The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Three Trials
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Three Trials Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Setup: The Three Trials Nightmare
Stage A
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Each engaged Guardian enemy contributes its Threat to the total Threat in the staging area.
While the Trial of Intuition is the current trial, each Guardian enemy cannot be damaged, and each Barrow location cannot be the active location and is immune to player card effects.
Stage B
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for The Three Trials scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
3x Spirit of the Wild 3x Grim Foothills 1x Tangled Woods 3x Turned Around
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard The Three Trials 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.
Encounter Cards
Wolf Spirit ×3
Traits: Undead. Spirit. Wolf.
Stats: Threat 2, Attack 5, Defense 1, Hit Points 6
If Wolf's Guardian is in play or in the victory display, each Wolf enemy gets +1 Attack.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, Wolf engages the player who controls Key of the Wolf or is engaged with Wolf's Guardian if able.
Boar Spirit ×3
Traits: Undead. Spirit. Boar.
Stats: Threat 1, Attack 4, Defense 2, Hit Points 5
If Boar's Guardian is in play or in the victory display, each Boar enemy gets +1 Defense.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, Boar engages the player who controls Key of the Boar or is engaged with Boar's Guardian if able.
Raven Spirit ×3
Traits: Undead. Spirit. Raven.
Stats: Threat 3, Attack 3, Defense 3, Hit Points 4
If Raven's Guardian is in play or in the victory display, each Raven enemy gets +1 Threat.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, Raven engages the player who controls Key of the Raven or is engaged with Raven's Guardian if able.
Sacred Forest ×3
Traits: Forest.
Stats: Threat 3
While Sacred Forest is in the staging area, each Guardian enemy gains: "Forced: After any number of time counters are removed from this enemy, heal 2 damage on it for each time counter removed."
Travel: Remove each time counter from an enemy in play to travel here.
Haunted Pillars ×2
Traits: Forest. Hills.
Stats: Threat 2
When faced with the option to travel, players must travel to Haunted Pillars, if able.
When Revealed: Either return the active location to the staging area, or Haunted Pillars gains surge.
Cursed Burden ×3
Surge.
When Revealed: Attach to a hero with a Key objective attached, if able. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot commit to the quest, and cannot attack or defend against enemies with a Trait shared by any of that hero's attached Key objectives.")
Trial of Ancestors ×2
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Each non-unique characters gets -1 Willpower and cannot attack enemies that share a Trait with the current trial's Key objective.")
Transcription Notes
The following corrections and judgment calls were made against the source text. Each is a fix of an obvious database artifact or a presentation choice, not a change to the rules.
- The "Quest Cards 1" row on the product page has no card entry in the Hall of Beorn card list, so that card's text is not in this file. It is probably the setup card's quest side or a non-rules card, but this was not verified. The card should be checked against the physical product before this gap is closed.
- The source's stat lines (Threat, Attack, Defense, Hit Points) are reproduced as printed, with the stat labels kept from the source.
- The source writes stat modifiers in bracketed icon form, such as "+1 [Attack]". The icon is rendered as the word, "+1 Attack".
- The source's Sacred Forest text has no space after "gains:". It is kept as printed, with a space added before the opening quotation mark.
- Each encounter card's quantity from the source is shown as "×N" after its name. The product page lists 19 encounter cards in total, which matches the 19 copies reproduced here (3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 2).
- The Setup card's flavour quotation (Gandalf, The Two Towers) and the source's attribution are left out.
- Setup Stage B's removal list is reproduced exactly as the source gives it.