Unmatched
Titania
Overview
Titania is the protagonist in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is the queen of the fairies and a strong and regal figure who deeply cares for her attendants and the natural world. She takes a strong stance against her husband Oberon regarding the custody of a changeling child that leads to a series of magical and comical misadventures. Titania’s character highlights the themes of love and transformation while adding complexity to the play’s exploration of romantic relationships and the supernatural. In Unmatched, Titania uses her fairy magic to manipulate the battlefield and adapt to all threats.
Titania is included in Unmatched: Slings and Arrows
Hero Stats
Health: 12 / Attack: Ranged / Movement: 2
Special Ability: Fairy Magic
If you do not have a face-up glamour at the start of your turn, flip the top card of your glamour deck face-up. Its effect is ongoing while it remains face-up.
Sidekick: Oberon
Health: 6 / Attack: Melee / x1
Strategies and Tips
The trick for mastering Titania is accessing the appropriate glamour for your matchup, which unfortunately relies on the luck of the draw. Considering how strong her glamour card effects are, this helps keep her balanced. With that said, you are encouraged to constantly discard glamour to make your way through the deck as doing so makes some of her other cards stronger. To get the most out of Titania, you must find the balance between drawing through your glamour deck while keeping your glamour active long enough to properly utilize its effects.
Primary Strengths
Glamour effects are versatile
Strong and versatile card effects
Powerful schemes
Primary Weaknesses
Low printed value cards
Heroes with many sidekicks
Heroes with many cards that can cancel her card effects
Tip #1: Fairy Magic
Titania’s power takes form in her glamour cards, which are 6 cards that reside in a separate deck. Each of these cards provide unique utility that can prove useful in a variety of matchups.
Glamour of Love – When you maneuver, you may move an opposing fighter 1 space before moving your fighters. This is incredibly useful for reaching opponents who are trying to keep away from you. You can use this to move enemy sidekicks out of the way to give you an opening to the enemy hero or move Invisible Man off of his fog tokens.
Glamour of Greed – At the end of your turn, you may draw 1 card. This helps you stay one step ahead of your opponent and keep your aggression up. Or, in the case of Hamlet, keep up with his card draw.
Glamour of Sleep – Your fighters do not take damage other than combat damage. This Glamour is excellent against certain matchups that rely on effect damage, such as Little Red Riding Hood. This also ignores fatigue damage, so if you can have this card active while your deck is empty, you can maneuver without taking damage.
Glamour of Jealousy – When Titania or Oberon are attacked, before playing a card, they may swap spaces. If they do, your other fighter is now the defender. This card is great for getting either fighter out of troubling situations.
Glamour of Invisibility – Your fighters may move through opposing fighters. This ability is simple but can prove game changing in the right matchups. This protects you from being pinned in and allows you to approach opponents who try to block you from them with their sidekicks.
Glamour of Rhyme – After you play a scheme, gain 1 action. This card can set up devastating combos, which I will dive more into in another tip.
These cards can only be discarded by effects on your actions cards, and once your glamour deck is empty you do not shuffle your discarded glamour cards back into the deck. There is a way you can return a discarded glamour back into the deck, but it requires an effect on one of your cards:
The Moon Looks Down is a versatile card with a value of 3 that allows you to return a discarded glamour to the bottom of your glamour deck after combat. You are allowed to choose which card to recover, so you can prioritize the glamour that is best for your specific matchup.
Tip #2: The King of the Fairies
Titania and Oberon make for one of the best Hero & Sidekick combos in Unmatched. Oberon can deal high damage to your opponents and weaken their defenses. Glamour of Jealousy also allows you to swap between the two when one is attacked, which you can use to protect Titania or keep Oberon alive longer if your opponent is focused on taking him out.
Met By Moonlight is an attack Oberon can use with a value of 5 that allows you to place him in a space adjacent to Titania after combat. Having your two fighters together in one zone is a good way to bait your opponent into Titania’s zone to follow up with the scheme A Momentary Glance, which deals 2 damage to any fighter in her zone.
What Fools These Mortals Be is Oberon’s other exclusive card. This scheme allows you to choose an opponent, look at their hand, and choose a card. They then must shuffle that card back into their deck. If used late in the game, you can follow this card with Titania’s Queen of the Fairies, which is a 2-value attack that increases in value by +1 for each glamour in your discard pile. This card should only be used when you have at least 4 or 5 glamour cards discarded. With that said, if you can remove a Feint or any other defensive card from your opponent’s hand before attacking with this, you can deal upwards of 8 damage with this attack. This combo has the potential to win games.
Whisked Away is another useful card you should keep in mind. This can be used by either fighter, is a 4-value versatile, and allows you to move your fighter up to 2 spaces after combat. If you discard a glamour, however, you can place your fighter in any space. This is excellent for getting any fighter out of danger or for bringing them together.
Tip #3: Glamour of Rhyme
Glamour of Rhyme might be the most powerful card in Titania’s deck. This glamour lets you gain 1 action whenever you play a scheme. There are three schemes in Titania’s deck:
A Momentary Glance is a Titania only scheme that allows you to deal 2 damage to any fighter in Titania’s zone.
What Fools These Mortals Be is an Oberon only scheme that allows you to choose an opponent, look at their hand, and choose a card.
Gift of the Fairy Folk can be used by either fighter and it allows you to choose 2 different effects:
- One fighter recovers 2 health
- Draw 2 cards
- Move two fighters up to 2 spaces each
On the surface these schemes seem useful but not game changing, but when combined with Glamour of Rhyme they can lead to one of the most devastating combos in the entire game.
Start your turn with Gift of the Fairy Folk. You can choose any of the effects here, but the most useful in this case is to move two fighters up to 2 spaces each and draw 2 cards. Moving the fighters allows you to place fighters in attack range, or at the very least within a maneuver of attack range, and drawing cards gives you more to work with.
Your second action should be What Fools These Mortals Be. With this, you can remove the strongest defense option your opponent has at their disposal.
From here you can attack, maneuver, or even play another scheme. Let’s say you have another Gift of the Fairy Folk or What Fools These Mortals Be. Play them both. Move all fighters within attack range, draw more cards, and remove more defensive options from your opponent. Hold nothing back at this stage since playing these schemes is FREE. If you play one, two, three, four, or even five of these schemes back-to-back with this glamour active, you will still have two more actions left at the end to attack with. At this point your best attack options are as follows:
Met By Moonlight – This was covered in the last tip, but if Oberon is in attack range, this is a solid 5-value card to attack with.
Queen of the Fairies – As mentioned in the last tip, when played with enough glamour discarded, this can end games. Especially when used in this combo.
Fairy Song – This versatile card has a value of 3 but can become a 5 if you discard glamour. Doing so not only will make this card stronger, but it will also buff Queen of the Fairies if you play it after this.
Final Thoughts
Titania mostly has low base values on all of her cards, but her card effects and glamour effects are very strong and more than make up the difference. Her glamour deck gives an absurd amount of utility for dealing with any situation, but if you don’t discard them you will find that many of your cards are weaker for it. This makes for a surprisingly balanced hero with a ton of variety in play. Her glamour deck may make it seem as if she is a complicated hero to master, but her playstyle is straightforward with the only complicated aspect being the randomness of drawing the correct glamour card for your situation.
