How it plays
Cascadia offers pairs of habitat tiles and wildlife tokens. Normally you choose one pair, add the tile to your landscape, and place the animal on an eligible empty habitat tile. The two pieces need not go together: a token can fill a suitable space you prepared on an earlier turn.
Your landscape scores connected habitat areas, while each animal follows its own scoring card. A useful tile can therefore arrive with an inconvenient token, or an urgently needed animal with a tile that interrupts a corridor. Nature tokens provide a limited way to choose a tile and animal from different pairs.
Decisions you’ll make
Compare the habitat benefit with the wildlife pattern before selecting a pair. An animal that scores well still needs an available tile showing its species.
Leave room for the scoring cards actually in use. The same animal can reward a different arrangement when its scoring card changes between games.
Learning the game
Light: explain paired drafting, legal wildlife placement, habitat corridors and the five scoring cards in use.