Aquatica
Can a free-recruit effect, such as a location's icon or King Cai, be used to recruit a Tribe?
The designer confirmed both the location misprint and the Cai limit in 2021 and 2022.
- Iv Tuzovsky · Designer · 2021-12-06
- Iv Tuzovsky · Designer · 2022-10-20
- imfrumlakewood · Community · 2023-04-23
- AgentSabik · Community · 2026-07-20
No. A Tribe is recruited only by playing a card whose text says to recruit a character. Icon-only free-recruit effects on locations can't recruit a Tribe, and King Cai gives a character without recruiting, so he can't either. The free-recruit wording on locations was an editorial misprint.