The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Voice of Isengard
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Voice of Isengard Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Setup: Into Fangorn Nightmare
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Setup: Each player searches the encounter deck for a Huorn enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
The Player cannot defeat stage 1B or 2B unless Edge of Fangorn is in the victory display.
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Into Fangorn scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
3x Deadly Huorn 3x Tangled Wood 3x Turned Around
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Into Fangorn 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.
Setup: The Fords of Isen Nightmare
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Forced: After the players advance to a new quest stage, each player with fewer than 3 cards in his hand draws 3 cards.
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the The Fords of Isen scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
3x Dunland Prowler 2x Dunlending Bandit 1x Dunland Berserker 2x Gap of Rohan 2x The King's Road
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard The Fords of Isen 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.
Setup: To Catch an Orc Nightmare
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Setup: Each player shuffles 1 copy of Vigilant Orc into his out of play deck. Set both copies of Mugash's Rage and any remaining copies of Vigilant Orc aside, out of play.
Forced: When the players advance to stage 3A, shuffle both copies of Mugash's Rage into the encounter deck.
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the To Catch an Orc scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
1x Methedras Orc 1x Orc Skirmisher 1x Orc Hunter 3x Prowling Wolf 2x Methedras 1x Orc Cave 2x Orc Hunting Party
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard To Catch an Orc 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: Into Fangorn Nightmare
Blocking Huorn (Enemy; ×2)
Stat line as printed: ( 28 ) · 2 · 3 · 3 · 8
Huorn.
Hinder.
Cannot have attachments.
While Blocking Huorn is engaged with a player, it adds its [icon] to the staging area.
Shadow: Put Blocking Huorn into play engaged with you.
Dark Corner of Fangorn (Location; ×2)
Stat line as printed: 3 · ( 5 )
Forest.
While Dark Corner of Fangorn is in the staging area, each Huorn enemy loses the hinder keyword.
Forced: After Dark Corner of Fangorn becomes the active location, each engaged Huorn enemy makes an immediate attack.
"...it is perilous to touch the trees of that wood, it is said."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
Entwood (Location; ×3)
Stat line as printed: 3 · ( 4 )
Forest.
While Entwood is in the staging area, each Huorn enemy in the staging area gains: "Immune to player card effects."
Travel: The first player engages the highest engagement cost Huorn enemy in the staging area.
Fangorn's Anger (Treachery; ×2) When Revealed: If Mugash is attached to a hero, deal 2 damage to that hero. If Mugash is not attached to a hero, Fangorn's Anger gains surge and doomed 2. Shadow: After this attack, if Mugash is attached to a hero, attacking enemy engages the player who controls that hero.
Huorn of Fangorn (Enemy; ×3)
Stat line as printed: ( 23 ) · 3 · 4 · 3 · 6
Huorn.
Hinder.
Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the beginning of each resource phase, the engaged player discards 1 attachment he controls.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Stifling Woods (Treachery; ×2) When Revealed: Either remove 6 progress from the current quest, or remove 1 time counter from the current quest. Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1. If this attack destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
Tangled Forest (Location; ×3)
Stat line as printed: 2 · ( 6 )
Forest.
While Tangled Forest is in the staging area, it gains: "Forced: After any amount of progress is removed from the current quest, assign X damage among characters in play. X is the number of progress just removed. This ability does not stack with other copies of Tangled Forest."
Wicked Huorn (Enemy; ×2)
Stat line as printed: ( 33 ) · 3 · 6 · 4 · 7
Huorn.
Hinder.
Cannot have attachments.
Forced: At the beginning of each resource phase, the engaged player exhausts a hero he controls.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the round.
Encounter Cards: The Fords of Isen Nightmare
Brutal Assault (Treachery; ×2) When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the number of cards in his hand. Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control. X is the number of cards in your hand.
Dunland Assassin (Enemy; ×2)
Stat line as printed: ( 45 ) · 3 · 3 · 3 · 5
Dunland.
Dunland Assassin cannot be optionally engaged by a player with 3 or more cards in his hand.
While Dunland Assassin is in the staging area, it gains: "Forced: After the first player draws any number of cards, Dunland Assassin makes an immediate attack against him."
Eastern Shore (Location; ×3)
Stat line as printed: 3 · ( 4 )
River.
Valley.
While Eastern Shore is in the staging area, each player cannot play more than 1 event each round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1. If this attack destroys a character, remove 1 time counter from the current quest.
Isen River (Location; ×3)
Stat line as printed: 2 · ( 5 )
River.
While Isen River is in the staging area, each player cannot discard cards from his hand.
Forced: After Isen River becomes the active location, each player draws a card.
Now further, and now nearer Isen flowed in its stony bed.
–The Two Towers
Savage Hillman (Enemy; ×3)
Stat line as printed: ( 20 ) · 1 · 2 · 1 · 3
Dunland.
Surge.
While the engaged player has 3 or more cards in hand, Savage Hillman cannot take damage.
While the engaged player has 5 or more cards in hand, Savage Hillman gets +2.
Vengeful Hillman (Enemy; ×3)
Stat line as printed: ( 27 ) · 2 · 4 · 2 · 4
Dunland.
Forced: After Vengeful Hillman attacks and destroys a character, remove 1 progress the current quest card for each card in the defending player's hand.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2.
Western Shore (Location; ×3)
Stat line as printed: X · ( 4 )
River.
Valley.
X is the number of cards in the first player's hand.
While Western Shore is in the staging area, each enemy gets -X engagement cost.
Shadow: If you have 5 or more cards in your hand, this attack is considered undefended.
Encounter Cards: To Catch an Orc Nightmare
Guard Warg (Enemy; ×2)
Stat line as printed: ( 25 ) · 4 · 3 · 3 · 3
Creature.
Forced: After the engaged player discards any number of cards from his out-of-play deck, Guard Warg makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Methedras Lookout (Enemy; ×3)
Stat line as printed: ( 44 ) · 3 · 5 · 4 · 5
Orc.
While Methedras Lookout is in the staging area, it gains: "Forced: At the end of the refresh phase, remove 1 time counter from the current quest."
Shadow: Either exhaust a character you control, or return attacking enemy to the staging area.
Methedras Peak (Location; ×2)
Stat line as printed: X · ( 5 )
Mountain.
X is the number of characters controlled by the first player.
Forced: After Methedras Peak leaves play as an explored location, each player searches 3.
...they had come to the feet of the mountains, and to the green roots of tall Methedras. –The Two Towers
Mugash's Cunning (Treachery; ×2) When Revealed: Each player discard the top 3 cards of his out-of-play deck. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area. If no enemies are added to the staging area this way, Mugash's Cunning gains surge. Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3 and +3 until the end of the round.
Mugash's Rage (Treachery; ×2) When Revealed: If Mugash is attached to a hero, the player who controls that hero unattaches Mugash and engages it. Then, Mugash makes an immediate attack. Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage until the end of the round.
Orc Trail (Location; ×2)
Stat line as printed: 4 · ( 2 )
Mountain.
Forced: After Orc Trail leaves play as an explored location, choose an out of play Orc enemy, either set aside or in the victory display, and add it to the staging area. Then, the first player searches 4.
"No other folk make such a trampling."
–Legolas, The Two Towers
Patrolling Orcs (Treachery; ×2) Surge. Doomed 1. When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Forced: After a player engages an enemy, he must either exhaust a character he controls, or remove 1 time counter from the current quest.")
Vigilant Orc (Enemy; ×4)
Stat line as printed: ( 1 ) · 2 · 4 · 3 · 4
Orc.
Forced: After Vigilant Orc enters the staging area, it makes an immediate attack against the first player. If this attack destroys a character, remove 1 time counter from the current quest.
Fierce and shrill rose the yells of the Orcs, and suddenly horn–calls ceased. –The Two Towers
Victory 4
Transcription Notes
The following corrections and judgment calls were made against the source text. Each is a fix of an obvious database artifact, not a change to the rules.
- "copiues" in the To Catch an Orc setup text is corrected to "copies".
- "amoung" in the Tangled Forest text is corrected to "among".
- The source's type and trait labels "Ort" and "Berg" on Methedras Peak are rendered as "Location" and "Mountain".
- The source's Blocking Huorn text has a gap where a game icon belongs ("it adds its / to the staging area"). The gap is shown as "[icon]" and was not filled from memory. The card face should be checked to confirm which icon is printed.
- The source does not label the numbers on the enemy and location cards. They are reproduced in the order the source lists them, in a "Stat line as printed" line, and not assigned labels.
- The source gives each encounter card's deck membership and quantity. Those quantities are reproduced as "×N" after each card name, and the cards are grouped under the Nightmare Deck they belong to.
- Printed grammar is kept as the source gives it: "Each player discard" (Mugash's Cunning), "remove 1 progress the current quest card" (Vengeful Hillman) and "Attacking enemy gets +3 and +3" (Mugash's Cunning).
- The source names "The Fords of Isen" with a leading "The" in the setup text. It is kept as printed.
- The Savage Hillman text has no closing full stop in the source; one is added.
- The source's stat numbers are unlabelled. The Voice of Isengard stat line order is taken from the sibling Nightmare Deck entries (threat, engagement cost, attack, defense, hit points); the card face was not checked against a scan.