fix(engine): draw the greatest single player's discard, not the cross-player sum

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Summary

Windfall (and Jace's Archivist, Whispering Madness) drew the cross-player sum of cards discarded rather than the greatest number a player discarded this way, and the draw clause's count was re-read once per player instead of being determined once. On hands 8/7/3/3 that produced [21,21,21,21]; with a short library it produced [5,5,5,5]. This PR adds an aggregate: AggregateFunction axis to QuantityRef::PreviousEffectAmount and admits that ref into the existing CR 608.2h clause-value freeze, giving [8,8,8,8] and [5,8,8,8].

Review of that work surfaced a third defect in the producer feeding it, fixed here too: the per-player table is built from emitted events, so a player the clause applied to who contributed nothing — an empty hand facing "each player discards their hand" — emitted no event and was simply absent, leaving an aggregate to reduce over a domain that omitted them (CR 608.2c: they discarded zero this way). Sum and Max are blind to this, so only Min observes it; Min has no corpus user today, making the fix latent but the domain wrong either way. The same fix narrows the domain on the interactive-pause path, where the fill would otherwise publish a zero for seats that had not yet had the chance to act.

Maintainer review then blocked on a fourth defect: the aggregate reads an incomplete per-player table after a replacement-choice pause. That is now fixed here rather than disclosed — see Scope Expansion. Fixing it correctly meant first measuring which pause route these three cards actually take, which turned out not to be the one an earlier attempt repaired; the measurement, the retarget, and a silent card-loss bug found and fixed along the way are all recorded below.

Files changed

• crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs — aggregate axis on QuantityRef::PreviousEffectAmount; shared default_sum_aggregate / is_sum_aggregate elision helpers
• crates/engine/src/game/quantity.rs — reduce on aggregate; read the clause snapshot before the live scalar
• crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs — admit PreviousEffectAmount to collect_clause_minimum_refs / capture_clause_minimum_snapshot; fill zero-contributors into the per-player table (fill_zero_contributors) so an aggregate reduces over every player the clause applied to
• crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs — #[cfg(test)]-only: re-pin the CR 603.5 prompt census's producer coordinates
• crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs — doc corrections
• crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_quantity.rs, parser/oracle_nom/quantity.rs, parser/oracle_nom/condition.rs — nom combinator reports the superlative axis
• crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/{assembly,imperative,mana,token,tests}.rs — construction sites
• crates/engine/src/game/{ability_scan,casting_tests,coverage}.rs, crates/engine/src/database/synthesis.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_trigger_tests.rs — construction sites / coverage rendering
• crates/phase-ai/src/policies/{x_cast_gate,x_reference}.rs — construction sites
• crates/engine/tests/integration/windfall_greatest_discard_aggregate.rs — new discriminating tests
• crates/engine/tests/integration/{coalition_relic_integration,excess_damage_quantity_channel,issue_6858_draw_that_many_discard,valakut_exploration_end_step_exile_sweep,main}.rs — construction sites / registration

Phase 3b (the paused-discard repair) adds:

• crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs — PendingDiscardBatch / DiscardBatchCursor / PendingDiscardFanOut and the pending_discard_batch carrier, with all six registration surfaces
• crates/engine/src/game/effects/discard.rs — the single park authority; both mid-loop bail-outs now consume a cursor instead of dropping it; RandomDiscardOutcome::NeedsReplacementChoice gains paused_card
• crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs — the drain, re-park, gate-2 stamp, and publish_player_scope_clause_results extracted so the driver and the resumed batch share ONE publication
• crates/engine/src/game/engine_replacement.rs — resume hook, ordered after the sacrifice drain and before the generic continuation drain
• crates/engine/src/game/engine_payment_choices.rs — cost-path destructures for the new field
• crates/engine/src/game/elimination.rs — a seat that leaves mid-pause is dropped from the fan-out's iteration roster (CR 800.4a) and deliberately KEPT in its latched reduction domain (CR 800.4i); the asymmetry is pinned by a test, not just a comment
• crates/engine/src/game/visibility.rs — the parked batch is cleared from every viewer projection
• crates/engine/tests/fixtures/cr733/authority_matrix.json.gz — one row for the new carrier
• crates/engine/tests/integration/random_discard_cost_replacement_resume.rs — random-branch cursor coverage

33 paths total (git diff --name-only upstream/main...HEAD | wc -l at the tip — three dots, against the merge-base 4c987f92; the two-dot form compares tips and reads 87 here, since it also counts the reverse of the 3 upstream commits this branch is behind), of which 11 are tests or test fixtures — 8 under crates/engine/tests/ and 3 *_tests.rs/tests.rs modules under src/ — and one more, game/engine.rs, is #[cfg(test)]-only.

Track

Developer

LLM

Model: claude-opus-5
Tier: Frontier
Thinking: high

Implementation method (required)

Method: /engine-implementer

CR references

CR 101.3, CR 101.4, CR 119.3, CR 120, CR 120.6, CR 120.10, CR 121.2, CR 121.2c, CR 400.2, CR 601.2a, CR 603.10a, CR 608.2c, CR 608.2e, CR 608.2f, CR 608.2h, CR 608.2i, CR 608.2n, CR 614.6, CR 616.1, CR 701.9a, CR 701.9b, CR 702.35a, CR 702.187b

CR 608.2h is the load-bearing one: an effect's value is determined only once, when the spell or ability resolves — not once per player the instruction fans out to. CR 608.2i's look-back exception is scoped to objects (zone, criteria) and therefore does not exempt the number.

CR 120.6 appears only as a struck citation. It was previously cited for the resolution-local "amount the preceding clause left" channel; it actually governs damage marked on a creature until the cleanup step, which is a different thing. The carry-forward is CR 608.2c. The strike is annotated in place at each site rather than silently deleted.

Every citation added by this PR was audited under a scope standard, not a phrase-match one: for each number, what the rule governs, then whether the claim falls inside it. That distinction is load-bearing — a phrase probe can confirm a wrong citation. One was caught that way during this work: CR 608.2m had been written for "the spell is put into its owner's graveyard as the final part of resolution"; read in full, 608.2m governs a spell continuing to resolve after it has left the stack, and the rule that actually governs the claim is CR 608.2n. Corrected before it landed.

Two fits are disclosed rather than claimed clean. CR 702.35a is compositional: the claim that a hand→graveyard redirect still discarded the card leans on CR 614.6 for the mechanism and 702.35a for the explicit confirmation; CR 701.9a alone supplies only the definition and would not carry it. The in-code comment cites all three in that order. CR 608.2c's fit is "instruction completion and ordering", not a rule about event markers — matched to the repo's own pre-existing convention at discard.rs rather than invented for this change.

The citation list is derived from the diff (git diff <base> | grep '^+' | grep -oE 'CR [0-9]{3}...'), not recalled — an earlier revision of this body listed 10 and was missing two.

Verification

• Required checks ran clean, or the exact CI-owned alternative is stated below.
• Gate A output below is for the current committed head.
• Final review-impl below is clean for the current committed head.
• Both anchors cite existing analogous code at the same seam.

Full gate at the published head 126fc9a3c188d21adae594fb3ef1be762fae98ca:

TIP=126fc9a3c188d21adae594fb3ef1be762fae98ca
DIRTY=0
test-engine=0
test-ai=0
clippy=0
TIP_END=126fc9a3c188d21adae594fb3ef1be762fae98ca
DIRTY_END=0
ALLDONE

• cargo test --package phase-engine --features cli — 24,599 passed, 0 failed, 15 ignored
• cargo test --package phase-ai — 2,190 passed, 0 failed, 19 ignored
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features cli -- -D warnings — 0 diagnostics

TIP == TIP_END and DIRTY == DIRTY_END == 0 are recorded because they are the claim: the run measured the committed candidate, and the tree neither moved nor was dirty across it. ALLDONE is the only proof the run finished — this lane had three runs stopped early (one reaped by a job supervisor, two killed by me when review findings made the tree stale), and each was reported as CANNOT-ANSWER and re-run, never as a failure and never as a pass. Two earlier full gates were green at earlier tips; only the one above is at the published head.

• Discriminating-test matched pairs — 20 revert probes, each run and observed red, the file restored and the restore sha256-verified. Two did not flip the test they were first aimed at, and both are recorded rather than retuned: one was aimed at an integration arm that turned out not to discriminate the terminal marker (re-aimed at the unit test that does; its in-code comment had named a downstream assertion that never executes, now corrected to the observed first failure), and one — #[serde(default)] on an Option field — is a measured no-op, since serde's derive already maps a missing Option field to None. The attribute is kept for symmetry with every sibling carrier in that family, and its test is relabelled a characterization test of the save-compat contract rather than a discriminator, with the measurement quoted in place.
• One probe flips through a production unreachable! rather than a test assertion: the outer producer gate and the inner match must agree on the producer set, and opening one without the other panics. Discriminating, but flagged here so a reviewer meets the shape in prose first.

Gate A

Gate G PASS (router/grant architecture: strict router vs permissive grant boundary intact)
Gate A PASS head=273524bbab34edf0718e53f42accafeda5a9534f base=4c987f92a45c3b5db005ae6534c544c80083e4eb
Gate P PASS (PreLowered ratchet: no producer count increased)

(invoked as check-parser-combinators.sh $(git merge-base upstream/main HEAD) — a resolved SHA, never a ref name, since the script consumes its argument verbatim and a bare ref would diff against upstream's tip)

Anchored on

• crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:7120 — QuantityRef::DamageDealtThisTurn's existing aggregate: AggregateFunction field (variant opens :7113): the analogous parameterization of an aggregate axis on a sibling QuantityRef variant, with the same default/skip_serializing_if elision shape
• crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:4367 — collect_clause_minimum_refs, the existing CR 608.2h freeze mechanism already admitting QuantityRef::ControlledByEachPlayer and QuantityRef::HandSize; this change admits one more ref through the same door rather than adding a parallel path

Final review-impl

Clean at 126fc9a3c after three rounds against an independent reviewer that was given the diff, the task, CLAUDE.md, and nothing of the conversation that produced the work. Rounds 1-2 ran against 730888952; round 3 against the delta commit and its two amends.

Round 3 is worth reading, because every finding was mine and none was cosmetic:

1. The commit message contradicted its own code. It said the tidy-up "shrinks what a Max reduces over". fill_zero_contributors' doc — written earlier in this same PR — records that Max cannot be raised by zeros and only Min sees it. Corrected.
2. The fix for an overclaim restated the overclaim. Told that a single-frame fixture could not show "retired the frame it was handed", I nested a second frame and asserted "retire ONLY the frame it declines, not whatever sits on top" — but the fixture hands the guard the frame already on top, so those are one action. They are one action in production too. The reviewer's point was the sharper one: the id-keyed property is absent from the code, not merely unmeasured, so a test demanding it would red on HEAD. Reframed to what nesting actually buys (arity and direction: pop-zero, pop-two, pop-from-the-wrong-end) with the absent property recorded rather than asserted.
3. One word was concealing a leak. I wrote that take_active_discard "pops the top unconditionally". It pops only on a Discard top and returns Err(UnexpectedTop) otherwise, which retire_discard_frame swallows — so retirement is best-effort, and a non-Discard top makes it a silent no-op leaving a frame owning nothing. That is the exact hazard the same doc's opening paragraph names. Disclosed in place, not repaired: reachability is unmeasured, and making retirement total changes the resolution stack's error contract rather than this guard.

Three of this PR's disclosures are therefore "the code does not have this property", not "this property is untested" — a distinction the review loop forced and which the in-code comments now carry.

A fourth defect found while instrumenting a fixture for this work is filed as #7509 rather than fixed here: a parked CR 616.1 replacement choice is destroyed by the spell's own CR 608.2n graveyard move, dropping the card the effect had already selected. Measured at prompt #0 — before any code from this PR runs — so it is neither introduced nor widened here, and the repair belongs to the replacement machinery rather than to discard.

Claimed parse impact

Windfall, Jace's Archivist, Whispering Madness.

These are the complete class: a Scryfall census for "draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way" returns exactly these three, and they are the only cards whose semantics the parse-diff changes.

Correction (2026-08-17), self-reported. An earlier version of this line read "the parse-diff independently changes exactly these three and no others". That is wrong as written: the artifact reports 9 cards / 6 signatures. Six of those — Garnet, Princess of Alexandria; Thief of Blood; Nahiri's Warcrafting; Jar of Eyeballs; Contest of Claws; Sin, Unending Cataclysm — change only their printed signature, gaining an explicit aggregate: Sum because the new field appears in the coverage projection. #[serde(default = "default_sum_aggregate", skip_serializing_if = "is_sum_aggregate")] elides Sum, so their card-data.json is byte-identical; the field's own doc states "every pre-existing serialized card, scenario and IR snapshot is byte-identical". Semantic class = 3; signature-rendering-only = 6. A coverage-signature diff is not a card-data diff, and this line conflated them.

Scope Expansion

One path added mid-run: crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs (#[cfg(test)]-only).

The CR 603.5 prompt census in mod stage2_injector_tests pins three producer coordinates in effects/mod.rs by line number. This PR's changes to that file land above them, so the census literals had to be re-pinned; at the rebased tip they read effects/mod.rs:7061, :7138, :10798. Every one re-derived by content (producer text plus a sha256-compared window), never carried over, and never accepted from a resolution git applied automatically during the rebase.

The producers moved, not changed, and the rebase supplied a stronger identity check than this branch could make alone: the 41-line window centred on each producer is sha256-identical at upstream's coordinate and at this tip (ad615ce4…, a958f070…, d7fd67fd…), with the off-by-one neighbour hashed as a control and differing at all three. Upstream and this branch independently moved the same three byte-identical producers, so the set is preserved across the rebase, not merely across one commit. The rebase onto upstream/main supplied a further, sharper control. Six of this branch's commits conflicted in that pin block and each was re-derived independently against a NEW origin — and every per-commit shift this branch had recorded reproduced exactly: +18/+18/+35 (a fourth independent derivation of the same triple), +16/+16/+27, then +23, +5 and +366 on the third producer alone. A shift that is invariant under change of origin is pure line movement, not a changed producer set. The window digests were re-measured at each new coordinate rather than carried forward, and the off-by-one neighbours (8251728c…, e3830eb5…, 85037f22…) were hashed alongside as controls and differed every time.

Disclosure — the census is brittle by construction, and this PR is the evidence. It had to be re-pinned at every review round that inserted a line above a producer, and then six more times in a single rebase onto upstream/main — sixteen re-pins on one branch. The shift was non-uniform in most of those rounds (+18/+18/+35, +16/+16/+27, and three rounds that moved only the third producer, by +23, +5 and +366) because some edits land above all three producers and some above only the third. Three method notes, all learned the hard way here:

• Hunk arithmetic is a hypothesis, not a coordinate. Summing hunk offsets gave :10147; the line was at :10148. The window hash disagreed at the computed coordinate and agreed at the content-derived one, which is what caught it.
• A pin measurement is only valid against the tree actually committed. One round was measured correctly and then invalidated by a later four-line comment edit of mine above all three producers. The test suite had already gone green before that edit, so nothing in the run would have caught it — re-measuring as the last step before commit did.
• Any insertion above a pinned producer breaks this census, including insertions from unrelated upstream commits; that file's drift log records several such re-pins from rebases alone.

Symbol-anchoring (pinning the enclosing function or a stable marker rather than a line) would be the future-proof form. Not converted here: that would be unreviewed scope in a PR about a draw-count bug, and the conversion belongs in its own change.

Found and repaired: a paused discard never finishes, and its counts never arrive

Maintainer review blocked this PR on a real defect: after a replacement-choice pause, the aggregate reads an incomplete per-player table. It is repaired here rather than disclosed. Getting there took one wrong attempt, and the measurement that killed it is worth stating because it is the reason the final shape looks nothing like the first.

The route matters, and the obvious one is not the one these cards take. A first attempt repaired the DiscardChoice pause route. Measured two ways, that route and the aggregate consumers are disjoint over the corpus: the tree's own census records the Max class as exactly three cards, all Discard{All} -> Draw{PEA}, and all three read "Each player discards their hand…" (verbatim from Scryfall), which is the forced whole-hand branch, never DiscardChoice. The card that attempt built its regression on carries EventContextAmount and no PreviousEffectAmount at all. That attempt would have shipped a fix for a route Windfall can never reach, leaving this blocker standing.

Three defect facets on the route these cards do take, all measured:

1. Silent data loss. The forced whole-hand loop's return Ok(()) exited mid-hand with no cursor. The seat's remaining cards were never discarded — they stayed in hand for the rest of the game.
2. No terminal marker. No EffectResolved was emitted, so that seat's count could not be derived from events at all.
3. The paused card was never counted even after the choice was answered — the gate-2 resume path emits Discarded only when a discard frame is present, and it is absent for all three of these cards.

The repair extends an existing family rather than adding new machinery. PendingPlayerScopeSacrificeChoice / …Completion already solve this exact problem for the sibling producer, carrying a remaining-players roster and completion bookkeeping that survive every replacement-choice pause. The discard path now does the same: a parked batch with a typed cursor, a drain that resumes it, and one terminal publication spanning the pause. The pointer was in the code all along — discard.rs's own limitation comment called its gap the "same systemic gap as sacrifice", and sacrifice is the one that fixed it.

No new accumulator state, and that is proved rather than asserted. An earlier design proposed a new GameState accumulator field plus a merge authority. Both are gone. The falsifiable form: an accumulator is necessary iff one clause's table must survive two or more publications — and this design publishes once. The structural probe that keeps it honest: the production write sites for last_effect_counts_by_player must still number exactly four after the change, since a fifth would mean an accumulator crept back under another name. Measured at the tip: 12 raw grep hits, of which 7 are #[cfg(test)] and 1 is a PartialEq == false-match, leaving exactly the four production sites and no fifth.

The empirical gate ran first, before any production edit. Two arms were added to the existing integration file and run at the pre-fix tip, RED with a numeric signature predicted in advance: four seats with hands 7/3/5/2 (the paused seat holding the max), 1 prompt, drawn == [2,2,2,2]. After the fix: 7 prompts, drawn == [7,7,7,7]. The reference values are mutually distinct by construction — 7 is reachable only if the paused seat is in the table; 5 is the max without it; 2 is the last publication alone; 6 is the value if facet 3 were left unrepaired — so no partial-table failure mode can coincide with the right answer.

One correction to the predicted table was caught by running it rather than deriving it: the predicted graveyard row omitted the spell's own card, which lands in its controller's graveyard on resolution (CR 608.2n). Small, and it would have been expensive — the fixture's own stop-rule treats a signature mismatch as a halt requiring the design premise to be re-derived, not a retune.

A fourth defect was found and is queued for filing, not fixed here. A spell's own CR 608.2n graveyard move completes while a CR 616.1 replacement choice is still parked, and because the pending-replacement slot holds only one choice, the parked one is destroyed and its card silently dropped. Measured at prompt #0 — i.e. before any code from this PR runs — so it is neither introduced nor widened here, and it is out of scope because the repair belongs to the replacement machinery rather than to discard. The issue is queued for filing alongside this push and will be cross-referenced once it has a number.

Found by independent implementation review, and fixed rather than filed

The phase's implementation passed independent review (0 blockers), but the review found nine things worth acting on and, under this run's no-deferrals rule, all nine were fixed here rather than queued. Three were real defects in this PR's own new code:

• The Random cursor re-derived the CR 616.1 chooser instead of threading it. discard_at_random computes which seat is asked and sets waiting_for from it; the re-park then overwrote that with the discarding player, while the sibling All arm 30 lines above threaded the authority's answer correctly. Benign today — a hand card's affected player is its controller — but replacement_choice_player's commander carve-out proves the engine already has chooser ≠ affected-seat cases, and the first one to reach a random discard would prompt the wrong seat. Fixed at the type level so neither arm re-derives, and pinned by asserting the published chooser equals the seat waiting_for was actually built from — deliberately not against the request's player, since agreeing with the request is the very assumption being pinned against.
• route_discard did not check that the card was still in a hand. CR 701.9a defines discarding as a move from hand to graveyard, so there was no event to propose — but complete_discard_to_graveyard lowers to a hard-coded from: Hand. This became load-bearing with the parked batch, whose cursor is a hand snapshot latched before an action boundary and drained after one. The guard went in at the single chokepoint every discard routes through, so one edit covers both cursor arms and both the effect and cost layers; un-paused callers build and consume their snapshot inside one action and cannot observe a difference.
• The fan-out's not-yet-prompted roster was not pruned when a player left the game (CR 800.4a), while the analogous pending_scoped_library_search roster already was. matching_players is deliberately left whole: CR 608.2f latches the clause's reduction domain when the action begins being processed per subject, so a departed seat still contributes its truthful zero, and pruning it would silently change a Min answer.

One of this PR's own tests had shipped vacuous, and that is worth stating plainly. absent_pending_discard_batch_deserializes_as_none built its fixture at GameState::new_two_player, whose waiting_for is already Priority, then asserted Priority after the round trip under the message "the restored state machine is intact, not orphaned mid-pause." It restated an input property and could not fail for the reason it named. The save is now taken genuinely mid-pause, with a reach guard asserting the input does not already satisfy the property under test, and the assertion is that a batch-less mid-pause save round-trips its prompt verbatim — so the inconsistency stays observable rather than being silently rewritten into a plausible-looking state.

A related declination is recorded rather than quietly skipped: the review suggested pinning an adjacent drain asymmetry with a behavioural assertion, but stamp_active_player_action_completion early-returns without a CompletePlayerAction continuation frame, which a drain unit test does not have — so that assertion would itself have been vacuous. It is pinned as a source census carrying its own positive control instead, where one half proves the scan reaches a region that does stamp, so the other half's zero cannot be a scan that missed.

The adjacent off-by-one that was this PR's — the pausing seat published as a zero contributor before answering its choice — is fixed here (applied_domain_end = i, not i + 1) with a frozen discriminating test; probe with i + 1 gives left: [(0,1),(1,0)] / right: [(0,1)].

Validation Failures

None.

CI Failures

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added sum, maximum, and minimum aggregation for previous effect amounts, including total and excess damage.
  • Improved parsing for “greatest,” “highest,” and “largest” discarded-card quantities.
  • Added pause-and-resume support for multi-card discards interrupted by replacement choices.

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected multi-player, zero-contributor, and chained quantity calculations.
  • Preserved discard progress and state across pauses, replacements, and save/restore while protecting private information.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for aggregation, damage channels, snapshots, serialization, and discard edge cases.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

PreviousEffectAmount now carries explicit aggregation. Parsing and runtime resolution support Sum, Max, and Min. Discard fan-outs can pause, persist state, resume after replacement choices, and preserve scoped results.

Changes

Previous-effect aggregation and discard flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Aggregation contract and Oracle parsing crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_*/*, crates/engine/src/database/synthesis.rs	PreviousEffectAmount stores an aggregate. Parsers emit Sum for ordinary amounts and Max for greatest-discard phrases.
Snapshot resolution and scoped fan-out crates/engine/src/game/quantity.rs, crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs, crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs, crates/engine/src/game/elimination.rs	Resolution uses clause snapshots when available, then applies the selected aggregate to live counts. Scoped fan-outs zero-fill the completed-player domain.
Discard batch parking and resumption crates/engine/src/game/effects/discard.rs, crates/engine/src/game/engine_replacement.rs, crates/engine/src/game/visibility.rs	Replacement-paused discard batches preserve cursors, event windows, provenance, and fan-out state. Replacement handling drains or re-parks the batch. Viewer projections omit the carrier.
Classification, rendering, and validation crates/engine/src/game/ability_scan.rs, crates/engine/src/game/coverage.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/*, crates/phase-ai/src/policies/*	Scanner and rendering logic handle aggregation. Tests cover aggregate differences, paused fan-outs, stale cards, state persistence, visibility, and parser forms.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 204ec

The discard pause/resume path can accept duplicate card IDs and thereby permit an illegal selection during resolution, while two new rules-boundary changes lack required annotations. Merge should wait for the validation fix and annotation updates.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OracleText
  participant Parser
  participant QuantityRef
  participant EffectsMod
  participant GameState
  participant ReplacementChoice
  OracleText->>Parser: parse PreviousEffectAmount
  Parser->>QuantityRef: emit channel and aggregate
  EffectsMod->>GameState: freeze or publish previous-effect counts
  EffectsMod->>GameState: park paused discard batch
  ReplacementChoice->>EffectsMod: resolve replacement choice
  EffectsMod->>GameState: resume or clear discard batch

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[matthewevans]

Request changes — the new aggregate reads an incomplete per-player table after a replacement-choice pause.

🔴 Blocker

crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:9872-9890 documents that each resumed player-scope continuation replaces last_effect_counts_by_player; :9980-9987 then derives and installs counts only from that continuation leg's events. A forced whole-hand discard can enter a replacement choice at crates/engine/src/game/effects/discard.rs:475-489. When resolution resumes, crates/engine/src/game/quantity.rs:4002-4037 reduces the incomplete table for PreviousEffectAmount { aggregate: Max }.

That makes the supported Windfall / Jace's Archivist / Whispering Madness shape draw from the final resumed discarder instead of the greatest discard across the completed fan-out. The in-tree comment establishes this is an existing resume seam problem, but this PR makes it load-bearing for the newly supported Max class.

Please either implement the generic continuation-safe accumulation at the existing last_effect_counts_by_player authority (preserving all completed seats across every resume leg), or keep this Oracle shape explicitly unsupported until that primitive exists. Add a production-pipeline regression that forces the discard replacement choice mid-fan-out and proves the aggregate includes both pre-pause and resumed players; a helper-only table test would not exercise this path.

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

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Key producer identities separately from their coordinates.

The census fails when a producer moves because it compares exact file:line entries. The list does not detect replacing one same-shaped producer at the same coordinate. Add enforced enclosing-function or content markers while retaining the count assertion.

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs` around lines 18868 - 18895, Update the
census around the producer coordinate list to identify each producer by an
enforced enclosing-function or stable content marker, rather than relying only
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In `@crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs`:
- Around line 14403-14418: Update the clause-local snapshot documentation around
the `player_scope` fan-out and the corresponding `PreviousEffectAmount`
discussion near the referenced grouping: attribute cross-player extrema to CR
608.2h, while documenting `PreviousEffectAmount` separately as a CR 608.2i
completed-instruction look-back captured before fan-out. Do not present CR
608.2e as defining look-back evaluation or snapshot timing, and use verified
rule citations whose bodies support these behaviors.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/windfall_greatest_discard_aggregate.rs`:
- Around line 239-281: Preserve completed per-player discard amounts when the
DiscardChoice continuation resumes, accumulating each resumed subset into the
existing per-player table instead of replacing it. Add a production-pipeline
test that pauses and resumes DiscardChoice at least twice before resolving
PreviousEffectAmount, covering the Max or Min calculation across all completed
players.

In `@crates/phase-ai/src/policies/x_reference.rs`:
- Around line 357-361: Remove the “CR 120.10” citation from the explanatory
comment associated with is_previous_amount, while preserving the rationale that
total and excess channels are preceding-effect amounts and that detection is
aggregate-agnostic as an engine invariant.

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs`:
- Around line 18868-18895: Update the census around the producer coordinate list
to identify each producer by an enforced enclosing-function or stable content
marker, rather than relying only on exact file-and-line strings. Retain the
existing producer count assertion while making the validation detect moved
producers and same-shaped replacements at unchanged coordinates.

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Parse changes introduced by this PR · 9 card(s), 6 signature(s) (baseline: main 75f2d545b5c6)

🟡 Modified fields (6 signatures)

• 3 cards · 🔄 ability/Draw · changed field count: amount from preceding effect → greatest single player's amount from preceding effect
  • Affected (first 3): Jace's Archivist, Whispering Madness, Windfall
• 2 cards · 🔄 ability/PutCounter · changed field counter: PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Total } P1P1 → PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Total, aggregate: Sum } P1P1
  • Affected (first 3): Garnet, Princess of Alexandria, Thief of Blood
• 1 card · 🔄 ability/Dig · changed field count: PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Excess } → PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Excess, aggregate: Sum }
  • Affected (first 3): Nahiri's Warcrafting
• 1 card · 🔄 ability/Dig · changed field count: PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Total } → PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Total, aggregate: Sum }
  • Affected (first 3): Jar of Eyeballs
• 1 card · 🔄 ability/Discover · changed field mv limit: Ref { qty: PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Excess } } → Ref { qty: PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Excess, aggregate: Sum } }
  • Affected (first 3): Contest of Claws
• 1 card · 🔄 ability/PutCounter · changed field counter: Multiply { factor: 2, inner: Ref { qty: PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Total } } } P1P1 → Multiply { factor: 2, inner: Ref { qty: PreviousEffectAmount { channel: Total, aggregate: Sum } } } P1P1
  • Affected (first 3): Sin, Unending Cataclysm

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Re: the current-head parse-diff

The artifact exists and is bound to the current head — CI posted it after your review was submitted, which is why it wasn't visible at review time:

• Sticky comment id 5309381259, posted 2026-08-16T19:57:16Z
• Header: _Generated for head `369b66a8e5c78211fd72ce5399912233cda12931`._, baseline main 12ea90497eb2
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Reading the result: 9 cards, but only 3 AST changes

The comparator reports 9 cards / 6 signatures. Three of those are the intended behaviour change; the other six are a rendering change in the coverage projection with no card-data delta. Both groups are expected, and the split is checkable rather than asserted:

3 semantic — Windfall, Jace's Archivist, Whispering Madness. ability/Draw field count: amount from preceding effect → greatest single player's amount from preceding effect. This is the fix.

6 rendering-only — Garnet, Princess of Alexandria; Thief of Blood; Nahiri's Warcrafting; Jar of Eyeballs; Contest of Claws; Sin, Unending Cataclysm. Every one is of the form PreviousEffectAmount { channel: X } → PreviousEffectAmount { channel: X, aggregate: Sum }.

Those six do not change card-data.json. The new field is elided at its default:

#[serde(
    default = "default_sum_aggregate",
    skip_serializing_if = "is_sum_aggregate"
)]
aggregate: AggregateFunction,

with is_sum_aggregate matching AggregateFunction::Sum, mirroring the pre-existing skip_serializing_if = "is_total_damage_channel" on the sibling channel field. Sum therefore never serializes, so every PreviousEffectAmount node that keeps the default is byte-identical to before this PR.

What did change for those six is fmt_quantity_ref in game/coverage.rs, which now renders the aggregate. The parse-diff comparator reads the coverage projection, not card-data.json — so a fmt_quantity_ref change surfaces every card carrying that field, whether or not its AST moved. That is the expected signature of a display-formatter change, and it is why the card count (9) exceeds the behaviour-change count (3).

The rendering change is deliberate rather than incidental: leaving Sum unprinted would make the two aggregates indistinguishable in coverage output, and previous_effect_amount_renders_every_channel_aggregate_pair pins all six channel × aggregate pairs so neither arm can silently regress.

Re: the paused fan-out

Not being ignored — it is under adjudication upstream of me rather than being answered unilaterally, and I will follow up on it separately. In the meantime I traced the reachability rather than leaving it as an assumption: the pause originates in complete_discard_to_graveyard returning NeedsReplacementChoice, i.e. a CR 616.1 "which applicable replacement applies" choice. That is constructible from two graveyard-replacement effects on one player, so the regression you asked for is buildable and I am not going to argue the path is dead.

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Re: the paused fan-out — being fixed in this PR, not argued

Adjudicated upstream of me, and the decision went your way: the continuation-safe accumulation is being implemented here rather than disclosed and deferred. Flagging it now so you know changes are inbound and don't spend review time on a rebuttal that isn't coming.

Planned shape, which matches option (a) in your review:

• Carry the in-flight per-clause table across the pause rather than publishing it, so completed seats survive every resume leg.
• Merge on resume at the second install site instead of the outright assign in install_previous_effect_counts_by_player's Some arm.
• A final-leg marker on the abilities split_player_scope_chain produces, since the resumed legs currently carry nothing identifying their clause or their position in it.
• Some(empty) keeps its CR 608.2c replace semantics. This is the part that makes a naive merge wrong — a genuine zero-result producer and a resumed leg contributing one more entry are indistinguishable under an unconditional merge, so it's going into the plan as a named hazard with its own pinning test rather than being left to fall out of the implementation.
• The production-pipeline regression you asked for, driven through the CR 616.1 replacement-choice pause rather than a helper-level table test.

Two notes on scope, both of which argue for your reading over the one I shipped:

The defect is not aggregate-specific. last_effect_amount is derived from the same table via .values().copied().sum(), so the Sum class loses the same counts — including the drain shape (LoseLife → GainLife { PreviousEffectAmount }), which is 38 of the 41 quantity-position carriers in the corpus. Fixing it at the last_effect_counts_by_player authority is worth more than this PR's own subject.

And the option you offered as an alternative — keeping the shape explicitly unsupported — turns out to be the null option rather than the cheaper one: the shape in question is the Max aggregate, so it reverts what this PR is for. That left (a) as the only path that isn't a revert.

I'll push once it's through plan review, implementation, and a full gate, and will re-request review then. #7492 stays open until this merges.

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Correction: I overstated which cards this defect reaches

Planning the repair turned up a measurement that contradicts something I asserted earlier, so I am correcting it before it propagates into the fix.

What I said: that last_effect_amount is derived from the truncated table, so the Sum class loses the same counts "including the drain shape (LoseLife → GainLife { PreviousEffectAmount }), 38 of the 41 quantity-position carriers in the corpus."

What is actually true. previous_effect_counts_by_player_from_events (crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs) returns Some for exactly three effect kinds:

let kind = match effect {
    Effect::Discard { .. } | Effect::DiscardCard { .. } | Effect::ChangeZoneAll { .. } => {
        EffectKind::from(effect)
    }
    _ => return None,
};

Effect::LoseLife is not among them. So the drain shape never publishes a per-player table at all — it takes the None arm, and its scalar comes from the previous_effect_amount_from_events fallback rather than from .values().sum() over the table. Those 38 carriers are not affected by the truncation. My "38 of 41" figure was a corpus census of which cards carry the reference, silently reused as if it were a census of which cards the defect reaches. Those are different questions and I did not check that they had the same answer.

What survives the correction. The defect is still not aggregate-specific, and that was the load-bearing part: a Sum consumer whose producer is one of the three table-publishing kinds does read a table-derived scalar and does lose counts across a pause, because install_previous_effect_counts_by_player's Some arm stamps last_effect_amount from the table it is assigning. So the repair still belongs at the last_effect_counts_by_player authority rather than in the aggregate reduction, which is why the shape of the fix is unchanged.

The affected population is "consumers fed by a table-publishing producer", not "the drain class". Narrower than I claimed, and in a different place.

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Maintainer fixup c980201a478330747858709d50a96d365f91a6ab adds the verified CR 608.2h explanation to the persisted Balance snapshot regression. Enrollment remains held for fresh CI, the exact-head parse-diff artifact, and current independent feedback on this new head; no contributor action is requested.

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choices park emitted observer-trigger events until normal trigger scanning
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- Around line 4714-4718: Reject duplicate card IDs in the SelectCards validation
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membership checks or enter the frozen discard batch. Preserve valid unique
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Maintainer fixup f50f6d5c44da49a9fa314def54b8f5638c377a87 closes the current-head action-boundary gap: a DiscardChoice now rejects duplicate card IDs before it snapshots or moves any selection. The added Chain of Smog regression drives the real cast → target → discard-choice pipeline and proves [same_card, same_card] returns InvalidAction without moving that card or retiring the choice.

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