feat(engine): report which objects and players each stack-entry node acts on - #9302
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…acts on Add `stack_entry_node_reach`, an engine authority that reports, for each node of a stack entry's ability chain, the objects and players that node acts on when the entry resolves. It is built from the resolvers' own binding, so consumers such as phase-ai can ask the engine instead of pairing the root node's targets with a whole-chain scan. The resolvers' binding steps are extracted into shared functions that both the resolvers and the authority call, and the chain resolver's referent binding moves into `stack::bind_resolving_ability_referents`, shared by `resolve_top` and the authority. The extractions preserve behaviour. A node is answered only where the answer is exact. Where an earlier node can change what a later node reads, or a replacement effect may apply to the node's events, the node answers nothing. That is a stated under-report, never a wrong object or player. Optional choices are answered as if taken. The authority has no production caller yet; the phase-ai migration follows in a separate PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move countered_targets' doc comment onto countered_targets, and name the functions two moved comments point at instead of saying "below". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A node refused because an earlier instruction may change what it reads does not stop the walk: the nodes below it are still answered wherever the earlier changes are bounded. Only the other listed cases stop it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a stack-entry node reach query that prepares a resolution-time game state and reports targets for nodes whose outcomes can be determined. It also extracts shared resolution, target-selection, and validation helpers used by the query and effect resolution. ChangesStack-entry node reach
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
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Caller->>stack_entry_node_reach: Query reach for state and entry
stack_entry_node_reach->>GameState: Prepare resolution-time copy
stack_entry_node_reach->>StackEntry: Inspect entry and stack objects resolving first
stack_entry_node_reach-->>Caller: Return NodeReach results
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new stack-reach query can report targets that resolution will not act on. This happens for "if you do" follow-ups after a skipped parent, and for damage with no chosen sources. The upcoming AI consumer would then receive incorrect reach answers. Fix both before relying on the query. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new query is read-only and has no identified production caller in this PR. Its main remaining risk is that a future caller could treat an answer for an entry that is not on the live stack as authoritative. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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139-146: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReplace the new
boolfields with typed enums.
Before.later(Line 141),Before.after_optional(Line 143), andWritten.anything(Line 154) are newboolfields. Each field carries a named state that a small enum describes better. Examples:
enum Position { First, Later }enum Follows { Mandatory, Optional }enum Change { None, Some }With enums,
condition_holdsandinstead_swapcan use exhaustivematchin place of!before.latertests. The call sites can no longer swap the two positional flags by mistake.As per path instructions: "any new
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/deal_damage.rs`:
- Around line 1575-1578: Update the player_context_target branch so it returns
no recipient when object_targets contains no eligible damage source; only return
the player and source list when at least one source can deal damage. Preserve
the existing behavior for nonempty source lists so
resolve_each_target_power_damage and stack_reach::node_acted_on only treat the
player as acted on when damage can be dealt.
In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/stack_reach.rs`:
- Around line 300-304: In the child-effect `Before` value, update
`after_optional` so it is true only when the optional parent ran: combine
`performed.optional` with a check that `runs` is `Runs::Yes`. This prevents
`condition_holds` from reporting the “if you do” child when `Runs::NotItself`
skips the parent.
In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs`:
- Line 1247: In stack_entry_node_reach, add per-case positive reach guards to
a_node_over_any_number_of_target_players_acts_on_nothing and
a_repeated_node_acts_on_nothing. For each setup that asserts empty reach, first
verify the intended node is reached with a positive result, including the
non-empty choices case and a repeated node configured with a positive repeat
count.
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/stack_reach.rs`:
- Around line 139-146: Replace the boolean state fields `Before.later`,
`Before.after_optional`, and `Written.anything` with small enums representing
their named states. Update their construction and use throughout
`condition_holds` and `instead_swap` to match those enums exhaustively,
preventing positional flags from being interchanged.
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| if let Some(player_recipient) = player_context_target(state, ability, target_filter) { | ||
| // CR 120.3a: implicit/context player recipient (damage to a player | ||
| // causes life loss) — every object target is a source. | ||
| return Some((player_recipient, object_targets)); |
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Return no damage recipient when no source can deal damage.
If an EachTarget effect permits zero chosen sources and names an implicit player recipient, this branch returns that player with an empty source list. resolve_each_target_power_damage then produces no damage events, but stack_reach::node_acted_on reports the player as acted on. Return no recipient when the split has no eligible source. CR 120.2b identifies the object that deals damage from an effect. (media.wizards.com)
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/deal_damage.rs` around lines 1575 - 1578,
Update the player_context_target branch so it returns no recipient when
object_targets contains no eligible damage source; only return the player and
source list when at least one source can deal damage. Preserve the existing
behavior for nonempty source lists so resolve_each_target_power_damage and
stack_reach::node_acted_on only treat the player as acted on when damage can be
dealt.
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Set after_optional only when the parent runs.
Runs::NotItself skips the parent when fails_shared_quality is true, but the child still receives after_optional: performed.optional. condition_holds then returns Some(true) for the child’s OptionalEffectPerformed condition and can report the “if you do” child even though the parent effect was skipped.
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/stack_reach.rs` around lines 300 - 304, In the
child-effect `Before` value, update `after_optional` so it is true only when the
optional parent ran: combine `performed.optional` with a check that `runs` is
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| mod squirming_emergence_mana_value_target; | ||
| mod squirrel_mob_dynamic_pump; | ||
| mod stack_ability_kind_axis; | ||
| mod stack_entry_node_reach; |
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Add positive reach guards for negative cases.
The module uses production-style runner paths, but several negative reach assertions are not paired with a positive guard for the same setup. For example, a_node_over_any_number_of_target_players_acts_on_nothing checks both empty and non-empty choices without proving a positive reach result for the non-empty case. a_repeated_node_acts_on_nothing only sets repeat_for to zero before asserting an empty result. Add per-case guards that prove the intended node and positive reach before asserting that reach is empty. This prevents an unreached or malformed setup from producing a false-green test.
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In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs` at line 1247, In
stack_entry_node_reach, add per-case positive reach guards to
a_node_over_any_number_of_target_players_acts_on_nothing and
a_repeated_node_acts_on_nothing. For each setup that asserts empty reach, first
verify the intended node is reached with a positive result, including the
non-empty choices case and a repeated node configured with a positive repeat
count.
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Changes requested: the reach authority can name an implicit player for a multi-source damage instruction with no chosen source.
🔴 Blocker
crates/engine/src/game/effects/deal_damage.rs:1560-1579andcrates/engine/src/game/effects/stack_reach.rs:896: forDamageSource::EachTarget,player_context_targetcan return a player even whenobject_targetsis empty. The split then returns(player, []);damage_recipientsreports that player, whiledamage_sourcesreturns no source andresolve_each_target_power_damagebuilds no damage batch (deal_damage.rs:1652-1668). CR 120.2b says, “The spell or ability will specify which object deals that damage.” With zero selected sources, this instruction has no object to deal it. Please make the shared binding return no acted-on recipient for the zero-source case and add a regression test that contrasts zero sources with one eligible source. Also cover selected sources that all become ineligible before resolution. Keep the resolver and reach result aligned.
The existing Compel Brutality test (stack_entry_node_reach.rs:3888-3952) deliberately reports a recipient when a chosen planeswalker source is currently rejected by the damage resolver. This finding is narrower: no source object was chosen at all. The public EachTarget primitive can represent that case even though today's parsed card examples use object recipients.
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- CodeRabbit's proposed
after_optionalone-line change atstack_reach.rs:300-304needs a resolver-side check before adoption.resolve_optional_effect_decisionlatches acceptedoptional_effect_performed;resolver_performed_outcomecurrently revises it for onlyCompletePlayerActionandExchangeControl(effects/mod.rs:5526-5556). A reach-only change might stop matching the resolver for a shared-quality skip. Please evaluate that separately rather than applying the suggested line mechanically. - The two negative reach tests at
stack_entry_node_reach.rs:2166-2229would be stronger with positive counterpart cases. This is test quality feedback, not a separate rules blocker.
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90c220d5parse-diff says no card-parse changes, and the head's Rust lint, card-data, and all engine test shards are green in GitHub CI. The shared resolver extraction is at the right engine seam.
Recommendation: fix the zero-source reach case with a discriminating test, then re-review the new head.
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Approved on head 90c220d: the engine-owned reach authority and shared resolver bindings pass the current-head integration, lint, card-data, and no-parse-change gates. The earlier zero-source objection was withdrawn in the linked correction. The phase-ai consumer must carry its own AI performance gate.
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Summary
Adds an engine authority,
effects::stack_reach::stack_entry_node_reach(state, entry) -> Vec<NodeReach>. For each node of a stack entry's ability chain, it reports the objects and players that node's resolver will act on when the entry resolves.This is the precursor matthewevans asked for in review of #9245.
phase-ai's stack readers pair the root node'sability.targetswith a harmful effect found anywhere in the chain. That misattributes targets whenever a chain's nodes aim at different things:The follow-up
phase-aiPR migrates those helpers to ask the engine. This PR is engine-only, and nothing calls the authority in production yet (see below).How it answers. The authority is built from the resolvers' own binding, not a re-derivation:
countered_targets,destroyed_targets,damage_recipients,single_damage_sourceand others.stack::bind_resolving_ability_referents, whichresolve_topand the authority share.These extractions are part of the change, and they preserve behaviour: the full engine suite passes unchanged.
The contract: exact or nothing. A non-empty answer is what the node acts on. Where the authority can't be exact, the node answers nothing. It never names a wrong object or player. Specifically:
Order. It reasons in resolution order. A stack object above
entryresolves first, so it is never in the answer (CR 405.5).Optional choices ("you may", an unless cost, "if you do") are answered as if taken.
What it answers, and what it doesn't. It answers what a node acts on, not whether that changes anything: indestructible, can't-be-countered, prevented damage and similar outcomes are the consumer's to judge.
Later instructions. A later instruction is answered only where the earlier instructions' changes can be bounded and don't reach what it reads (CR 608.2c, CR 608.2h). The earlier instruction must be one the authority can bound:
NoOp, aTargetOnlythat holds no object under a scoped player, pump, a damage node it answers, regeneration, or surveil. The later node must be a counter, fight, damage, destroy or life loss that:Anything else answers nothing.
Motivating cards. Each result is the authority's answer and the engine's outcome after resolution, from an integration test:
GenericEffect, which isn't analysed)The authority has no production caller in this PR.
stack_entry_node_reachin production. The integration tests instack_entry_node_reach.rsexercise it through the public path, and dead-code linting accepts it atpub. Narrowed topub(crate),cargo clippy -p phase-engine --lib -- -D warningsfails with 24 never-used errors.deal_damage::damage_sources, a new composition used only by the authority.phase-aiPR, which rebases fix(ai): stop re-animating a manland that gains nothing from it #9245 onto this one.pubsophase-ai…" doc form, but each becamepubin the same PR as its firstphase-aicaller. Among engine functions documented that way, this is the first to land ahead of its caller. It lands first because the maintainer asked for the engine authority to be delivered before the AI migration.Stated limits: every one is an under-report (the node answers nothing, or answers less), never a wrong object or player
Mass populations are not predicted. The mass-population family,
SetTapState{All}andGoadAllanswer nothing. A mass node whose population is the parent target (DamageAll{ParentTarget}: Comet Storm, Prisoner's Dilemma) under-reports. Found withjq … select(.target.type | IN("ParentTarget","ParentTargetSlot"))over the mass types.Approximated resolvers.
Sacrifice,GenericEffectandDiscardCardanswer with declared targets; an inheriting node answers nothing (for exampleGenericEffect{ParentTarget}after a root, as in Final Showdown or Grab the Reins). Removing the limit means extracting their bindings:sacrifice::resolve's targeted-object block,effect::register_transient_effect's bound-filter selection, anddiscard::resolve's hand-card selection.A second approximation for the same resolvers.
Sacrifice,GenericEffectandDiscardCardalso answer with a parent target that the re-seeding writes (theSacrificerows ofa_trigger_whose_parent_target_was_not_seeded_reads_its_event_referent).ChangeZone's hand-exile rebinding is not mirrored (see the code comment), and neither is itsparent_target_missing_reasonearly return.Resolution-time hand-offs are not modelled:
forward_resultproducers, where the moved object becomes the child's source or targets;The one-sided-fight subject prepend is modelled, through the engine's own
bind_one_sided_fight_subject.Population answers. For a node that declares no target and inherits none, a census over five filters found two routed arms that answer a population:
PhaseOutanswers one for every filter tried;ForceBlockanswers one forTypedfilters.LoseLifeandMillalways answer one player. Every other routed kind answered nothing for those filters. Other filters were not tried.Distributed damage. Measured on one case, Forked Bolt split 1/1: the authority answered both targets and the engine dealt 1 to each. Other splits were not probed.
Unrouted non-mass effect kinds answer nothing. Of them, only
LoseTheGame(harmful, players only) is one a helper that the follow-upphase-aiPR migrates inspects. Spellskite could not be its new target anyway (legal_new_targets_for_entry).Intervening-if, control and target legality:
A node that reads its trigger event or its parent's target, with neither bound, answers nothing. It under-reports where the engine acts anyway:
TriggeringPlayernode the engine applies to the trigger's controller;Fight{ParentTarget}, when the hand-off gives it nothing;DefendingPlayeroutside a trigger, which the resolver can read from combat state (read, not run).A
player_scopenode and every node below it answer nothing, including nodes below it that the engine does not repeat. Nodes above it answer.An entry with a required target and none chosen answers nothing, including while its controller is choosing.
Reach, assuming optional choices are taken. A "you may", an unless cost the player may pay, an "if you do" after a "you may", and an "any opponent may" are answered as if the choice is taken. A counter whose unless cost is {0} answers nothing.
Acts on, not changes. The answer does not predict whether a rule or effect lets the instruction change the named object. That covers a spell that can't be countered, an indestructible or regenerating creature, a shield counter, a player who can't lose life, prevented damage, a zero amount, an exile or sacrifice a static forbids, a fighter no longer eligible, and a
GenericEffectwhose static condition fails.deal_damage::damage_source_eligiblerequires a creature source. The tests assert the engine's current value and name the defect.Later instructions. A node below the entry's first instruction answers nothing in two cases.
NoOp, aTargetOnlythat holds no object under a scoped player, a pump, a damage node it answers, a regeneration, or a surveil on whose moves no replacement effect may apply. Every node below such an instruction answers nothing too.A node refused this way does not stop the walk: the nodes below it are still answered where the earlier changes are bounded. No test yet pins that continuation. A mutation that makes a refused pump stop the walk only empties answers, and none of the 76 tests catches it.
Other under-reports:
An unless amount an earlier instruction lowers to {0}. The authority reads a later counter's unless amount before resolution. If an earlier instruction lowered a nonzero amount to {0}, the answer would name a spell the engine does not counter. No card does this today.
Counternode with an unless cost indata/card-data.jsonfinds 131 nodes. 33 have a cost that isn't a fixed mana amount, and six of those are later nodes.A new analysed instruction must re-run this census.
A replacement a static would grant once an earlier instruction flips its condition is not on the pre-resolution board, so the authority can't see it. No card grants one under a condition today.
modificationsgrant a replacement (GrantReplacement, or Riot) finds 8, none with a condition. The positive control finds 12,996 objects with amodificationslist.GenericEffect, which the authority does not analyse.A pump followed by a fight whose subject is the pump's target (Epic Confrontation's shape) answers nothing at every node. The legality comparison sees the fight handed its parent's target.
Below a change, a
DamageDonereplacement refuses a later damage node wherever it sits. That covers any definitionactive_replacementsyields: every zone except phased-out objects and non-emblems in the command zone. This happens whether or not the replacement would match the event.A behaviour change the follow-up
phase-aiPR inherits from these limits:Sacrifice/GenericEffect/DiscardCardor a mass node whose population is the parent target (Comet Storm, Prisoner's DilemmaDamageAll{ParentTarget})jqoverdata/card-data.jsonCost. Unoptimised test profile, 20,000 calls per figure:
The follow-up
phase-aiPR runscargo ai-perf-gate, because its helpers call this on ordinary counter and removal decisions.Engine defects found while building this, filed separately and not fixed here:
countered_stack_index, so it shares that behaviour until the resolver is fixed.resolved_unless_costunchanged. CR 118.5 says such a cost is not paid automatically.Files changed
crates/engine/src/game/effects/stack_reach.rs(new)crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rscrates/engine/src/game/effects/counter.rscrates/engine/src/game/effects/counters.rscrates/engine/src/game/effects/deal_damage.rscrates/engine/src/game/effects/destroy.rscrates/engine/src/game/effects/life.rscrates/engine/src/game/effects/phase_out.rscrates/engine/src/game/effects/tap_untap.rscrates/engine/src/game/stack.rscrates/engine/tests/integration/stack_entry_node_reach.rs(new)crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rsTrack
Developer
LLM
Model: claude-opus-5-5
Tier: Frontier
Thinking: high
Planning, every plan and implementation review, and verification ran on
claude-opus-5-5. The implementation ran onclaude-sonnet-5. Each commit's trailer names the model that committed it.Implementation method (required)
Method: /engine-implementer
This ran as a chartered two-phase run: the engine authority here, the
phase-aimigration next.main, 32 commits past its planning base, resolving one conflict ineffects/mod.rsthat kept both sides.CR references
Every CR number cited in added lines is in
docs/MagicCompRules.txt(the check below reports 0 missing). The ones this authority rests on:CR 405.5: the top of the stack resolves first, so an object aboveentryis never in its answer.CR 608.2c: instructions are followed in order.CR 608.2h: a later instruction reads the game as the earlier ones left it. This is why a later node is answered only where the earlier changes are bounded.CR 608.2b: target legality on resolution.CR 603.4: a trigger's intervening-if.CR 614.1: replacement effects, which the authority refuses where one may apply.CR 701.6a(counter),CR 701.8a(destroy),CR 701.14a/CR 701.14c(fight, including a creature fighting itself),CR 120.1/CR 120.3(damage and its results),CR 701.25a(surveil),CR 701.19a(regenerate),CR 118.12a(unless costs).The full set in added lines: CR 101.4, 107.3a, 107.3c, 109.4, 109.5, 113.6b, 115.1a, 115.6, 115.10a, 118.4, 118.5, 118.6, 118.12, 120.1, 120.2b, 120.3, 120.3a, 120.10, 122.1, 202.1, 202.1b, 401.5, 405.5, 506.2, 603.4, 603.7, 603.12, 603.12a, 608.2b, 608.2c, 608.2d, 608.2e, 608.2h, 609.3, 610.3b, 613.4c, 614.1, 616.1, 700.2, 701.6a, 701.8a, 701.14a, 701.14c, 701.19a, 701.20e, 701.25a, 701.38, 702.24a, 702.24b, 702.49, 702.190a, 705.2, 706.2, 706.4.
Verification
All of the following ran at the final head
90c220d5, in a fresh detached worktree with an isolatedCARGO_TARGET_DIR:cargo fmt --all -- --check— exit 0cargo clippy -p phase-engine -p phase-ai --all-targets -- -D warnings— 0 diagnosticscargo nextest run -p phase-engine, in 3 partitions — 29,911 passed, 0 failed, 76 of them the authority's testscargo nextest run -p phase-ai, with nophase-aifile changed — 2,825 passed, 0 failed./scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh— Gate A PASS (below). No parser file changed.docs/MagicCompRules.txt(0 missing; aCR 999.99control is reported missing)grep -rln "stack_entry_node_reach\|NodeReach" crates/ --include=*.rsreturns only the module, its test file and themodlinecargo ai-gate/cargo ai-perf-gate— not run. Nophase-aifile changes, and nothing calls the authority in production, so no AI decision can change. The follow-upphase-aiPR runs both.Gate A
Gate A PASS head=90c220d5686419a5607e1512aa76f617e08bac6c base=b110e37fe0b040c4a9ad220a055a8787cc2ef5a1
Anchored on
crates/engine/src/game/filter.rs:3241—matches_target_filter_against_face_scoped, an engine authority madepubsophase-ai(features/cost_reduction.rs) asks the engine instead of re-deriving filter matching.crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:22672—find_eligible_sacrifice_targets, madepubforphase-ai'spolicies/sacrifice_cost_mana_gate.rs.crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs:17268—creature_can_pay_crew, madepubforphase-ai'spolicies/vehicle_deployment.rs.Each landed with its
phase-aicaller in the same PR (#6743, #6745, #6790). This PR lands the authority ahead of its caller; see the Summary.Final review-impl
Final review-impl PASS head=90c220d5686419a5607e1512aa76f617e08bac6c
Claimed parse impact
None.
Scope Expansion
None.
Validation Failures
Two
phase-aisearch tests are intermittently flaky under heavy machine load, at the base too:search::tests::self_destruct_target_selection_prefers_lethal_over_nonlethal_bodysearch::tests::prospective_fetch_choice_survives_to_the_real_search_promptEach failed once during planning at load averages of 30–47, and each also failed on an unmodified base tree run side by side under the same load. Their source file is identical in both trees, and they pass alone and on every run at the final head. The likely cause is the search's wall-clock budget; this was not confirmed.
CI Failures
None.
Overlapping work
tools/branch-overlap.shreports two overlaps, and both merge cleanly:card/stormsurge-kraken) also adds amodline tocrates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs.git merge-tree --write-treeagainst it exits 0.card/elenda-saint-of-dusk) editseffects/mod.rsandmain.rsin different functions. Its committed head and its uncommitted diff both merge cleanly with this one.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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