Route a duration-scoped capped batch cast to the single-use grant (Locke, Treasure Hunter) by JeffyW · Pull Request #9230 · phase-rs/phase

JeffyW · 2026-09-22T20:35:32Z

Locke, Treasure Hunter's third sentence — "Until end of turn, you may cast a spell from among those cards" — lowered to Unimplemented { name: "unrepresentable_cast_cap" }. It is a paid cast with a printed cap of one over a batch the same resolution produced, and no CastFromZoneDriver can carry that: LingeringPermission writes an independent CastingPermission per object with no shared budget, so for_batch_bounds refuses it rather than granting the whole batch.

The shape that can carry it already exists. CastingPermission::PlayFromExile { single_use: true, single_use_group: Option<TrackedSetId> } is a grant-scoped budget of exactly one, shared across every object stamped with the same set id — Chandra, Hope's Beacon +1 has used it since it shipped. The batch-anaphor surfaces simply had no route to it. No new engine variant; the add-engine-variant gate returns EXISTS_SAME_NAME.

The discriminator, and why it has to be threaded

Widening the route naively sweeps in Sanwell, Avenger Ace and Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter, which print the same grammar with no duration. CR 608.2g is explicit that a resolving object "continues to resolve, which may include casting other spells this way" and that "no other spells can normally be cast … during resolution" — so a clause stating no durational scope has no later priority window in which a lingering permission could ever be exercised. Granting one is strictly more permissive than the card.

At the mechanism decision the four cards are indistinguishable:

card	fragment reaching `from_among_batch_cast_driver`	duration
Locke	`a spell from among those cards`	leading, peeled
Nathan Drake	`a spell from among those cards`	none
Chiss-Goria	`an artifact spell from among them`	trailing, peeled
Sanwell	`a vehicle or artifact creature spell from among them`	none

Locke and Nathan Drake are byte-identical. Both printed duration positions are peeled by their strip seams before the body parser runs, so the fact is provably not in the fragment and the only honest channel is to carry it.

ParseContext::stated_clause_duration is that channel, set at the two strip seams and consumed at one place. It follows the file's established transient-field idiom (pending_player_scope, pending_repeat_for, nearest_dig_rest_zone, bare_card_aggregate_source), and it completes a judgement that was already split: clause_states_a_duration has always asked this same question for the third position (mid-clause — Ral, Leyline Prodigy) and could see one position out of three.

The lifecycle is save/restore, never set/clear, because its failure direction is open — a duration stated by clause N could otherwise promote a capped clause N+1 that states none. a_stated_duration_does_not_leak_into_the_next_clause pins it. No printed card exercises that shape today; a guard on a currently-unreachable path is the difference between a latent fail-open and a live one.

Where the judgement lives

from_among_batch_cast_driver now returns FromAmongBatchLowering { Driver, SingleUseGrant, Refused } instead of Option<CastFromZoneDriver>. The pairing has three honest answers and an Option carries two; overloading None to mean both "refuse" and "represent this another way" is the conflation that hides silent drops — the same medicine CastCapReading already applies to what a bare Option<u8> used to encode.

The promotion is realized at from_among_batch_cast_effect, which its own doc already calls "the single construction seam for every from among batch-cast arm" and which is already the only place a refusal becomes an Effect. A third outcome is the decision it exists to make, so it inherits the structural guarantee that no arm — present or future — can build the wrong shape.

Three conditions gate it, each load-bearing:

!without_paying — PlayFromExile has no free-cast channel, so promoting a free clause would silently charge the player. Free capped clauses keep the ResolutionWindow path and its existing refusal at the duration seam (CAST_BOUND_LOST_TO_DURATION_GAP). The mechanism selection is deliberately not widened with the threaded duration for exactly this reason: doing so would move Aminatou's Augury's refusal to a different gap name for unchanged behaviour, a coverage-provenance regression for no gain.
bounds.is_exactly_one_cast() — single_use is a budget of one and cannot express N > 1 or a CR 202.3 running-total budget.
a stated duration — the CR 608.2g gate above.

The grant's binding is TargetFilter::TrackedSet { id: TrackedSetId(0) }, zone-blind by design: the batch arms hand the seam an exile-ledger target (ExiledBySource), which is correct for an exiled batch and wrong for Locke's, whose pool is the graveyard. The printed type restriction rides on the permission's card_filter, where Chandra already carries hers.

Two runtime defects the routing fix exposes

Both are only observable once the routing lands — before it, nothing constructed a single_use grant over a non-exile pool, so neither had a carrier. Locke is the first shipped card to pair the two.

The cap was unenforceable off-exile. casting_costs.rs gated the ledger-writing capture on source_zone == Zone::Exile, while the eligibility gate that reads the ledger (play_from_exile_permission_source_at_index) is zone-agnostic. A graveyard-sourced cast therefore never wrote the ledger and the gate kept passing: a grant printing "a spell" authorized a second one. The zone test was also redundant with the permission test it guarded — single_use_play_from_exile_group already requires the elected permission to be a single_use PlayFromExile granted to this player — so removing it is behaviour-preserving for every exile-pooled card.

The sibling sweep ran on the wrong axis. consume_single_use_play_from_exile iterated state.exile alone, so milled siblings in graveyards kept a permission the engine had just declared spent. single_use_group is a TrackedSetId, not a zone, so the tracked set is now the authority; the exile zone is still swept as a superset so a grant whose set is absent from tracked_object_sets cannot lose the sweep it has today.

Scope — a LOWER BOUND, with its derivation

Query: cards whose parse tree contains an Unimplemented node named unrepresentable_cast_cap, over the regenerated production export (client/public/card-data.json). Not a source grep — a source grep returns a different, smaller population and makes this number look inflated.

python delta.py census card-data.json unrepresentable_cast_cap

Before — 8: ashiok nightmare muse, chiss-goria forge tyrant, locke treasure hunter, march of reckless joy, nathan drake treasure hunter, power without equal, sanwell avenger ace, wand of wonder. Export card-data-f6f83d9854550e37.json.
After — 6: the same list without Chiss-Goria and Locke. Chiss-Goria leaves this census but is not supported: it is refused on the more precise cast_rider_on_lingering_grant gap (see below), so the class's unsupported count is 8 → 7, with Locke the one card newly supported. Export card-data-a18a8fa8192d4ed6.json (sha256 a18a8fa8192d4ed6ce8cecd355ceb33bae2705825cfce33f95e2297a4382d6bd).

A lower bound because the census counts only clauses that reached this gap name; a clause refused earlier on a different axis is not in it.

Card-parse delta: exactly 2 cards, both intended, read card by card. Both exports were generated from the SAME tree, differing only by the two parser hunks — which isolates the delta to this change by construction rather than by choosing a baseline, so no upstream commit can appear in it.

card	before	after
Locke, Treasure Hunter	`unrepresentable_cast_cap`	`PlayFromExile { single_use, UntilEndOfTurn }` over `TrackedSet`, `card_filter: None`
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant	`unrepresentable_cast_cap`	`cast_rider_on_lingering_grant` — still unsupported; its cap is representable, its "If you do" rider is not

Nothing else moved. Sanwell and Nathan Drake are unchanged — the gate that admits Locke is the same one that excludes them, rather than a separate exclusion list.

Cross-owner discovery (review round 2)

Locke grants a cast permission to every card milled this way, and CR 601.2a ties that permission to the player it names, not to the card's owner. Graveyard discovery scanned only the caster's own graveyard and then skipped obj.owner != player, so the opponent's milled card was never offered — while castable_from_current_zone has no owner test on that disjunct, so the engine would have accepted a cast it never offered. Shipping a permission that cannot be exercised over part of its printed batch is worse than the honest gap it replaces, so this lands here rather than as a follow-up. Closes #9231.

non_owner_graveyard_play_from_exile_grants adds a second, permission-gated pass over other players' graveyards. This mirrors the exile surface's own shape in spell_objects_available_to_cast, where an owner-scoped block is followed by one gated on obj.owner != player admitting only objects whose permission authorizes this player. The existing owner-scoped walk is left completely untouched, so flashback, escape, retrace and battlefield-static permission discovery cannot regress. graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission was measured to be the same object-tagged shape — not assumed symmetric — and gets the same pass (CR 305.1).

CR citations (review round 2)

Removed, not replaced. CR 603.7 is "An effect may create a delayed triggered ability" and CR 608.2c is "follows its instructions in the order written"; neither describes tracked-set binding or the capacity of single_use. A TrackedSetId is plumbing, and CLAUDE.md is explicit that plumbing is not annotated, so hunting for a better-fitting number would be the same defect in a new costume. CR 608.2m corrected to CR 608.2n.

I propagated the CR 603.7 citation from try_parse_cast_from_tracked_exile_grant, which carries the same wrong CR 603.7 + CR 608.2c annotation on pre-existing code. That is evidence the annotation is actively spreading. Left untouched here as unrelated scope — happy to sweep it on request.

Every CR number remaining in the diff re-verified by grep against docs/MagicCompRules.txt: 118.9, 202.3, 305.1, 307.1, 504.1, 509.1, 601.2a, 608.2g, 608.2n, 611.2a.

Verification

Full workspace cargo test-all (34,145 tests; 34,143 passing) plus clippy, re-run after rebasing. The cross-owner discovery change is the widest-blast-radius hunk here — it affects every non-owner graveyard grant — and the whole workspace is green with it. Known environmental failures only: the two Windows probe-pin tests (path_keys_cannot_escape_the_scratch_dir assumes a POSIX root, proj_missing execs a .sh fixture) and upstream's phase-server sync_parent_dir unused import.

Revert-to-red, run rather than asserted:

Disable the promotion → all five new Locke tests fail. The demand-link test fails with its own message: the tracked-set map is EMPTY, which is the circular-publication finding stated directly — publication is demand-driven, so nothing published while the cast clause was an Unimplemented node that referenced nothing.
Restore the source_zone == Zone::Exile capture gate → locke_authorizes_exactly_one_cast_from_the_milled_batch fails, and only that test.
Restore the exile-only sibling sweep → same test fails independently, with the capture fix in place.

New tests, each with a positive reach guard:

locke_grants_a_single_use_cast_until_end_of_turn — reach guards require both cards to have actually milled, the trigger to have fired from a live attacker, and the grant to be recorded on a card not in exile (without the third this would pass against the pre-fix machinery).
locke_authorizes_exactly_one_cast_from_the_milled_batch — both members hold the grant before it is spent.
the_published_set_is_exactly_the_milled_cards_and_excludes_the_treasure — Locke creates a token between the mill and the cast clause; this pins that the token is not swept into "those cards", and pins the demand link so a refactor that breaks it fails loudly instead of falling through to a stale set. Reach guard: a land really is milled, so a Treasure really exists to exclude.
lockes_grant_binds_this_resolutions_set_not_a_stale_published_one — resolve_tracked_set_sentinel's third rung (latest_tracked_set_id) is fail-open over an append-only map. Locke reaches rung 1 today, which makes the hazard latent rather than fixed, so an unrelated set is published first and the two grants are told apart by their durations.
a_stated_duration_does_not_leak_into_the_next_clause — the ParseContext lifecycle guard above.

An existing guard changed meaning, deliberately. kiora_self_library_peek_cast::real_cards_whose_printed_cap_no_mechanism_can_carry_are_refused asserted all four cards refuse. It is now a discriminating table: Sanwell and Nathan Drake still refuse on the cap gap, Locke must install exactly one single-use grant carrying the printed window, and Chiss-Goria must refuse on the rider gap with no grant installed. Both halves stay in one test on purpose — each is the other's control, so a future change that collapses the CR 608.2g distinction has to break one of them.

Deliberately not in this PR

[Card Bug] Locke, Treasure Hunter creates one Treasure per opponent instead of one total (multiplayer only) #9225 — Locke creates one Treasure per opponent instead of one total (2-player → 1, 4-player → 3). The player_scope: All fan-out re-runs the conditional Treasure link per iteration. Already filed; independent of the cap gap and reproduces with the cast clause absent.
single_use: bool should be a count. This is a known composability smell — CLAUDE.md's typed-over-bool rule — and it is what keeps March of Reckless Joy (cap 2), Ashiok, Nightmare Muse (3) and Power Without Equal (3) refused. Measured migration: 266 lexical hits / 37 files, 75 single_use_group initializers / 25 paths, 24 ledger-consumption references, spanning eligibility, capture, spend, GC, and serialized GameState. That is a serialized-type migration, and the asymmetry against this PR's three-state return — three call sites, compiler-forced — is the argument for doing one in-PR and deferring the other.
Chiss-Goria's "If you do, it has affinity for artifacts" rider — now refused, not deferred. An earlier revision of this PR promoted Chiss-Goria and called the rider "equally inert before this change". That reasoning was wrong: before, the card was an honest gap; the promotion made it count as supported while its rider silently did nothing, because a lingering grant's "If you do" rider runs at resolution, before any spell is cast. refuse_cast_rider_on_lingering_grant now reports it as cast_rider_on_lingering_grant. Carrying the rider to the cast was rejected on class size — of 27 cards printing a cast grant with an "If you do, it has/gains" rider, only Chiss-Goria needs a keyword carried onto a spell through a lingering permission, and no existing channel fits. Serpent's Soul-Jar remains a separate pre-existing silent drop, out of scope here.
Wand of Wonder is correctly and permanently refused — "up to X" off a d20 roll is not a representable cap.
Disable non_owner_graveyard_play_from_exile_grants → locke_casts_the_opponents_milled_card_through_the_production_pipeline fails at its reach guard, with the card still holding a valid grant. That test drives the cast off legal_actions through runner.cast(...), so it cannot pass by some other route that happens to make the card castable, and it asserts Zone::Stack before resolution — CR 608.2n returns a resolved sorcery to its owner's graveyard, so a post-resolution zone check would be indistinguishable from never having cast it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Cards selected from a milled batch can receive a single-use casting permission when the effect specifies a duration and an eligible cast limit.
- Eligible cards in another player’s graveyard can be offered for casting or land play through these permissions.
Bug Fixes
- Spending a single-use permission now removes it from all cards in the batch, including cards outside exile, preventing additional casts.
- Permissions granted to cards outside exile are consumed correctly, and clause durations no longer carry over to later clauses.
- Land plays offered through these permissions are authorized consistently, while cards still in a library remain ineligible.

JeffyW · 2026-09-22T20:35:36Z

Parse receipt - head 7fbd362b4b1b2d94b98dd37cfdd6ede1f7baec82

Measured from merge-base 96f3776c6 (git diff 96f3776c6..7fbd362b4).

Parser files changed (3):

crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/tests.rs
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/context.rs

Card-data parse delta must be attached: run wt-carddata.ps1 and report the affected-card diff against the merge-base.

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The parser preserves stated clause durations and lowers eligible paid, exactly-one-cast batch clauses into single-use tracked-set grants. Runtime casting discovers grants in other players’ graveyards and consumes spent permissions across tracked objects and exile.

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Single-use cast grant flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clause duration context `crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/context.rs`, `crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs`	`ParseContext` carries stated durations through clause parsing. Save-and-restore logic prevents duration leakage between clauses and chunks.
Batch cast lowering `crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs`, `crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/tests.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/integration/kiora_self_library_peek_cast.rs`	Batch lowering distinguishes existing drivers, single-use grants, and refused cases. A paid, duration-stated, exactly-one-cast clause creates a single-use `PlayFromExile` grant. Other unsupported caps remain refused or use existing drivers.
Grant discovery and consumption `crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs`, `crates/engine/src/game/casting_costs.rs`, `crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs`	Runtime casting discovers eligible grants in other players’ graveyards. Grant capture no longer requires an exile source zone, and consumption sweeps tracked-set objects and exile objects. Land-play validation also accepts qualifying grants on cards in other players’ graveyards.
Grant behavior validation `crates/engine/tests/integration/locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/integration/kiora_self_library_peek_cast.rs`, `crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs`, `crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/tests.rs`	Tests cover lowering eligibility, duration isolation, tracked-set membership, casting and playing lands from an opponent’s graveyard, and one-cast consumption.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ParseContext
  participant BatchLowering
  participant CastingDiscovery
  participant GrantConsumption
  ParseContext->>BatchLowering: provide stated duration and cast bounds
  BatchLowering->>CastingDiscovery: install tracked-set single-use grant
  CastingDiscovery->>GrantConsumption: spend grant after permitted cast or land play
  GrantConsumption->>CastingDiscovery: remove spent group from tracked objects and exile

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/casting_costs.rs`:
- Line 11046: Replace the CR 603.7 citation in the casting-costs contract
comment with a verified rule citation describing permission capture and
duration, while preserving the existing tracked-set and single-use grant
behavior. Also remove CR 603.7 from the module contract, tracked-set publication
claim, and tracked-set binding claim in
crates/engine/tests/integration/locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs at lines 1-2,
184-185, and 339-340; these test sites require direct citation-only changes.

In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs`:
- Line 27124: Remove the incorrect CR 603.7 citation from the annotations around
the duration-scoped, capped-at-one grant and its related tracked-set
group-binding logic; only retain or add a citation if its rule body has been
verified to describe the implemented behavior, otherwise leave that rule
reference absent.

In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/tests.rs`:
- Around line 49268-49269: Remove the incorrect “CR 608.2c” citations from the
comments near the single_use budget and STATED-duration cases, including the
corresponding occurrence around the related lines. Describe these behaviors as
implementation constraints unless a verified rule directly governs them; do not
alter the implementation logic.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs`:
- Around line 502-509: Update graveyard action discovery in
graveyard_spell_objects_available_to_cast so Locke-authorized cards in an
opponent’s graveyard are included rather than filtered solely by obj.owner !=
player. Preserve owner restrictions for cards without the relevant
authorization, then extend the integration test to cast theirs through
legal_actions and the production casting pipeline; if cross-owner surfacing is
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JeffyW · 2026-09-22T20:50:59Z

Card-parse delta — head 7fbd362b4b1b2d94b98dd37cfdd6ede1f7baec82

Both exports generated at this head, differing only by the two parser hunks (oracle_effect/mod.rs, oracle_ir/context.rs reverted to HEAD~1). Isolated by construction, so no upstream commit can appear in it.

Affected cards: 2. Both intended, read card by card.

card	before	after
`locke, treasure hunter`	`Unimplemented{unrepresentable_cast_cap}`	`GrantCastingPermission{PlayFromExile{single_use, UntilEndOfTurn}}` → `TrackedSet{0}`, `card_filter: None`
`chiss-goria, forge tyrant`	same gap	same grant, `card_filter: Typed{Artifact}`

Nothing else moved. Sanwell and Nathan Drake are unchanged — CR 608.2g, no stated duration, no later priority window.

Census of the unrepresentable_cast_cap gap over the production export: 8 → 6.

before (card-data-159f808bbc3f34b1.json): ashiok nightmare muse, chiss-goria forge tyrant, locke treasure hunter, march of reckless joy, nathan drake treasure hunter, power without equal, sanwell avenger ace, wand of wonder
after (card-data-3484fa62049ac5c5.json): the same minus Chiss-Goria and Locke

A lower bound: it counts only clauses reaching this gap name, not ones refused earlier on another axis.

Filed separately from this PR: #9231 — PlayFromExile grants on a card in a non-owner's graveyard are installed correctly but never offered, because graveyard_spell_objects_available_to_cast scans only the caster's own graveyard and then skips obj.owner != player. The exile surface has no equivalent restriction. Pre-existing and corpus-wide; this PR makes Locke's grant correct and thereby exposes it.

github-actions · 2026-09-22T21:05:04Z

Generated for head e9a574fa7b345084ffd5cce6e89a5138a1f308c7.

Parse changes introduced by this PR · 2 card(s), 3 signature(s) (baseline: main `dc6f2173eb42`)

🟢 Added (2 signatures)

1 card · ➕ ability/GrantCastingPermission · added: GrantCastingPermission (duration=until end of turn)
- Affected (first 3): Locke, Treasure Hunter
1 card · ➕ ability/cast_rider_on_lingering_grant · added: cast_rider_on_lingering_grant (duration=until end of turn)
- Affected (first 3): Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

🔴 Removed (1 signature)

2 cards · ➖ ability/unrepresentable_cast_cap · removed: unrepresentable_cast_cap (duration=until end of turn)
- Affected (first 3): Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant, Locke, Treasure Hunter

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Request changes — Locke is not fully represented on this head.

🔴 Blocker

[HIGH] Locke grants a cast permission to every card milled this way, but the legal-action discovery only searches the caster's graveyard and rejects any other owner. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:1404-1408 passes only player_data.graveyard; crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:1473-1498 then skips obj.owner != player; crates/engine/tests/integration/locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs:502-509 explicitly acknowledges the opponent's milled card is never offered. Locke's Oracle text says “each player mills a card” and then “you may cast a spell from among those cards,” so that omitted member is within the printed permission. Why it matters: the PR removes Locke's coverage-honesty gap while shipping a permission that cannot be exercised for a valid part of its batch. Suggested fix: extend the graveyard cast-discovery authority to surface non-owner cards only when their object-attached permission authorizes this player, and add a production-pipeline test that casts the opponent's milled card; otherwise keep Locke at the explicit unsupported gap.

[MED] The new rule annotations cite rules that do not describe their implementation. Evidence: the official June 2026 Comprehensive Rules define 603.7 as delayed triggered abilities, while the changed crates/engine/src/game/casting_costs.rs:11046, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs:27124,27182, and crates/engine/tests/integration/locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs:1,184,339,424 describe a lingering casting permission and tracked-set binding; crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/tests.rs:49268,49574 likewise assigns 608.2c to single-use budget capacity. Why it matters: misleading CR annotations turn review evidence into false authority. Suggested fix: remove the unrelated citations, then add only citations whose verified rule text directly governs the precise behavior.

✅ Clean

The parser receipt is current-head-bound and its two-card delta matches the stated Locke/Chiss-Goria scope. The separate sentinel concern is guarded on this head: lockes_grant_binds_this_resolutions_set_not_a_stale_published_one requires Locke to publish its own tracked set before asserting the new grant's target.

Recommendation: request changes. This needs the broader permission-path fix and an end-to-end cross-owner cast before the PR can represent Locke as supported; do not patch that shared surface as a citation-only follow-up.

JeffyW · 2026-09-23T03:07:24Z

Parse receipt - head d997d7550187974e603c7ec7c32896fb149a0fad

Measured from merge-base 33daa9a87 (git diff 33daa9a87..d997d7550).

Parser files changed (3):

crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/tests.rs
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/context.rs

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JeffyW · 2026-09-23T03:08:35Z

Card-parse delta at head d997d7550: unchanged — still exactly 2 cards (locke, treasure hunter, chiss-goria, forge tyrant).

Proved rather than re-measured. The parser diff added by b5038bed5 is comment-only:

git diff 7fbd362b4 b5038bed5 -- crates/engine/src/parser/ \
  | grep '^[+-]' | grep -v '^\(+++\|---\)' | grep -v '^[+-][[:space:]]*\(//\|$\)'

returns nothing — zero non-comment lines changed under crates/engine/src/parser/. The receipt lists three parser files because CR citations were removed from them; no lowering logic moved, so the two-card delta measured at 7fbd362b4 carries forward unchanged. The census over the unrepresentable_cast_cap gap is still 8 → 6.

The new work in this head is runtime-only (game/casting.rs discovery) and cannot affect parse output.

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Review of exact head d997d7550187974e603c7ec7c32896fb149a0fad:

[MED] The new cross-owner land discovery emits a legal play that the action gate rejects. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:5846 adds opponent-graveyard PlayFromExile land grants to the playable list, while crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs:16401-16410 calls that list only if the land is in the acting player's own graveyard. Why it matters: a mode: Play grant on an opponent-owned milled land appears in legal actions but fails when submitted. Suggested fix: let the play-land admission gate consult the permission for any graveyard land, preserving the grant check, and add a production action test that plays an opponent-owned land.

[MED] The previously requested CR correction is incomplete. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/casting_costs.rs:11046,11431 still cite CR 603.7 for capturing and spending a casting permission; crates/engine/tests/integration/locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs:1 also cites CR 608.2g for Locke's until-end-of-turn grant. The local Comprehensive Rules define 603.7 as delayed triggered abilities and 608.2g as casting during resolution, neither of which describes those claims. Why it matters: the comments present unrelated rules as authority for the implementation. Suggested fix: remove those citations or replace them only with verified rules that directly describe the behavior.

The prior cross-owner spell blocker is addressed on this head: the new permission-gated graveyard pass and locke_casts_the_opponents_milled_card_through_the_production_pipeline exercise legal-action discovery and casting to the stack. The sentinel concern has a current-head security-bot acknowledgment and a resolution-set regression guard.

Current-head evidence is still incomplete: the github-actions parse-diff comment names old head 7fbd362b, and Rust lint/test shards are pending. Recheck both after the code findings are addressed.

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs`:
- Line 27192: In the FromAmongBatchLowering::SingleUseGrant branch, refuse
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TargetFilter::ExiledBySource; return the existing unimplemented result for this
unsupported case before calling single_use_tracked_set_cast_grant.

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- Around line 3524-3528: Update the assertion using
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JeffyW · 2026-09-23T05:41:05Z

Both findings fixed in 113db743c (head d47380bfc).

Cross-owner land play. engine.rs pre-checked player_data.graveyard.contains(&object_id) before consulting graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission, so the widened discovery offered an opponent-owned milled land and the gate rejected it — the mirror of the cast defect, where the gate would have honored what discovery never offered. The owner test was redundant with the lookup it guarded; removed. CR 601.2a: the grant names the player it authorizes, not the owner. CR 701.17a: each milled card goes to ITS OWNER's graveyard, so a grant over "those cards" spans graveyards as soon as more than one player mills.

an_opponent_owned_milled_land_is_offered_and_playable asserts both halves and drives GameAction::PlayLand. Restoring the owner pre-check fails it on the submitted action — InvalidAction("Card not found in hand, graveyard, exile, or library with play permission") — while discovery still offers the land.

CR correction completed. Removed the two remaining CR 603.7 cites (casting_costs.rs capture and spend) and CR 608.2g from the Locke module header. All 11 CR numbers on added lines re-verified by rule text, measured from the merge-base; my first pass diffed a HEAD~1 that had moved, which is how those three survived it. Also dropped a CR 701.17d I had drafted for the new test — it covers information about a milled card, not permission attachment; CR 701.17a is the one that governs.

Whole workspace green at the rebased head: 34,167/34,169, only the two Windows probe-pin failures.

Parse delta: no parser files touched by this push — git diff d997d7550 113db743c -- crates/engine/src/parser/ is empty, so the census stands at 8 -> 6 (Locke, Chiss-Goria).

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- Around line 16413-16417: Update the graveyard land play flow around
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frequency before the zone change, then consume them in
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+    let gy_permission_source =
        super::casting::graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission(state, player)
            .iter()
            .find(|(obj_id, _)| *obj_id == object_id)
-            .map(|(_, source_id)| *source_id)
-    } else {
-        None
-    };
+            .map(|(_, source_id)| *source_id);


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Consume PlayFromExile limits for graveyard land plays.

graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission includes object-attached PlayFromExile grants, including grants on lands in an opponent's graveyard. The land path passes only the grant source to record_graveyard_play_permission, which searches for StaticMode::GraveyardCastPermission. It does not consume the grant's single_use group or CastFrequency::OncePerTurn slot.

With an additional land drop, a second land from the same tracked batch can remain playable. Capture the selected grant's group and frequency before the zone change, then consume them in finalize_committed_land_play. Use consume_single_use_play_from_exile for single-use groups.

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Changes requested on d47380bfc28885d836d0dfaf8a9e2ec6ee267b1d: the new graveyard land-play path does not consume a single-use grant.

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crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:5811-5858 now discovers lands in any graveyard through an object-attached PlayFromExile { mode: Play, single_use: true } grant, and crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs:16413-16417 admits that play. The finalizer at engine.rs:16235-16248 receives only the source ID for a graveyard play and calls record_graveyard_play_permission; that function at :16113-16166 consumes only StaticMode::GraveyardCastPermission. The PlayFromExile single-use group is never captured or consumed because exile_land_play_authorization is called only for objects in exile at :16453-16457. After a land is played from the graveyard, sibling cards with the same grant can remain playable, violating the granted one-play budget. Carry the selected object-attached grant through land-play finalization and consume its group through the existing consume_single_use_play_from_exile authority. Add a production action test with two granted graveyard lands that proves the second land loses permission after the first is played.

✅ Clean

The previous cross-owner admission mismatch is addressed: legal-action discovery and the action gate now consult the same graveyard permission list. The existing enhancement label is appropriate for this additive permission capability.

Recommendation: request changes for single-use land-play accounting and obtain a parse-diff receipt for this head before approval.

matthewevans · 2026-09-23T06:17:58Z

Correction to my requested-changes review on d47380bfc28885d836d0dfaf8a9e2ec6ee267b1d: the two-land regression must grant an additional legal land play in the turn. Otherwise the normal one-land limit could hide the unconsumed single-use group and make the second-action assertion pass for the wrong reason. The finalizer/permission-consumption blocker and the requested fix still stand.

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🟡 Minor · Reject a suffix restriction that is not represented by card_filter. · mod.rs:27124-27225

crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs:27124-27225
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Reject a suffix restriction that is not represented by card_filter.

parse_cast_type_gate can recover a single head gate such as artifact, while parse_from_among_exiled_this_way can independently recover a multi-leg suffix gate such as instant or sorcery. single_use_tracked_set_cast_grant accepts this combination because head_gate is present, then discards target. The resulting grant can allow artifact cards that fail the suffix restriction.

Allow the target only when its non-zone filter is identical to head_gate; otherwise return the existing unimplemented gap.
Suggested fix
-    let head_gate = parse_cast_type_gate(fragment);
-    if head_gate.is_none() && !matches!(target, TargetFilter::ExiledBySource) {
+    let head_gate = parse_cast_type_gate(fragment);
+    let target_restrictions_are_represented = match target {
+        TargetFilter::ExiledBySource => true,
+        TargetFilter::And { filters } => filters.iter().all(|filter| {
+            matches!(filter, TargetFilter::ExiledBySource)
+                || head_gate.as_ref() == Some(filter)
+        }),
+        _ => false,
+    };
+    if !target_restrictions_are_represented {
         return Effect::unimplemented(UNREPRESENTABLE_CAST_CAP_GAP, fragment);
     }
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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs` around lines 27124 - 27225,
Update single_use_tracked_set_cast_grant to reject any non-zone restriction in
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+/// CR 601.3: a printed type restriction stated as a SUFFIX is refused rather
+/// than silently dropped.


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<title>Casting spells - Magic: The Gathering Wiki</title> https://mtg.wiki/page/Casting_spells - 601.2. To cast a spell is to take it from where it is (usually the hand), put it on the stack, and pay its costs, so that it will eventually resolve and have its effect. Casting a spell includes proposal of the spell (rules 601.2a–d) and determination and payment of costs (rules 601.2f–h). To cast a spell, a player follows the steps listed below, in order. A player must be legally allowed to cast the spell to begin this process (see rule 601.3). If a player is unable to comply with the requirements of a step listed below while performing that step, the casting of the spell is illegal; the game returns to the moment before the casting of that spell was proposed (see rule 733, “Handling Illegal Actions”). ... - 601.3. 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If any such choices could cause that effect to apply, that player may begin to cast that spell as though it had flash. ... - 601.3c If an effect allows a player to cast a spell as though it had flash only if an alternative or additional cost is paid, that player may begin to cast that spell as though it had flash. ... - 601.3d If a spell would have ... only if certain conditions are met, its controller may begin to cast that spell as though it had ... are met. ... - 601.3e Some rules and effects state that an alternative set of characteristics or a subset of characteristics are considered to determine if a card or copy of a card is legal to cast. These alternative characteristics replace the object’s characteristics for this determination. Continuous effects that would apply to that object once it has those characteristics are also considered. ... Example: Garruk’s Horde says, in part, “You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.” If you control Garruk’s Horde and the top card of your library is a noncreature card with morph, you may cast it using its morph ability. ... Example: Melek, Izzet Paragon says, in part, “You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.” If you control Melek, Izzet Paragon and the top card of your library is Giant Killer, an adventurer creature card whose Adventure is an instant named Chop Down, you may cast Chop Down but not Giant Killer. If instead you control Garruk’s Horde and the top card of your library is Giant Killer, you may cast Giant Killer but not Chop Down. ... - 601.3f Some effects allow a player to cast a spell with certain ... from among face-down cards in exile ... A player may ... only if they can look at the face ... down card in exile <title>Magic: The Gathering</title> https://media.wizards.com/2026/downloads/MagicCompRules%2020260807.pdf 6. Spells, Abilities, and Effects 600. General 601. Casting Spells 602. Activating Activated Abilities 603. Handling Triggered Abilities 604. Handling Static Abilities 605. Mana Abilities 606. Loyalty Abilities 607. Linked Abilities 608. Resolving Spells and Abilities 609. Effects 610. One-Shot Effects 611. Continuous Effects 612. Text-Changing Effects 613. Interaction of Continuous Effects 614. Replacement Effects 615. Prevention Effects 616. Interaction of Replacement and/or Prevention Effects ... 107.3. Many objects use the letter X as a placeholder for a number that needs to be determined. Some objects have abilities that define the value of X; the rest let their controller choose the value of X. 107.3a If a spell or activated ability has a mana cost, alternative cost, additional cost, and/or activation cost with an {X}, [-X], or X in it, and the value of X isn’t defined by the text of that spell or ability, the controller of that spell or ability chooses and announces the value of X as part of casting the spell or activating the ability. (See rule 601, “Casting Spells.”) While a spell is on the stack, any X in its mana cost or in any alternative cost or additional cost it has equals the announced value. While an activated ability is on the stack, any X in its activation cost equals the announced value. 107.3b If a player is casting a spell that has an {X} in its mana cost, the value of X isn’t defined by the text of that spell, and an effect lets that player cast that spell while paying neither its mana cost nor an alternative cost that includes X, then the only legal choice for X is 0. This doesn’t apply to effects that only reduce a cost, even if they reduce it to zero. See rule 601, “Casting Spells.” 107.3c If a spell or activated ability has an {X}, [-X], or X in its cost and/or its text, and the value of X is defined by the text of that spell or ability, then that’s the value of X while that spell or ability is on the stack. The controller of that spell or ability doesn’t get to choose the value. Note that the value of X may change while that spell or ability is on the stack. 107.3d If a cost associated with a special action, such as a suspend cost or a morph cost, has an {X} or an X in it, the value of X is chosen by the player taking the special action immediately before they pay that cost. 107.3e If a spell or ability refers to the {X} or X in the mana cost, alternative cost, additional cost, or activation cost of another object, any X in that spell or ability’s text uses the value of X used by the other object. 107.3f Sometimes X appears in the text of a spell or ability but not in a mana cost, alternative cost, additional cost, or activation cost. If the value of X isn’t defined, the controller of the spell or ability chooses the value of X at the appropriate time (either as it’s put on the stack or as it resolves). 107.3g If a card in any zone other than the stack has an {X} in its mana cost, the value of {X} is treated as 0, even if the value of X is defined somewhere within its text. 107.3h If an effect instructs a player to pay an object’s mana cost that includes {X}, the value of X is treated as 0 unless the object is a spell on the stack. In that case, the value of X is the value chosen or determined for it as the spell was cast. 107.3i Normally, all instances of X on an object have the same value at any given time. 107.3j If an object gains an ability, the value of X within that ability is the value defined by that ability, or 0 if that ability doesn’t define a value of X. This is an exception to rule 107.3i. This may occur with ability-adding effects, text-changing effects, or copy effects. 107.3k If an object’s activated ability has an {X}, [-X], or X in its activation cost, the value of X for that ability is independent of any other values of X chosen for that object or for other instances of abilities of that object. This is an exception to rule 107.3i. 107.3m If an object’s enters-the-battlefield... <title>Result 3</title> https://magic-rulebook.vercel.app/rules/601 601.2 To cast a spell is to take it from where it is (usually the hand), put it on the stack, and pay its costs, so that it will eventually resolve and have its effect. Casting a spell includes proposal of the spell (rules 601.2a–d) and determination and payment of costs (rules 601.2f–h). To cast a spell, a player follows the steps listed below, in order. A player must be legally allowed to cast the spell to begin this process (see rule 601.3). If a player is unable to comply with the requirements of a step listed below while performing that step, the casting of the spell is illegal ; the game returns to the moment before the casting of that spell was proposed (see rule 723, “Handling Illegal Actions”). ... 601.3 A player can begin to cast a spell only if a rule or effect allows that player to cast it and no rule or effect prohibits that player from casting it. ... 601.3a If an effect prohibits a player from casting a spell with certain qualities, that player may consider any choices to be made during that spell’s proposal that may cause those qualities to change. If any such choices could cause that effect to no longer prohibit that player from casting that spell, the player may begin to cast the spell, ignoring the effect. Example: A player controls Void Winnower, which reads, in part, “Your opponents can&`#39`;t cast spells with even mana values.” That player’s opponent may begin to cast Rolling Thunder, a card whose mana cost is {X}{R}{R}, because the chosen value of X may cause the spell’s mana value to become odd. ... 601.3b If an effect allows a player to cast a spell with certain qualities as though it had flash, that player may consider any choices to be made during that spell’s proposal that may cause that spell’s qualities to change. If any such choices could cause that effect to apply, that player may begin to cast that spell as though it had flash. Example: An effect says that you may cast Aura spells as though they had flash, and you have a creature card with bestow in your hand. Because choosing the bestow ability’s alternative cost causes that spell to become an Aura spell, you may legally begin to cast that spell as though it had flash. ... 601.3c If an effect allows a player to cast a spell as though it had flash only if an alternative or additional cost is paid, that player may begin to cast that spell as though it had flash. ... 601.3d If a spell would have flash only if certain conditions are met, its controller may begin to cast that spell as though it had flash if those conditions are met. ... 601.3e Some rules and effects state that an alternative set of characteristics or a subset of characteristics are considered to determine if a card or copy of a card is legal to cast. These alternative characteristics replace the object’s characteristics for this determination. Continuous effects that would apply to that object once it has those characteristics are also considered. Example: Garruk’s Horde says, in part, “You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.” If you control Garruk’s Horde and the top card of your library is a noncreature card with morph, you may cast it using its morph ability. Example: Melek, Izzet Paragon says, in part, “You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.” If you control Melek, Izzet Paragon and the top card of your library is Giant Killer, an adventurer creature card whose Adventure is an instant named Chop Down, you may cast Chop Down but not Giant Killer. If instead you control Garruk’s Horde and the top card of your library is Giant Killer, you may cast Giant Killer but not Chop Down. ... 601.3f Some effects allow a player to cast a spell with certain qualities from among face-down cards in exile. A player may begin to cast such a spell only if they can look at the face ... down card in exile. <title>601. Casting Spells - Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules</title> https://ancestral.vision/spells-abilities-and-effects/casting-spells.html 601.2. To cast a spell is to take it from where it is (usually the hand), put it on the stack, and pay its costs, so that it will eventually resolve and have its effect. Casting a spell includes proposal of the spell (rules 601.2a–d) and determination and payment of costs (rules 601.2f–h). To cast a spell, a player follows the steps listed below, in order. A player must be legally allowed to cast the spell to begin this process (see rule 601.3). If a player is unable to comply with the requirements of a step listed below while performing that step, the casting of the spell is illegal; the game returns to the moment before the casting of that spell was proposed (see rule 728, “Handling Illegal Actions”). ... 601.3. A player can begin to cast a spell only if a rule or effect allows that player to cast it and no rule or effect prohibits that player from casting it. ... - 601.3a If an effect prohibits a player from casting a spell with certain qualities, that player may consider any choices to be made during that spell’s proposal that may cause those qualities to change. If any such choices could cause that effect to no longer prohibit that player from casting that spell, the player may begin to cast the spell, ignoring the effect. ... - 601.3b If an effect allows a player to cast a spell with certain qualities as though it had flash, that player may consider any choices to be made during that spell’s proposal that may cause that spell’s qualities to change. If any such choices could cause that effect to apply, that player may begin to cast that spell as though it had flash. ... - 601.3c If an effect allows a player to cast a spell as though it had flash only if an alternative or additional cost is paid, that player may begin to cast that spell as though it had flash. - 601.3d If a spell would have flash only if certain conditions are met, its controller may begin to cast that spell as though it had flash if those conditions are met. ... - 601.3e Some rules and effects state that an alternative set of characteristics or a subset of characteristics are considered to determine if a card or copy of a card is legal to cast. These alternative characteristics replace the object’s characteristics for this determination. Continuous effects that would apply to that object once it has those characteristics are also considered. ... Example: Garruk’s Horde says, in part, “You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.” If you control Garruk’s Horde and the top card of your library is a noncreature card with morph, you may cast it using its morph ability. ... - 601.3f Some effects allow a player to cast a spell with certain qualities from among face-down cards in exile. A player may begin to cast such a spell only if they can look at the face-down card in exile. <title>Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules</title> https://mtg-rules.vercel.app/chapters/601 ## 601. Casting Spells ... - 601.1. P r e v i o u s l y, t h e a c t i o n o f c a s t i n g a s p e l l, o r c a s t i n ... a c a r d a s a s p e l ... , w a s r e ... e r r e d ... n c a r d s a s“ p ... a y i n g” t h a t s p e l ... t h a t ... a r d. C a r ... w e r ... h e O ... o“ c a s t i n g ... - 601.2. T o c a s t a s p e l l i s t o t a k e i t f r o m w h e r e i t i s(u s u a l l y t h e h a n d), p u t i t o n t h e s t a c k, a n d p a y i t s c o s t s, s o t h a t i t w i l l e v e n t u a l l y r e s o l v e a n d h a v e i t s e f f e c t. C a s t i n g a s p e l l i n c l u d e s p r o p o s a l o f t h e s p e l l(r u l e s 6 0 1. 2 a– d) a n d d e t e r m i n a t i o n a n d p a y m e n t o f c o s t s(r u l e s 6 0 1. 2 f– h). T o c a s t a s p e l l, a p l a y e r f o l l o w s t h e s t e p s l i s t e d b e l o w, i n o r d e r. A p l a y e r m u s t b e l e g a l l y a l l o w e d t o c a s t t h e s p e l l t o b e g i n t h i s p r o c e s s(s e e r u l e 6 0 1. 3). I f a p l a y e r i s u n a b l e t o c o m p l y w i t h t h e r e q u i r e m e n t s o f a s t e p l i s t e d b e l o w w h i l e p e r f o r m i n g t h a t s t e p, t h e c a s t i n g o f t h e s p e l l i s i l l e g a l; t h e g a m e r e t u r n s t o t h e m o m e n t b e f o r e t h e c a s t i n g o f t h a t s p e l l w a s p r o p o s e d(s e e r u l e 7 2 3,“ H a n d l i n g I l l e g a l A c t i o n s”). ... - 601.2a T o p r o p o s e t h e c a s t i n g o f a s p e l l, a p l a y e r f i r s t m o v e s t h a t c a r d(o r t h a t c o p y o f a c a r d) f r o ... w h e r e i t i s t o t h e s ... a c k. I t b e c o ... t h e ... j e c t o ... t h e s ... a c k. I t h a s a l l t h e c ... a r a c t ... r i s t i c s o f t h e c a r d(o ... t h e c o p ... f a c a ... o c i ... , a n ... l a y e r ... - 601.2b I f t h e s p e l l i s m o d a l, t h e p l a y e r a n n o u n c e s t h e m o d e c h o i c e(s e e r u l e 7 0 0. 2). I ... t h e p l a y e r w i ... h e s ... o s p l i c e a ... y c a r d s o n t o t h e s p e l l(s e e r u l e 7 0 2. 4 7), t h e y r ... a r d s i ... t h e i r ... . I f ... e l l ... h a t w i l ... p a i ... a s i ... e i n g c a s t s u c h a s ... c o s ... . 9), t h e p l a y e r a n ... u n c e s ... i o n s ... a y a ... 2 f). A p l a y e r ... s t i n g ... l. I ... a t w ... i n s t e ... h a t l a t e r t i m ... s y m ... l a y e r a n ... - 601.2e T h e g a m e c h e c k s t o s e e i f t h e p r o p o s e d s p e l l c a n l e g a l l y b e c a s t. I f t h e p r o p o s e d s p e l l i s i l l e g a l, t h e g a m e r e t u r n s t o t h e m o m e n t b e f o r e t h e c a s t i n g o f t h a t s p e l l w a s p r o p o s e d(s e e r u l e 7 2 3,“ H a n d l i n g I l l e g a l A c t i o n s”). ... - 601.2f T h e p l a y e r d e t e r m i n e s t h e t o t a l c o s t o f t h e s p e l l. U s u a l l y t h i s i s j u s t t h e m a n a c o s t. S o m e s p e l l s h a v e a d d i t i o n a l o r a l t e r n a t i v e c o s t s. S o m e e f f e c t s m a y i n c r e a s e o r r e d u c e t h e c o s t t o p a y, o r m a y p r o v i d e ... t h e r a l ... a t i ... a y i ... a y i n g m a n a, t a p p i n g p e r m a n e n t s, s a c r i f i c i n g p e r m a n e n ... s, d ... d i n g ... a r d s, a ... a t i ... e c o s t(a s ... i n e d i n r ... 1. 2 b), p l u s a l l a d d i t i o n a ... c o s t s a ... t i n c r e a s e s, a n d ... t r e d ... c t i o n ... i p l ... e d u c t i o n s a p p ... p l a y e r m a y a p ... y t h e ... o r d ... a n g ... - 601.3. A p l a y e r c a n b e g i n t o c a s t a s p e l l o n l y i f a r u l e o r e f f e c t a l l o w s t h a t p l a y e r t o c a s t i t a n d n o r u l e o r e f f e c t p r o h i b i t s t h a t p l a y e r f r o m c a s t i n g i t. ... - 601.3a I f a n e f f e c t p r o h i b i t s a p l a y e r f r o m c a s t i n g a s p e l l w i t h c e r t a i n q u a l i t i e s, t h a t p l a y e r m a y c o n s...
Citations:

1: https://mtg.wiki/page/Casting_spells

2: https://media.wizards.com/2026/downloads/MagicCompRules%2020260807.pdf

3: https://magic-rulebook.vercel.app/rules/601

4: https://ancestral.vision/spells-abilities-and-effects/casting-spells.html

5: https://mtg-rules.vercel.app/chapters/601

6: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/comprehensive-rules-changes-2019-09-27

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Correct the CR attribution.

CR 601.3 governs permission to begin casting. CR 601.3e governs alternative or subset characteristics used to determine casting legality. Neither rule defines Oracle-text head/suffix placement or requires this parser refusal. Cite CR 601.3e only for the retained type restriction. Describe the suffix refusal as an engine lowering limitation.

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-/// CR 601.3: a printed type restriction stated as a SUFFIX is refused rather -/// than silently dropped. +/// CR 601.3e: the instant-or-sorcery restriction is used to determine whether +/// a card is legal to cast. This engine refuses the suffix form during lowering +/// because the promotion cannot preserve that restriction. ... - "CR 601.3: a type restriction the promotion cannot carry must refuse the \ - clause, never produce an unfiltered grant over the whole tracked set" + "The promotion cannot carry this suffix type restriction; refuse the \ + clause, never produce an unfiltered grant over the whole tracked set"

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+            .contains("\"Instant\""),
+        "control: the promoted grant must actually CARRY the printed type filter, \
+         or this row would pass on exactly the unfiltered grant the guard exists \
+         to prevent"


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Assert both branches of the installed card filter.

The head_gated case permits instant or sorcery spells, but the assertion checks only for "Instant". A filter that retains only Instant would pass this test. Require a structural card_filter assertion containing both Instant and Sorcery.

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Changes requested on exact head dbe0c0241013aedff3d2a284c0b3396b8aff9143. The latest commit adds a useful suffix-only refusal test, but both previously reported behavior gaps remain.

[HIGH] A graveyard land play does not spend its single-use grant. crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs:16413-16418 admits object-attached PlayFromExile { mode: Play } grants in graveyards, but :16453-16458 captures ExileLandPlayAuthorization only for cards in exile. finalize_committed_land_play at :16245-16248 receives just the graveyard source ID; record_graveyard_play_permission at :16113-16166 handles only a static GraveyardCastPermission, so it never calls the existing group-consumption authority in casting.rs:4525-4572. Sibling graveyard lands can retain the grant after the first play. Carry the elected object-attached grant and its single_use_group through finalization and spend it after the play commits. Add a production-action regression with two granted graveyard lands and an additional legal land play; otherwise the ordinary one-land-per-turn limit can make the negative assertion pass even while the grant remains unspent. The new an_opponent_owned_milled_land_is_offered_and_playable test at locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs:621-680 reaches only one land play.
[HIGH] A combined head and suffix type gate still loses the suffix. crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs:27183-27185 refuses the discarded target only when head_gate.is_none(). For a clause such as “cast an artifact spell from among the instant or sorcery cards exiled this way,” the head gate is present, so promotion proceeds and :27208 installs only that gate as card_filter; the restricted target from parse_from_among_exiled_this_way at :27568-27619 is discarded. Its pre-anchor probe also takes precedence over the suffix, which makes this composition particularly important to test. The new test at locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs:521-594 covers suffix-only and head-only forms separately, not both together. Refuse any discarded non-zone restriction that the installed filter does not represent, or preserve their conjunction; add a combined-gate test that asserts no wider grant is installed.

The cross-owner cast and land discovery/action-gate fixes are present on this head, and the existing enhancement label fits the additive capability. Current-head Rust/Card data checks were still running during this review. The parse-diff sticky comment at #issuecomment-5784142377 names older head d997d7550187974e603c7ec7c32896fb149a0fad, so obtain the receipt for this head before approval. The casting.rs:5843 and engine.rs:16402 land-play comments should also replace CR 601.2a, which governs spell casting, with the land-play rules (CR 116.2a/305.1); these rule texts were checked against docs/MagicCompRules.txt.

…e gate **Land plays never spent their single-use budget.** The cast path spends via `consume_single_use_play_from_exile`; the land path captured its authorization only when the card was in EXILE, so a milled land reached `finalize_committed_land_play` with no authorization at all. `record_graveyard_play_permission` handles only a static `GraveyardCastPermission`, so nothing spent the grant and every sibling land in the batch stayed playable. CR 116.2a puts a land onto the battlefield "from the zone it was in", so the capture is now gated on exile-OR-graveyard, matching `play_from_exile_object_in_cast_path`'s own zone contract (a library land must not become playable this way). `ExileLandPlayAuthorization::ObjectAttached` carries the `single_use_group`, captured pre-move because the grant travels with the object and is unreadable afterwards. Consumption is orthogonal to the `CastFrequency` match: `single_use` is a grant-scoped budget and frequency is a per-source per-turn slot, so folding it into one arm would skip every frequency that arm does not name. **A combined head+suffix type gate still lost the suffix.** The previous guard asked `head_gate.is_none()`, which caught the suffix-only form and passed the combination: "cast an artifact spell from among the instant or sorcery cards exiled this way" promoted with `card_filter: Some(Artifact)`, authorizing an artifact that is neither instant nor sorcery. `discarded_cast_restriction` now compares what the discarded target carries against what the installed filter represents, covering suffix-only, head-only and both-at-once with one question. CR 601.3 governs why the restriction matters; the refusal itself is an engine lowering limitation and carries no CR. Tests: the two-land regression includes a `MayPlayAdditionalLand` source, so the CR 116.2a one-per-turn limit cannot stand in for a spent grant on the action-gate assertion. The head-gated control now asserts the `card_filter` structurally with BOTH legs, since a filter retaining only `Instant` would satisfy a substring check. CR citations on land-play comments retargeted from CR 601.2a (spell casting) to CR 116.2a/305.1, verified against docs/MagicCompRules.txt.

CR 601.2a governs proposing to cast a SPELL. The single-use land-play budget comments on `ExileLandPlayAuthorization::single_use_group` and `record_exile_play_permission` now cite CR 116.2a (a land is put onto the battlefield "from the zone it was in") with CR 611.2a for the grant's window. `non_owner_graveyard_play_from_exile_grants` serves both the cast and the land surface, so its doc now names both rules and says which half each governs rather than citing only the spell-casting one. Comment-only: no non-comment line changed.

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Widening the play-land capture to graveyards (for object-attached `PlayFromExile` grants, which travel with the card) also routed graveyard lands into the STATIC `ExileCastPermission` fallback. A static source's this-turn pool (`cards_exiled_with_source_this_turn`) is keyed by `ObjectId`, which is stable across zone changes, and is cleared only at turn end - never on zone exit. So a land exiled with such a source and moved to a graveyard the same turn is still in the pool, and the action gate accepted a `PlayLand` for it from the graveyard through a permission whose printed scope is cards EXILED with the source. Measured with the guard neutralized: discovery did not offer it; `PlayLand` returned `Ok` and moved it to the battlefield. CR 116.2a puts a land onto the battlefield "from the zone it was in". Reachable only through a this-turn pool with a `SourceController` grantee: persistent pools read `exile_links`, which zone exit prunes, and Uba Mask's `EachPlayerOwnExiles` pool filters on `exiled_by`, which zone exit clears. No printed card has the reachable shape (measured: 13 ExileCastPermission statics in the export, none this-turn + play + source-controller); the parser supports it, so the path is latent. Closed because the widening that opened it was this branch's. `a_static_exile_permission_does_not_reach_a_land_that_left_exile` fails on the action-gate assertion with the guard neutralized. Found by reading upstream's Uba Mask change (phase-rs#9236) during the merge: it touched the static exile-permission sources that the widened capture now reaches.

JeffyW · 2026-09-24T16:13:26Z

Addressed in 34b903d8c, edf327f10, 807c3245b (head 807c3245b).

[HIGH] Land play did not spend its single-use grant. Capture now runs for exile or graveyard, and ExileLandPlayAuthorization::ObjectAttached carries single_use_group captured before the move. Spending it is independent of the CastFrequency match. playing_one_granted_land_spends_the_batch_budget_for_its_sibling plays one of two granted lands with a MayPlayAdditionalLand source present. With the spend removed, it fails on the sibling.

[HIGH] Combined head and suffix gate. discarded_cast_restriction compares the discarded target against the installed card_filter and refuses on any mismatch. That covers suffix-only, head-only, and both together. Reverting to the old head_gate.is_none() guard fails a_dropped_type_gate_refuses_instead_of_widening_the_grant on the combined case.

CR. Land-play comments now cite CR 116.2a (a land is put onto the battlefield "from the zone it was in"), plus CR 611.2a where the grant's window matters. The shared cast/land helper cites both CR 601.2a and CR 116.2a.

Static exile-play fallback made exile-only. This came from reading #9236 during the merge. A static source's this-turn pool is keyed by ObjectId and cleared only at turn end, so a land exiled with that source and then moved to a graveyard stays in the pool. With the guard removed, PlayLand succeeds for a land that discovery never offered. Only a this-turn, SourceController-granted pool reaches this. Uba Mask's pool filters on exiled_by, which zone exit clears, and persistent pools are pruned on zone exit. No printed card uses the reachable shape, so it is latent. a_static_exile_permission_does_not_reach_a_land_that_left_exile fails on the action gate without the guard.

Bot findings. Accepted: the head_gated control now checks both card_filter legs structurally. Declined: CR 601.3e covers alternative characteristics, not a permission's printed type restriction.

Whole workspace: 34,318/34,320, with only the two Windows probe-pin failures. Scoped phase-engine clippy is clean with -D warnings.

Parse delta (isolated, 9168c9f..807c324): 2 card(s) changed; expected: yes (Locke, Chiss-Goria); unsupported census 8 -> 6.

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Changes requested on 807c3245be184c7b2c96675640a9692135c78e1d: Chiss-Goria's cast rider is lost when the cast becomes a lingering grant.

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[HIGH] The selected artifact spell does not gain affinity during its later cast. Evidence: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs:27230-27257 replaces the resolution-time cast with an immediate GrantCastingPermission; Chiss-Goria's following “If you do” remains an EffectOutcome(OptionalEffectPerformed)-gated GenericEffect with ParentTarget. At crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:16972-16981, that continuation runs during the attack trigger and clears the chain's tracked set because the child does not explicitly reference TrackedSet. With no selected spell yet, crates/engine/src/game/effects/effect.rs:815-831 has no object on which to install the affinity effect. The card's Oracle text says: “You may cast an artifact spell from among them this turn. If you do, it has affinity for artifacts.” (CHISS_GORIA_FORGE_TYRANT in crates/engine/tests/integration/kiora_self_library_peek_cast.rs:3407.) The current test at :3500-3528 checks only that a single-use grant exists for Chiss-Goria; it never casts a selected artifact and checks its cost/affinity. The current-head parse receipt now counts Chiss-Goria as supported, so this is a live semantics gap. Carry the affinity rider to the selected cast through the casting-permission/casting authority, and add a production action test that casts a chosen artifact with the affinity reduction while leaving other cards unaffected. If that selected-cast behavior is not yet representable, keep Chiss-Goria explicitly unsupported.

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crates/engine/tests/integration/locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs:762,895,961 still cites CR 601.2a for land plays. The local Comprehensive Rules say CR 601.2a moves a spell to the stack; CR 116.2a defines playing a land from its zone. Please correct these test citations with the behavior fix.

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The earlier graveyard land-budget blocker is addressed by pre-move grant capture and group consumption (casting.rs:6041-6051, engine.rs:16294-16312,16595-16607), with a production two-land test and an additional legal land drop (locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs:691-776). The combined head/suffix type gate now refuses a lost restriction (oracle_effect/mod.rs:27144-27228) and has a combined-case test (locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs:584-659). The exact-head parse receipt names Locke and Chiss-Goria, and required CI is green.

Recommendation: request changes for the selected-cast affinity rider, then recheck the exact-head parse receipt and a discriminating production cast test.

…nnot bind Chiss-Goria prints "You may cast an artifact spell from among them this turn. If you do, it has affinity for artifacts." The promotion turned the cast into a lingering `GrantCastingPermission`, but the "If you do" rider (a sibling gated on `EffectOutcome(OptionalEffectPerformed)`) runs during the grant's own resolution, before any spell has been cast. So it had nothing to act on. Measured: the grant installed correctly and the chosen artifact never gained affinity - no keyword, no transient effect - while the public coverage verdict reported the card with no gaps, i.e. supported. `refuse_cast_rider_on_lingering_grant` runs on the final assembled tree, beside `gate_other_revealed_card_on_multiplayer_reveal`, the one seam where a grant and its rider are both linked. It rewrites such a grant to an honest `cast_rider_on_lingering_grant` gap - a precise name, since Chiss-Goria's cap of one IS representable; only the rider is not. Scoped to `GrantCastingPermission` deliberately. A lingering `CastFromZone` can carry a deferred rider: The Tomb of Aclazotz's "If you do, it enters with a finality counter" lowers to `AddPendingETBCounters`, which binds when the spell later enters, and a blanket guard would sweep it in. Measured over the card-data export: the only `GrantCastingPermission` followed by an `OptionalEffectPerformed` rider is Chiss-Goria's, so the guard moves exactly one card. Carrying the rider instead was rejected on class size: of 27 cards printing a cast grant with an "If you do, it has/gains" rider, 21 are Dash reminder text and only Chiss-Goria needs a keyword carried onto a spell through a lingering permission. No existing channel fits (`cast_cost_modifier` is a fixed `ManaCost`; `CastWithKeyword` is a battlefield static), so it would be a new serialized field for one card. Also: CR 601.2a -> CR 116.2a on four land-play lines in the Locke test file, and drops an inherited CR 113.6b from `exile_land_play_authorization` whose rule text does not describe electing a land-play authority. Every CR on an added line re-audited across all of `crates/` from the merge-base.

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Moving Chiss-Goria out of the promotion half of the real-cards table left Locke as the only row, which clippy flags as a for loop over a single element. Now straight-line assertions. Test-only; no behaviour change.

JeffyW · 2026-09-25T03:21:20Z

Addressed in d2b527895 and 2984eb9d1 (head 2984eb9d1).

[HIGH] Chiss-Goria's affinity rider. A lingering grant's "If you do" rider runs when the grant itself resolves, before any spell is cast, so the rider had nothing to act on. With the guard neutralized, card_face_gaps reports Chiss-Goria as []: supported, while the rider does nothing. refuse_cast_rider_on_lingering_grant runs on the final tree and turns such a grant into a cast_rider_on_lingering_grant gap. The cap is representable; the rider is not. I kept it unsupported rather than carrying the rider: of 27 cards with a cast grant plus an "If you do, it has/gains" rider, only Chiss-Goria needs a keyword carried onto a spell cast through a lingering permission, and no existing channel can hold it.

Scope. The guard covers GrantCastingPermission only. A lingering CastFromZone can carry a deferred rider: The Tomb of Aclazotz's "it enters with a finality counter" lowers to AddPendingETBCounters, which applies when the spell later enters. The only GrantCastingPermission followed by such a rider in the export is Chiss-Goria's. a_lingering_grant_with_an_if_you_do_rider_is_reported_unsupported checks the verdict through card_face_gaps, with two controls: the same clause without the rider still promotes, and Locke is unaffected. Without the guard, the test fails.

CR. Four land-play lines in the test file changed from CR 601.2a to CR 116.2a. I re-audited every added CR citation across all of crates/, and dropped an inherited CR 113.6b from exile_land_play_authorization because its text doesn't cover this function. The PR body now retracts the earlier "equally inert" reasoning.

Tests: 34,408/34,411 pass. The failures are the two Windows probe-pin tests plus one phase-ai scenario that failed under full load; that scenario passes 12/12 on its own and has no path into this change. Scoped phase-engine clippy is clean with -D warnings.

Parse delta (isolated, d471a63..2984eb9): 2 card(s) changed; expected: yes (Locke supported; Chiss-Goria refused on the new rider gap); unsupported census 8 -> 7.

matthewevans · 2026-09-25T04:08:20Z

Maintainer hold on head 2984eb9d10ccdd8b04cdcab287020cf20ca5a24f.

The current-head parse receipt and required CI checks are green. The remaining correction is in two CR comments: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/assembly.rs:4152 and lower.rs:1613 cite CR 611.2a for the cast rider's timing. The local rules text makes 611.2a the duration rule; CR 608.2c covers resolution order and 611.2f covers effects applying to the next spell as it is cast. I prepared that two-line maintainer fixup locally.

Tilt is unreachable for this checkout, and this sweep cannot run direct builds. I have not pushed the fixup or approved/enqueued this head. Maintainer next step: verify the fixup in Tilt, push it to this PR, then review the new head and enqueue if its checks and review bar pass. No contributor rework is requested.

…re-hunter # Conflicts: # crates/engine/tests/integration/kiora_self_library_peek_cast.rs

The lingering-grant rider guard cited CR 611.2a, which governs how long a continuous effect lasts, for a claim about WHEN the rider runs. Two rules govern that instead: CR 608.2c (a resolving ability's instructions are followed in printed order, so the rider executes during the grant's own resolution, before any spell is cast) and CR 611.2f (an effect modifying a spell cast later applies only when that spell is put on the stack, which the grant cannot deliver). Same correction on the guard's test doc. Comment-only.

JeffyW · 2026-09-25T16:03:08Z

Merged upstream/main at bd1e795ad in a90780e80, then made one comment-only fix in e9a574fa7. The only conflict was the kiora_self_library_peek_cast.rs import list, where this branch adds CastingPermission and #8812 adds ContinuousModification; the resolution keeps both.

CR fix for the rider-timing comments. assembly.rs and lower.rs now cite CR 608.2c + CR 611.2f in place of CR 611.2a. CR 608.2c covers the rider being followed in order during the grant's own resolution. CR 611.2f covers why it would have to apply to a spell cast later. The guard's test doc in locke_milled_single_use_cast.rs had the same miscite and gets the same correction. This covers what your local fixup does, so you don't need to push it.

Parse delta (isolated, bd1e795..e9a574f): 2 card(s) changed; expected: yes (Locke supported; Chiss-Goria refused on the rider gap); unsupported census 8 -> 7.

matthewevans · 2026-09-25T16:08:04Z

Maintainer hold on exact head e9a574fa7b345084ffd5cce6e89a5138a1f308c7 after reviewing the new comment/merge-conflict delta. The two CR timing comments now cite the verified resolution-order and next-spell rules, and the import resolution retains both needed imports. No new implementation finding in this delta.

The required Rust lint, Rust tests, card-data, and frontend CI jobs are still running. The parse-diff sticky receipt is still generated for prior head 2984eb9d10ccdd8b04cdcab287020cf20ca5a24f, so it cannot serve as exact-head parse evidence yet. I will recheck the completed checks and the refreshed card-level receipt for e9a574fa7 before approving or enqueuing. No further author change is requested unless one of those checks exposes a failure.

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Approved on e9a574fa7b345084ffd5cce6e89a5138a1f308c7. The current-head parse receipt changes only Locke's capped grant and Chiss-Goria's explicit rider gap. Exact-head required CI is green. I rechecked the previously requested cross-owner cast and land discovery, single-use budget consumption, combined type-gate refusal, and Chiss-Goria rider handling against the current code and production-path tests; those blockers are addressed. The enhancement label matches this additive engine/parser capability.

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[Card Bug] PlayFromExile grants on a non-owner graveyard card are never offered #9231

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parser: support pool-qualified graveyard cast permissions (Banon, Kagha) #9222

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test(engine): drop a single-element loop left by the Chiss-Goria move

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Moving Chiss-Goria out of the promotion half of the real-cards table left Locke as the only row, which clippy flags as a for loop over a single element. Now straight-line assertions. Test-only; no behaviour change.

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Support em-dash Blitz from the graveyard; elect one graveyard permission per cast #9278

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