Cards for the 1st generation of Gondolin Cards were introduced between 2019 and 2022, and are easily recognisable by having a dark green background with the logo on it on the reverse side of the cards. A total of 40 card titles were introduced in this period, and this page gives the full overview of them.
The current 2nd generation of the game has a completely different single player game format, and was launched in 2023. Go here for the list of 2nd generation Gondolin Cards.
The Turtle Keeper
Game format: First generation
Card#: 40
Type: Hero
Cost: *****
Stats: 2/1
Function: At the end of a round in which The Turtle Keeper
did not attack nor defend, you gain 1 life.
Quote: “Any sufficiently capable entity has the ability to restore balance in their surroundings.”
Art: Bey
Year: 2022
Print amount: Less than 250
Chrysophylax The Dragon
Game format: First generation
Card#: 39
Type: Entity
Cost: ************
Stats: 10/5
Function: Chrysophylax The Dragon may not carry any equipment. When attacking, any of Chrysophylax’ strength not absorbed by defending entities becomes opponent damage.
Quote: –
Art: Hendrich
Year: 2022
Print amount: Less than 250
Black Wave
Game format: First generation
Card#: 38
Type: Event
Cost: *********
Stats: –
Function: Destroy a location.
Quote: “So when the last and dreadful hour.
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky.”
Art: Turner
Year: 2022
Print amount: Less than 250
Underworld Trolls
Game format: First generation
Card#: 37
Type: Entity
Cost: ****
Stats: 2/3
Function: Gets +1/0 if attacking with Underworld Wolves.
Gets -2/-2 against Woodland Knights.
Quote: “Trolls were made in mockery of Ents, similar to the way that Orcs were a twisted parody of the Elves.”
Art: Kittelsen
Year: 2022
Print amount: Less than 250
Moonworshipper Inn
Game format: First generation
Card#: 36
Type: Facility
Cost: *****
Stats: –
Function: After an attack against you where both sides still have surviving entities; You must choose one of the entities, that attacked you, and one of your own entities.Destroy both entities and Moonworshipper Inn. You may only have one Moonworshipper Inn in play on your side.
Quote: –
Art: Unknown
Year: 2022
Print amount: Less than 250
Outpost Of Valinor
Game format: First generation
Card#: 35
Type: Location
Cost: –
Stats: –
Function: Add * to your storage each turn. Trolls, wolves and dragons get -2/0 if attacking.
Quote: “For a brief time, emisaries of the undying lands sailed east and took up residence in a sheltered valley covered with oaks.”
Art: Schinkel
Year: 2022
Print amount: Less than 250
Blackthorn
Game format: First generation
Card#: 34
Type: Hero
Cost: ***
Stats: 2/1
Function: At the of the turn in which Blackthorn entered the game; destroy all equipment.
Quote: “In all likelihood faeries of larger stature were ancient gods in a state of decay, while their diminutive congeners were the swarming spirits of primitive imagination.”
Art: Unknown
Year: 2021
Print amount: Less than 250
Troll King
Game format: First generation
Card#: 33
Type: Entity
Cost: ****
Stats: 1/1
Function: Hungry Trolls and Underworld Trolls under your command receive +1/1 while Troll King is in play on your side.
Quote: “Be the mountain you wish to see in the world.”
Art: Bauer
Year: 2021
Print amount: Less than 250
Warden’s Armory
Game format: First generation
Card#: 32
Type: Facility
Cost: ***
Stats: –
Function: If you brought any equipment into play this turn, add * to your storage at the end of the turn. If you have a House Of The Hammer Of Maeglin, you may bring equipment back straight into play instead of to your hand.
Quote: –
Art: Bunce
Year: 2021
Print amount: Less than 250
Flying Device Of The Lost Clan
Game format: First generation
Card#: 31
Type: Equipment
Cost: ***
Stats: –
Function:An entity gets +2/2 when attacking or defending. After combat put this card in your destruction pile.
Quote: –
Art: Da Vinci & Unknown
Year: 2021
Print amount: Less than 250
Eternal Return
Game format: First generation
Card#: 30
Type: Spell
Cost: ****
Stats: –
Function: Bring an entity or hero from your destruction pile and into your hand.
Quote: “Every thing parts, everything greets every other thing again: eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.”
Art: Doré
Year: 2021
Print amount: Less than 250
Underworld Wolves
Game format: First generation
Card#: 29
Type: Entity
Cost: *****
Stats: 4/2
Function: –
Quote: “Eastward dwells the Old One | in Ironwood,
And there gives birth | to Fenrir’s brethren;
There shall spring of them all | a certain one,
The moon’s taker | in troll’s likeness.”
Art: Bauer
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Carmilla
Game format: First generation
Card#: 28
Type: Hero
Cost: ****
Stats: 2/2
Function: Returns to your hand if killed in combat.
Quote: “But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
Art: Kiesel
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Last-ditch Volunteers
Game format: First generation
Card#: 27
Type: Entity
Cost: **
Stats: 0/1
Function: May be put into play during an attack on the defending side, when defending entities are being chosen.May be put into play by paying 1 life instead of the resource cost.
Quote: –
Art: Malczewski
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Spring Rite
Game format: First generation
Card#: 26
Type: Event
Cost: ****
Stats: –
Function: Gain 1 life.
Quote: “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming. back.”
Art: Cole
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Coastal Citadel
Game format: First generation
Card#: 25
Type: Location
Cost: –
Stats: –
Function: Add * to your storage each turn.Your equipment costs one * less to play.
Quote: –
Art: Lorrain
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Atlas Of The Lands
Game format: First generation
Card#: 24
Type: Equipment
Cost: *****
Stats: –
Function: If the entity did not defend last turn, and does not attack during your turn, choose one of the opponent’s locations:This location generates no resources and may not use any functionality next turn.
Quote: –
Art: Vermeer
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Woodland Knights
Game format: First generation
Card#: 23
Type: Entity
Cost: ***
Stats: 1/2
Function: May choose to be unaffected by spells.
Quote: “Where there is power, there is resistance.”
Art: Stanhope
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Ñoldorin Marketplace
Game format: First generation
Card#: 22
Type: Facility
Cost: ***
Stats: –
Function: If you have 5 or more * in your storage, add an additional *.
Quote: “Mortals were allowed to trade with those from Valinor in the Undying Lands, but were forbidden to sail west beyond the sight of Númenor.”
Art: Vasnetsov
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Voices Of Doubt
Game format: First generation
Card#: 21
Type: Spell
Cost: ******
Stats: –
Function: Play in your turn, before or during an attack.Choose one of the opponent’s entities. This may not defend during your attack.
Quote: –
Art: Runciman
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Borderland Explorations
Game format: First generation
Card#: 20
Type: Event
Cost: ****
Stats: –
Function: Search your card pile for a location card and add it to your hand. Shuffle afterwards.
Quote: “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Art: Hulme
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Dor-lómin Bows
Game format: First generation
Card#: 19
Type: Equipment
Cost: ***
Stats: –
Function: Deal 1 damage to a defending entity during an attack, after defense has been chosen.
Quote: “Steel bows were perfected by the Númenóreans, but used as far back as the Nirnaeth Arnoediad – the battle of unnumbered tears.”
Art: Reynolds
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Lowland Town
Game format: First generation
Card#: 18
Type: Location
Cost: –
Stats: –
Function: Add * to your storage each turn. Pay four * to draw a card.
Quote: –
Art: Leickert
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Utred
Game format: First generation
Card#: 17
Type: Hero
Cost: ***
Stats: 3/2
Function: When attacking, choose one other entity attacking with Utred. This entity gets +1/0 during the attack.
Quote: “As they rode towards the battle, the music of the legendary bard made the soldiers forget all their fears.”
Art: Unknown
Year: 2020
Print amount: Less than 250
Ambush
Game format: First generation
Card#: 16
Type: Event
Cost: ****
Stats: –
Function: Play during an attack after defense has been chosen. One of your entities deals damage before receiving any. If this destroys an entity it is attacking or defending against, it receives no damage from this entity.
Quote: –
Art: Doré
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
Hungry Trolls
Game format: First generation
Card#: 15
Type: Entity
Cost: ***
Stats: 2/2
Function: Gets -1/-1 against Riders Of Nan-tathren and Woodland Knights.
Quote: “Emerging only when hungry. And when hungry also angry.”
Art: Kittelsen
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
A Silent Visitor
Game format: First generation
Card#: 14
Type: Spell
Cost: *****
Stats: –
Function: Can’t be played during an attack. Deal 1 damage to an entity.
Quote: “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unexplained.”
Art: Venne
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
Helmets Of The Noble Guard
Game format: First generation
Card#: 13
Type: Equipment
Cost: **
Stats: –
Function: An entity gets +0/2
Quote: “The enemies outnumbered them, but still the noble guard fought on for days and nights.”
Art: Unknown
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
Northeastern Siege Crew
Game format: First generation
Card#: 12
Type: Entity
Cost: *******
Stats: 4/1
Function: If attacking and meeting no defence, you may choose to either: Deal damage to the opponent, or; Destroy one of the opponent’s facilities.
Quote: –
Art: Schweitzer
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
House Of The Hammer Of Maeglin
Game format: First generation
Card#: 11
Type: Facility
Cost: ***
Stats: –
Function: Pay the casting cost of destroyed equipment to bring it back to your hand. Use no more than once each turn.
Quote: –
Art: MacGeorge
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
Archers Of The Lost Clan
Game format: First generation
Card#: 10
Type: Entity
Cost: ****
Stats: 3/1
Function: Gets +1/0 if defending against giants.
Quote: “Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so toohe loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.”
Art: Doré
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
The Unexpected Betrayal
Game format: First generation
Card#: 9
Type: Spell
Cost: ********
Stats: –
Function: Play this during your attack after defending entities has been chosen by the opponent.
Gain control of a defending entity during the attack, and include it on your side of the attack.
Quote: –
Art: Ricci
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
Ancient Meadow
Game format: First generation
Card#: 8
Type: Location
Cost: –
Stats: –
Function: Use no more than once each turn: An attacking entity neither deals nor receives damage in combat this turn, and is unaffected by events or spells until next turn.
Quote: –
Art: Unknown
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
Poison The Lake
Game format: First generation
Card#: 7
Type: Event
Cost: ******
Stats: –
Function: Play this after an attack against you. Destroy an entity that attacked you.
Quote: “Revenge. The sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.”
Art: Doré
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
Crawl The Dungeon
Game format: First generation
Card#: 6
Type: Event
Cost: *
Stats: –
Function: Play this if one of your attacking entities deals combat damage to a player. Choose one:Gain 2 life or; remove up to two * from the player’s storage and add them to your own.
Quote: –
Art: Corbac Lenoir
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
Elven Swords
Game format: First generation
Card#: 5
Type: Equipment
Cost: **
Stats: –
Function: An entity gets +2/0
Quote: –
Art: David
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 500
Giants Of Taur-nu-Fuin
Game format: First generation
Card#: 4
Type: Entity
Cost: ******
Stats: 4/4
Function: Can’t defend the turn after it has attacked.
Quote: “The soldiers gathered their last courage, as the giants descended from the highlands.”
Art: Huard
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 500
Egalmoth’s Vault
Game format: First generation
Card#: 3
Type: Facility
Cost: ***
Stats: –
Function: Your events and spells cost up to two * less to play.
Quote: “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Art: Piranesi
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 250
Riders Of Nan-tathren
Game format: First generation
Card#: 2
Type: Entity
Cost: **
Stats: 1/1
Function: –
Quote: “One may not reach the dawn save by the path of night.”
Art: Doré
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 500
Keep In The Mountains
Game format: First generation
Card#: 1
Type: Location
Cost: –
Stats: –
Function: Add * to your storage each turn. Your entities gain +0/1 while defending.
Quote: –
Art: Turner
Year: 2019
Print amount: Less than 500