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Summary

Fixes a parse-fidelity defect on Fight for the Throne.

Issue: Delayed BecomeMonarch trigger drops the intervening-if "if you control your commander" (condition is null), so it makes you monarch unconditionally when the fought creature dies.

Files changed

  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\types\ability.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_effect\conditions.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_effect\tests.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_trigger.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\game\effects\mod.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\game\ability_scan.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\game\ability_rw.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\game\coverage.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\game\scenario.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\game\engine.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\tests\integration\main.rs
  • C:\Users\jacob\source\repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\tests\integration\fight_for_the_throne_monarch_gated_on_commander.rs

CR references

  • CR 903.3
  • CR 903.3d
  • CR 109.5
  • CR 608.2c
  • CR 603.4
  • CR 603.7c
  • CR 603.7d
  • CR 601.2c
  • CR 613.1b
  • CR 613.4c
  • CR 701.14a
  • CR 702.26b
  • CR 725.1

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Developer

LLM

Model: claude-opus-4-8
Thinking: high

Tier: Frontier

Verification

  • cargo fmt --all — pass
  • ./scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh — pass (exit 0; Gate G + Gate A PASS. Default python3 on PATH is the Windows-Store stub (exit 126) which hard-errors the script at the Family-D self-test guard before any family runs; with the real Python 3.9.7 at /c/msys64/mingw64/bin on PATH the detector self-test passes 10/10 and the full gate runs green, so Family D was NOT skipped)
  • CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings — pass (clean, no warnings)
  • CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo test -p phase-engine — pass after 4 in-loop fixes (first run: 4 lib failures; final: lib 18999 passed/0 failed, coverage_parse_diff 21/0, set_check 9/0, integration 4906 passed/0 failed, exit 0)
  • CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo export-cards data --output data/card-data.json --stats — pass (34868 cards, 32036 fully implemented = 91.9%; copied to client/public/card-data.json)
  • cargo coverage — pass (Fight for the Throne supported=true gap_count=0; parse_details carries the 'you control your commander' conditional)
  • cargo semantic-audit — pass (32644 audited, 265 flagged; Fight for the Throne absent from data/semantic-audit.json and data/semantic-audit.md)

Scope Expansion

Added crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs: my +7 lines in effects/mod.rs shifted three coordinates in the line-exact CR 603.5 prompt census, forcing a mechanical re-pin (verified sha256-identical producers in unchanged enclosing functions, documented in that row's drift-log format).

Validation Failures

None blocking: all verification gates passed (tests, coverage supported:true gap:0, semantic-audit clean). Note: the automated review loop was capped before returning fully clean, so some non-blocking reviewer suggestions may remain unaddressed.

CI Failures

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for “you control your commander” and “you control a commander” conditions across abilities, triggers, and static effects.
    • Commander-control checks distinguish controlling your own commander from controlling an opponent’s commander.
    • Added scenario setup support for marking commanders and assigning battlefield control independently from ownership.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved delayed-trigger handling for intervening conditions, complex ability chains, and trigger lifetimes.
    • Preserved commander-control conditions when parsing and resolving affected cards, including Fight for the Throne.
    • Corrected trigger behavior for one-shot, recurring, and negated conditions.

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Commander-control condition flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Condition contracts and parser bridging
crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/*, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_trigger.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/tests.rs
Adds AbilityCondition::ControlsCommander and preserves ownership across static, ability, and trigger conversions.
Commander state evaluation and classification
crates/engine/src/game/scenario.rs, crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs, crates/engine/src/game/ability_rw.rs, crates/engine/src/game/ability_scan.rs, crates/engine/src/game/coverage.rs
Evaluates Own and Any commander control, classifies commander battlefield reads, formats ownership labels, and updates coverage handling.
Delayed-trigger gate lifecycle
crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs, crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs
Hoists reproducible intervening conditions to fire time and records delayed-trigger retention or discard dispositions.
Ordering and end-to-end validation
crates/engine/src/game/triggers_ordering_parity_tests.rs, crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/*
Validates commander census prompts, producer coordinates, and commander-gated monarch outcomes.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 82b19

The PR fixes conditional monarch assignment and adds regression coverage, with all supplied validation checks passing. It is mergeable with owner awareness of a remaining pattern-matching safety issue that could permit future commander-control misclassification if the variant gains additional fields.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OracleParser
  participant DelayedTrigger
  participant GameEvent
  participant ConditionEvaluator
  OracleParser->>DelayedTrigger: retain ControlsCommander gate
  GameEvent->>DelayedTrigger: match delayed event
  DelayedTrigger->>ConditionEvaluator: check commander ownership and control
  ConditionEvaluator-->>DelayedTrigger: stack effect or reject trigger
  DelayedTrigger-->>GameEvent: record trigger disposition
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Possibly related PRs

  • phase-rs/phase#6323: Both changes update ability_scan.rs classification for state or ledger reads.
  • phase-rs/phase#6533: Both changes modify false-gate and sibling-condition resolution in effects/mod.rs.
  • phase-rs/phase#6946: Both changes implement ownership-aware ControlsCommander parsing and evaluation.

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Suggested reviewers: matthewevans

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Blocked — the new one-shot delayed-trigger lifecycle still retains a consumed WhenNextEvent.

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[HIGH] A non-reflexive WhenNextEvent remains installed after its first matching event fails an intervening-if. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs:9412 returns false for every non-reflexive WhenNextEvent; :9517-9532 therefore skips removal, although :10035-10050 has already selected its first matching event. Why it matters: CR 603.4 makes a false intervening-if prevent that occurrence from triggering, and CR 603.7b makes when you next a one-shot; retaining it lets a later matching event incorrectly fire the already-consumed delayed ability. Suggested fix: consume every one-shot WhenNextEvent after its first matching event, not only the Reflexive lifetime.

Add a production-path regression through check_delayed_triggers with a non-reflexive WhenNextEvent and two matching events: the first has a false intervening-if, then make the condition true before the second. Assert that the trigger is removed after the first event and the second cannot place it on the stack. That test must fail on the current implementation.

Recommendation: request changes for the one-shot consumption fix and two-event runtime regression.

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@JacobWoodson JacobWoodson changed the title Partial: Fight for the Throne Fix Fight for the Throne Aug 14, 2026
`false_gate_consumes_one_shot` discarded a one-shot delayed ability whose
hoisted intervening-`if` was false only when the `WhenNextEvent` carried the
`Reflexive` lifetime. A `ThisTurn` or `Persistent` `WhenNextEvent` therefore
stayed installed after the single occurrence it named had already happened, so
a later matching event could still fire an ability that CR 603.4 had already
resolved as doing nothing. That silently rewrote "when you next X, if C" into
"when you next X for which C holds".

Every shape the parser builds for this variant names one occurrence:

* `ThisTurn` is only ever built from "when you next [event] this turn"
  (`try_parse_when_next_generic_event`, `build_when_next_delayed_trigger`).
  "Next" is the ability's own single-occurrence wording; the stated duration
  bounds only how long it waits for that one occurrence. CR 603.7b's "unless it
  has a stated duration" clause lifts the once-only cap for "whenever ... this
  turn" (`WheneverEvent`), not for a "next".
* `Persistent` has no stated duration at all (The Pandorica's "when ~ becomes
  untapped or leaves the battlefield", "when a player planeswalks"), so
  CR 603.7b's unqualified "will trigger only once - the next time its trigger
  event occurs" applies directly.
* `Reflexive` is CR 603.12, checked only against its creation batch.

So the arm returns true for the whole variant. The broad-filter carve-outs
(`WhenDies` and friends with a non-bound filter) are unchanged - those are what
CR 603.7b's stated-duration clause keeps watching.

Adds a two-batch regression through the production `check_delayed_triggers`
path: a non-reflexive `ThisTurn` `WhenNextEvent` sees a matching event with the
gate false, is asserted consumed, then the gate is made true and a second
matching event is asserted unable to reach the stack. A gate-true reachability
probe keeps the assertions from passing vacuously. The test fails on the prior
implementation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Request changes — the current head discards a stated-duration delayed trigger after a false intervening-if.

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[HIGH] WhenNextEvent is not uniformly a one-occurrence trigger. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs:9428 unconditionally returns true, while crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs:3435-3442 builds WhenNextEvent { lifetime: ThisTurn } for parse_dealt_damage_this_way_dies_trigger (:1159-1184), which accepts the broad stated-duration form “when a creature dealt damage this way dies this turn”. CR 603.7b states: “A delayed triggered ability will trigger only once—the next time its trigger event occurs—unless it has a stated duration, such as ‘this turn.’” Why it matters: if the first matching death fails the intervening-if, this change discards an ability that must remain eligible for later matching deaths during the turn. Suggested fix: classify the true “when you next …” one-shot form separately from stated-duration broad event forms, and retain the latter after a false gate.

crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs:19056-19174 covers only the “when you next” form. Please add a production-path two-event regression for the broad stated-duration shape: first matching event with a false gate, then a later matching event with a true gate; the latter must still trigger.

✅ Clean

The CR 603.7b source supports consuming the actual “when you next” single-occurrence case; the issue is applying that result to every WhenNextEvent parser shape.

Recommendation: request changes — preserve stated-duration broad WhenNextEvent triggers after a false intervening-if, with a discriminating two-event regression.

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Actionable comments posted: 4

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crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs (1)

9255-9275: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider making the filter walk fail closed for unknown TargetFilter variants.

quantity_ref_binding_diverges is exhaustive and documents a fail-closed policy. filter_binding_diverges ends with _ => false, so a future TargetFilter variant that names a resolution-scoped population is treated as reproducible at fire time. That direction can gate an ability off the stack and, for a consumed one-shot, delete it. An exhaustive match here keeps the stated policy and forces adjudication of each new variant, matching the approach used for QuantityRef and ObjectScope.

The same reasoning applies to the _ => false tail in gate_binding_diverges_at_fire_time at Line 8958, although the bridge already limits which AbilityCondition arms reach it.

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs` around lines 9255 - 9275, Make
filter_binding_diverges and gate_binding_diverges_at_fire_time use exhaustive
matches instead of wildcard false fallbacks, explicitly classifying every
current TargetFilter and relevant AbilityCondition variant. Preserve the
existing true/false classifications while ensuring future resolution-scoped
variants require deliberate adjudication, consistent with
quantity_ref_binding_diverges and ObjectScope handling.
crates/engine/src/game/ability_rw.rs (1)

3613-3652: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a pairing test for commander_control_read()'s conflict behavior.

This function is new, is central to fixing CR 603.3b ordering for commander-gated delayed triggers (the bug this PR addresses), and has no dedicated positive/negative pairing test in this file's test module. Every other lever in this file (§L1 through §voltstorm) has a discriminating positive case plus a negative control.

Add a test that pins: a sibling ability that moves, steals, or phases out the commander conflicts with (prompts) a ControlsCommander-gated sibling, while an unrelated board write does not.

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/ability_rw.rs` around lines 3613 - 3652, Add a
dedicated pairing test for commander_control_read that verifies a sibling
moving, stealing, or phasing out a commander conflicts with a
ControlsCommander-gated sibling, while an unrelated board-membership write
remains non-conflicting; follow the existing positive/negative pairing-test
pattern in this module’s test suite.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/game/ability_rw.rs`:
- Around line 6208-6211: Update all three ControlsCommander match arms in the
relevant ability_rw.rs classification functions to bind the ownership field
explicitly with ownership: _, replacing { .. }; keep each arm routed to
commander_control_read() and apply the same exhaustive binding discipline
consistently.

In `@crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs`:
- Around line 9513-9550: Preserve the delayed ability’s creation-time
TriggerSourceContext when resolving in delayed_trigger::resolve, including when
ability.trigger_source is absent and state.objects no longer contains
ability.source_id. Ensure delayed_intervening_if does not evaluate
source-relative conditions without valid context, preventing
false_gate_consumes_one_shot from discarding valid one-shot triggers.

In `@crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs`:
- Around line 15074-15090: Remove CR 608.2c from the annotations at
crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:15074-15090,
crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:20109-20132, and
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/conditions.rs:4573-4586. Update each site
to cite only rules matching its documented behavior: delayed-trigger/object
identity for names_bound_single_object, commander control and
controller-relative ownership at the second ability.rs site, and the verified
intervening-condition rule for the conditions.rs bridge; use CR 608.2c only for
written instructions resolved in order.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/tests.rs` around
lines 51497 - 51500: Parser test citation covered by the same citation
correction.

In
`@crates/engine/tests/integration/fight_for_the_throne_monarch_gated_on_commander.rs`:
- Around line 73-84: Add production-pipeline test cases around the
commander-gated delayed trigger: one where P0 loses control after the creature’s
death but before resolution, which must fail the resolution-time check and not
grant the monarch, and one where P0 gains control only after the death, which
must fail the trigger-creation check and never put the trigger on the stack.
Exercise these through the existing scenario setup, stage_commander,
runner.cast, and resolve flow, and reference CR 603.4 with CR 608.2a for the
resolution check.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/game/ability_rw.rs`:
- Around line 3613-3652: Add a dedicated pairing test for commander_control_read
that verifies a sibling moving, stealing, or phasing out a commander conflicts
with a ControlsCommander-gated sibling, while an unrelated board-membership
write remains non-conflicting; follow the existing positive/negative
pairing-test pattern in this module’s test suite.

In `@crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs`:
- Around line 9255-9275: Make filter_binding_diverges and
gate_binding_diverges_at_fire_time use exhaustive matches instead of wildcard
false fallbacks, explicitly classifying every current TargetFilter and relevant
AbilityCondition variant. Preserve the existing true/false classifications while
ensuring future resolution-scoped variants require deliberate adjudication,
consistent with quantity_ref_binding_diverges and ObjectScope handling.
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  • crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs

Comment thread crates/engine/src/game/ability_rw.rs Outdated
Comment on lines +6208 to +6211
// CR 903.3d: a LIVE battlefield census — see `commander_control_read`.
// The three condition-vocabulary mirrors of this ONE printed clause share
// that helper, so none of them can drift from the others.
AbilityCondition::ControlsCommander { .. } => commander_control_read(),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bind the ownership field instead of eliding it with { .. }.

All three arms route to commander_control_read(), which is not RwProfile::conservative(). The module's own "M3 binding mandate" (lines 69-75) states that { .. } field elision is permitted only on arms whose RHS is RwProfile::conservative(); every other arm must bind all payload fields, because a precise arm that elides a field classifies whatever that field carries as nothing, which is fail-open.

ability_scan.rs handles the same three ControlsCommander variants correctly in this same PR, using { ownership: _ } so a future field forces a re-audit. ability_rw.rs uses { .. } for all three mirrors, which is inconsistent with that discipline and with the module's own stated rule.

Based on this file's own module doc ("M3 binding mandate (review-blocking)... { .. } field elision is permitted ONLY on arms whose RHS is maximal-conservative") and the coding guideline "prefer... exhaustive matches over wildcard defaults" for **/*.rs.

♻️ Proposed fix
-        AbilityCondition::ControlsCommander { .. } => commander_control_read(),
+        AbilityCondition::ControlsCommander { ownership: _ } => commander_control_read(),
-        TriggerCondition::ControlsCommander { .. } => commander_control_read(),
+        TriggerCondition::ControlsCommander { ownership: _ } => commander_control_read(),
-        StaticCondition::ControlsCommander { .. } => commander_control_read(),
+        StaticCondition::ControlsCommander { ownership: _ } => commander_control_read(),

Also applies to: 6352-6358, 6455-6463

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/ability_rw.rs` around lines 6208 - 6211, Update all
three ControlsCommander match arms in the relevant ability_rw.rs classification
functions to bind the ownership field explicitly with ownership: _, replacing {
.. }; keep each arm routed to commander_control_read() and apply the same
exhaustive binding discipline consistently.

Source: Coding guidelines

Comment on lines +9513 to +9550
// CR 603.4 (first half): "When the trigger event occurs, the ability
// checks whether the stated condition is true. The ability triggers
// only if it is; otherwise it does nothing." The delayed body's
// intervening-`if` was previously consulted ONLY at resolution, so a
// failing gate still put a respondable ability on the stack — and a
// player could then make the gate true in response (getting a
// commander onto the battlefield for Fight for the Throne), which
// CR 603.4 forbids outright.
//
// `check_trigger_condition_with_source` is the same fire-time
// evaluator printed triggers use, given the delayed ability's own
// CR 400.7 source context and the matched event.
if let Some(condition) = delayed_intervening_if(&delayed.ability) {
if !check_trigger_condition_with_source(
state,
&condition,
delayed.controller,
delayed.ability.trigger_source.as_ref(),
Some(&trigger_event),
) {
// CR 603.4 + CR 603.7b: the ability did not trigger. It is
// removed without firing, tagged `InterveningIfFalse`, ONLY
// when its stated event was a single occurrence that this
// check has now consumed — see
// `false_gate_consumes_one_shot`. Everything else (a
// multi-fire "whenever … this turn", and a one-shot watching
// a BROAD event filter) stays installed and gets its gate
// re-checked on the next occurrence, per CR 603.7b's
// stated-duration clause.
if delayed.one_shot && false_gate_consumes_one_shot(&delayed.condition) {
to_discard.push((
idx,
super::lifecycle::DelayedTerminalDisposition::InterveningIfFalse,
));
}
continue;
}
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/bin/bash
# Description: Find delayed-trigger creation sites and check trigger_source stamping.
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# All DelayedTrigger construction sites.
rg -nP --type=rust -C 12 '\bDelayedTrigger\s*\{' crates/engine/src

# Whether the creating effect stamps the source context onto the delayed body.
rg -nP --type=rust -C 6 'set_trigger_source_recursive' crates/engine/src/game/effects

# Conditions the ability->static bridge accepts, to enumerate source-relative gates.
ast-grep outline crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/conditions.rs --match ability_condition_to_static_condition --view expanded

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start=$((line-20))
end=$((line+180))
sed -n "${start},${end}p" crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- constructors that create delayed abilities through effect code ---'
rg -n -P -C 8 --type=rust 'install_delayed_trigger\s*\(' crates/engine/src/game/effects crates/engine/src/game/dash.rs crates/engine/src/game/blitz.rs

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printf '%s\n' '--- bridge and fire-time gate helpers ---'
rg -n -P 'fn ability_condition_to_static_condition|fn delayed_intervening_if|SourceAttachedToCreature|SourceIsTapped|SourceMatchesFilter|source_context' \
  crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/conditions.rs crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs | head -n 220

printf '%s\n' '--- all non-test direct delayed-trigger vector writes ---'
rg -n -P --type=rust 'delayed_triggers\s*\.\s*push\s*\(' crates/engine/src \
  | grep -vE '(_tests?\.rs|/tests/|#\[cfg\(test\)\])' || true

printf '%s\n' '--- delayed ability construction call sites near source stamping ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- delayed-trigger resolver entry and source preconditions ---'
sed -n '90,220p' crates/engine/src/game/effects/delayed_trigger.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- delayed_intervening_if and source-dependent condition evaluation ---'
sed -n '8900,8995p' crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs
sed -n '9335,9395p' crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs
sed -n '10430,10520p' crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs
sed -n '10880,10925p' crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs
sed -n '11245,11280p' crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- callers of the delayed-trigger resolver ---'
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for f in \
  crates/engine/src/game/dash.rs \
  crates/engine/src/game/blitz.rs \
  crates/engine/src/game/effects/exile_resolving_spell.rs \
  crates/engine/src/game/effects/encore.rs \
  crates/engine/src/game/effects/counters.rs \
  crates/engine/src/game/effects/myriad.rs \
  crates/engine/src/game/effects/rebound.rs \
  crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs \
  crates/engine/src/game/effects/phase_out.rs
do
  [ -f "$f" ] || continue
  printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$f"
  rg -n -P -C 10 'DelayedTrigger\s*\{|install_delayed_trigger\s*\(' "$f" | head -n 180
done

printf '%s\n' '--- source-relative condition data and delayed effects ---'
rg -n -P -C 5 'SourceAttachedToCreature|SourceIsTapped|SourceMatchesFilter|CreateDelayedTrigger' data/card-data.json crates/engine/src/parser | head -n 260

printf '%s\n' '--- resolved ability source construction and missing-object behavior ---'
rg -n -P -C 6 'fn build_resolved_from_def|pub fn new\(' crates/engine/src/game/ability_utils.rs crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs | head -n 180

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printf '%s\n' '--- delayed resolver entry and source-object assumptions ---'
rg -n -P -C 18 '^pub\(crate\)? fn resolve\(' crates/engine/src/game/effects/delayed_trigger.rs | head -n 120
rg -n -P -C 8 'state\.objects\.(remove|retain)|objects\.remove\(|objects\.retain\(' crates/engine/src | head -n 220

printf '%s\n' '--- source context construction and LKI fallback APIs ---'
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rg -n -P -C 8 'struct TriggerSourceContext|enum TriggerSourceRead|fn source_read|lki_cache' crates/engine/src/types crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs | head -n 240

printf '%s\n' '--- delayed ability conditions in parser snapshots/tests ---'
rg -n -P -C 8 'CreateDelayedTrigger|condition.*Source|SourceAttachedToCreature|SourceIsTapped|SourceMatchesFilter' crates/engine/src/parser/* crates/engine/src/parser/** 2>/dev/null | head -n 260

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printf '%s\n' '--- object removal and purge paths ---'
rg -n -P -C 6 'objects\.(remove|retain)|objects\.remove\(|objects\.retain\(' crates/engine/src | head -n 260 || true

printf '%s\n' '--- source context types and read methods ---'
rg -n -P -C 10 'struct TriggerSourceContext|enum TriggerSourceRead|fn source_read|lki_cache' crates/engine/src/types crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs | head -n 300 || true

printf '%s\n' '--- delayed source-relative condition fixtures ---'
rg -n -P -C 8 'CreateDelayedTrigger|SourceAttachedToCreature|SourceIsTapped|SourceMatchesFilter' crates/engine/src/parser crates/engine/src/game/effects crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs | head -n 320 || true

printf '%s\n' '--- serialized delayed abilities with condition fields ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
import json
from pathlib import Path

p = Path("data/mtgish-cards.json")
try:
    data = json.loads(p.read_text())
except Exception as e:
    print(f"cannot parse {p}: {e}")
    raise SystemExit(0)

hits = []
def walk(x, path=()):
    if isinstance(x, dict):
        if "CreateDelayedTrigger" in x or x.get("type") == "CreateDelayedTrigger":
            hits.append((path, x))
        for k, v in x.items():
            walk(v, path + (str(k),))
    elif isinstance(x, list):
        for i, v in enumerate(x):
            walk(v, path + (str(i),))
walk(data)
print("delayed wrapper hits:", len(hits))
for path, x in hits[:20]:
    s = json.dumps(x, sort_keys=True)
    if any(t in s for t in ("SourceAttachedToCreature", "SourceIsTapped", "SourceMatchesFilter")):
        print("source-relative hit:", "/".join(path), s[:1200])
PY

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rg -n -P -C 8 'remove_from_game|Zone::Exile|is_token|tokens.*cease|ceases to exist' crates/engine/src/game/zones.rs crates/engine/src/game | head -n 220

printf '%s\n' '--- deterministic source-stamping audit ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path

delayed = Path("crates/engine/src/game/effects/delayed_trigger.rs").read_text()
triggers = Path("crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs").read_text()

required = [
    "ability.trigger_source.clone().or_else(||",
    "state\n            .objects\n            .get(&ability.source_id)",
    "if let Some(mut source_context) = source_context {",
    "delayed_ability.set_trigger_source_recursive(source_context);",
]
for needle in required:
    print(f"resolver contains {needle!r}: {needle in delayed}")

install_start = triggers.index("pub fn install_delayed_trigger(")
install_end = triggers.index("/// Installs one already-resolved", install_start)
install = triggers[install_start:install_end]
print("install function stamps trigger source:", "set_trigger_source_recursive" in install)
print("install function appends through apply_resolved_delayed_trigger:",
      "apply_resolved_delayed_trigger(state, &command)" in install)
PY

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Preserve delayed-trigger source context before fire-time gating

When ability.trigger_source is absent and state.objects no longer contains ability.source_id, delayed_trigger::resolve installs the ability without a TriggerSourceContext. Source-relative gates then evaluate as false; false_gate_consumes_one_shot can delete a valid one-shot with InterveningIfFalse. Preserve the creation-time context, or decline delayed_intervening_if for source-relative conditions without one.

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs` around lines 9513 - 9550, Preserve the
delayed ability’s creation-time TriggerSourceContext when resolving in
delayed_trigger::resolve, including when ability.trigger_source is absent and
state.objects no longer contains ability.source_id. Ensure
delayed_intervening_if does not evaluate source-relative conditions without
valid context, preventing false_gate_consumes_one_shot from discarding valid
one-shot triggers.

Comment thread crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs Outdated
JacobWoodson and others added 4 commits August 14, 2026 11:28
Resolves two conflicts:

- `game/effects/mod.rs`: import-list union. Both sides added imports to the
  same `types::ability` block — `CommanderOwnership` (this branch) and
  `AbilityDefinition` / `ChosenAttribute` / `ManaProduction` (main).

- `game/engine.rs`: the line-exact CR 603.5 prompt census. Both sides had
  re-pinned the three `effects/mod.rs` producer coordinates for their own
  trees, so NEITHER was correct for the merged tree and the merged file was
  re-measured rather than either side taken: `:6738/:6815/:10053`.

  The merged coordinates are predicted, not merely observed: main's pins
  (`:6656/:6733/:9974`) plus this branch's own base-relative offsets
  (`+82/+82/+79`) land on them exactly. That additivity is the evidence the
  merge neither added nor displaced a producer. The needle still finds five
  hits, two of them inside the `#[cfg(test)]` span, leaving the same three
  production producers; total 37 and partition 5/7/25 unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Blocking review — `WhenNextEvent` one-shot consumption
------------------------------------------------------
The review held that `false_gate_consumes_one_shot` wrongly consumes EVERY
`WhenNextEvent`, because `parse_dealt_damage_this_way_dies_trigger` accepts the
broad stated-duration form "a creature dealt damage this way dies this turn" and
lowers it to `WhenNextEvent { lifetime: ThisTurn }` — which CR 603.7b's "unless
it has a stated duration" clause says must keep watching.

The code fact is right; the conclusion is not, and the reason the review reached
it is a FALSE claim in this repo's own doc comment. That doc asserted `ThisTurn`
"is only ever built from 'when you next [event] this turn'". It is not:
Skeletonize's "When a creature dealt damage this way dies this turn" builds it
too, with no "next" anywhere.

The actual discriminator is WotC's "When" / "Whenever" templating, which the
parser already keys on, and CR 603.7b's two outcomes are already modelled as two
SIBLING conditions rather than a lifetime:

  - "Whenever … dealt damage this way dies this turn" -> `WheneverEvent`
    (multi-fire). Ghired's Belligerence, Reckless Blaze — damage spread over
    many creatures, so many deaths can qualify.
  - "When … dealt damage this way dies this turn" -> `WhenNextEvent` (one-shot).
    Skeletonize — damage to a SINGLE target creature, so at most one death can
    ever qualify.

Those are the only three cards in the pool with that wording and the split is
exact for all three. A stated-duration ability that must keep watching is a
`WheneverEvent`, and it cannot reach this function at all:
`effects::delayed_trigger` computes `one_shot = !matches!(condition,
WheneverEvent { .. })` and the only caller gates on `delayed.one_shot`. The
protection the review asked for is therefore structural and already present.

So the behaviour is unchanged and the justification is rewritten to the one that
actually holds. Two tests now pin what the prose claims:

  - `stated_duration_multi_fire_survives_a_false_intervening_if` — the
    production-path TWO-EVENT regression the review asked for: gate false on the
    first matching event, true on the second; the ability must survive the first
    and fire on the second. One-event fixtures pass under either reading, which
    is what makes two events the discriminating shape. It also asserts the fired
    stack entry still carries the gate, so CR 603.4's resolution-time half stays
    armed (this is what denies the ability if control is lost after it triggers).
  - `inline_delayed_trigger_whenever_damage_this_way_dies_is_multi_fire` — pins
    the routing itself, so re-routing the "whenever" form onto `WhenNextEvent`
    fails loudly instead of silently voiding the guarantee above.

An `add-engine-variant` gate run over "add a stated-duration variant to
`DelayedTriggerLifetime`" returned REFUSE_WITH_EXISTING_SLOT at Stage 1: the
concept already exists as `DelayedTriggerCondition::WheneverEvent`. No new
engine surface ships.

Review comments
---------------
- `delayed_intervening_if`: the review asked for a guard against evaluating a
  source-relative gate with no creation-time `trigger_source` (which would read
  nothing, evaluate false for want of a reading rather than on the game state,
  and via the consumption above DELETE a valid one-shot). The failure mode is
  real in shape but UNREACHABLE: matching runs before gating and already demands
  that context — `delayed_trigger_event_with_index` opens its `WhenNextEvent` arm
  with `let source_context = source_context?;` — so a contextless one-shot never
  matches an event, never reaches the gate, and is never discarded.

  A guard was written, and then removed: besides being unreachable it declined
  the hoist for gates whose fire-time reading is well-defined without a source,
  reding three existing pins (`divergent_gate_bindings_…`,
  `non_battlefield_presence_gate_…`, `resolution_scoped_quantity_gate_…`). The
  reachability argument is documented on `delayed_intervening_if` instead, so the
  absence of the guard reads as adjudicated rather than overlooked. No machinery
  ships for a case the control flow already forecloses.

- `ability_rw.rs`: the three `ControlsCommander` arms now bind `ownership`
  explicitly. The module's M3 mandate is review-blocking — `{ .. }` elision is
  permitted only on maximal-conservative arms, and `commander_control_read()` is
  a precise profile.

- CR citations: CR 608.2c is "follows its instructions in the order written" and
  was wrong at four sites. `names_bound_single_object` -> CR 603.7c (delayed
  ability referring to a particular object); the `AbilityCondition` commander
  gate -> CR 608.2a (resolution-time intervening-`if` recheck); the
  `StaticCondition` bridge and the Fight for the Throne parse test -> CR 603.4.
  Each replacement verified against `docs/MagicCompRules.txt`.

Merge integration
-----------------
The merge with main added two variants that this branch's deliberately
exhaustive fail-closed classifiers refused to compile without adjudication —
working as designed:

- `PlayerScope::SpecificPlayer` -> NOT unbound. A concrete `PlayerId` already
  snapshotted at resolution is a literal; both legs read the same value.
- `QuantityRef::PlayerChosenNumber` -> DIVERGES. The secret-number ledger is
  populated by, and cleared per, resolution — at fire time it holds an unrelated
  resolution's numbers or none.

Card premise re-verified against Scryfall: Fight for the Throne reads "… When the
creature an opponent controls dies this turn, if you control your commander, you
become the monarch."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The claim shipped in the previous commit was wrong, and wrong in exactly the
way this PR criticises elsewhere: asserted from reading rather than measured.

Measured, one revert at a time:

- dropping only the caller's `delayed.one_shot &&` conjunct -> STILL PASSES
  (`false_gate_consumes_one_shot` answers `false` for `WheneverEvent` anyway);
- flipping only that arm to `true` -> STILL PASSES (the caller never consults
  it for a multi-fire trigger);
- BOTH together -> RED, `after_first` 0 vs 1.

`WheneverEvent` is protected twice over, so the fixture pins the CONJUNCTION
rather than either layer. That is a real property worth recording, not a
weakness: the test stays red for any change that removes the protection, and
stays green for one that merely moves it between the two layers. Doc-only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No textual conflicts. Merged specifically because main touched
`game/effects/mod.rs`, and the CR 603.5 prompt census in `game/engine.rs` pins
that file by LINE — the kind of drift that reds CI (which builds
`refs/pull/<n>/merge`) while the branch tree stays green, exactly as that row's
own header warns.

Re-measured rather than assumed: the assembled needle still finds five hits at
`:6738`/`:6815`/`:10053`/`:14805`/`:15290`, the last two inside the
`#[cfg(test)]` span opening at `:13563`. The three production producers are
UNMOVED, so main's additions to that file all sit below them and the pins set by
the previous merge stay correct. Total 37, partition 5/7/25 unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@matthewevans — pushed 1710d2a0. Both rounds addressed, but I want to be upfront that round 2's blocker I believe is refuted, so please push back if the evidence below doesn't land.

Round 2 — the code fact is right, the conclusion isn't

You're correct on every code observation:

  • parse_dealt_damage_this_way_dies_trigger does accept the broad, "next"-free form "a creature dealt damage this way dies this turn".
  • Its "when " call site does lower that to WhenNextEvent { lifetime: ThisTurn }.
  • CR 603.7b does say a stated duration lifts the once-only cap.

What doesn't follow is that consuming every WhenNextEvent can discard a stated-duration ability, because CR 603.7b's two outcomes are already modelled as two sibling conditions, and the recurring one cannot reach that code path:

// effects/delayed_trigger.rs
let one_shot = !matches!(condition, DelayedTriggerCondition::WheneverEvent { .. });
// triggers.rs — the only caller
if delayed.one_shot && false_gate_consumes_one_shot(&delayed.condition) {}

WhenNextEvent's own declaration calls it the "one-shot variant of WheneverEvent". A trigger that must keep watching is a WheneverEvent, whose one_shot is false, so the discard never consults it.

The discriminator is WotC's "When" / "Whenever" templating, not the word "next" — and the parser already keys on it (tag("when ") cannot match "whenever "). All three cards in the pool with this wording split exactly:

Card Wording Damage spread Lowers to
Skeletonize When … dies this turn single target creature WhenNextEvent (one-shot) ✅
Ghired's Belligerence Whenever … dies this turn divided among any number WheneverEvent (multi-fire) ✅
Reckless Blaze Whenever … dies this turn 5 damage to each creature WheneverEvent (multi-fire) ✅

Skeletonize damages exactly one creature, so its trigger event can occur at most once — consuming it is correct.

But you found a real defect, and it's why the review reads the way it does

The doc comment justifying that arm claimed ThisTurn "is only ever built from 'when you next [event] this turn'". That is false — Skeletonize builds it too, with no "next" anywhere. The behaviour was right for the wrong stated reason, and a reader checking the reasoning against the parser finds the reasoning doesn't hold. That's a fair thing to block on.

So: behaviour unchanged, justification rewritten to the one that actually holds, and two tests now pin what the prose asserts rather than leaving it as prose:

  • stated_duration_multi_fire_survives_a_false_intervening_if — the production-path two-event regression you asked for, through check_delayed_triggers: gate false on event 1, true on event 2; the ability must survive the first and fire on the second. It also asserts the fired stack entry still carries the gate, so CR 603.4's resolution-time half stays armed.
  • inline_delayed_trigger_whenever_damage_this_way_dies_is_multi_fire — pins the routing itself, so re-routing the "whenever" form onto WhenNextEvent fails loudly instead of silently voiding the guarantee above.

Round 1's ask is untouched: genuine one-shots are still consumed on a false gate.

I also ran the add-engine-variant gate on "add a stated-duration variant to DelayedTriggerLifetime" — it returned REFUSE_WITH_EXISTING_SLOT at Stage 1: the concept already exists as DelayedTriggerCondition::WheneverEvent. No new engine surface ships.

On my own test claim — I got one wrong

The first version of that regression shipped a REVERT-TO-RED recipe I had asserted from reading rather than measured. When I actually ran it, it passed — the same error class I'm flagging above. Measured properly, one revert at a time:

  • drop only the caller's delayed.one_shot && → still passes (the arm answers false anyway)
  • flip only the WheneverEvent arm to true → still passes (the caller never consults it)
  • both together → red (after_first 0 vs 1)

WheneverEvent is protected twice over, so the fixture pins the conjunction. Corrected in b0690c2a with the measured recipe.

CodeRabbit items

  • M3 binding mandate — the three ControlsCommander arms now bind ownership explicitly. commander_control_read() is a precise profile, so { .. } elision wasn't permitted. Valid catch.
  • CR 608.2c miscited at 4 sites — it's "follows its instructions in the order written". Corrected against docs/MagicCompRules.txt: names_bound_single_object → CR 603.7c; the AbilityCondition commander gate → CR 608.2a; the StaticCondition bridge and the parse test → CR 603.4.
  • Source-context guard — I built it, and then removed it. The failure mode is real in shape but unreachable: matching runs before gating and already requires that context (delayed_trigger_event_with_index opens its WhenNextEvent arm with let source_context = source_context?;), so a contextless one-shot never matches, never reaches the gate, never gets discarded. The guard also red three existing pins by declining hoists whose fire-time reading is well-defined without a source. The reachability argument is now documented on delayed_intervening_if so the absence reads as adjudicated rather than overlooked.

Merge integration

Merged current main twice (the second time specifically because it touched effects/mod.rs, which the CR 603.5 census pins by line — the drift that reds CI while the branch stays green). Re-measured both times; producers are unmoved at :6738/:6815/:10053, total 37, partition 5/7/25.

main also added two variants that this branch's deliberately-exhaustive fail-closed classifiers refused to compile without adjudication — working as designed:

  • PlayerScope::SpecificPlayernot unbound (a concrete PlayerId snapshotted at resolution is a literal; both legs read the same value)
  • QuantityRef::PlayerChosenNumberdiverges (the secret-number ledger is populated by, and cleared per, resolution)

Verification

cargo fmt --all ✅ · cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings ✅ clean · 19112 lib + 4986 integration + 30 others, 0 failures. Tilt was down, so these ran directly.

Left open, deliberately

  1. CodeRabbit's requested integration cases (control lost/gained between the death and resolution) — GameScenario resolves the spell and the delayed trigger in a single .resolve(), so state can't be mutated between them without harness work. Covered instead by asserting the fired stack entry still carries the gate (the CR 603.4 recheck that would deny it) plus the existing gate-false-then-true unit test.
  2. filter_binding_diverges's _ => false tail — this one I think is a genuine open issue rather than a nit. It is fail-open in the dangerous direction and inconsistent with the fail-closed policy stated 40 lines above it (and with quantity_ref_binding_diverges, which was made exhaustive for exactly this reason). Fixing it properly means adjudicating 54 TargetFilter variants, and flipping the tail alone would change hoist behaviour broadly — so I'd rather do it as its own change than rush it here. Happy to open a follow-up issue.
  3. Pairing test for commander_control_read() — would need the GroupStructure conflict model to encode "a sibling writes membership" correctly, and I didn't want to guess at it.

Happy to take another pass on any of these, and genuinely happy to be wrong on the round-2 refutation if I've missed a card or a path.

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73-76: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the intervening-if rule citation.

CR 608.2c governs following written instructions. It does not define intervening-if checks. CR 608.2a requires the resolution-time check and refers to CR 603.4. Replace the CR 608.2c references at Lines 74, 129, and 148 with CR 608.2a. (media.wizards.com)

As per path instructions, rules-touching code must cite a CR section whose body describes the code. Based on learnings, annotate engine rules with a verified CR number and description.

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In
`@crates/engine/tests/integration/fight_for_the_throne_monarch_gated_on_commander.rs`
around lines 73 - 76, Update the rules citation in the comments associated with
the delayed ability and intervening-if checks, including the references near the
distinct commander explanation and the corresponding locations, from CR 608.2c
to CR 608.2a. Do not alter the test logic or other behavior.

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- Around line 73-76: Update the rules citation in the comments associated with
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distinct commander explanation and the corresponding locations, from CR 608.2c
to CR 608.2a. Do not alter the test logic or other behavior.

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Follow-up for deferred item 2 opened as #7406filter_binding_diverges's _ => false tail being fail-open for the CR 603.4 hoist, with the adjudication plan for all 54 TargetFilter variants and the second instance of the same tail on gate_binding_diverges_at_fire_time.

One thing needing a maintainer: I couldn't apply area:engine / bug to it — labelling needs triage permission this account doesn't have, so #7406 is currently unlabelled.

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Generated for head 82b19260750306e7d5d2d9360e20c32617902178.

Parse changes introduced by this PR · 16 card(s), 5 signature(s) (baseline: main cb4022574532)

🟡 Modified fields (5 signatures)

  • 7 cards · 🔄 trigger/Phase · changed field condition: you control a commanderyou control your commander
    • Affected (first 3): Ironwill Forger, Loyal Apprentice, Loyal Drake (+4 more)
  • 6 cards · 🔄 static/Continuous · changed field conditional: you control a commanderyou control your commander
    • Affected (first 3): Angelic Field Marshal, Demon of Wailing Agonies, Skyhunter Strike Force (+3 more)
  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/BecomeMonarch · changed field conditional: you control your commander
    • Affected (first 3): Fight for the Throne
  • 1 card · 🔄 static/ReduceAbilityCost(-activated,2) · changed field conditional: you control a commanderyou control your commander
    • Affected (first 3): Convergence of Dominion
  • 1 card · 🔄 trigger/SpellCast · changed field condition: you control a commanderyou control your commander
    • Affected (first 3): Ancestral Communion

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CR 603.4 and CR 608.2a govern the creation-time and resolution-time checks for intervening-if clauses; CR 608.2c governs instruction order.
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Maintainer HOLD for current head 82b19260750306e7d5d2d9360e20c32617902178.

The intervening-if citation maintainer fixup is awaiting fresh required CI, CodeRabbit, and current-head parse-diff evidence. Prior checks and reviews do not cover this commit. Approval/enqueue evaluation resumes only after those signals settle.

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Current-head maintainer review complete: commander-gated delayed trigger fix and maintainer CR-citation corrections are ready for merge queue.

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Merged via the queue into phase-rs:main with commit 2ae9245 Aug 15, 2026
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Catch-up merge for the one commit that landed between the previous merge's
verification run and its push.

One conflict, the CR 603.5 prompt-census pin array again - the fifth merge in
this branch's history and the fifth conflict on that same array. Neither side
taken; the merged tree was measured:

  main   :6745/:6822/:10060   (main's own re-pin: phase-rs#7403/phase-rs#7389 to :6738 etc.,
                               plus +7 from the Doomsday tracked-set publication)
  branch :6767/:6844/:10082
  merged :6774/:6851/:10089

PREDICTED with the CUMULATIVE offset and confirmed by measurement, which is the
correction the previous merge's log entry records: main's :6745 plus this
branch's +29 net insertion into effects/mod.rs gives 6745+29 / 6822+29 /
10060+29, equal to the observed coordinates. Main's +7 and this branch's +29
compose additively, which is the set-preservation evidence - a merge that gained
or lost a producer would break the additivity rather than merely shift a pin.

Main's own entry for this round is preserved verbatim in the log alongside the
new one; it is correct for main, just not for the merge.

No semantic conflict this round (the previous merge's triggers.rs breakage does
not recur - main's new code here does not touch the lifted API).

Verification on the merged tree: check-parser-combinators.sh Gate A PASS +
Gate G PASS; clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -D warnings zero warnings;
cargo test -p phase-engine green - 19146 lib, 5005 integration, 21 + 9 others,
0 failed. Census re-measured before the run rather than discovered by it.

NOTE for whoever picks this up: five merges, five conflicts, one array. The pins
are absolute line numbers for producers ~3700 lines below a region nearly every
card PR edits, so any two PRs touching effects/mod.rs conflict there by
construction. The drift log above already proposes the durable fix - a function
+ content-hash anchor, which keeps the "a new mint is a counted event" property
without the coordinate churn. Out of scope here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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