The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Celebrimbor's Secret
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Celebrimbor's Secret Rulebook
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New Keyword: Scour
Scour is a new keyword that represents the efforts of Bellach and his minions to discover Celebrimbor's hidden forge and the heroes who seek it. The scour keyword does nothing by itself, but when the players are instructed by quest card or encounter card text to trigger a scour effect they must resolve the effect that follows the scour keyword on that card. The effect that follows the scour keyword on a card is called the "scour effect."
Example: Two players are at stage 2B, The Enemy's Servant, when they remove the last time counter at the end of the refresh phase. The Enemy's Servant has the text: "Forced: After the last time counter is removed from this stage, trigger each Scour effect currently in play." So the players examine each encounter card in play and discover that there are 2 cards with the Scour keyword in play: Bellach and Collapsed Tower.
Bellach reads: "Scour: Each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Orc enemy and add it to the staging area." Collapsed Tower reads: "Scour: Return this location to the staging area and place 2 damage here." Player 1 is the first player, so he decides to resolve the scour effect on Collapsed Tower and places 2 damage on it. Then, player 1 and 2 resolve the scour effect on Bellach. They each search the encounter deck and discard pile for an Orc enemy, add them to the staging area, and shuffle the encounter deck.
The Orcs' Search
The Orcs' Search is an objective that represents the efforts of Bellach and his servants to discover Celebrimbor's hidden forge and the heroes who search for it. As the agents of Mordor scour the ruins of Ost-in-Edhil, certain encounter card effects place damage on locations to represent their progress. This is significant because The Orcs' Search reads: "When a location has damage equal to its printed quest points, place it facedown underneath The Orcs' Search." When a location is placed facedown underneath The Orcs' Search, it means that Bellach and his minions have searched that location, bringing them one step closer to finding the knowledge they seek and leaving the heroes fewer places to hide.
Other cards besides locations can also be placed facedown underneath The Orcs' Search by various encounter card effects. When the players are instructed to place a card facedown underneath The Orcs' Search, they must first discard any tokens on that card and any attachments attached to that card. Facedown cards underneath The Orcs' Search are not in play and only interact with card effects that specifically reference cards underneath The Orcs' Search.