Answered under Unleashed Rules FAQ and Clarifications
When you play , its Legion ability is a triggered ability that checks whether you have already played another card this turn. If that condition is true, the trigger is created when the Captain is played, is finalized with the Captain’s chosen location, and when that triggered item later resolves it plays two 1 [M] Recruit unit tokens at that recorded location. If you haven’t played another card this turn, nothing happens.
Final Ruling
Playing : During the Play process you choose where the Captain enters the board . At the moment the Captain is played, its “When you play me” Legion trigger is evaluated. If you have played another card this turn, the triggered ability becomes a pending chain item and is finalized/recorded with the Captain’s chosen location; when that chain item resolves it plays two 1 [M] Recruit unit tokens at that recorded location. If you have not played another card this turn, the Legion trigger is not added to the chain and no tokens are created. Tokens created by the ability enter at the recorded location and (because they are played) may themselves create chains as they are played .
Citing
01You play and begin the Play process; as part of finalizing the play you choose a valid location for the Captain (e.g., your Base or a Battlefield you control) .
02When the Captain is played, any triggered abilities on it that have met their trigger condition are recognized and become Pending Items on the chain (a Chain is created whenever a card or token is played) .
03Because ’s Legion text is an extra conditional attached to the trigger (“Get the effect if you’ve played another card this turn”), that conditional is checked at trigger creation/finalization; if the conditional is met, the triggered ability is added to the chain; if it is not met, it is not added .
04The triggered ability, when placed on the chain, will reference the Captain’s chosen location (the word “here” is recorded based on the Captain’s placement made during finalization) .
05When that triggered chain item later resolves, its effect is to play two 1 [M] Recruit unit tokens at the recorded location. Playing those tokens is itself a play action and will create chains as appropriate .
06If the Legion conditional wasn’t satisfied when the Captain was played (you had not played another card this turn), no trigger is added and no tokens are created.
If is moved after its trigger is added to the chain but before that triggered item resolves, the triggered item was finalized with the Captain’s location at the time it was placed on the chain; the tokens will be played at that recorded location, not necessarily the Captain’s current location .
If is killed before the trigger resolves, that does not retroactively prevent the trigger from resolving (unless a specific effect replaced or prevented the creation of the trigger or the resolution instruction). The trigger was added/recorded at play-time and will still resolve on the chain normally unless a replacement or countering effect removes it.
If the only prior things you played this turn were tokens, per the card wording the Legion conditional reads "another card," and the provided Core Rules do not say tokens are cards, so those token plays likely do not satisfy Legion (see Assumptions).
When the triggered ability resolves and plays the two Recruit tokens, those token plays themselves may start new chains (they are plays of tokens) .
Assumptions
The phrase in the Legion reminder text, “Get the effect if you've played another card this turn,” refers only to cards and not tokens (the card text specifically says “card”), and so creating or playing tokens earlier in the turn does NOT satisfy Legion unless a rule or card text elsewhere defines tokens as “cards.” The provided Core Rules do not redefine tokens as cards.
The triggered ability will record the Captain’s location during finalization so the word “here” refers to that recorded location (the provided rules and FAQs describe triggered abilities capturing relevant information at finalization) .
Detailed sequence and rationale: Playing is a Play action for a Unit. During the Play finalization you choose the location where the Captain will enter the board (valid locations by default include your Base or a Battlefield you control) . The Captain’s text is a triggered ability that reads in effect “When you play me, play two 1 [M] Recruit unit tokens here,” with a Legion conditional “Get the effect if you’ve played another card this turn.” Per the triggered-ability structure described in the rules and FAQs, this ability has a trigger condition (When you play me) plus an extra conditional (if you’ve played another card this turn). That conditional is checked when the Captain is played; if it’s true, the triggered ability becomes a Pending Item on the chain and will be finalized with the information available at that time (including the Captain’s chosen location) . If the conditional is false, the trigger is not added to the chain and nothing further happens for that ability. When the trigger resolves as a chain item, it carries out its effect: it plays two 1 [M] Recruit unit tokens at the recorded location (the ‘‘here’’ recorded during finalization). Because plays of cards and tokens create Chains, those token plays may themselves create their own chain items when played . Cleanups cannot interrupt the resolution of chain items , but cleanups can happen between finalization steps as described in the FEPR process . Practical rulings you can use at the table: If your opponent asks whether you get the Recruits, check whether you have played another card this turn. If yes, the trigger was created and will produce two 1 [M] Recruits at the location you chose when you played . If no, you do not get the Recruits.
