The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: Celebrimbor's Secret
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: Celebrimbor's Secret Rulebook
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Nightmare Mode
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Forced: When any amount of progress would be placed on a location in the staging area, reduce that amount to 1.
Scour: Deal 1 damage to a location in play.
Setup
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Celebrimbor's Secret scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
1x Orc Skirmisher 1x Orc Hunter 3x Prowling Wolf 1x Ruined Plaza 1x City Remains 1x Ancient Foundation 3x Broken Lands 1x Spies from Mordor 2x Orc Hunting Party
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Celebrimbor's Secret encounter deck.
Finally, flip this setup card over and place it next to the quest deck. Its effects remain active throughout the game, which is now ready to begin.
Nightmare Deck Encounter Cards
The Nightmare Deck contains 19 encounter cards. Each card is listed with its quantity in the deck and its stats as shown on the Hall of Beorn card page: an enemy shows its parenthesised number, then Threat, Attack, Defense and Hit Points; a location shows its Threat and its parenthesised number.
Bellach's Bodyguard
Enemy. Quantity: 3. Traits: Mordor. Orc.
Stats: (45) · Threat 4 · Attack 4 · Defense 3 · Hit Points 6
Bellach cannot take damage.
Scour: Heal all damage from Bellach's Bodyguard.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the phase.
Little Snuffler
Enemy. Quantity: 3. Traits: Orc. Snaga.
Stats: (15) · Threat 3 · Attack 3 · Defense 2 · Hit Points 3
When Revealed: Trigger Little Snuffler's Scour effect.
Scour: The first player discards a random card from his hand and assigns X damage among locations in the staging area. X is the discarded card's cost.
Bones of Hollin
Location. Quantity: 3. Traits: Ost-in-Edhil. Ruins.
Stats: Threat 3 · (4)
Forced: After any amount of damage is placed on Bones of Hollin, raise each player's threat by that amount.
Travel: Place 2 damage on an Ost-in-Edhil location in play to travel here.
Dusty Labyrinth
Location. Quantity: 3. Traits: Ost-in-Edhil. Ruins.
Stats: Threat 2 · (5)
Dusty Labyrinth gets +1 threat for each damage on it.
Scour: Deal 2 damage to Dusty Labyrinth.
Travel: The first player must place a card from his hand facedown underneath The Orcs' Search to travel here.
Hateful Search
Treachery. Quantity: 3.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each location in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, each damaged location gets +1 threat. If there are no locations in the staging area, Hateful Search gains surge.
Shadow: Defending player discards a non-objective attachment he controls.
Sauron's Agent
Treachery. Quantity: 2.
When Revealed: Bellach makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order. Then, deal 1 damage to the active location for each character destroyed by this effect.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Closing In
Treachery. Quantity: 2.
Surge.
When Revealed: Place Closing In facedown underneath The Orcs' Search.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 attack for each card underneath The Orcs' Search.