In my successful Lore run through of the thrid scenario, I came across the following situation:
When you place an Orc token, the card comes from your own deck. At one point I had to place an Orc, but had Iron Shackles on the top of my deck. Iron Shackles reads "The next time a player would draw 1 or more cards from attached deck, discard Iron Shackles instead." So I reason that you would discard Iron Shackles instead of placing the Orc. Either way I still would have completed the quest, but just thought it an interesting situation.