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Implements Gideon Jura. The +2 was Effect::Unimplemented { name: "during" }; the 0 parsed but carried a rules bug that also affects Gideon of the Trials. The -2 already worked and is now pinned by a test.

Ability Before After
+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. Unimplemented Parsed + enforced
-2: Destroy target tapped creature. Worked Unchanged, now tested
0: ... becomes a 6/6 ... Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. Shield had no recipient constraint — a turn-long Fog over every damage event in the game Scoped to Gideon

Architecture

CR 506.3 makes "a player, a planeswalker, or a battle" one defender category, and the engine already modelled it as one type (combat::AttackTarget). The required-defender axis is widened to span that category rather than forking a parallel player-only/permanent-only static pair.

  • RequiredDefender::Permanent — snapshots the defender as an ObjectIncarnationRef (CR 400.7, mirroring MustBlockAttacker); the AttackTarget kind is derived live each declare-attackers step, so a self-animated Gideon is still an attackable planeswalker (CR 306.1) and a departed one simply drops the requirement. StaticMode::MustAttackPlayerMustAttackDefender so the name can't invite player-only code, and the CR 508.1d solver keys on AttackTarget.
  • Effect::ForceAttack { scope: EffectScope } — parameterized exactly as on Transform/SetTapState. Per CR 115.1 the +2 targets only the opponent, so All makes "creatures that player controls" a non-targeting population and no creature slot is built. Without this the ability went on the stack with two targets and would have fizzled on an unrelated creature becoming illegal.
  • ControllerRef::SpecificPlayer / PlayerScope::SpecificPlayer — resolution-time snapshots following the lower-at-resolution contract already documented on RestrictionPlayerScope::SpecificPlayer. Per CR 611.2c the affected creature set stays dynamic (the card's ruling: the ability "doesn't lock in what it applies to … includes creatures that come under that player's control after the ability has resolved"), while the player and the expiry are fixed at resolution.

All three variant additions were run through the add-engine-variant gate; every CR number was verified against docs/MagicCompRules.txt.

Building-block fixes (not card-level)

  • Gendered-pronoun damage recipients. "dealt to him" fell through to TargetFilter::Any — a shield with no recipient constraint. A gendered pronoun is now the ungated printed-name self-reference; singular-they stays excluded (it is recipient-anaphoric for player-enchanting Auras). Gideon of the Trials' existing test only asserted the absence of Unimplemented and never checked the shield's scope, which is why this survived.
  • Bare-plural subject context threading. "creatures that player controls" called the ctx-free parse_target, so the "that player" anaphor took the documented ControllerRef::You fallback and pointed the requirement at the activating player's creatures. It now threads ParseContext like its sibling target arm already did.

Two seams deliberately narrowed

  • The "during … next turn" duration arm accepts only the targeted possessives. The positional wrappers (strip_leading_duration / strip_trailing_duration) run before clause-level grammars, so a phrase added to parse_duration is taken away from whatever already owned it — the pronoun forms belong to the CR 723.1 control-next-turn grammar (Construct a Cosmic Cube). Caught as a regression during verification.
  • The counted attackable-defender sweep keeps its historical attackable_player_sweeps counter name. Two revert-failing tests assert on it and the name is a key in phase-ai/baselines/perf-baseline.json; renaming would invalidate the baseline for a cosmetic gain.

Serde compatibility

MustAttackPlayerMustAttackDefender and required_playerrequired_defender carry serde(alias). CombatRequirement.playersdefenders needed a real element-shape shim (deserialize_defenders): legacy mid-combat snapshots hold bare PlayerId integers, which widen to AttackTarget::Player. The two shapes are number vs. tagged map, so the widening is unambiguous. EffectScope defaults to Single, which is what every pre-existing payload meant.

Tests

  • 5 runtime (gideon_jura_forced_attack_planeswalker.rs): the installed requirement's shape and expiry; enforcement through the real GameAction::DeclareAttackers route (attacking the controller is rejected, attacking the planeswalker commits, declining is rejected); CR 115.1 single-target; the CR 611.2c not-locked-in ruling (a creature arriving after resolution is still forced); and the lapse-when-Gideon-leaves ruling, which is the vacuity guard for the enforcement test.
  • 2 parser: full-card parse; the gendered-pronoun recipient at building-block level, including with the parent_target_available gate open, plus a "them" reach guard.
  • 1 resolver: the shield prevents damage to its host while a bystander and the controller still take theirs.

Verification

clippy clean; engine 18857 lib + 4819 integration + 30 bin; phase-ai 2135; frontend tsc -b --force clean + 30 vitest. Rebased onto current main (49 commits) with no conflicts, and re-verified after the rebase.

Not run: cargo coverage / semantic-audit — this worktree has no MTGJSON corpus. Since the change touches shared parser grammar, the corpus-wide parse blast radius needs the CI parse-diff report. The two regressions above were exactly that class and were only caught because the engine suite happens to pin those cards.

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  • New Features

    • Forced-attack requirements now support players, planeswalkers, and battles as defenders.
    • Added targeted-opponent next-turn durations and dynamic inclusion of newly controlled creatures.
    • Improved recognition of forced-attack and self-reference wording in card text.
    • Added scenario support for creating planeswalkers from Oracle text.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected attack legality and requirement tracking when defenders change or leave play.
    • Fixed damage-prevention effects to remain limited to the intended permanent.
    • Preserved compatibility with older saved game data.

Gideon Jura's "+2" was `Effect::Unimplemented`, and its "0" carried a
rules bug that also affected Gideon of the Trials. All three loyalty
abilities now parse and resolve correctly.

CR 506.3 makes "a player, a planeswalker, or a battle" ONE defender
category, and the engine already modelled it as one type
(`combat::AttackTarget`). The required-defender axis is widened to span
that category rather than forking a parallel player-only/permanent-only
static pair:

  * `RequiredDefender::Permanent` snapshots the defender as an
    `ObjectIncarnationRef` (CR 400.7, mirroring `MustBlockAttacker`), and
    the `AttackTarget` kind it presents is derived live at each
    declare-attackers step. `StaticMode::MustAttackPlayer` is renamed
    `MustAttackDefender` so the name cannot invite player-only code, and
    the CR 508.1d solver's requirements key on `AttackTarget`.
  * `Effect::ForceAttack` gains an `EffectScope`, parameterized exactly as
    on `Transform`/`SetTapState`. Per CR 115.1 the "+2" targets only the
    opponent, so the `All` scope makes "creatures that player controls" a
    non-targeting population and no creature slot is built.
  * `ControllerRef::SpecificPlayer` / `PlayerScope::SpecificPlayer` are
    resolution-time snapshots, following the lower-at-resolution contract
    already documented on `RestrictionPlayerScope::SpecificPlayer`. Per
    CR 611.2c the affected creature SET stays dynamic (the card's ruling:
    the ability "doesn't lock in what it applies to ... includes creatures
    that come under that player's control after the ability has
    resolved"), while the player and the expiry are fixed at resolution.

Two fixes are building-block level rather than card level:

  * "prevent all damage that would be dealt to HIM" fell through to a
    recipient of `TargetFilter::Any` — a shield with no recipient
    constraint, i.e. a turn-long Fog over every damage event in the game.
    Gideon of the Trials shares this; its existing test only asserted the
    absence of `Unimplemented` and never checked the shield's scope. A
    gendered pronoun is now recognized as the ungated printed-name
    self-reference (singular-they stays excluded — it is
    recipient-anaphoric for player-enchanting Auras).
  * A bare-plural subject ("creatures that player controls") called the
    ctx-free `parse_target`, so the "that player" anaphor took the
    documented `ControllerRef::You` fallback and pointed the requirement at
    the ACTIVATING player's creatures. It now threads `ParseContext` like
    its sibling "target " arm already did.

Two seams needed narrowing to avoid stealing behavior from existing cards:
the "during ... next turn" duration arm accepts only the TARGETED
possessives, because the positional wrappers run before clause-level
grammars and the pronoun forms are owned by the CR 723.1 control-next-turn
grammar (Construct a Cosmic Cube); and the counted attackable-defender
sweep keeps its historical `attackable_player_sweeps` counter name, which
is a key in phase-ai's persisted perf baseline.

Verified: clippy clean; engine 18857 lib + 4819 integration + 30 bin;
phase-ai 2135; frontend tsc clean + 30 vitest. Coverage/semantic-audit
were NOT run - this worktree has no MTGJSON corpus, so the corpus-wide
parse blast radius needs the CI parse-diff report.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change generalizes forced attacks from player-only requirements to players, planeswalkers, and battles. It updates parsing, resolution, combat legality, serialized compatibility, AI handling, client types, and regression tests.

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Defender-targeted forced attacks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Defender contracts and Oracle parsing
crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs, crates/engine/src/types/statics.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/...
ForceAttack and MustAttack now use generalized defender filters and AttackTarget values. Parsing supports permanent defenders, broadcast effects, targeted next-turn windows, and source-anaphoric pronouns.
Force-attack resolution and effect lifetime
crates/engine/src/game/effects/force_attack.rs, crates/engine/src/game/layers.rs
Resolution snapshots defender and duration references. Broadcast effects retain dynamic affected filters. Effects expire at the relevant player’s next-turn boundary.
Defender-aware combat legality
crates/engine/src/game/combat.rs, crates/phase-ai/src/combat_ai.rs
Combat requirement construction, enforcement, scoring, display, deduplication, source attribution, solver inputs, and AI selection now compare complete defender targets. Permanent defenders remain valid only while their incarnation and attackability conditions hold.
Specific-player resolution support
crates/engine/src/game/filter.rs, crates/engine/src/game/ability_*.rs, crates/engine/src/game/{quantity,replacement,targeting,coverage}.rs
SpecificPlayer snapshots now resolve across controller filters, target enumeration, static abilities, replacement checks, quantities, coverage, and ability analysis.
Integration and adapter coverage
client/src/..., crates/engine/tests/..., crates/phase-ai/...
Client fixtures, AI checks, static-mode fixtures, source-attribution tests, serialization tests, and Gideon Jura integration coverage now use defender-based requirements.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 85a26

The change adds planeswalker-directed attack requirements and broadens combat enforcement, but the current head may still let the AI produce rejected attack declarations and lacks production-pipeline coverage for requirement expiry. These bounded risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Possibly related PRs

  • phase-rs/phase#6885: Extends the static forced-attack and RequiredDefender infrastructure used by this change.
  • phase-rs/phase#6850: Shares planeswalker attack-target handling with the generalized defender model.
  • phase-rs/phase#6689: Shares structured ControllerRef and specific-player resolution paths.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OracleParser
  participant ForceAttackResolver
  participant CombatEngine
  participant CombatAI
  OracleParser->>ForceAttackResolver: Parse and resolve required_defender
  ForceAttackResolver->>CombatEngine: Install MustAttackDefender
  CombatEngine->>CombatAI: Expose legal AttackTarget values
  CombatAI->>CombatEngine: Submit defender-targeted attack declaration
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Parse changes introduced by this PR · 17 card(s), 11 signature(s) (baseline: main 5a30ba871ced)

🟢 Added (3 signatures)

  • 1 card · ➕ ability/ForceAttack · added: ForceAttack (defender=controller, duration=until end of next turn (target player), filter=target player controls creature)
    • Affected (first 3): Taunt
  • 1 card · ➕ ability/ForceAttack · added: ForceAttack (defender=self, duration=until end of next turn (target player), filter=target opponent controls creature, kind=activated, timing=sorcery speed)
    • Affected (first 3): Gideon Jura
  • 1 card · ➕ static/MustAttackDefender(Matching { filter: PlayerAttribute { relation: Opponent, att… · added: MustAttackDefender(Matching { filter: PlayerAttribute { relation: Opponent, attr: LifeTotal { player: ScopedPlayer }, comparator: GE, value: Ref { qty: LifeTot…
    • Affected (first 3): Galactus, Devourer of Worlds

🔴 Removed (3 signatures)

  • 1 card · ➖ static/MustAttackPlayer(Matching { filter: PlayerAttribute { relation: Opponent, attr:… · removed: MustAttackPlayer(Matching { filter: PlayerAttribute { relation: Opponent, attr: LifeTotal { player: ScopedPlayer }, comparator: GE, value: Ref { qty: LifeTotal…
    • Affected (first 3): Galactus, Devourer of Worlds
  • 1 card · ➖ ability/during · removed: during
    • Affected (first 3): Taunt
  • 1 card · ➖ ability/during · removed: during (kind=activated, timing=sorcery speed)
    • Affected (first 3): Gideon Jura

🟡 Modified fields (5 signatures)

  • 8 cards · 🔄 ability/PreventDamage · changed field target: any targetself
    • Affected (first 3): Gideon Jura, Gideon of the Trials, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar (+5 more)
  • 6 cards · 🔄 ability/ForceAttack · changed field defender: chosen player
    • Affected (first 3): Knight Rampager, Raving Dead, Ruhan of the Fomori (+3 more)
  • 5 cards · 🔄 ability/ForceAttack · changed field duration: UntilEndOfCombat
    • Affected (first 3): Knight Rampager, Raving Dead, Ruhan of the Fomori (+2 more)
  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/ForceAttack · changed field defender: controller
    • Affected (first 3): Alluring Siren
  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/ForceAttack · changed field duration: until end of next turn (you)UntilEndOfCombat
    • Affected (first 3): Silver Surfer, Galactus's Herald

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Actionable comments posted: 12

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (2)
crates/phase-ai/src/combat_ai.rs (1)

239-249: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve the required defender during target assignment.

This sweep records only mandatory creature IDs. It discards each creature's required AttackTarget. Later target heuristics can assign a Gideon-forced creature to the defending player instead of Gideon. The engine then rejects the declaration.

Carry defender constraints into assignment generation, or reducer-validate assignments and select one that satisfies each mandatory defender requirement. Add an AI regression for Gideon Jura’s +2 that verifies the returned action targets Gideon and is reducer-accepted.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/phase-ai/src/combat_ai.rs` around lines 239 - 249, The
mandatory-target sweep around attackable_defender_targets and
creature_must_attack_with_attackable_targets currently retains only creature
IDs; preserve each creature’s required AttackTarget through assignment
generation or validate generated assignments in the reducer and choose one
satisfying every mandatory defender requirement. Add a regression covering
Gideon Jura’s +2 that verifies the returned action targets Gideon and is
accepted by the reducer.
crates/engine/src/game/layers.rs (1)

655-706: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a regression test for SpecificPlayer arming.

The Gideon test checks only the pre-arming duration. hand_turn_to_p1 changes the active player manually and does not call prune_until_next_turn_effects. Add a test with controller P0 and snapshotted player P1 that asserts arming on P1's turn, but not on P0's turn.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/engine/src/game/layers.rs` around lines 655 - 706, Add a regression
test for prune_until_next_turn_effects using an effect controlled by P0 with
Duration::UntilEndOfNextTurnOf and PlayerScope::SpecificPlayer { id: P1 };
assert it remains unarmed when pruning P0’s turn, then becomes UntilEndOfTurn
when pruning P1’s turn. Do not rely solely on hand_turn_to_p1, since the test
must explicitly invoke the pruning function.
🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_tests.rs (1)

1711-1721: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert scope in the +2 destructure.

The +2 subject is a population ("creatures that player controls"). crates/engine/src/game/effects/force_attack.rs::lower_dynamic_affected returns None when scope != EffectScope::All, and the resolver then installs frozen per-object SpecificObject grafts. That silently loses the CR 611.2c dynamic population that the doc comment claims. The current destructure discards scope with .., so a parser regression to EffectScope::Single still passes this test.

Pin the field here.

♻️ Proposed assertion
     let Effect::ForceAttack {
         target,
         required_defender,
+        scope,
         ..
     } = &*r.abilities[0].effect
     else {
         panic!(
             "the +2 is a forced-attack requirement, got {:?}",
             r.abilities[0].effect
         );
     };
+    assert_eq!(
+        scope,
+        &EffectScope::All,
+        "CR 611.2c: the subject is a live population, not a chosen target — \
+         `Single` would freeze the affected set at resolution"
+    );
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_tests.rs` around lines 1711 - 1721, Update
the ForceAttack destructure in the +2 parser test to bind and assert the
effect’s scope is EffectScope::All, rather than discarding it with ..; keep the
existing target and required_defender checks unchanged.
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/analysis/resource.rs`:
- Around line 4032-4033: Update the StaticMode match in the resource analysis to
inspect MustAttackDefender’s payload: retain only fixed defender references in
the read-free arm, and route matching defender filters through the existing
dependency scanner used by static_mode_references_growing_class. Add a
regression test covering a matching defender whose analysis must reflect board
changes.

In `@crates/engine/src/game/coverage.rs`:
- Around line 2433-2437: Update both ForceAttack coverage-detail arms in the
coverage formatter to include required_defender via fmt_target and include
duration via fmt_duration when it is non-default, so differing defenders and
duration windows produce distinct signatures. Add regression tests covering
player and permanent defenders plus next-turn duration.

In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/force_attack.rs`:
- Around line 87-105: Separate broadcast-subject lowering outcomes in the
function that handles TargetFilter conversion: return a three-way typed result
distinguishing lowered population, non-population/chosen-target, and population
that is unlowerable. Preserve the existing typed-controller lowering, but
classify non-Typed targets and missing TargetRef::Player bindings as Unlowerable
rather than None. Update resolve to match all three outcomes and install no
continuous effect for Unlowerable, while retaining the per-object path only for
chosen-target subjects.
- Around line 49-57: Update filter_denotes_object and the surrounding
defender-resolution flow to classify ParentTarget and ParentTargetSlot based on
their resolved referent rather than assuming they denote objects. Ensure
player-valued parent targets bypass resolved_object_ids_for_filter and reach
RequiredDefender::Fixed, while preserving object-valued resolution behavior.

In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/prevent_damage.rs`:
- Around line 204-213: The SelfRef comments cite the wrong Comprehensive Rules
section. In crates/engine/src/game/effects/prevent_damage.rs lines 204-213 and
242-249, replace the CR 608.2c citation with CR 201.5, preserving the existing
explanation that printed-name self-reference identifies the specific host
object; do not change the routing or matching logic.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs` around lines
151 - 168: The source-anaphoric binding citation needs correction or removal.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_tests.rs` at line 1664:
The parser test citations require the listed rule-number corrections.

In `@crates/engine/src/game/players.rs`:
- Around line 312-315: Update the APNAP anchor matching around
ControllerRef::SpecificPlayer so it uses the referenced player id as the anchor
instead of falling back to ActivePlayer. Preserve the existing fallback only for
unresolved controller roles, and ensure SpecificPlayer remains anchored to that
concrete player when the id differs from the active player.

In `@crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs`:
- Around line 263-264: Update stack-ability controller matching in
stack_entry_controller_matches to handle ControllerRef::SpecificPlayer by
comparing the stack entry controller’s player ID with the snapshotted ID,
preserving existing You and Opponent behavior. Add a regression test covering
TargetFilter::StackAbility or typed filters against a stack ability controlled
by SpecificPlayer, or reject this filter combination before invoking the helper.
Replace any wildcard match arm over the known ControllerRef variants with an
exhaustive match so future variants are compiler-detected.

In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs`:
- Around line 29167-29197: The documentation adjacent to is_mass_coerce_static
is stale: update it to describe the generalized handling of
StaticMode::MustAttackDefender, including attacks against players,
planeswalkers, and battle defenders, rather than referring only to
MustAttackPlayer. Leave the matching logic unchanged.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs` around
lines 26542 - 26560: Update the stale MustAttackPlayer reference in the
mass-coercion documentation.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/engine/src/game/layers.rs` around lines 6811 -
6824: Update the renamed variant and consumer reference; the nearby occurrence
around lines 8220-8221 needs the same treatment.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/engine/src/game/coverage.rs` at line 159: Update
the annotation describing the generalized defender payload.

In `@crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs`:
- Around line 12612-12649: In the ForceAttack documentation, remove the first
incorrect serde(alias) paragraph claiming the old field name was
required_defender. Keep the later paragraph documenting that required_player was
the legacy name and that scope defaults to Single; do not change the struct
fields or serde attributes.

In `@crates/engine/src/types/statics.rs`:
- Around line 4647-4656: Add a `RequiredDefender::Permanent` variant to the
round-trip test cases for `StaticMode::MustAttackDefender`, using an appropriate
tagged `ObjectIncarnationRef` payload, and assert that the complete `StaticMode`
value survives serialization and deserialization unchanged.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/gideon_jura_forced_attack_planeswalker.rs`:
- Around line 344-348: Replace the direct zones::move_to_zone call in the Gideon
departure setup with the replacement-aware ProposedEvent::ZoneChange pipeline,
ensuring the resulting events and state are applied through normal event
processing before calling hand_turn_to_p1. Keep the test focused on verifying
that Gideon’s defender requirement lapses after this production departure path.
- Around line 169-176: Extend the test around the existing Duration assertion to
advance the production turn pipeline through P1’s next-turn boundary, then
verify the forced-attack requirement has expired by asserting P1 can declare no
attackers or attack P0. Exercise the expiry/pruning path rather than only
inspecting effect.duration, using the test’s existing turn-driving and
attack-declaration helpers.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/game/layers.rs`:
- Around line 655-706: Add a regression test for prune_until_next_turn_effects
using an effect controlled by P0 with Duration::UntilEndOfNextTurnOf and
PlayerScope::SpecificPlayer { id: P1 }; assert it remains unarmed when pruning
P0’s turn, then becomes UntilEndOfTurn when pruning P1’s turn. Do not rely
solely on hand_turn_to_p1, since the test must explicitly invoke the pruning
function.

In `@crates/phase-ai/src/combat_ai.rs`:
- Around line 239-249: The mandatory-target sweep around
attackable_defender_targets and creature_must_attack_with_attackable_targets
currently retains only creature IDs; preserve each creature’s required
AttackTarget through assignment generation or validate generated assignments in
the reducer and choose one satisfying every mandatory defender requirement. Add
a regression covering Gideon Jura’s +2 that verifies the returned action targets
Gideon and is accepted by the reducer.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_tests.rs`:
- Around line 1711-1721: Update the ForceAttack destructure in the +2 parser
test to bind and assert the effect’s scope is EffectScope::All, rather than
discarding it with ..; keep the existing target and required_defender checks
unchanged.
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Comment on lines +169 to +176
// CR 508.1d (final sentence): the window is that player's whole next turn.
assert_eq!(
effect.duration,
Duration::UntilEndOfNextTurnOf {
player: PlayerScope::SpecificPlayer { id: P1 }
},
"the expiry is lowered to the TARGETED player, not the controller"
);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Exercise effect expiry through the turn pipeline.

This test only checks the stored Duration. It does not run P1 through the end of that turn and verify that the requirement is absent on P1's following turn. A pruning regression can therefore leave the forced attack active indefinitely while this suite passes.

Drive the production turn pipeline through the expiry boundary. Then assert that P1 can declare no attackers or attack P0 on its next turn.

As per path instructions, “A test must exercise the FAILURE path the fix prevents and drive the engine through its production pipeline.”

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/gideon_jura_forced_attack_planeswalker.rs`
around lines 169 - 176, Extend the test around the existing Duration assertion
to advance the production turn pipeline through P1’s next-turn boundary, then
verify the forced-attack requirement has expired by asserting P1 can declare no
attackers or attack P0. Exercise the expiry/pruning path rather than only
inspecting effect.duration, using the test’s existing turn-driving and
attack-declaration helpers.

Source: Path instructions

Comment on lines +344 to +348
// CR 400.7: Gideon leaves; the snapshotted incarnation pin no longer names a
// live defender.
let mut events = Vec::new();
engine::game::zones::move_to_zone(runner.state_mut(), gideon, Zone::Graveyard, &mut events);
hand_turn_to_p1(&mut runner);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the replacement-aware zone-change pipeline.

zones::move_to_zone bypasses ProposedEvent::ZoneChange. This test can pass without exercising the production departure path, including replacement handling and event-derived state.

Move Gideon through the replacement-aware pipeline before checking that the defender requirement lapses.

As per path instructions, “Zone changes must route through the replacement-aware pipeline (ProposedEvent::ZoneChange), not a direct zones::move_to_zone.”

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/gideon_jura_forced_attack_planeswalker.rs`
around lines 344 - 348, Replace the direct zones::move_to_zone call in the
Gideon departure setup with the replacement-aware ProposedEvent::ZoneChange
pipeline, ensuring the resulting events and state are applied through normal
event processing before calling hand_turn_to_p1. Keep the test focused on
verifying that Gideon’s defender requirement lapses after this production
departure path.

Source: Path instructions

JacobWoodson and others added 2 commits August 12, 2026 22:20
`controller_to_scope` matches `ControllerRef` exhaustively, so widening the
engine enum broke `mtgish-import` even though the engine crate itself
compiled. Adding a variant to a `pub` engine enum is a downstream API
change; verifying with `cargo clippy -p phase-engine` instead of the
workspace hid the whole class.

The new arm strict-fails with `EnginePrerequisiteMissing`, matching every
other non-broadcast sibling: `ProhibitionScope` is a broadcast scope
(Controller/Opponents/AllPlayers) and a snapshotted player id has no
broadcast equivalent, so mapping it would silently over-broaden the
prohibition. Unreachable in practice — the variant is produced only by
engine resolvers installing durational continuous effects, never by a
converter or the Oracle parser.

Verified with the exact CI command:
`cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features engine/proptest -- -D warnings`
(locally also excluding `probe-pin`, which is Unix-only and cannot compile
on Windows — pre-existing, unrelated to this PR).

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Request changes — current head 8a5a8321ad27efa8695a3d6eb3e327e7e3b2ad33 is not ready to merge.

🔴 Blocker

  • crates/phase-ai/src/combat_ai.rs:239-249 recognizes a Gideon-forced creature as mandatory, but retains only its ObjectId. The production search paths at crates/phase-ai/src/search.rs:3902 and :3967 call this policy directly; their later two-player redirect / multiplayer assignment can therefore target the defending player instead of the required planeswalker. The reducer rejects that declaration. Preserve each required AttackTarget through assignment (or complete the policy proposal through the engine authority before returning it), and add a Gideon-style AI regression that asserts both the planeswalker target and runner.act(...) acceptance.

🟡 Required coverage / hardening

  • force_attack.rs:76-104 conflates a chosen-target subject with an EffectScope::All population that could not be lowered, then falls back to per-object grafting. Keep those outcomes distinct so a malformed/future broadcast filter cannot silently freeze a CR 611.2c population; pin EffectScope::All in the Gideon parser test.
  • Exercise PlayerScope::SpecificPlayer expiry through prune_until_next_turn_effects, rather than only mutating the active player and asserting the installed duration. The Gideon departure test should likewise use the production zone-change event path.
  • Correct the new source-self-reference CR citations: CR 608.2c is not the printed-name self-reference rule.

The generalized AttackTarget/RequiredDefender seam is the right direction; the blocking gap is preserving that same defender constraint through the AI declaration path. CodeRabbit raised the same current-head AI concern, which I confirmed against the production callers above.

Recommendation: fix the blocker and the listed current-head coverage/citation gaps, then request re-review.

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Maintainer + CodeRabbit review of head 8a5a832.

AI blocker — the diagnosis holds, the predicted consequence does not.
The mandatory-attacker sweep does discard the required AttackTarget, and
the raw policy really does propose the defending player:

    RAW       [(bear, Player(P0))]
    COMPLETED [(bear, Planeswalker(gideon))]

But both production consumers (search.rs:3902, :3967 — the only two, and
the policies merely score pre-built actions) wrap their proposal in
`validated_declare_attackers` -> `combat::complete_attacker_proposal`,
the single CR 508.1d authority, which replaces an under-max declaration
with the maximum-requirement witness before the reducer sees it. Adds the
requested regression driving the real `choose_action` seam and asserting
reducer acceptance, with the raw-policy result pinned inside it so the
test proves the completion is load-bearing instead of passing vacuously.

Required coverage:

  * `force_attack::lower_dynamic_affected` returned `None` for BOTH a
    chosen-target subject and a broadcast population it could not lower,
    and the caller grafted per object either way — silently freezing a
    CR 611.2c population in the second case. Replaced with a three-way
    `SubjectLowering`; `Unlowerable` now installs nothing.
  * Pin `EffectScope::All` in the Gideon parser test, so a regression to
    `Single` (which both surfaces a spurious creature slot and takes the
    freezing path) fails loudly.
  * New `prune_until_next_turn_effects` test driving the arming function
    directly, with controller != snapshotted player so it cannot pass on
    a same-player fixture — the integration tests only set `active_player`
    by hand and asserted the installed duration.
  * The departure test now uses the production CR 704.5i zero-loyalty
    state-based action instead of poking the zone.
  * Serde round-trip now covers `RequiredDefender::Permanent`, the arm
    with hand-rolled `Deserialize` on both sides.
  * `ForceAttack` gets a dedicated coverage arm emitting the required
    defender, so a player-directed and a planeswalker-directed attack no
    longer collapse to one signature in the coverage/parse-diff artifact.

CR citations: CR 608.2c is instruction ordering, not self-reference.
CR 201.5 ("text that refers to the object it's on by name means just that
particular object") is the rule a printed-name pronoun falls under, and is
already what the rest of the codebase cites for this. Corrected, and the
stale `MustAttackPlayer` / `must_attack_player_directives_for_creature`
doc references left by the rename are updated.

Two defects this review surfaced that were not in either report:

  * `add_planeswalker_from_oracle` seeded `counters[Loyalty]` but not the
    `loyalty` field. The activation gate reads the counters (CR 606.3) and
    the zero-loyalty SBA reads the field (CR 704.5i), so the helper built
    planeswalkers that could be activated but could never die. Found only
    by switching the departure test onto the production SBA path.
  * An earlier bulk rename had corrupted a `serde(alias)` doc line into a
    self-referential claim contradicting the paragraph below it.

Verified with the exact CI command:
`cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features engine/proptest -- -D warnings`
(locally also excluding `probe-pin`, Unix-only and uncompilable on Windows —
pre-existing, unrelated).

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

201-237: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Convert the match from an expression to a statement.

The match is used as an expression whose value is discarded with ; at Line 237. This forces every arm to share one type. The Population arm yields the return value of add_transient_continuous_effect, so the ChosenTarget and Unlowerable arms carry bare 0 literals at Lines 232 and 236 only to type-align with a value nobody reads. A future change to that function's return type breaks two unrelated arms.

Make each arm a block that evaluates to ().

♻️ Proposed refactor
         match lower_dynamic_affected(ability, target, *scope) {
-            SubjectLowering::Population(affected) => state.add_transient_continuous_effect(
-                ability.source_id,
-                ability.controller,
-                duration.clone(),
-                affected,
-                vec![ContinuousModification::AddStaticMode {
-                    mode: StaticMode::MustAttackDefender { defender },
-                }],
-                None,
-            ),
+            SubjectLowering::Population(affected) => {
+                state.add_transient_continuous_effect(
+                    ability.source_id,
+                    ability.controller,
+                    duration.clone(),
+                    affected,
+                    vec![ContinuousModification::AddStaticMode {
+                        mode: StaticMode::MustAttackDefender { defender },
+                    }],
+                    None,
+                );
+            }
             SubjectLowering::ChosenTarget => {
                 for obj_id in resolved_object_ids_for_filter(state, ability, target) {
                     if !state.objects.contains_key(&obj_id) {
                         continue;
                     }
 
                     state.add_transient_continuous_effect(
                         ability.source_id,
                         ability.controller,
                         duration.clone(),
                         TargetFilter::SpecificObject { id: obj_id },
                         vec![ContinuousModification::AddStaticMode {
                             // CR 611.2: the required defender is snapshotted at resolution.
                             mode: StaticMode::MustAttackDefender {
                                 defender: defender.clone(),
                             },
                         }],
                         None,
                     );
                 }
-                0
             }
             // CR 611.2c: install NOTHING rather than a frozen per-object graft.
             // See `SubjectLowering::Unlowerable`.
-            SubjectLowering::Unlowerable => 0,
-        };
+            SubjectLowering::Unlowerable => {}
+        }
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/force_attack.rs` around lines 201 - 237,
Convert the match around lower_dynamic_affected from a value expression into a
statement, ensuring each arm evaluates to (). In the SubjectLowering::Population
arm, call add_transient_continuous_effect without returning its result; remove
the dummy 0 values from SubjectLowering::ChosenTarget and
SubjectLowering::Unlowerable while preserving their existing side effects and
behavior.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/force_attack.rs`:
- Around line 201-237: Convert the match around lower_dynamic_affected from a
value expression into a statement, ensuring each arm evaluates to (). In the
SubjectLowering::Population arm, call add_transient_continuous_effect without
returning its result; remove the dummy 0 values from
SubjectLowering::ChosenTarget and SubjectLowering::Unlowerable while preserving
their existing side effects and behavior.

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Request changes — reviewed at head 3770dceb98994f3105b918cfa4435044fb58b279.

The new AI regression establishes that every public AI declaration goes through complete_attacker_proposal, so the previous raw-policy target-loss blocker is resolved at the engine authority. The new SubjectLowering split also resolves the broadcast-population freezing concern, and the parser now pins EffectScope::All.

[HIGH] MustAttackDefender::Matching is still treated as read-free by the growing-class dependency analysis. Evidence: crates/engine/src/analysis/resource.rs:4002-4034 groups every MustAttackDefender with fixed/read-free modes, but crates/engine/src/game/combat.rs:3333-3352 re-evaluates RequiredDefender::Matching { filter } against live player state. Why it matters: a matching defender such as Galactus's most-life opponent can change as the board/state changes, while the analysis can reuse stale results. Suggested fix: match the defender; keep Fixed/Permanent read-free and route Matching.filter through the existing player-filter dependency scanner with a regression that changes the matching class.

[MED] ControllerRef::SpecificPlayer still falls back to the active player for APNAP ordering. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/players.rs:295-317; the new explicit snapshot is included in the fallback arm rather than anchoring at its stored id. Why it matters: when the snapshotted player is not active, simultaneous ordering is wrong. Suggested fix: add Some(ControllerRef::SpecificPlayer { id }) => id and cover a non-active snapshot.

[MED] Defender referent kind is still inferred from the TargetFilter variant rather than its resolved referent. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/effects/force_attack.rs:26-57 unconditionally classifies ParentTarget and ParentTargetSlot as objects before calling resolved_object_ids_for_filter. Why it matters: a player-valued parent target is routed down the object path and fails to become RequiredDefender::Fixed, despite this generalized seam claiming player and permanent defenders. Suggested fix: resolve the parent referent first and branch by whether it is a player or object; add one regression for each.

The current CodeRabbit-only 0 match-arm item is a low-risk cleanup, but do not use it to mask the above behavior gaps. Current CI is also incomplete (Rust shard 2 plus AI/performance gates pending), and the sole parse-diff sticky is bound to prior head 8a5a8321…, so current-head parse evidence is still missing.

JacobWoodson and others added 2 commits August 13, 2026 09:15
One conflict, in the import list of oracle_effect/subject.rs: this branch
added EffectScope for the broadcast ForceAttack arm while phase-rs#7326 / phase-rs#7322 /
phase-rs#7333 added ObjectScope. Both are needed; kept both.
…ferent

All three findings from the current-head review, each with a regression.

[HIGH] `MustAttackDefender::Matching` was grouped with the read-free
modes in `static_mode_references_growing_class`, but
`combat::must_attack_defender_directives_for_creature` re-evaluates its
`PlayerFilter` against live player state at every declare-attackers step
(Galactus), so a cached analysis result can go stale. Now splits:
`Fixed`/`Permanent` are frozen ids and stay read-free; `Matching` fails
closed on ANY filter rather than enumerating `PlayerFilter`'s variants —
the doctrine the `activator_filter` site in this same file states at
length, and for the same reason.

This predates the PR (the entry was `MustAttackPlayer { .. }` in that list
and `Matching` shipped with Galactus), but it is inside this change's
blast radius, so it is fixed here rather than deferred.

[MED] `ControllerRef::SpecificPlayer` anchored APNAP ordering at the
active player instead of its stored id. The prior arm deliberately folded
it into the fallback on the grounds that it is unreachable there — which
is the wrong trade: unreachable AND wrong-if-reached is strictly worse
than simply correct, and there is nothing to resolve or fail closed about
in a frozen id. Now anchors at the id.

[MED] `snapshot_required_defender` classified the defender by filter
VARIANT while its own doc claimed it classified by referent kind.
`SelfRef`/`SpecificObject` are objects by construction, but `ParentTarget`
and `ParentTargetSlot` name whatever the parent clause targeted — which
may be a player. Those were routed down the object path, where
`resolved_object_ids_for_filter` finds nothing and the requirement is
dropped entirely. Split out `defender_referent`, which resolves the
inherited target first and branches on whether it is a player or an
object, so the code now does what the comment claimed.

Regressions: the growing-class scan asserts read-free for both frozen
arms and fail-closed for the live class (the false arms are what make the
true arm meaningful); the APNAP test uses a NON-ACTIVE snapshotted player,
the only configuration in which the old fallback is visible, plus a
default-anchor guard; the referent test covers a player-valued and an
object-valued parent target in one pair.

Verified with the exact CI command:
`cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features engine/proptest -- -D warnings`
clean; engine 18987 lib + 4902 integration + 30 bin; phase-ai 2110; zero
failures.

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Pushed 561f1e80 — all three round-2 findings fixed, one regression each. Also merged current main (one conflict, resolved), so the parse-diff sticky should now bind to the current head.

[HIGH] MustAttackDefender::Matching read-free in growing-class analysis

Confirmed and fixed. Fixed/Permanent are frozen ids and stay read-free; Matching now fails closed. I failed closed on ANY PlayerFilter rather than routing through a variant enumeration — that is the doctrine the activator_filter site in the same file states at length ("Fail closed on ANY Some(..), never on an enumeration of the two widening variants"), and for its stated reason: enumerating here would silently assert something about every future PlayerFilter variant.

Worth flagging that this predates the PR — the entry was MustAttackPlayer { .. } in that same read-free list and Matching shipped with Galactus — so the staleness window is not new. It is inside this change's blast radius, so I fixed it here rather than deferring it.

[MED] APNAP anchor

Fixed — anchors at the stored id. My previous arm deliberately folded it into the fallback on the grounds it was unreachable there; that was the wrong trade. Unreachable and wrong-if-reached is strictly worse than simply correct, and unlike its dynamic siblings there is nothing to resolve and no context that can be missing, so there was no reason to fail closed. Regression uses a NON-ACTIVE snapshotted player — the only configuration where the old behavior is visible — plus a default-anchor guard so it can't pass for an unrelated reason.

[MED] Defender referent kind

Fixed, and this was the sharpest catch: the doc comment claimed classification was "by REFERENT KIND rather than by that one filter" while the code was a variant allow-list. SelfRef/SpecificObject are objects by construction, but ParentTarget/ParentTargetSlot name whatever the parent clause targeted, which may be a player — routed down the object path, resolved_object_ids_for_filter finds nothing and the requirement is dropped entirely. Split out defender_referent, which resolves the inherited target first and branches on player vs object, so the code now does what the comment claimed. Regression covers one of each in a pair.

Round-1 blocker, for the record

Agreed on your read that it is resolved at the engine authority. For anyone reading later, the evidence was:

RAW        [(bear, Player(P0))]
COMPLETED  [(bear, Planeswalker(gideon))]

The policy really does lose the defender; complete_attacker_proposal really does repair it. The regression pins the raw-policy result alongside the completed one, so it fails if either half changes rather than passing vacuously.

Merge

One conflict, in the import list of oracle_effect/subject.rs: this branch added EffectScope for the broadcast ForceAttack arm while #7326 / #7322 / #7333 added ObjectScope. Both needed; kept both. Nothing else conflicted.

Verification

cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features engine/proptest -- -D warnings clean; engine 18987 lib + 4902 integration + 30 bin; phase-ai 2110; zero failures.

Two notes from working through this, in case they are useful beyond this PR:

  • Scoping clippy to -p phase-engine hid the mtgish-import breakage entirely — adding a variant to a pub engine enum is a downstream API change, and only the workspace command sees it.
  • One of my local runs looked green while phase-engine lib-test had failed to compile; every visible test result: ok belonged to phase-ai. cargo test output reads as passing when a crate never built, which is worth knowing when scanning these logs.

Requesting re-review.

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[MED] ControllerRef::SpecificPlayer snapshot is still not handled when targeting an ability on the stack. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs:1965-1978 routes both TargetFilter::StackAbility and typed stack filters through stack_entry_controller_matches, whose match admits only You and Opponent then falls through _ => false. The PR introduces and stores a concrete SpecificPlayer snapshot (crates/engine/src/game/effects/force_attack.rs:149-156; resolution-time effects use it broadly), so any stack-ability filter using the snapshot silently has no legal target. Why it matters: this makes a supported controller scope fail target legality for the stack-ability class. Suggested fix: compare the controller ID exactly for SpecificPlayer, make the known enum match exhaustive, and add a stack-ability-target regression. This exact current-head issue is also independently raised in the current CodeRabbit thread: #7324 (comment).

No readiness decision: current CI remains pending, and the parse-diff sticky is still bound to old head 3770dceb98994f3105b918cfa4435044fb58b279, not current head 561f1e80722f746c73e9f7c894129134f0d1a840.

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`stack_entry_controller_matches` admitted only `You`/`Opponent` and sent
every other `ControllerRef` through a `_ => false` wildcard. Adding
`SpecificPlayer` therefore gave any stack-ability filter carrying a
resolution-time snapshot NO legal target at all — a supported controller
scope silently failing target legality for the whole class.

Three changes, per the review:

  * `SpecificPlayer` compares the snapshotted id directly. It is already
    concrete, so it needs none of the ability/event context this function
    lacks.
  * The match is now EXHAUSTIVE with no `_`, so a future `ControllerRef`
    variant fails to compile here instead of silently joining the
    fail-closed tail. The remaining scopes stay fail-closed but are named
    individually, making the claim per-variant rather than a blanket
    wildcard — the wildcard is precisely what let this through.
  * Regression covering a matching snapshot, a NON-matching snapshot (so
    the match is an id comparison rather than a blanket true), and an
    `Opponent` control proving the pre-existing scopes are unaffected.

Noting for the record that CodeRabbit raised this same site in the first
round and it was skipped as a speculative behavior change pending a test.
That was wrong: the wildcard turned a new variant into a live bug
immediately, and the test was cheap.

Verified with the exact CI command:
`cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features engine/proptest -- -D warnings`
clean; engine 18988 lib + 4902 integration + 30 bin; phase-ai 2110; zero
failures.

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Pushed 5cea596a. Fixed, and you and CodeRabbit are both right that it is a live bug rather than a theoretical one.

stack_entry_controller_matches admitted only You/Opponent and sent everything else through _ => false, so a stack-ability filter carrying the snapshot had no legal target at all. Three changes:

  • SpecificPlayer compares the snapshotted id directly — it is already concrete and needs none of the ability/event context that function lacks.
  • The match is now exhaustive with no _. The remaining scopes stay fail-closed but are named individually, so the claim is per-variant instead of a blanket wildcard, and a future ControllerRef variant fails to compile here rather than silently joining the tail. The wildcard is precisely what let this through.
  • Regression covers a matching snapshot, a non-matching snapshot (so the match is an id comparison rather than a blanket true), and an Opponent control proving the pre-existing scopes are unaffected.

Worth recording plainly: CodeRabbit flagged this same site in round one and I skipped it, reasoning it was a speculative behavior change without a test to justify it. That was the wrong call — I should have treated "adds a variant to an enum matched with _" as the audit trigger it is.

So I swept the rest rather than wait to be asked. Nine ControllerRef matches carry a _ arm; targeting.rs was the one worth changing. Reporting the other eight rather than silently touching them:

  • ability_rw.rs:497 (player_span_of_ctrl_ref) falls through to PlayerSpan::Any — fail-open toward the broadest span, so an unmodelled ref over-detects conflicts rather than missing them. Sound, if imprecise.
  • restrictions.rs:412, filter.rs:5342, keywords.rs:571, static_abilities.rs:1660, triggers.rs:9604, triggers.rs:11151 are all fail-closed on parser-produced axes (protection scopes, parsed conditions, trigger constraints). SpecificPlayer is resolver-only and never reaches them.
  • vote.rs:742 returns controller from both arms, so the wildcard is behaviourally identical to the explicit one.
  • restrictions.rs:1442 is the one I would flag for someone else's attention: its _ arm actively treats every non-You ref as opponent rather than failing closed. Unreachable by this variant and out of scope here, but it is the shape most likely to bite next.

Happy to convert any of those to exhaustive matches if you want it done in this PR; I left them alone to keep the diff to the reviewed surface.

On your two closing notes: CI has since gone fully green on 561f1e80 (all 15 checks, including card-data/coverage and both AI/perf gates), and the parse-diff sticky should rebind on this push.

Verification

cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features engine/proptest -- -D warnings clean; engine 18988 lib + 4902 integration + 30 bin; phase-ai 2110; zero failures.

Requesting re-review.

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Request changes — reviewed at head 5cea596a296efe1778affaa2b325797fb4bab59d.

[MED] The new CR annotations do not support the implementation-contract claims they make. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs:1974-1985 cites CR 109.4 for exhaustive Rust matching and CR 109.4 + CR 611.2 for direct SpecificPlayer ID comparison; the new test documentation at :2590-2601 adds CR 115.1 for the same snapshot-comparison claim. docs/MagicCompRules.txt:594-610 defines which objects have controllers, :2904-2915 defines continuous effects generated by resolution and their durations/populations, and CR 115.1 defines targets. None mandates exhaustive Rust enum matching or establishes this engine's stored-ID comparison. Why it matters: these are rules annotations, so unsupported citations create a false claim of Comprehensive Rules verification even though the behavior and regression are sound. Suggested fix: remove the unsupported new CR claims (or replace them with an accurately verified rule that directly supports the assertion) and describe direct matching plainly as the engine contract: SpecificPlayer already carries the stored player ID and this stack-entry predicate compares it with the stored stack controller. Preserve the exhaustive match and regression behavior.

CodeRabbit independently raised the targeting.rs:1974-1985 citation issue on this same head: #7324 (review).

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The CR numbers added to `stack_entry_controller_matches` did not support
the claims attached to them. CR 109.4 defines which objects have a
controller; CR 611.2 covers continuous effects generated by resolution;
CR 115.1 defines targets. None of them mandates exhaustive Rust matching
or establishes a stored-ID comparison contract, so citing them asserted
a Comprehensive Rules verification that had not happened.

Both are engine contracts rather than rules behavior, and CLAUDE.md is
explicit that only code implementing a game rule should carry an
annotation — a wrong number is worse than none because it manufactures
false confidence. They now read as plain `ENGINE CONTRACT` notes:
`SpecificPlayer` already carries the stored player id, and this predicate
compares it with the stack entry's stored controller. The exhaustive
match and its regression are unchanged.

CR 102.1 is kept on the `ActivePlayer` arm — it genuinely defines "the
active player is the player whose turn it is" — but rephrased so the
citation identifies the CONCEPT rather than appearing to justify the
fail-closed behavior, which is an engine constraint (no `GameState` here).

Auditing every CR number this PR adds, rather than only the flagged two,
turned up one more: the `-2` clause cited CR 701.7, which is Create.
Destroy is CR 701.8. Corrected — exactly the 701.x hazard CLAUDE.md warns
about, since those numbers are arbitrary sequential assignments.

The remainder verified against docs/MagicCompRules.txt and left as-is:
CR 101.4 is the APNAP rule, CR 601.2c is target announcement, CR 704.5i
is zero loyalty, CR 201.5 is the printed-name self-reference, CR 506.3 is
the defender category. CR 104.4b nearby is pre-existing loop-detection
text in which only the renamed variant changed.

Comment-only; no executable line altered. Verified with the exact CI
command:
`cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features engine/proptest -- -D warnings`
clean; engine 18988 lib + 4902 integration + 30 bin; phase-ai 2110; zero
failures.

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Pushed 85a26c11. You and CodeRabbit are right, and this is the finding I'm most glad you caught — a wrong annotation is worse than none, because it asserts a verification that never happened.

Checked all three against docs/MagicCompRules.txt: CR 109.4 defines which objects have a controller, CR 611.2 covers continuous effects generated by resolution, CR 115.1 defines targets. None mandates exhaustive Rust matching or a stored-ID comparison contract. Both claims are engine contracts, not rules behavior, so they now read as plain ENGINE CONTRACT notes with no citation:

SpecificPlayer already carries the stored player id, so this predicate compares it with the stack entry's stored controller.

Exhaustive match and regression unchanged.

I kept CR 102.1 on the ActivePlayer arm — it does define "the active player is the player whose turn it is" — but rephrased it so the citation identifies the concept rather than appearing to justify the fail-closed behavior, which is an engine constraint (no GameState threaded here).

One more, found by auditing rather than reported

Rather than fix only the two you flagged, I pulled every CR number this PR adds and checked each. One was wrong and neither review caught it:

-2: Destroy target tapped creature was annotated CR 701.7. That is Create. Destroy is CR 701.8.

Corrected. Precisely the 701.x hazard CLAUDE.md warns about — those numbers are arbitrary sequential assignments with no mnemonic, so they cannot be written from memory.

The rest verified and left alone: CR 101.4 is the APNAP rule, CR 601.2c is target announcement, CR 704.5i is zero loyalty, CR 201.5 is the printed-name self-reference, CR 506.3 is the defender category. The CR 104.4b nearby is pre-existing loop-detection text where only the renamed variant changed.

Verification

Comment-only; no executable line altered. I ran the full gate anyway rather than waving it through — doc comments can trip doc lints under -D warnings.

cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features engine/proptest -- -D warnings clean; engine 18988 lib + 4902 integration + 30 bin; phase-ai 2110; zero failures. CI was green on all 15 checks at 5cea596a.

Requesting re-review.

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Maintainer sign-off: current head a0df199 cleared the full review and enqueue gate.

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