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For Gen Con 2016, publisher Days of Wonder will debut a mini-expansion for the game — Five Tribes: The Thieves of Naqala — with Europe seeing the release of this $6/€5 item in June 2016. Here's an overview of how these thieves get involved in the game:
Five Tribes: The Thieves of Naqala is a mini-expansion of six thief cards and one new djinn that introduces a new element the base game to create a real thorn in your opponents' side. The djinn is shuffled into the deck with the other djinns and protects you from the effects of thieves. One thief card is revealed at random at the start of the game, and whenever someone would buy a djinn, they can purchase the thief card for the same price as the djinn. Each thief is associated with one of the tribes, and whenever you take an action with that tribe, you can choose to activate and discard the thief. If you do, everyone else must get rid of something — two resource cards, one tile they control, even a djinn or palace — after which you get to choose to keep something from all the discarded things.
• Plaid Hat Games has opened preorders for the long-awaited SeaFall from designer Rob Daviau, with the game to be released in 2-5 months as it's "currently being assembled by our manufacturer".
PHG notes that some copies of SeaFall will be available at Gen Con 2016 in August, most likely ahead of the preorders being shipped, but those copies cannot be preordered and they won't include a package of metal coins that will be included with preorders and otherwise sold separately.