The first card added to the Restricted List in Fellowship block, Forces of Mordor generates twilight just by the nature of playing minions. With play-from-discard abilities such as Tol Brandir or hand extending cards like The Dark Lord's Summons, Forces of Mordor can generate large amounts of twilight from just a single copy, making a swarm deck with this card highly dangerous.

With the card drawing capabilities of Orcs, particularly in the Battle of Helms Deep expansion (Grishnakh, Orc Captain, Orc Chaser, etc.), Forces of Mordor is on the X-List beyond The Fellowship of the Ring Block.

• Free twilight
• Swarm tactics, such as at Tol Brandir

• Hand Clog

• Note the Restricted and X-Lists that Forces of Mordor appears on, as it appears on a list for every format.