I know it is a very specific case, but it's been bugging me for a while...
Suppose I'm running a Solo Quest which includes Eastern Crows (Reach of Sauron). According to Thalin's ability and the official errata, he inflicts 1 damage on enemies revealed from the Encounter Deck while he's committed to the quest, and the damage is applied before keywords and effects on the Encounter card.
Eastern Crows specifies in its Forced Effect that it is reshuffled into the Encounter deck once defeated. Each and every time it is revealed, Thalin kills it and makes it go back inside the deck.
What happens if there are no monsters in the staging area, and the only two cards remaining in the Encounter Deck are two Eastern Crows ? Even with two players, we will never be able to get rid of them, yet they will never affect us.
So in short, the Encounter Deck would never reset ?
Also, another question :
If Eastern Crows is the last card, and Thalin kills it while I quest, do I still ''reshuffle'' it into the Encounter deck even if there is no Encounter deck to shuffle it back into ? Or do I put it in the discard pile ?