hobbits at times and take care of some enemies, but even with Bilbo’s extra card draw, it’s hard to imagine Gandalf will be able to keep all the fellowship’s enemies at bay. Fortunately, Hobbits are crafty, and Encounter at Amon Dîn also introduces two events for your Hobbit heroes, Small Target (Encounter at Amon Dîn, 62) and Hobbit-sense (Encounter at Amon Dîn, 65).

With these tricks and with its new hero, Pippin, Encounter at Amon Dîn finally permits fans of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game to undertake their quests with a fellowship devoted to second breakfasts!

Assault on Osgiliath, the fourth Adventure Pack in the Against the Shadow cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.

After Middle-earth’s heroes wage a terrific battle against Orcs and fires to save the townsfolk of Amon Dîn, they return to Minas Tirith just in time to join the army of Gondor as it marches to Osgiliath. Led by Lord Boromir, the war host means to strike a blow against Mordor, and the assistance from some of Middle-earth’s greatest heroes may prove crucial to the mission’s success!

Assault on Osgiliath immerses players in the fantastic locations, ferocious combats, and riveting story of one of the most sweeping and epic battles in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. As the war host engages the Orcs and Southrons who have garrisoned themselves within Osgiliath’s ruins, players vie with the encounter deck for control of Osgiliath locations, traveling from one to the next. Battles and sieges, Orcs and Southrons, bloody advances and strategic retreats, unique locations, new enemies, and deadly treachery – Assault on Osgiliath has it all!

Retaking Osgiliath
Assault on Osgiliath is a battle to liberate Gondor’s ancient capital from the forces of Mordor. Throughout the scenario, the first player takes control of any Osgiliath location that would leave play as an explored location. To win the battle, all the players have to do is seize control of every Osgiliath location in play, representing the success of Gondor’s army as it drives its enemies from every last corner of the ruined city.

However, the more Osgiliath locations the players control, the harder the encounter deck fights back. Assault on Osgiliath features a number of encounter card effects that grow stronger based on the number of locations players control. Players will also face cards like the Uruk Soldier (Assault on Osgiliath, 93) that can force them to return locations to the staging area. Finally, many of the Osgiliath locations have text that return them to the staging area if the players cannot successfully defend them. Altogether, this means that you’ll need more than mere strength of arms to retake Osgiliath; you’ll need a plan.

Forewarned Is Forearmed
Players setting out to join the Assault on Osgiliath will need to prepare themselves for the scenario’s Orc and Southron onslaught, and they’ll do well to consider the help they may gain from several of the Adventure Pack’s new player cards.

At its height, the city of Osgiliath was a terrific seat of learning and power, and it held one of the most powerful of artifacts in Middle-earth. The seven Seeing-stones were gifts from the Noldor to the Men of Númenor, and Gandalf judged them even beyond the craft of Sauron. When Númenor was swallowed by the sea, the Númenorians who escaped sailed in nine ships, carrying a seedling of Nimloth, the White Tree, and the seven Seeing-stones, or palantíri. To those who could master them, they would allow far-sight and communication across great distances. Though the seven were scattered and thought lost, Gandalf and the other heroes of Middle-earth eventually discovered one in the possession of Saruman, learned that one was in the possession of Sauron, and found a third in the possession of Denethor II.

In Assault on Osgiliath, players can make use of their own Palantír (Assault on Osgiliath, 90). Palantír can provide players with tremendous power to confront the Shadow in Assault on Osgiliath, but using the Palantír is a path that renders them perilously vulnerable to the Dark Lord’s attention and influence.

Plan Your Attack
In addition to its challenging new scenario and the Palantír, Assault on Osgiliath introduces a new Ranger hero, and a number of cards that support the Gondor and Outlands traits. You’ll also find cards that promote the construction of mono-sphere decks and that represent the effective traps, ambushes, and skirmishes that Ithilien’s scouts and Rangers use to weaken their foes. Altogether, it’s a wide array of cards to support multiple new strategies, and you’ll need everything you can find to confront the Orc and Southron hordes and reclaim the city.

• The fourth Adventure Pack in the Against the Shadow cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
• Introduces an all-new scenario, hero, and three copies of each player card
• Continues the cycle’s ongoing narrative
• Immerses players in one of the game’s most sweeping and epic battles

The fifth Adventure Pack in the Against the Shadow cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game!

After Lord Boromir valiantly leads the war host of Gondor to reclaim the city of Osgiliath, he asks the Rangers of Ithilien to pursue their retreating foes. He also asks several of Middle-earth’s greatest heroes to join the hunt.

The Blood of Gondor immerses players in the dangers and the thrills of the hunt. They control Middle-earth’s heroes in an all-new scenario in which they seek to stop their foes from retreating and regrouping. However, the forest roads of Ithilien are full of perils, and the Orcs and Uruks of Mordor lurk in wait along the way. Will the hunters become the hunted? The Blood of Gondor introduces scenario-specific rules for “hidden” cards and the dark menace of the Black Númenorean.

Not only do the sixty cards in The Blood of Gondor introduce a new scenario, but they also offer players a new hero and three copies each of several new player cards that reinforce the Against the Shadow cycle’s focus on the Gondor trait and cards that enhance the viability of decks built from a single sphere.

Bulwark of the West
The Tactics sphere features relatively few characters with high Willpower, but it has long excelled at defending fellowships against their enemies and then defeating them in combat. Thus, Tactics players often assume the role of their groups’ defenders, working to intercept attacks and allow their teammates to focus on other aspects of their quest.

It becomes harder, though, for Tactics players to manage all the game’s enemies as their teammates’ threat levels rise. When enemies start to engage with the other players, the Tactics player has traditionally needed to exhaust characters with Sentinel to help defend and exhaust characters with Ranged to help attack. This has long been the established means of defending and fighting across the table, but the introduction of stalwart new Tactics allies like the Defender of Rammas (Heirs of Númenor, 7) may prompt players to seek new deck designs and new flexibility for how they declare defenders and attackers.

Accordingly, Tactics players gain a powerful new event in The Blood of Gondor that opens new deck-building space. It also allows them to perform the role of defender and attacker better than ever!

For two resources, The Hammer-stroke (The Blood of Gondor, 111) allows a player to engage every enemy in play. Not only can this relieve his teammates of some pressure, but it can also allow the Tactics player to strike with Gimli (Core Set, 4) against an enemy that earlier had the temerity to engage a different player... and slip away from Gimli’s axe.

If you look to engage every enemy in the game, you’ll want to be sure you’re not getting yourself into trouble. Confronting an assembled horde can be deadly business, but if any sphere can handle the load, it’s Tactics. In combination with Thicket of Spears (Core Set, 36), The Hammer-stroke can buy the players a turn in which every enemy in play is prevented from attacking. Alternately, the Tactics player may dip into the Leadership heroes to use Elrohir (The Redhorn Gate, 1) as a defender who can pay one resource to ready and follow up Elrohir’s defense with a series of attacks directed by his brother, Elladan (Road to Rivendell, 28). Or you can have Boromir (The Dead Marshes, 95) stare down the assembled horde and go out in a blaze of glory, raising your threat to ready him so that he can defend every attack, and then discard him, using his second ability, to deal two damage to every enemy.

With its support for mono-sphere decks, the Against the Shadow cycle opens up myriad deck-building options for players committed to exploring the synergies within a single sphere, and The Hammer-stroke provides committed Tactics players plenty of incentive to explore new concepts within the sphere.

Watch Your Back
The Hammer-stroke is just one of the exciting new player cards in The Blood of Gondor, and it may very well come in handy as you play through the Adventure Pack’s new scenario. The woods of Ithilien are full of hidden Orcs and Uruks, and you’ll need a good blade in hand when you find them!

• The fifth Adventure Pack in the Against the Shadow cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
• Introduces an all-new scenario and its perilous “hidden” cards mechanic
• Players gain a new hero and three copies of each new player card
• Immerses players in a hunt for retreating Orcs through the forests of Ithilien

Ever since Sauron established Dol Guldur as his stronghold after his return to Middle-earth, the haunted fortress has been a source of dark power and death. Its very presence poisoned the Greenwood, and as the War of the Ring raged on, the acolytes of the Dark Lord used the fortress as their base while they launched relentless assaults on the realm of the Elves. Now, the time has come for the reign of darkness to end.

Attack on Dol Guldur, the epic standalone scenario pack for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game that was featured at Gen Con 50 and the 2017 Fellowship Even.

Break Their Defenses
Rally your heroes for a battle with the servants of Sauron in Attack on Dol Guldur! This standalone scenario for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game transports you and your company of heroes to the dangerous Wilderlands, where you have the chance to align yourself with the great host of Lórien as they fight to free those held in the Necromancer’s dungeons and drive back the dark forces that seek to consume Middle-earth. Your quest begins in the Golden Wood, fighting back a long-prepared assault by the armies of Dol Guldur. But even if you succeed in defending the realm of the Elves, you know that it is only a matter of time before the dark forces strike again. In order to protect the fair woods and those who reside there, you must cross the mighty River Anduin and take the battle to the Hill of Dark Sorcery itself.

Launching a siege on the fortress will prove no simple task. Through Sauron moved his seat of power to Barad-dûr after the attack of the White Council, the fortress of Dol Guldur remains a stronghold of dark sorcery. The halls of the Necromancer are protected by a swarm of Orcs, Trolls, and other evil Creatures, all led by Sauron’s four Indestructible Lieutenants who you will encounter at various points throughout your quest. These enemies cannot be destroyed, even if they suffer damage equal to their hit points. The only way to defeat them is to tear down the fortress that provides them with this unnatural power.

Among these denizens of darkness, you will face a powerful enemy in the form of Chieftain Morlug (Attack on Dol Guldur, 12). As a Lieutenant of Sauron’s army, this Uruk commander never fights alone. When Chieftain Morlug attacks you, you must discard cards from the encounter deck until an enemy is called forth and, with the insatiable bloodlust that defines Sauron’s forces, they immediately engage you in battle.

Beyond the enemies who defend it, the fastness itself is a threat. Dol Guldur has its own attached treat dial that acts as a siege tracker throughout the battle, displaying the strength of Dol Guldur, which you must overcome before you can defeat Sauron’s Lieutenants. When Dol Gulur’s city strength falls to zero, each Lieutenant loses their Indestructible keyword.

Call in Reinforcements
Attack on Dol Guldur originally premiered at Gen Con 50 and was later featured as a favorite at the 2017 Fellowship Event. This scenario is designed to embrace Fellowships of every size, whether you wish to campaign with a small band of elite fighters or strike with the force of a great host. This scenario pack features two forms of gameplay with both Standard Game Mode and Epic Multiplayer Mode. Standard Game Mode supports one to four players and can be played with a single copy of Attack on Dol Guldur. Otherwise, with three copies of the scenario pack, you can support an incredible three to twelve player game and launch an assault on the fortress from multiple fronts.

As separate parts of a single siege, each team must face their challenges alone, as each stage acts as its own game. Card abilities on one stage cannot affect the battle unfolding at another stage, but those on separate stages may use the same unique cards if they so choose. Epic Multiplayer Mode divides your heroes into three teams playing different stages simultaneously, each facing their own set of challenges with a separate encounter deck as they work together to defeat the evil that awakens in the halls of the Necromancer once more.

You will need every ally you can gather if you wish to overcome the treachery of the dark fortress with its Power Sevenfold (Attack on Dol Guldur, 27). Even with its dread master absent, executing an attack on the Necromancer’s fortress is certain to fill the hearts of your outnumbered comrades with sense of dread, equipping this encounter card with the Doomed 1 keyword. When revealed, each player must choose to either search for a Dol Guldur location and add it to the staging area, or find an Orc enemy and immediately engage it in battle.

If, in the heat of battle, the last player at any stage is defeated, the siege fails and the entire group loses the game. If, however, at the end of the round Dol Guldur’s city strength is zero and there are no Lieutenants left to defend it, the fortress is captured and your heroes are victorious. While you may fight, defend, and quest separated from your allies, you are united by honor, by fellowship, and by the desire to bring Sauron’s reign to an end.

Restore Hope
Throw down the walls of Dol Guldur. Lay bare the pits, free the condemned souls within the dungeons, and break Sauron’s hold on Middle-earth!

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The Black Riders Playmat takes players back to the first taste of fear that Frodo and his companions experienced upon leaving the safety of the Shire. Beneath the gloom of the trees, the Nazgûl seek the One Ring for their dark master, and they will kill the one who carries it. Frodo is a breath away from death, but this is only the beginning of the trials he will face. To defend the home behind him, he must move forward.

A fantastic adventure awaits you!
With The Black Riders, you and your friends will accompany Frodo Baggins as he begins his epic journey to destroy the One Ring. Three new scenarios carry you out of the Shire and along the road to Rivendell, but you must be wary. The Nine are abroad, the lure of the Ring is difficult to resist, and your every action has a meaningful consequence...

The Black Riders recreates a selection of dramatic event as told in the first half of J.R.R Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. It is the first of a series of Saga expansions that eventually will allow players to replay Frodo's epic journey from the Shire to Mount Doom, as well the dramatic events experienced by other members of the Fellowship.

The Nine Are Abroad
As in the game’s other Saga Expansions, The Hobbit: Over Hill and Under Hill and The Hobbit: On the Doorstep, each scenario in The Black Riders follows the events of the classic story by J.R.R. Tolkien as faithfully as possible. You’ll have the chance to travel through the Shire, meet Elves, find allies in The Prancing Pony, and enjoy a good puff of pipeweed after second breakfast. Of course, your path will also hold its share of perils, including the threat posed by the Nine Riders and their hunt for the Ring.

In each of the expansion’s three scenarios, Frodo and his companions must elude or confront the fearsome Nazgûl. Few can ride openly against the Nine, and your best option may be to hide from them. Still, that may prove to be a difficult task. From Bag End, your heroes must help Frodo reach Buckland and cross at the ferry. Then, when spies cause trouble in Bree, your flight through the wilderness leads to a desperate confrontation at Weathertop. Should your heroes survive, they’ll have to race for the Ford of Bruinen and the safety of Rivendell.

The Lure of the Ring
The thematic weight of The Black Riders and its scenarios carries far beyond the degree to which it follows the events of The Fellowship of the Ring. It brings you face to face with some of the difficult decisions Frodo was forced to make; the new Ring-bearer version of Frodo Baggins (The Black Riders, 1) comes with the powerful ability to trigger the redraw of an encounter card. Frodo’s ability allows you to ignore any “When Revealed” text as well as all keywords such as Surge and Doomed. You simply shuffle the card back into the deck and draw again.

But, of course, this ability comes with a catch: to use it, you must exhaust the One Ring. Just as in the novels, you’ll be tempted to use the Ring to avoid danger, and just as in the novels, there is danger in using the Ring. If you cancel a harmful treachery, will you find your way to a relatively low-threat location? Or will you find yourself suddenly face to face with one of the Nazgûl?

Campaign Mode
Each of the three scenarios in The Black Riders can be played independently, but can also be linked together as the first three chapters of a greater, ongoing narrative that will continue into future Saga expansions. New to The Black Riders, Campaign Mode introduces unique rules and special Boons and Burdens that weave independent scenarios into a cohesive narrative. Much like the treasures from the two Hobbit Saga Expansions, these cards serve as physical reminders of all you accomplished, but they allow for deeper storytelling than treasure cards do. By rewarding both positive and negative actions, these new card types ensure that the decisions you make in any given scenario will have consequences in your later adventures.

Boons all lend strength or support to your cause, but Burdens hold you back. They represent the consequences of faltering steps and bad decisions, and unlike most encounter cards that created obstacles, demanding focus and action only in the moment, Burdens carry from scenario to scenario and can weigh down upon your soul. Both of these new types of cards are exclusive to Campaign Mode and do not count against the standard limits for your play deck or a scenario’s encounter deck. Boons and Burdens are used only when playing the Lord of the Rings Saga campaign.

Good Friends
In addition to its new quests and encounter cards, The Black Riders offers players the opportunity to explore life as a Hobbit!

In addition to the new Frodo Baggins, The Black Riders delivers four other Hobbit heroes and thirty-three new player cards (three copies each of eleven different cards, which may all be used in any game of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game). These cards lend fantastic new support to Hobbit-focused decks. The iconic race comes to life with its own set of themes built around controlling multiple Hobbit heroes and confronting enemies with engagement costs higher than your threat. Altogether, the new player cards in The Black Riders bring Frodo, his friends, and his relatives to a new position of prominence and playability.

In his prologue to The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien wrote that Hobbits “possessed from the first the art of disappearing swiftly and silently,” and several of the player cards from The Black Riders allow Hobbit characters to duck beneath the notice of the enemies that would hunt them. The event, Take No Notice (The Black Riders, 11), can give you a free pass during the engagement phase, allowing you to slip beneath the notice of each enemy lurking there. Alternatively, it can play into the strengths of other cards, like Hobbit Cloak (The Black Riders, 13), that grant bonuses to your Hobbits when they choose to engage enemies they could otherwise avoid.

Combined, such cards from The Black Riders allow you to avoid enemies or summon the courage to face them head on, and this turns your Hobbits into cunning and resilient heroes who have perfected the art of disappearing swiftly and silently.

Play at Your Own Level
Whether you want to confront your foes or avoid them, The Black Riders presents you a quick and convenient way to ease into the perils of its new scenarios. The recent introduction of Easy Mode allows you to decrease a scenario’s level of difficulty by targeting a number of encounter cards to remove from the encounter deck. Removing these encounter cards won’t change the basic nature or mechanics of a scenario, but they will make it easier. Taken together with Standard Mode and Nightmare Mode (which was first introduced in 2013 Season One Game Night Kits), Easy Mode offers a level of difficulty that’s perfect for casual players, newcomers, or players running thematic decks that are not efficient enough for higher difficulty levels. Read more about the new difficulty level in Play at Your Own Level.

The Epic Saga Begins
Your quests in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game have never mattered so much. Accompany Frodo Baggins and his companions along their first steps of his epic journey. The fate of all Middle-earth hangs in the balance!

Play through all-new scenarios, face deadly Nazgûl, and add the Shire’s greatest heroes to your company.

• A new 165-card Saga Expansion for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
• Optional Easy Mode presents a new level of accessibility for casual players
• Players join Frodo Baggins and his friends for adventures drawn directly from the early chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring
• Three new scenarios play independently or combine in Campaign Mode
• Boon and Burden cards ensure your actions have consequences

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The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is a cooperative card game that puts 1-2 players (or up to four with two Core Sets!) in control of the most powerful characters and artifacts of Middle-earth. Players will select heroes, gather allies, acquire artifacts, and coordinate their efforts to face Middle-earth’s most dangerous fiends. By cooperating to overcome the obstacles drawn from the encounter deck, you will complete the quest before you and claim victory!

The Core Set includes 226 cards that can be used to assemble a wide variety of decks right out of the box. Included are three perilous quests that, along with countless combinations of settings and enemies, offer near-limitless replayability.

Additionally, players can build a party from a set of 12 hero cards, and focus their decks on any combination of four distinct spheres of influence: Leadership, Lore, Spirit, and Tactics. Each sphere offer unique benefits to the party, so choose wisely!

Monthly 60-card expansion packs called Adventure Packs will introduce new quests, heroes, allies, attachments, events, and encounters, allowing players to fully customize their game and continue their fight against the Dark Lord!

• Build your decks from the 4 spheres of influence: Tactics, Lore, Spirit, and Leadership
• Build a party of heroes from an assortment of notable characters from the beloved novels by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Number of Players: 1 - 2 (or up to 4 with 2 Core Sets)
• Playing Time: 30 - 90 mins

The third Adventure Pack in the Dream-chaser cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game!

After a treacherous journey at sea, several of Middle-earth's greatest heroes arrive at a remote island, covered in mountains, jungles, and the ruins of a fallen civilization. Somewhere amid those ruins, a chest has lain locked and half-forgotten for untold ages. Now, with the key to that chest in their possession, your heroes must scour the island to find it, but their every step carries them deeper into the middle of uncharted natural dangers… and closer to the hordes of cursed dead that haunt the isle!

With its sixty cards and innovative mechanics, Temple of the Deceived introduces a new Leadership hero, twenty-seven new player cards (three copies each of nine different cards), and a thrilling new scenario that carries the fantastic explorations of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game to all new heights!

Journey Through the Jungle
One of the greatest strengths of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is that every new scenario permits the seamless exploration and integration of new mechanics and play experiences, and the scenario from Temple of the Deceived pushes this idea to the limit, providing such a unique take on the game's classic challenges that it is bound to become an instant fan-favorite.

At the beginning of the game, instead of adding the scenario's locations to the encounter deck, along with its treachery and enemy cards, you pull them out – all fifteen of them – and create a map of your uncharted island. This Island Map then drives the rest of the adventure forward, as your fellowship tracks its progress from site to site, aiming to find its way into the towering temple on the other side.

Because you start with fifteen locations in play and none in the encounter deck, Temple of the Deceived also introduces new rules for how you interact with the Island Map. Notably, you always have an active location, you track your progress along the map with a token, the only locations considered to be "in the staging area" are those orthogonally adjacent to your active location, and all the locations in the Island Map enter place facedown, only to be turned faceup once you travel to them.

As a result of these novel rules, your journey to the Temple of the Deceived is full of potential pitfalls and traps, meaning the concept of exploration is raised to a height unprecedented in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, and you will want to take advantage of every opportunity you find to scout your path.

Of course, your journey isn't some tranquil stroll. You must still deal with all of the encounter deck's fearsome Undead and treachery cards, adding the drama and tension inherent in your conflicts to the constant excitement of your discoveries.

Scouting Your Way
The theme of exploration takes more than one form in Temple of the Deceived. Even as its scenario pursues this theme with innovative mechanics, its Scout hero and many Scout-related player cards allow players to experiment with new ways to complete their quests. Will you send a Rhovanion Outrider (Temple of the Deceived, 62) or three to ride ahead and find the best path through the jungle? Will you travel swiftly together as a Scouting Party (Temple of the Deceived, 63)? Or will you and your companions find yourselves caught in battle with the island's Undead and relying upon Ceorl (Temple of the Deceived, 58) to lend his strength to multiple skirmishes?

• The third Adventure Pack in the Dream-chaser cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
• Carries the game’s theme of fantastic exploration to a new high as several of Middle-earth’s heroes explore the jungle ruins of a remote, mountainous island
• Innovative new mechanics allow players to plot their own course across the scenario’s Island Map
• The theme of exploration is also reflected among the expansion’s hero and its twenty-seven player cards with a heavy emphasis of the Scout trait
• Reinforces the cycle’s exploration of player cards with multi-sphere effects

The fourth Adventure Pack in the Dream-chaser cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game!

After sailing over treacherous seas, surviving battles with Corsairs and a ferocious sea monster, and trudging across a jungle island infested with evil Undead, several of Middle-earth's heroes have finally arrived at the Temple of the Deceived, wherein they expect to find the locked chest that they can unlock with the mysterious key they hold. However, before they can get to the chest, they must find their way through the Temple of the Deceived and its treacherous Underwater passages...

In its new scenario, The Drowned Ruins introduces these deadly Underwater locations and the monsters that live within them. Additionally, the Adventure Pack's sixty cards also introduce a new Silvan Lore hero and three copies each of nine different player cards that reinforce the Dream-chaser cycle's focus on cards that exist within one sphere of influence but offer bonus effects if you can pay for them with another sphere. Moreover, the pack and its cards offer a healthy dose of new Silvan-themed cards, including new Scout and Warrior allies. Finally, you'll find new cards for your favorite Hobbit, Dúnedain, and Trap decks, as well as a new Title attachment to support any Secrecy deck built around playing with two or fewer heroes.

Hold Your Breath
As throughout most of the Dream-chaser cycle, the exploration of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game comes to the fore in The Drowned Ruins. As the scenario challenges your heroes to find their way through a maze of natural caverns, it incorporates a Grotto deck of nine double-sided Grotto locations that you set aside from the rest of the encounter deck at the beginning of the game.

On one side of each of these cards is a Grotto location. On the other side is an Underwater location. Whenever you travel to a Grotto location, you can trigger its Response effect and flip it to its Underwater side. Doing so discards all the progress you may have placed on the Grotto side, but it helps you get closer to your ultimate goal. In order to get through the scenario's first quest stage, you must successfully travel through three Underwater locations, adding them to the victory display.

But travel through the murky depths is both difficult and dangerous. Each of the nine Underwater locations in the Grotto deck requires you to make ten or more progress to clear it, and each has a terrifying Forced effect that reinforces the idea that your heroes are unable to pause or take a breath. For example, the Dark Abyss (The Drowned Ruins, 101) deals one point of damage to each of your characters at the end of the quest phase. That's an effect that's bound to keep you moving forward, especially when you consider that the quest restricts you even further, preventing you from playing new allies or attachments while your heroes are Underwater!

Since the Grotto locations you explore don't go to the victory pile, but instead go back to the Grotto deck, your passage through the cold waters of The Drowned Ruins is bound to be punctuated by long, desperate swims and returns to the surface to try to catch your breath, heal, and resupply. Of course, your journeys in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game are never just about moving through a series of locations, and the watery caverns of The Drowned Ruins are naturally full of enemies and treachery cards that you will have to face along your way.

Finding Your Way
In addition to its scenario, The Drowned Ruins contains a new hero and twenty-seven new player cards (three copies of each). Among these player cards are a wealth of new allies, events, and attachments, including several new Silvan cards that may very well help you negotiate the scenario's watery passages.

Even though the Woodland Courier (The Drowned Ruins, 87) will no doubt feel out of place in the scenario's dark and sunken tunnels, she can still help you make swift progress along your chosen path. In fact, the woodland Silvan may even surprise you as some of the best traveling companions you could hope to find for this specific journey. After all, their abilities tend to trigger when they enter play, meaning you'll often find The Tree People (The Dunland Trap, 9) bouncing in and out of play, and anything that bounces these allies into play rather than requiring you to play them from hand can allow you to bypass the Stage 1B restrictions on playing allies and attachments.

Accordingly, if you play a Woodland Courier and then travel Underwater, you may still be able to return her to your hand with Feigned Voices (The Three Trials, 27) in order to prevent an enemy from attacking you. Alternatively, you might defend that enemy with a different character and then use The Tree People to return your Woodland Courier to your hand in hopes of getting a Marksman of Lórien (The Drowned Ruins, 85) into play from the top of your deck. After all, if you succeed, you'll reduce the enemy's Defense strength by two, meaning there are very few enemies your Marksman cannot help you defeat the round he comes into play, especially if your fellowship includes Celeborn (The Dunland Trap, 1).

Meanwhile, even though these Silvan allies may present you with interesting ways to travel through the scenario's Underwater locations, they're not the only allies in the pack, nor the only aid your heroes will receive. You'll also find the new Dwarven Sellsword (The Drowned Ruins, 83), a new Hobbit ally, and a couple of cards that may allow you to traverse even these strange and deadly tunnels with fewer than three heroes…

What Will You Discover?
If your heroes can survive their journeys, what will they discover? Part of exploration is the mystery of discovery, and you'll find both exploration and mystery in abundance in The Drowned Ruins.

• The fourth Adventure Pack in the Dream-chaser cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
• Continues the cycle’s focus on exploration as your heroes must find their way through a maze of Underwater passages
• A new Silvan hero for the Lore sphere of influence excels at countering the threat presented by the game’s enemies
• Reinforces the cycle’s emphasis on player cards with multi-sphere effects
• Twenty-seven player cards permit the construction of new decks and deck types

The thrilling conclusion to the Dream-chaser cycle of Adventure Packs for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game!

After a long journey and many surprises, several of Middle-earth's greatest heroes arrived at the city of Dol Amroth, only to find it under siege by a fleet of Corsairs. Taking up their arms once more, the heroes joined Dol Amroth's defense and helped to win the day. Their work, however, was not yet complete...

With its new scenario, The City of Corsairs grants your heroes the opportunity to board the Dream-chaser one last time, set sail for the lands of Umbar, and conclude your business with the Corsairs once and for all. But will you truly be ready for the dangers that await you? Featuring not one, but two new encounter sets, The City of Corsairs challenges you to navigate Umbar's coastal waters and battle past Corsair Ships before you set foot on land to pursue the Númenorean artifact that was stolen from you. Don't expect this task to be easy, though! In their lands, the Corsairs you'll face are deadlier than ever, and the Númenorean artifact grants them a strange and corrupting power.

Fortunately, in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, you never have to travel alone. Not only does the game allow you to adventure with up to as many as three of your friends, but it also allows you to fill your deck with numerous allies and as many as three heroes. And these include some of the noblest and most notable names in The Lord of the Rings, such as Prince Imrahil (The City of Corsairs, 138), who offers you his support in The City of Corsairs.

Prince Imrahil and the Support of Gondor
Without a doubt, the arrival of a new Tactics version of Prince Imrahil is one of the highlights of The City of Corsairs. He bears the same two Willpower, three Attack Strength, two Defense Strength, and four Hit Points as the Leadership version from A Journey to Rhosgobel. He also retains the same eleven Threat Cost. However, as Prince Imrahil moves from inspiring Leader to Tactical commander, he trades his self-readying Response ability in favor of a new Combat Action:

"Spend 1 resource from Prince Imrahil’s resource pool to search the top 5 cards of your deck for an ally who shares at least 1 Trait with him, and put that ally into play. Shuffle your deck. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, shuffle it into your deck. (Limit once per round.)"

Although it's limited to the Combat phase and can only target allies that share at least one of his three Traits, Prince Imrahil's ability functions in most other ways like a built-in Sneak Attack (Core Set, 23), making it fantastically ripe for exploration. The fact that Imrahil's ability is restricted to allies that bear one of his three Traits actually does less to limit your exploration than to get it started. After all, a quick survey of the allies released in products up through The Thing in the Depths reveals six Noble allies, thirty-two Gondor allies, and thirty Warrior allies. There exists, of course, some overlap between these traits so that you're not looking at 72 different allies, but the fact remains that Imrahil can target a tremendously varied array of allies, an array that only grows larger with The City of Corsairs and its three new Gondor allies.

Of course, if you're paying for Imrahil's ability each round, you're going to want to get as much impact per use as possible. To that end, you might want to dig up allies with abilities that trigger when they enter play, such as Mablung (The Land of Shadow, 5) or Envoy of Pelargir (Heirs of Númenor, 18). Alternatively, you can find efficiency with allies who grant you more than mere defense or attack strength, such as Legolas (Treason of Saruman, 5) and his card draw. However, you certainly don't need "enters play" or Response abilities on all your allies to make great use of Imrahil's ability. One Tactics resource is a small price to pay to gain immediate access to powerhouse allies like Glorfindel (Flight of the Stormcaller, 6) or Beorn (Core Set, 31), who can immediately swing a perilous Combat phase in your favor.

All told, Prince Imrahil's ability promises to sit at the heart of some of the most exciting new decks from the Dream-chaser cycle, especially when you consider that he can be paired with Tactics Théoden (The Morgul Vale, 134) and Éowyn (The Flame of the West, 2) in a deck that can charge full-speed forward in the Quest phase for eleven Willpower and still have a means to defend against any enemy that shows its face. And, in addition to all of this, The City of Corsairs also introduces the Prince of Dol Amroth Title (The City of Corsairs, 146), which grants Imrahil the Outlands Trait, expanding your options for allies and deckbuilding even further!

A Challenge Worthy of Middle-earth's Greatest Heroes
Even with Prince Imrahil and the might of Gondor on your side, you will need to beware the skill, cunning, and ferocity of Umbar's Corsairs. Will you finally rid the coastal waters of their menace? Or will you find yourself in over your head? Either way, your adventures through the Dream-chaser cycle end with The City of Corsairs.

• The thrilling conclusion to the Dream-chaser cycle for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
• Players board the Dream-chaser one last time for a climactic naval battle with the Corsair fleet
• Features two different encounter sets to distinguish progress between the scenario’s two halves
• Introduces the exciting new Tactics hero, Prince Imrahil
• Supports new deckbuilding strategies with twenty-four player cards (three copies each of eight different cards)

Beginning the second cycle of Adventure Packs for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, The Redhorn Gate allows players to experience the thrills of a mountain voyage full of surprises.

When some of Middle-earth’s greatest heroes volunteer to escort Arwen to Rivendell, their pass through The Redhorn Gate begins an epic journey that will take them through bone-chilling snowstorms and hordes of enemies, into the twists and turns of the entire Dwarrowdelf cycle of Adventure Packs.

With 60 new cards, including a new scenario and 3 copies of each new player card, The Redhorn Gate builds upon the encounter sets from the Khazad-dûm Expansion to offer players exciting new challenges during an all-new narrative set in the Misty Mountains!

• The first Adventure Pack in the Dwarrowdelf cycle
• A new scenario builds on (and requires ownership of) the Khazad-dûm Expansion encounter sets
• Player cards include a new hero, new attachments, allies, and events
• New threats include new enemies, locations, and treachery cards

Having traversed the freezing snows and treacherous mountain pass of the Redhorn Gate, the heroes of Middle-earth continue their winding journey through the hills west of the Misty Mountains. But the way is long and perilous, and dangers await those sent to escort Arwen Undómiel along the Road to Rivendell.

Road to Rivendell is the thrilling second chapter of the Dwarrowdelf narrative arc. Ferocious enemies lie in wait throughout the high hills west of the Misty Mountains, ready to ambush the intrepid heroes, and players must shield Arwen from danger even as their heroes fight for their lives. Road to Rivendell introduces 60 new cards, including an all-new scenario, a new hero, three copies of each new player card, and an exciting new Ambush mechanic that changes how enemies engage with players.

• The second thrilling Adventure Pack in the Dwarrowdelf cycle
• A new scenario builds on the Khazad-dûm Expansion encounter sets
• Introduces the new Ambush mechanic
• Adds deck-building options with a new hero and 3 copies of each player card

Elrond is troubled by the great numbers of Orcs that plagued his daughter’s journey across the Misty Mountains. He requests heroes to explore the mines of Moria, hoping they can determine the source of the increased Orc activity, but before the heroes can explore Moria's vast network of mining tunnels, they must first gain entrance...

The Watcher in the Water represents an action-packed turning point in the Dwarrowdelf cycle of Adventure Packs for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. The heroes seek a means into the dark and abandoned realm of Moria, but they must first survive a ferocious battle with seething masses of tentacles. Combining tense combat with clever riddles, the 60 new cards of The Watcher in the Water include a thrilling scenario, a new hero, and three copies of each player card.

• The third Adventure Pack in the Dwarrowdelf cycle, and a major turning point
• Introduces a clever new scenario for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
• Confront the many-tentacled terror, the Watcher in the Water
• Heroes must solve the riddle of the Doors of Durin
• Adds deck-building options with a new hero and 3 copies of each player card

After a brutal conflict outside the gates of Moria, several of Middle-earth's heroes press forward into the dark, Dwarven mines to scout the ancient tunnels for the source of the increased Orc activity in the Misty Mountains. The way is dark and choked with foes and hazards...

The Long Dark continues the ongoing narrative of the Dwarrowdelf cycle, adding 60 new cards to The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, including a new hero and three copies of each player card. Players will also experience an all-new scenario that pits brave heroes against bands of Goblins, the hazards of traveling in the dark, and the risk of getting lost. As Middle-earth’s heroes travel through the dark, underground realm of Moria, they must navigate carefully or suffer the consequences of losing their way. Any wrong turn may result in disaster.

• The fourth Adventure Pack in the Dwarrowdelf cycle
• Middle-earth’s heroes return to Moria in an all-new scenario
• Confront ferocious bands of goblins and the hazards of traveling in the dark
• A new Lost mechanic challenges heroes to navigate carefully
• Adds deck-building options with a new hero and 3 copies of each player card