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.

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



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



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 Regroup 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



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



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



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



Meta-Game



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 ✘ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔



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



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
Austrian Culture Shock Poor Man's