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Beneath the Sands


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Blocked Passage Blocked Passage
Type: Location
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Threat: 2 Quest Points: 6
Underground.
Track 2.
While On Track is in play, progress cannot be placed on locations in the staging area.

Shadow: Discard an attachment you control.

Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 72
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Jokubas Uogintas
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Brood Mother Brood Mother
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Threat Threshold: 50
Threat: 4 Attack: 6 Defense: 4 Hit Points: 12
Creature. Spider.
Cannot have attachments. Cannot take damage.
Brood Mother engages the first player.
Forced: At the end of the round, search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spider Broodling and add it to the staging area, if able. Shuffle the encounter deck.


Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 65
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Dimitri Bielak
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Cobwebbed Cavern Cobwebbed Cavern
Type: Location
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Threat: 2 Quest Points: 3
Underground.
Track 2.
While On Track is in play, Cobwebbed Cavern gets +2 [Threat].

Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.

Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 71
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Leanna Crossan
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Doughty Ranger Doughty Ranger
Type: Attachment Sphere: Lore
Cost: 1
Skill.
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gains the
Ranger trait.
Response: After you play Doughty Ranger from your hand, draw a card.

...he went forth clad only in rusty green and brown, as a Ranger of the wilderness. -The Fellowship of the Ring
Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 63
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Aleksander Karcz
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Dunedain Lookout Dunedain Lookout
Type: Ally Sphere: Lore
Cost: 2
Willpower: 1 Attack: 1 Defense: 1 Hit Points: 2
Dunedain.
Response: Discard Dunedain Lookout to cancel the ‘when revealed’ effects on an enemy just revealed from the encounter deck.

“Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen gives us scornful names.” -Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 62
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Aleksander Karcz
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Fireside Song Fireside Song
Type: Attachment Sphere: Spirit
Cost: 2
Song.
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Attached hero gets +1 [Willpower] for each
Song attachment attached to it.

“I sit beside the first and think of how the world will be when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see.” -Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring
Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 61
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Jake Murray
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Forced Off Track Forced Off Track
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
When Revealed: Either flip the Search objective to Off Track, or deal 1 damage to each questing character.
Shadow: If On Track is in play, attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.

Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 73
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Álvaro Calvo Escudero
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Getting Closer Getting Closer
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 5
It is hard to keep your way in the dark labyrinth, but you are certain that you are headed in the right direction.
When Revealed: Flip the Search objective to Off Track. Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until X enemies are discarded, where X is the number of players. Add each enemy discarded by this effect to the staging area.

Cobwebs line the cavern walls and the spiders are growing more aggressive. You must be getting closer to their colony.
While On Track is in play, encounter card effects cannot be canceled.



Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 77
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Marius Bota
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Grabbed by Spiders Grabbed by Spiders
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Surge. Doomed 1.
When Revealed: Attach to the main quest. Limit 1 per quest. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: “Forced: After the Search objective is flipped to Off Track, each player discards an ally he controls. Then, discard Grabbed by Spiders.”)


Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 74
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Rafał Hrynkiewicz
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Haradrim Spear Haradrim Spear
Type: Attachment Sphere: Leadership
Cost: 2
Item. Weapon.
Attach to a Harad character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 [Attack].
Response: After attached character is declared as an attacker, it gets +3 [Attack] for this attack. After this attack resolves, discard Haradrim Spear.


Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 56
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Lucas Durham
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Hirgon Hirgon
Type: Hero Sphere: Tactics
Starting Threat: 9
Willpower: 2 Attack: 2 Defense: 1 Hit Points: 4
Gondor. Scout.
Response: After Hirgon quests successfully, play a [Tactics] ally from your hand and reduce the cost to play it by 1 (to a minimum of 1). Then, you may raise your threat by 1 to give that ally +1 [Attack] and +1 [Defense] until the end of the round.

“Hirgon I am, errand-rider of Denethor, who bring you this token of war,” -The Return of the King
Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 55
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Aleksander Karcz
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Hive Guardian Hive Guardian
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Threat Threshold: 40
Threat: 3 Attack: 3 Defense: 2 Hit Points: 5
Creature. Spider.
While On Track is in play, Hive Guardian gets +2 [Attack] and -5 engagement cost.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 [Attack] (+2 [Attack] instead if On Track is in play).

Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 66
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Sandara Tang
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Hunting Party Hunting Party
Type: Event Sphere: Leadership
Cost: 1
Play only if you control a unique character with the Warrior trait and another unique character with the Scout trait.
Response: After the players have committed characters to the quest, discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area. Then, reveal an encounter card.


Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 57
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Andreia Ugrai
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Keep Watch Keep Watch
Type: Side Quest Sphere: Tactics
“I called for the help of the Dunedain, and their watch was doubled...” -Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 copy of Keep Watch in the victory display.
While this side quest is in the victory display, each non-unique enemy engaged with a player gets -1 [Attack].



Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 59
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Álvaro Calvo Escudero
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Lost Underground Lost Underground
Type: Side Quest
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
You’ve lost your way underground. You must retrace your steps to get on track.
When Revealed: Flip the Search objective to Off Track. While Lost Underground is in play, the Search objective cannot flip. (Do not resolve the Track keyword.)
Response: When this stage is defeated, flip the Search objective to On Track and ignore its Forced effect until the end of the phase.


Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 75
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Jennifer Hrabota Lesser
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Nest of Vermin Nest of Vermin
Type: Location
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Threat: 3 Quest Points: 4
Underground.
Track 3.
Travel: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until a Creature enemy is discarded. Add the discarded enemy to the staging area.

...a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell... -The Hobbit
Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 70
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Jokubas Uogintas
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On Track On Track
Type: Objective
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Search.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, search the top 3 cards of the encounter deck for a card with On Track, add it to the staging area and discard the rest. If no card enters play from this effect, flip this objective.
Forced: After the players quest unsuccessfully, flip this objective.


Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 80
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Jennifer Hrabota Lesser
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Pitch Black Tunnel Pitch Black Tunnel
Type: Location
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Threat: 0 Quest Points: 5
Underground.
Track 4.
X is the number of characters controlled by the first player.
Travel: Reveal the top card of the encounter deck to travel here.

...not what you call pitch-black, but really pitch; so black that you really could see nothing. -The Hobbit
Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 69
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Leanna Crossan
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Rider of Rohan Rider of Rohan
Type: Ally Sphere: Spirit
Cost: 3
Willpower: 2 Attack: 2 Defense: 0 Hit Points: 2
Rohan. Scout.
While a side quest is in the victory display, Rider of Rohan ally does not exhaust to quest.

“Who are you, and what are you doing in this land?” said the Rider, using the Common Speech of the West... -The Two Towers
Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 60
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Javier Charro Martinez
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Searching the Caves Searching the Caves
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 5
Several members of your group were seized by spiders in the night and dragged away from camp. When the sun came up, you followed their trail to a large cavern entrance and entered in.
Setup: Set Brood Mother aside, out of play. Add the Search objective to the staging area (Off Track face up).

Inside the cavern entrance you find a large maze of tunnels criss-crossed with all manner of prints. It is impossible to discern which are the tracks you seek, so you begin to search all around.
When Revealed: Discard cards from the encounter deck until X locations are discarded, where X is the number of players. Add each location discarded by this effect to the staging area.


Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 76
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Leanna Crossan
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Spider Broodling Spider Broodling
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Threat Threshold: 20
Threat: 1 Attack: 2 Defense: 1 Hit Points: 2
Creature. Spider.
While On Track is in play, Spider Broodling gains surge.
Shadow: If On Track is in play, put Spider Broodling into play engaged with you and deal it a shadow card.

Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 67
Quantity: 5
Illustrator: Dinodrawing
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Spider Burrow Spider Burrow
Type: Location
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Threat: 3 Quest Points: 2
Underground.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Spider Burrow becomes the active location, flip the Search objective to On Track and add Brood Mother to the staging area.
Forced: When Spider Burrow leaves play as an explored location, set Brood Mother aside, out of play (unless the players are at stage 3B).



Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 68
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Jokubas Uogintas
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The Free Peoples The Free Peoples
Type: Event Sphere: Neutral
Cost: 5
Play only if the characters you control have a total of at least 9 different Traits among them.
Action: Ready each character in play. Until the end of the phase, each character you control gets +1 [Willpower].

“For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men.” -Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 64
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Uriah Voth
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The Red Arrow The Red Arrow
Type: Attachment Sphere: Tactics
Cost: 1
Artifact. Item.
Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a Gondor hero.
Attached hero gets +1 [Willpower].
Valour Response: After attached hero quests successfully, add The Red Arrow to the victory display to search the top 5 cards of your deck for an ally and put it into play.

“The Red Arrow has not been seen in the Mark in all my years!” -Theoden, The Return of the King
Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 58
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Stanislav Dikolenko
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The Spider’s Hive The Spider’s Hive
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: Beneath the Sands
Encounter Info:
Quest Points: 5
Your search has led you far underground, to a large cavern full of giant spider eggs. Along the walls, you see the cocooned bodies of your friends bound with many strands. At the center of the chamber is the enormous brood mother. She glares at you through many bulbous eyes and a poisonous froth bubbles from her fangs. You must find a way to defeat her in order to rescue your friends.
When Revealed: The first player adds Brood Mother to the staging area. Each other player reveals an encounter card. Flip the Search objective to Off Track.

While there are at least 5 progress tokens on this stage, Brood Mother loses the text: “Cannot take damage.”
Forced: After the Search objective is flipped to Off Track, remove all progress tokens from this stage.
This stage cannot be defeated while Brood Mother is in play. If the players defeat this stage, they win the game.


Set: Beneath the Sands Number: 78
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Sandara Tang
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