Staff of Lebethron

Attachment. Cost: 1.

Item.

Attach to a Gondor or Hobbit hero. Restricted.

Response: After attached hero exhausts to defend an attack from an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat, exhaust Staff of Lebethron to discard a shadow card from that enemy.

"They are made of the fair tree lebethron, beloved of the woodwrights of Gondor..." Faramir, The Two Towers
Kara Williams

The Land of Shadow #8. Leadership.

Staff of Lebethron
Reviews

Quite good on Sam in a Hobbit deck. I've tried it in a more medium threat deck (starting at 28) and it wasn't useable often enough to feel worth including.

Extra characters. Extra characters. Extra characters

Not bad with Tom Cotton either — Quetzal513 97
Ally Halbarad pairs perfectly with this. — MrObsolete 55
Here's some more extra characters: it took me another four years to the fact that you can have a hero dual wielding these. Sam with two staves, Fast Hitch, Hobbit Cloak, maybe Protector of Lorien... can really be incredible — Quetzal513 97

This card is wonderful against high-threat bosses that engage through quest effects. The very best of those is Lonely Mountain -- Smaug has 50 threat, and his shadows can trigger re-attacks via keyword. But not if they're discarded first!