Index

Main Article Index

Important Concepts

All the different aspects of The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game can be found below, for quick reference or when trying to more deeply understand a mechanic.

Prefer an all-in-one explanation? Take a look at the Official Rulebooks.

Want to help? Check out the Wiki Style guide.

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Card Type
	Layout Used:	Character Layout			Modifier Layout					Site Layout
Alignment (Kind / Side)	Free Peoples	Companion	Ally	Follower	Artifact	Possession	The One Ring	Condition	Event	Site
	Shadow	Minion

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Card Layout
Tokens	Twilight Tokens	Culture Tokens		Wounds	Burdens
Characters	Twilight Cost	Culture	Strength	Vitality	Resistance	Signet	Home Site	Site Number	Game Text	Lore	Collector's Info
Other (Modifier Layout)
Sites												Site Arrow

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Game Concepts

Play Area
Piles	Draw Deck	Adventure Deck	Discard Pile	Dead Pile
Other	Fellowship	Support Area	Twilight Pool	Adventure Path

The Turn Sequence
Fellowship Phase	Shadow Phase	Maneuver Phase	Archery Phase	Assignment Phase	Skirmish Phase

Game Setup
Starting the Game	Starting Fellowship	Bidding	Mulligan
Deck Building Considerations	Uniqueness	X-List	R-List	Errata
Rules	Rule of 4	Rule of 9
Mechanics	Bearer	Initiative	Move Limit	Roaming	Site Control	Threats

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Actions
General	At Random	Can/Cannot	Cost	Effect	May	Limit	Pass	Prevent	Spot	Up To
Triggers	At the Start	Each Time	When	While
Phase Actions	Assign	Cancel	Special Ability	Response
Character Actions	Corrupt	Exert	Heal	Kill	Overwhelm	Participate	Wound
Site Actions	At a Site	Control	Liberate	Replace
Card Actions	Draw	Discard	Play	Reveal	Reconcile	Shuffle	Stack	Transfer

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Cultures
Movie Block Cultures
	Free Peoples								Shadow
Name	Dwarven	Elven	Gandalf	Gollum	Gondor	Rohan	Shire		Dunland	Gollum	Isengard	Moria	Raider	Ringwraith	Sauron	Name
Icon																Icon
Post-Shadows Cultures
Name									Men		Orc		Uruk-hai		Wraith	Name
Icon																Icon

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Keywords

Loaded Keywords
Numeric	Damage + X	Defender + X	Ambush X	Hunter X	Toil X
Non-numeric	Aid	Archer	Enduring	Fierce	Lurker	Muster	Sanctuary	Ring-bearer	Unhasty
Item Class	[Classless]	Support Area	Armor	Brooch	Box	Bracers	Cloak	Gauntlets	Hand Weapon
	Helm	Mount	Palantír	Phial	Pipe	Ranged Weapon	Ring	Shield	Staff

Unloaded Keywords
Race	[Raceless]	Balrog	Creature	Dwarf	Elf	Ent	Half-Troll	Hobbit	Maia	Man
	Nazgûl	Orc	Spider	Tree	Troll	Uruk-hai	Wizard	Wraith
General	Battleground	Besieger	Corsair	Dwelling	Easterling	Engine	Fellowship	Forest	Fortification	Knight
	Machine	Marsh	Mountain	Plains	Pipeweed	Ranger	Ring-bound	River	Search	Southron
	Spell	Stealth	Tale	Tentacle	Tracker	Twilight	[Unbound]	Underground	Valiant	Villager
	Weather	Warg-rider

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Meta-Game

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Electronic Platforms
	Official		Unofficial					Deckbuilders
Game Clients	Lord of the Rings Online		SdA	LackeyCCG	gccg	Gemp-LotR		Zorbec's
File Formats	*.ldc		*.dck	*.dek	[gccg]	-		*.zdl
Zorbec's Decklist Builder Support	❌		✔	✔	✔	❌		✔

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Sets
Official Sets	Movie Block	Fellowship Block			Towers Block			King Block
		Fellowship of the Ring	Mines of Moria	Realms of the Elf-Lords	The Two Towers	Battle of Helm's Deep	Ents of Fangorn	Return of the King	Siege of Gondor	Mount Doom	Reflections
	War of the Ring Block	Shadows			Black Rider		Bloodlines		Expanded Middle-Earth
	Hunters Block	The Hunters		The Wraith Collection		Rise of Saruman		Treachery & Deceit		Age's End
Unofficial Sets	The Hobbit Draft Game Packs	Hobbit Draft Game Main Deck			Hobbit Draft Game Shadow Packs			Hobbit Draft Game Supplementary Packs

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Formats

Block Formats
Official Formats	Fellowship Block	Towers Block	King Block	War of the Ring Block	Hunters Block
	Towers Standard
	King Standard
	Movie Block
		War of the Ring Standard
			Standard
	Expanded
	Open
Unofficial Formats

Non-Block Formats
Official Formats
Unofficial Formats	Austrian	Culture Shock	Poor Man's