Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One FAQ
123 questions players ask · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Full rulebook
General
- Do I need the base set or older rulebooks to play a set?
- Can players look through each other's discard piles?
- Is a fighter's health or a player's hand size hidden information?
- If an effect says to discard at random and the opponent's hand is empty, do they discard from their deck?
- Can a defense card give you an action on your opponent's turn?
- What do the attack, defense, versatile, scheme, melee and ranged icons mean?
Setup
Heroes & Sidekicks
Hero Abilities
- Do Alice's size bonuses apply to cards she plays that are not Alice cards, such as Any cards?
- Do Alice's bonuses apply when she uses a Versatile card?
- Does Alice's small +1 defense apply when she plays no defense card, or against scheme or exhaustion damage?
- Can Feint or other cancel effects remove Alice's built-in size bonuses?
- When does Alice change size?
- Does Alice's size bonus apply to her Jabberwock sidekick?
- Can you pick a Looking Glass option that does nothing or has little effect?
- How many fighters does Medusa's start-of-turn ability damage?
- Does Medusa's start-of-turn damage reach enemies on an adjacent space of another colour?
- How do you declare and place King Arthur's boost when he attacks?
- If King Arthur boosts his attack, can the defender still win the combat?
- Can King Arthur's boost ability boost an attack made by Merlin?
- Can King Arthur boost his attack with a Merlin scheme card?
- Does Feint stop a boosted Excalibur attack from dealing damage?
- If Merlin's Bewilderment prevents all damage, who wins the combat?
- Does Merlin's Bewilderment also stop boosts or After Combat damage?
- If Feint cancels a boosted attack, is the boost card still discarded?
- What do Sinbad's Voyage cards do, and can they be discarded to boost?
- Can Sinbad discard The Voyage Home to boost his movement, and does the discarded card count as a Voyage?
- What is the most damage Medusa's Gaze of Stone can deal in total?
- Does Impossible to See cancel an opponent's boost, Alice's size bonus, or map bonuses?
The Field of Battle
- Do fighters have to stay in their hero's zone when they move?
- Can a ranged fighter target any fighter in its zone, and can line of sight be blocked?
- When a card lets you move an opposing fighter, which movement rules apply?
- Can a surrounded fighter still take a Maneuver?
- Can fighters pass through the castle doorway on the second battlefield of the Volume One board?
- Can a fighter moved or placed by a card stay in its current space?
Your Turn
- When does the seven-card hand limit apply?
- Can you take the Scheme or Attack action without a matching card?
- Must you take two actions, and may you repeat the same action?
- Can you discard a card voluntarily when your hand is under the limit?
- When does a new turn begin, and does a Maneuver taken first start a new turn?
Action: Maneuver
- During a Maneuver, is movement shared between your fighters or does each fighter move on its own?
- Can two fighters swap places in one Maneuver by moving one step at a time?
- Does one Maneuver move all of your fighters, including sidekicks?
- Is drawing on a Maneuver optional, and does it come before movement?
- On a Maneuver, do you draw before you boost?
Exhaustion
- What happens when your deck is empty and you must draw?
- Is your discard pile ever reshuffled into your deck?
- If you must draw several cards with an empty deck, is exhaustion damage taken once or once per card?
- Does discarding or revealing from an empty deck cause exhaustion damage?
- What happens when both your deck and your hand are empty?
Boost
- How many times can you boost on one Maneuver?
- Does a movement boost apply to every fighter you move?
- When you discard a card to boost, does its effect happen?
- Can you discard a card that has no boost value to boost?
- Can you discard a card from a defeated fighter to boost?
- Can every fighter boost an attack, or only movement?
- Which card provides a During Combat boost, and when is the boost card played?
Action: Scheme
- How many fighters does Restless Spirits affect?
- Can a defense card reduce damage from a Scheme card?
- Do schemes that target an opponent work no matter which zone the opponent is in?
- Does Medusa's Momentary Glance affect one fighter or every fighter in her zone?
- Does Medusa's Winged Frenzy give 3 spaces to each fighter, or 3 in total?
Action: Attack
- Can more than one fighter attack with one Attack action, and must you name the attacker?
- Can a fighter attack an adjacent enemy that is in a different zone?
- Must the attack card match the attacking fighter, and when is it revealed?
- If a boosted card gives you an extra action mid-attack, when do you take it?
Combat Results
- How is the winner of a combat decided?
- Which damage decides who wins a combat, and do value-changing effects count?
- Does the defender deal damage back when it wins the combat?
- How much damage does an attack deal against a defense card?
- Must the defender play a defense card, and what happens with no cards in hand?
- If a boost on the attack fizzles, does the defender's defense card still count?
- If an Immediately effect cancels an opponent's card, does the combat result still apply?
- Can a defense value above the attack be applied as an attack, or against other effects?
- How do character bonuses, card effects and boosts combine on one card's value?
Card Effects and Timing
- Are card effects mandatory, even when they hurt your own fighter?
- Must a fighter move at least one space when a card says 'move up to' a number?
- Does Feint cancel every effect of the attacking card, including After Combat effects?
- When two effects would resolve at the same time, which one goes first?
- In what order do Immediately, During Combat and After Combat effects resolve?
- What does 'the opposing fighter' mean on a combat card?
- If a combat effect makes you discard, can you discard the card you played in that combat?
- How does Momentous Shift's 'started this turn in a different space' condition work?
- Does Momentous Shift's 5-value check apply to a fighter placed from off the board?
- Does the Jabberwock's After Combat damage hit one adjacent fighter or each adjacent fighter?
Defeating a Fighter
- Does exhaustion damage remove a sidekick with only one health?
- Do After Combat effects still resolve if your fighter was defeated during the combat?
- In a multiplayer game, do you keep taking turns after your hero is defeated?
- When a sidekick is defeated during an attack, is it removed before the attacker's After Combat effects resolve?
- If there is no open space in the zone to return a defeated fighter, is it placed in a nearby zone instead?
- If a defender's After Combat effect restores a defeated sidekick, can that sidekick block the attacker's follow-up move?
- If a fighter is defeated and a new fighter is placed in its space, is the new fighter hit by the attack's After Combat effect?
Winning the Game
Team Play
- How does a three-player game work?
- In a two-versus-two game, does Porter keep the boost ability after Sinbad is defeated?
- Can teammates remind each other of their hero's abilities during a team game?
- In a two-versus-two game, does the game end when one hero is defeated?
- In team play, what does Winged Frenzy do once Medusa is defeated, and can it move a teammate's fighters?
- When a player is eliminated in a team game, does the turn order change?
- In a three-player game, does the solo player who controls two heroes get a turn for each hero?
Unmatched: DeadpoolExpansion
- If Deadpool's Time Out! is played in defense against a Feint, can the replacement card still be cancelled?
- On Deadpool's Call Me card, does 'your opponent' mean the other player or the enemy fighter?
- Does Deadpool's Time Out card require you to shuffle after swapping in the card you pick from your deck?
- Can an opponent cancel Deadpool's ranged attack effect?
- What does Deadpool's Push to Teleport card do?
- Does Deadpool's Holy Mackerel card need the exact card name?
- What does Deadpool's yellowish space condition refer to?
- Does Dumpster Divin' Deadpool let you choose the five cards to shuffle into your deck?
- Can Deadpool play Xavier Institute Faculty as a ranged attack even though he is a melee fighter, and after declaring his target?
- When do Deadpool's 'after you attack' effects happen relative to After Combat effects?
Unmatched: Bruce LeeExpansion
- If Bruce Lee plays a second Nunchaku, do all his attacks that turn get +2?
- Must the action gained from Bruce Lee's card be taken?
- Does Feint or It's Just Your Imagination cancel Bruce Lee's Intercepting Fist?
- Does Feint cancel the Nunchaku bonus?
- Does Corkscrew Finger Jab's damage still apply if the defender moves Bruce away with its After Combat effect?
- Does Corkscrew Finger Jab damage more than the fighter in combat?