fix(engine): bind an untargeted Aura token's host from the event context

[cuinhellcat]

Summary

An Aura token created "attached to it" by an ability that chose no target had no host to bind, entered the battlefield enchanting nothing, and was swept by the CR 704.5m state-based action before the player ever saw it. resolve_attach_host now falls back to the triggering object (CR 608.2k) when — and only when — the ability chose no target at all.

Files changed

• crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs — the fallback in resolve_attach_host.
• crates/engine/tests/integration/self_attached_aura_token_host.rs — new, four rows.
• crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs — mod line.

Track

Non-developer

LLM

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

Implementation method (required)

Method: not-applicable — implemented and reviewed by hand from a reproduced game state, the same way #7316 and #7330 were landed from this account. /engine-implementer is not available in this harness; the evidence it would produce is given below as measurements instead.

CR references

• CR 608.2k — an ability's effect referring to a specific untargeted object its trigger condition already named (the fallback's rule).
• CR 704.5m — an Aura attached to nothing goes to its owner's graveyard (what swept the token).
• CR 111.7 — a token outside the battlefield ceases to exist (why nothing was visible afterwards).
• CR 301.5 / CR 303.4 — existing annotations at the seam, unchanged.

What was wrong

Effect::Token's attach_to for the bare pronoun is TargetFilter::ParentTarget, and resolve_attach_host reads that as "the first TargetRef::Object in ability.targets". A self-referential enters trigger chooses no target, so ability.targets is empty and the host resolved to None.

Measured on Faunsbane Troll before the change — the resolution's own event list, in order:

ZoneChanged { object_id: 3, from: None, to: Battlefield, name: "Monster Role" }
TokenCreated { object_id: 3, name: "Monster Role", source_id: 1 }
EffectResolved { kind: Token, source_id: 1 }
ZoneChanged { object_id: 3, from: Battlefield, to: Graveyard, name: "Monster Role" }

The Role is created, enters, and leaves inside the one resolution. Afterwards the battlefield holds only the Troll and no object with subtype Role exists in any zone, which is why this reads as "the ETB does nothing" rather than as a misplaced Aura.

Class

Measured over the shipped export, Effect::Token specs whose attach_to is ParentTarget:

• No target in the same ability (broken): 8 specs on 6 cards — Faunsbane Troll, Cursed Courtier, Unassuming Sage, Twisted Sewer-Witch, Asinine Antics, and Gylwain, Casting Director's three modes.
• Behind a target (already correct): 5 cards — Monstrous Rage, Croaking Curse, Royal Treatment, Return Triumphant, Not Dead After All.

Two of the broken six are loops ("for each … attached to that creature"), where the for-each rebind populates ability.targets per iteration. The fallback is gated on ability.targets.is_empty() precisely so it cannot outrank that rebind, and a row pins it.

The fallback routes through targeting::resolve_event_context_target rather than reading ability.source_id: Gylwain creates the Role for another creature that entered, and the event's subject — not the source — is the object its sentence refers to.

Verification

• Required checks ran clean, or the exact CI-owned alternative is stated below.

• Gate A output below is for the current committed head.

• Final review-impl below is clean for the current committed head.

• Both anchors cite existing analogous code at the same seam.

• cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean.

• cargo fmt --all --check — clean.

• cargo test -p phase-engine — 19091 + 21 + 9 + 4986 passed, 0 failed (fixture-backed, as CI runs it).

• FORGE_TEST_FULL_DB=1 cargo test -p phase-engine --test integration self_attached — 4 passed, including the two shipped cards.

• ./scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh — Gate A PASS, below.

• Counter-measurement, fix dropped, fixture DB (the CI view): untargeted_role_token_enchants_the_creature_that_entered FAILED, the targeted and for-each rows stayed green. With the full DB the shipped-card row fails beside it. The untargeted row builds its card from Oracle text, so it discriminates in CI, where only integration_cards.json.gz exists.

• Counter-measurement, always side: forcing the fallback past its targets.is_empty() guard turns no row red across all 4986 integration rows. No card in the pool creates an Aura token from an ability that targets only a player, so the guard is a rules guard with no witness rather than a measured behaviour — stated rather than claimed as coverage.

Gate A

Gate A PASS head=9073dcf6a96049289beea62db756624b10724fac base=6e7f1db92f7561b59136da30e7a362fe5a25c445

Anchored on

• crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs:2989 — the neighbouring TriggeringSource | AttachedTo arm of the same match, which already resolves an event-context host through targeting::resolve_event_context_target. The fallback reuses that call rather than introducing a second way to name the triggering object.
• crates/engine/src/game/effects/attach.rs:120 — resolve_object_filter's ParentTarget arm, the sibling authority this function's doc comment says it mirrors; the change keeps the mirrored behaviour whenever a target exists.

Final review-impl

Not run — /review-impl is not available in this harness. Self-review against its lenses produced the loop-case row (for_each_role_tokens_enchant_their_own_iteration_host) and the targets.is_empty() guard; the always-side gap above is reported rather than papered over.

Claimed parse impact

None. No parser file is touched, so no card data moves.

Scope Expansion

None. Related but deliberately untouched: #7302's second defect — apply_create_token_after_replacement has no CR 303.4i consult, so an Aura token whose host genuinely is undefined is still created and then swept instead of not being created. This change removes the reason those six cards reach that path; it does not add the guard.

Validation Failures

None.

CI Failures

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Untargeted Aura and Role tokens now automatically attach to the creature that triggered the effect.
  • Targeted tokens attach to the selected object or player as intended.
  • Tokens created during repeated effects attach independently to each relevant host.
  • Existing card Roles are preserved correctly.
  • Event context and reference-based effects no longer incorrectly attach tokens to selected targets.
  • Tokens consistently respect their specified attachment source.

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Walkthrough

resolve_attach_host now classifies TargetFilter values by authoritative host source. It resolves selected object and player targets, event context, parent slots, source objects, specific objects, and explicit no-host cases. Integration tests cover Role token attachment across direct, shipped-card, loop, player, and reference-filter cases.

Changes

Aura token host resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define target host authority crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs, crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs, crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs	TargetFilter::denotes_player_target() centralizes player-target detection. Attachment classification keeps selected-target and context-reference filters separate.
Resolve attachment hosts crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs	resolve_attach_host dispatches by host authority. Pronouns use event context only when no targets were selected.
Validate Role token attachment behavior crates/engine/tests/integration/self_attached_aura_token_host.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs	Integration fixtures and tests cover untargeted and targeted tokens, shipped cards, loop-generated Roles, player hosts, context references, paired sources, and Selenia’s Curse.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 98948

The PR changes how Aura tokens choose their host, but the current implementation can still attach tokens to the wrong object or mishandle valid event contexts, and one regression test does not exercise the normal game-resolution path. The current head is not merge-ready until these correctness and test-path issues are fixed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TriggeringEvent
  participant resolve_attach_host
  participant TargetFilter
  participant RoleToken
  TriggeringEvent->>resolve_attach_host: provide event context and selected targets
  resolve_attach_host->>TargetFilter: classify host authority
  TargetFilter->>resolve_attach_host: select object or player host path
  resolve_attach_host->>RoleToken: attach token to resolved host or leave unattached

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Possibly related PRs

• phase-rs/phase#6808: Both modify Aura attachment-host resolution and event-context handling.
• phase-rs/phase#7303: Both modify Aura token host resolution in crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs.
• phase-rs/phase#7324: Both distinguish player-valued targets from object targets in targeting logic.

Suggested labels: quality

Suggested reviewers: matthewevans, lgray

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs`:
- Around line 3017-3020: Update the Aura-token handling annotation and matching
test diagnostics to state that an Aura token with an undefined attachment is not
created under CR 303.4i, rather than entering unattached and being removed by
SBAs. Describe the replacement-aware Aura-entry outcome and cite the verified CR
rule whose body supports the implemented behavior.
- Around line 3000-3030: Replace the wildcard arm handling target resolution
with exhaustive TargetFilter arms, and move the empty-target event-context
fallback exclusively into the TargetFilter::ParentTarget arm. Preserve existing
no-host behavior for typed attachment filters that legally select zero targets,
while retaining the current resolver-based fallback for ParentTarget.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/self_attached_aura_token_host.rs`:
- Around line 186-193: Make
for_each_role_tokens_enchant_their_own_iteration_host non-skippable by requiring
the database and the Asinine Antics card instead of returning successfully when
either is unavailable; add the needed Oracle-text loop fixture or use a required
curated fixture, while preserving the assertion that each token attaches to its
own iteration host.

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✓ No card-parse changes detected.

[cuinhellcat]

Thanks — two of the three land, and the third is right about the wording rather than the code. Pushed as a second commit.

1. Restrict the fallback to ParentTarget — accepted, fixed. The wildcard did cover typed targeting filters, so an "attached to target creature you control" that legally selected zero targets would have picked up the triggering object instead of keeping its own no-host outcome. TargetFilter::ParentTarget is now its own arm and carries the fallback alone; the wildcard keeps reading ability.targets through a shared first_object_host helper. I did not make the match exhaustive over TargetFilter — the wildcard is the pre-existing shape of the neighbouring attach::resolve_object_filter and enumerating the whole enum here would be a larger, unrelated change; the finding's actual risk is removed by the narrower arm.

2. CR annotation — the rules citation was right, the sentence around it was not. CR 303.4i does say an Aura token with an undefined host isn't created. What I described is what the engine does today, measured on the resolution's own event list:

ZoneChanged { id: 3, from: None, to: Battlefield, name: "Monster Role" }
TokenCreated { id: 3, name: "Monster Role", source_id: 1 }
ZoneChanged { id: 3, from: Battlefield, to: Graveyard, name: "Monster Role" }

so the token is created and then swept — that divergence from CR 303.4i is the second defect in #7302, on the apply_create_token_after_replacement path. The comment now says so explicitly instead of presenting the observed path as the rule, and points at the tracking issue. Binding the host correctly keeps these six cards off that path; it does not stand in for the missing guard, and this PR does not claim to add it.

3. Non-skippable for-each row — accepted, fixed. The row now builds its card from Oracle text ("When this creature enters, for each creature you control, create a Wicked Role token attached to that creature"), so per-iteration rebinding is exercised in CI, where only integration_cards.json.gz exists. The Asinine Antics replay stays as a second half of the same row, behind the fixture guard, so the shipped card is still covered where the full export is available.

Re-measured after the change — fix dropped, fixture DB, the CI view: untargeted_role_token_enchants_the_creature_that_entered FAILED, the targeted, for-each and shipped rows stayed green. cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean, cargo test -p phase-engine green.

[matthewevans]

Request changes — current head f070921364da6d8bc305df284443e8583e98c6a5 still has one host-resolution correctness gap.

🔴 Blocker

[HIGH] resolve_attach_host treats every TargetFilter other than TriggeringSource, AttachedTo, and ParentTarget as a selected-object target. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs:3025-3030 routes the entire remaining TargetFilter enum through first_object_host, while the enum includes context/reference filters such as SelfRef, LastCreated, LastRevealed, LastZoneChanged, CostPaidObject, and TrackedSet at crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:5333-5453. Why it matters: an attachment specification that names one of those contexts can silently attach to an unrelated object selected by the enclosing ability instead of resolving its declared authority; the wildcard also hides future additions from review. Suggested fix: classify only filters that represent a selected target slot (including the intended typed/any target forms), resolve each context/reference family through its declared authority or return no host when unsupported, and make the classification exhaustive enough that a new filter cannot inherit selected-target semantics accidentally. Add a negative integration regression that gives the ability both a selected object and a context filter, then proves the selected object cannot become the attachment host.

✅ Clean

The exact-head parse artifact reports no card-parse changes, and the required CI checks, including Rust shard 1/4, are successful. Those results do not exercise the broad-filter branch above.

Recommendation: request changes for the explicit target-slot classification and discriminating negative regression, then re-review this head's successor.

[cuinhellcat]

Accepted — fixed. Pushed as a third commit (rebased onto 9df85b9).

The wildcard is gone. resolve_attach_host is now a resolution table over an explicit AttachHostAuthority, and classify_attach_host_authority is exhaustive over TargetFilter with no _ arm, so a new variant fails to compile until it is triaged rather than inheriting selected-target semantics:

• SelectedTarget — the predicates a target slot is actually chosen with (Any, Typed, Not/Or/And, Named, HasChosenName, SourceOrPaired, StackSpell, StackAbility). Only these read ability.targets (CR 115.1a).
• EventContext — TriggeringSource, AttachedTo, EventTarget, LastCreated, LastRevealed, LastZoneChanged, PostReplacementDamageSource, resolved by targeting::resolve_event_context_target.
• Pronoun — ParentTarget, keeping the CR 608.2k fallback from the previous round.
• ParentSlot — ParentTargetSlot { index } now routes through targeting::resolve_parent_slot_from_root, the same authority attach::resolve_object_filter uses, instead of grabbing the first target regardless of index.
• Source / SpecificObject — SelfRef and SpecificObject { id } name their object directly.
• NoHost — every player-valued filter (CR 303.4 permits a player host; nothing in the corpus creates one and this path has no player-host support), plus the reference families whose authority this path does not resolve: CostPaidObject, TrackedSet/TrackedSetFiltered, ChosenCard, ChosenDamageSource, ExiledBySource, ExiledCardByIndex, GrantingObject, None, OriginalSource.

Negative regression: a_context_filter_host_never_falls_back_to_the_selected_target. It resolves an Effect::Token whose attach_to is a context filter while the ability holds a selected object target, in both directions:

• CostPaidObject (names nothing in that state) → no Role is attached at all, and the selected bystander stays unenchanted;
• SelfRef (names something) → the host is the ability's source, not the selected bystander.

The second half is the discriminator: it proves the classification resolves the declared authority rather than merely refusing to attach.

Counter-measurement, fix dropped — the Source and NoHost arms restored to first_object_host, i.e. the old wildcard behaviour: the row FAILED at "a reference filter that resolves to nothing must leave the selected target unenchanted". Restored, it passes.

Blast radius, measured over the shipped pool (card-data.json, 35 795 cards): every attach_to in the corpus is either Typed (34) or ParentTarget (13) — nothing else. The reclassified families are unreachable from printed cards today, so this is a correctness fence for the class, not a behaviour change to any card.

cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo test -p phase-engine green (19 092 unit + 4993 integration rows); the Role suite also re-run with FORGE_TEST_FULL_DB=1 so the two shipped-card rows execute rather than skip — all 5 pass.

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In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/self_attached_aura_token_host.rs`:
- Around line 290-317: Update the integration test around
resolve_role_token_attached_to to create the token ability through the scenario
setup and resolve it via the stack/production pipeline instead of calling
resolve_ability_chain directly. Add a positive reach guard proving the token
effect reached attachment resolution, then retain the assertions that
CostPaidObject does not use selected and pair each negative assertion with an
equivalent reach check; apply the same change to the additional affected case.
- Around line 137-142: Update the assertion message in the test around the
subject attachment check to cite CR 701.3a for Aura attachment semantics, and
describe the reverse attachments assertion as an engine invariant rather than
attributing it to the rules citation.

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[matthewevans]

Request changes — current head 877e69c7d7d52c77e6595bfc7424c25d97717958.

[HIGH] SourceOrPaired is classified as SelectedTarget. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs:3079-3088 places it in the selected-target group, but TargetFilter::is_context_ref classifies it as an automatic context reference at crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:15365-15425; its object match is derived from the source/paired relationship at crates/engine/src/game/filter.rs:2922-2933. Why it matters: an Aura-token effect using SourceOrPaired alongside an unrelated ability.targets object can attach to that unrelated selection instead of the source/paired object. Suggested fix: resolve this filter through its own context authority (or fail closed until that authority is supported), and add a production regression with a paired source plus a distinct selected object that proves the selected object cannot become the host.

[MED] The new context-filter regression bypasses the production stack/event pipeline and lacks a positive reach assertion. Evidence: crates/engine/tests/integration/self_attached_aura_token_host.rs:281-337 constructs ResolvedAbility and calls resolve_ability_chain directly; its negative checks can pass if no Role token reaches attachment resolution. Why it matters: this does not demonstrate the runtime path where event context and state-based actions interact. Suggested fix: drive the case through a scenario/stack resolution and first assert that exactly one Role token was created before checking its attachment host.

[LOW] The attachment-invariant assertion cites the Equipment rule. Evidence: crates/engine/tests/integration/self_attached_aura_token_host.rs:137-142 cites CR 301.5, while the repository rules text defines that as Equipment-specific at docs/MagicCompRules.txt:1590-1600; CR 701.3a is the attachment rule at docs/MagicCompRules.txt:3285-3289. Why it matters: the test communicates a false rules basis. Suggested fix: cite CR 701.3a for attachment semantics and describe the reverse attachments check as an engine invariant.

The current required Rust aggregate is still pending, and the available no-change parse-diff predates this head, so neither is approval evidence. The security scan and changed-path review are clean; the functional gaps above are the merge blockers.

[cuinhellcat]

All three accepted — fixed. Pushed as a fourth commit.

[HIGH] SourceOrPaired. You're right, and the interesting part is that the engine already knew: TargetFilter::is_context_ref lists it. I had classified it by shape ("a predicate over objects") instead of asking the existing authority. It now fails closed with the other unresolved reference families — CR 702.95b makes it the source and its paired creature, two objects rather than one host, so there is no single host authority for it to resolve through until one exists.

To stop the same misfiling recurring by hand, the classification is now pinned against is_context_ref from both sides, as unit guards next to the code:

• selected_target_filters_are_never_context_refs — every filter in the selected-target class is not a context ref;
• context_references_never_classify_as_a_selected_target — every context reference classifies as something other than SelectedTarget.

The second is the one that catches a misfiling: with SourceOrPaired put back in the selected-target group it fails with "SourceOrPaired is a context reference and must not inherit the ability's chosen targets as its attachment host". The first passes in that state, which is precisely why both directions are there.

[MED] The regression now runs through the production stack. A permanent's activated ability taps a chosen creature and, in the same chain, creates the Role token "attached to" the context filter — one ability holding both a selected object target and a host filter. It is driven by runner.activate(...).target_object(selected).resolve() plus advance_until_stack_empty(), so activation, target selection, resolution and state-based actions all run.

Positive reach is asserted twice before any host claim: the selected creature is tapped (the parent effect ran, so resolution reached the token clause), and exactly one GameEvent::TokenCreated came out of the resolution. That count is read from the resolution's own events rather than the final board on purpose — a Role that ends with no host is unattached, CR 704.5m moves it to the graveyard and CR 111.7 ends it there, so a board-only check cannot tell "created and swept" from "never created", which is exactly the hole you identified.

Three rows: CostPaidObject (names nothing → no host, selected creature unenchanted), SelfRef (names something → the host is the source, not the selected creature — the discriminating half), and the new a_paired_source_filter_never_inherits_the_selected_target with the source genuinely paired to another creature.

[LOW] CR citation. Corrected: the assertion now cites CR 701.3a for attachment and describes the host's attachments list as the engine invariant that says the same thing from the other side. Verified against docs/MagicCompRules.txt — 301.5 is the Equipment section, 701.3a is "to attach … means to take it from where it currently is and put it onto that object or player".

Counter-measurements: SourceOrPaired restored to the selected-target group → the paired regression fails (left: 1, right: 0 attachments on the selected creature) and the inverse guard fails; restored, both green. cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo test -p phase-engine green (19 094 unit + 4994 integration); the Role suite re-run with FORGE_TEST_FULL_DB=1 so the shipped-card rows execute — 6/6.

[matthewevans]

Request changes — current head 15ed71180149f084685dcd0bece7ef6966f9cf2a has one unresolved context-authority route.

🔴 Blocker

[MED] classify_attach_host_authority sends every TargetFilter::Typed(_) through SelectedTarget. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs:3079-3087, while TargetFilter::is_context_ref specifically treats a property-free Typed filter with ControllerRef::ChosenPlayer { index } as a resolution context reference at crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:15357-15363 and 15415-15430. Why it matters: an Aura-token continuation attached to that resolution-chosen player can inherit an unrelated object from ability.targets and attach to the object instead of the chosen player. AttachTarget::Player is already a supported host form at crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs:3164-3170, so this is a wrong classification rather than an unavailable representation. Suggested fix: check chosen_player_index() before the generic Typed branch, resolve it through effects::resolve_player_for_context_ref, and return AttachTarget::Player (or fail closed if this path is intentionally not supported). Add a production-pipeline regression with a chosen player and an unrelated object target that proves the token cannot attach to the object.

✅ Clean

The prior SourceOrPaired and stack-pipeline concerns are addressed on this head; the current parse artifact is head-bound and reports no card-parse change, and the required CI checks are green. They do not cover the resolution-chosen-player Typed shape above.

Recommendation: request changes for the context-aware Typed classification and a discriminating player-host regression, then re-review the successor head.

[cuinhellcat]

Accepted — fixed, and it is worse than you reported: there is a shipped card in this class.

Selenia, the Cursed Heart — "When Selenia dies, create a legendary black Aura Curse enchantment token named Selenia's Curse attached to target opponent." Her attach_to exports as Typed { type_filters: [], controller: Opponent, properties: [] }, the same property-free shape, and it is the only player-valued attach_to in the pool (of the 47 attach_to filters across the 35 795-card export, 34 are Typed and 13 ParentTarget; exactly one of the 34 is this shape). first_object_host scans for an Object and skips Player slots, so the host resolved to None, the Curse entered enchanting nothing, CR 704.5m swept it and CR 111.7 ended it inside the same resolution — the card did nothing at all. Where the ability also holds an object target, it attached to that object instead, which is the harm you described.

The classification now asks, rather than infers. Whether a target slot holds a player or an object is game::targeting::legal_targets' question, and it already had the answer — the players-only enumeration rule. That rule moves onto TargetFilter as denotes_player_target, and legal_targets and the host resolver read the one authority instead of each deriving the shape. chosen_player_index is asked first, since a resolution-chosen player is a context reference and not a target slot at all. SelectedPlayerTarget resolves the chosen player target; ChosenPlayer routes through resolve_player_for_context_ref, the same resolver every other "the chosen player s" sub-effect uses. TargetFilter::Player and SpecificPlayer join them, since they are the same class — no shipped card uses either as a host, so the blast radius is Selenia alone.

On the guard that should have caught this. It did not, and the reason matters more than the fix: it iterated a hand-written list of filters, so it only ever guarded the shapes I thought to write down — Typed(TypedFilter::creature()) was in it, and the property-free Typed was not. That is the same failure mode as the SourceOrPaired miss one round earlier, so the check now lives inside classify_attach_host_authority as a debug_assert against both authorities:

!(SelectedTarget && (filter.is_context_ref() || filter.denotes_player_target()))

Every filter the engine classifies anywhere is covered — roughly 24 000 unit and integration cases arm it — instead of the nine I enumerated. Counter-measured: with the Typed guards removed it fires by name, Typed(TypedFilter { type_filters: [], controller: Some(ChosenPlayer { index: 0 }), properties: [] }) is not an object target slot, so it must not inherit the ability's chosen object targets as its attachment host. The list-based guards remain as documentation of the two classes; they are no longer the thing doing the work.

Regressions, all through the production stack (activation → target declaration → resolution → state-based actions):

• a_player_host_filter_enchants_the_targeted_player_not_the_object_target — the Selenia shape, with a live object target in the same ability so the row discriminates.
• a_chosen_player_host_filter_never_inherits_the_object_target — your case: a Choose an opponent step binds the chosen player mid-resolution, the tap clause holds the object target, and the Curse must reach the player. The choice is game-made (CR 608.2d override) and ChoiceType::Opponent leaves one legal answer in a two-player game, so it is deterministic without pinning the RNG.
• selenias_curse_enchants_the_targeted_opponent — the shipped card end to end behind the full-DB guard: on the battlefield, killed as a game event so the dies trigger observes it, trigger resolved, Curse attached to Player(P1).

Counter-measurement with the classification reverted: left: Some(Object(ObjectId(1))) on the chosen-player row (the Curse lands on the tapped creature) and left: None on the Selenia-shaped row (no host at all). Restored, both green. cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo test -p phase-engine green (4 996 integration); the suite re-run with FORGE_TEST_FULL_DB=1 so the shipped rows execute — 9/9. Rebased onto current main.

One thing I found and did not fix, since it is card data rather than this seam: the token Selenia creates carries the name Selenia instead of the printed Selenia's Curse, so the new row identifies it by subtype. Happy to open that separately.

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crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs (1)

15838-15846: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a direct unit test for denotes_player_target.

This file has no unit test that exercises denotes_player_target directly. The predicate has several documented edge cases: TargetFilter::Player, TargetFilter::SpecificPlayer, a bare empty Typed filter under different controller values (including ChosenPlayer), and a Typed filter with a non-empty properties list (for example Token or Another) that must return false.

A focused unit test on this predicate, independent of the integration coverage claimed elsewhere, would pin the documented contract and catch a regression earlier.

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In `@crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs` around lines 15838 - 15846, Add a focused
unit test for TargetFilter::denotes_player_target covering Player,
SpecificPlayer, empty Typed filters across controller values including
ChosenPlayer, and Typed filters with non-empty properties such as Token or
Another; assert true or false according to the documented contract and keep the
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs`:
- Around line 3004-3006: Update the AttachHostAuthority::ChosenPlayer arm to
read the chosen-player slot directly instead of using
resolve_player_for_context_ref, returning None when it is unbound and
Some(AttachTarget::Player(...)) only when a player is present.
- Around line 3032-3041: Update the AttachHostAuthority::Pronoun fallback after
first_object_host so that, when ability.targets is empty, it calls
resolved_targets with TargetFilter::ParentTarget and uses the resolved object
converted via target_ref_to_attach_target. Remove the TriggeringSource
resolve_event_context_target path while preserving the existing non-empty-target
behavior.
- Around line 3096-3125: Update the authority match around the existing
TargetFilter arms to detect And and Or filters where is_context_ref() is true
before the SelectedTarget fallback, returning AttachHostAuthority::NoHost for
those context-reference composites. Preserve the existing Typed-specific
classifications and object-predicate behavior for non-context-reference filters.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/self_attached_aura_token_host.rs`:
- Around line 648-658: Update the Selenia death setup in the self-attached aura
test to use the engine’s action path for lethal damage or destruction instead of
calling zones::move_to_zone directly, so replacement::replace_event and
state-based actions run. Settle the runner after resolving the action, then
assert Selenia’s dies trigger is on the stack before advancing to an empty
stack.

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In `@crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs`:
- Around line 15838-15846: Add a focused unit test for
TargetFilter::denotes_player_target covering Player, SpecificPlayer, empty Typed
filters across controller values including ChosenPlayer, and Typed filters with
non-empty properties such as Token or Another; assert true or false according to
the documented contract and keep the test independent of integration coverage.

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[matthewevans]

Request changes — current head 989487f2e3c28974e9cf535eaafada410a49d592 still routes several attachment authorities incorrectly.

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[HIGH] An unbound resolution-chosen-player host silently falls back to the ability controller. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs:3004-3006 wraps resolve_player_for_context_ref, whose chosen-player branch defaults a missing index to ability.controller at crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:7128-7138. Why it matters: a token whose host was never selected can attach to an unrelated player rather than remaining without a host. Suggested fix: read the chosen-player slot for this host directly and return None when it is absent; add a production-pipeline regression for an unbound slot.

[HIGH] The no-target ParentTarget fallback resolves TriggeringSource, not the ParentTarget authority it is implementing. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs:3032-3040 calls resolve_event_context_target(... TriggeringSource ...); crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs:828-847 and 1235-1265 give ParentTarget distinct attack-batch, spell-target, blocker, stationing, crew, saddle, and zone-change semantics. Why it matters: the bare pronoun can bind to the trigger source or no object when the event referent is a different object or a multi-object batch. Suggested fix: use resolved_targets with TargetFilter::ParentTarget and convert the resulting reference, preserving the non-empty chosen-target path; cover a context where the source and parent referent differ.

[HIGH] Context-reference And/Or filters still inherit ability.targets as selected-object filters. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs:3116-3125 classifies all composites as SelectedTarget, while crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:15609-15618 recursively detects exile-context references and 15754-15763 makes that result a context reference. Why it matters: debug builds trip the assertion at token.rs:3205-3210; release builds can attach to an unrelated chosen object. Suggested fix: test is_context_ref() before the composite selected-target arm and fail closed or resolve the composite's declared authority; add a production regression containing both an exile-context composite and an unrelated object target.

[MED] The shipped Selenia regression constructs its death by calling the zone delivery helper directly. Evidence: crates/engine/tests/integration/self_attached_aura_token_host.rs:648-658 calls zones::move_to_zone then manually processes triggers. Why it matters: it bypasses the replacement-aware action/state-based pipeline, so it is not a discriminating end-to-end regression for a dies-triggered Aura token. Suggested fix: create the death through the engine action path, settle it, and assert the trigger is on the stack before resolving it.

✅ Clean

The security scan found no hard-stop paths. The current-head parse artifact reports no card-parse changes, and all required CI checks are green; neither exercises these authority/error paths.

Recommendation: request changes for the three authority fixes and their production-pipeline regressions, then re-review the successor head.

[cuinhellcat]

All four accepted — including the one I had declined an hour earlier when CodeRabbit raised it. Your evidence is what changed my mind; details below.

[HIGH] Unbound chosen player fell back to the controller. Fixed. AttachHostAuthority::ChosenPlayer carries the index and reads ability.chosen_players directly, yielding None for an unbound slot. The shared resolver's fallback to ability.controller is right for a sub-effect that must still act ("the chosen player draws a card") and wrong for a host: nobody was named, and inventing one is the defect this resolver exists to prevent. Regression an_unbound_chosen_player_yields_no_host_rather_than_the_controller through the production stack; counter-measured with the old routing — left: Some(Player(PlayerId(0))).

[HIGH] Context-reference And/Or composites. Fixed. Verified that references_exiled_by_source recurses, so is_context_ref() is true for And { ExiledBySource, Typed } while the outer shape is an object predicate — the two ways of deciding disagree, which is the class of bug this PR is about. The composites now consult the authority ahead of the object-predicate arm and fail closed. Unit guard a_composite_carrying_the_exile_anaphor_is_not_a_selected_target; without it the debug assertion fires, which is the assertion working rather than a false positive.

[MED] Selenia's death. Fixed. She takes lethal damage and check_state_based_actions is what moves her — asserted before the trigger is read — so the dies trigger observes a real death rather than a hand-moved zone.

[HIGH] The pronoun fallback. Accepted, and I was wrong to decline it. My reasoning was corpus-shaped: all 13 ParentTarget hosts in the export sit on zone-change triggers or on spells that always declare a target, so the attack-batch and blocker paths are unreachable today, and I weighted "don't reroute 8 working cards through an untested path" above it. Your citation is the answer to that: resolved_targets yields the ENTERING object on a zone change only when it is not the source, and otherwise falls back to the source — so the shipped shapes keep exactly the binding they have, and every other event kind gains the right one. There was no trade to make. TriggeringSource agreed with the ParentTarget authority on the two zone-change shapes and on nothing else; substituting a neighbouring authority because it happens to agree is the same mistake as classifying by shape, one layer up.

The arm now calls resolved_targets(ability, &TargetFilter::ParentTarget, state) and takes one host from what may be a batch, since the clause creates one token. The non-empty chosen-target path is untouched. the_pronoun_names_the_creature_the_trigger_watched_not_the_source builds the shape where referent and source differ, from Oracle text so it runs in CI, and it reaches the fallback (verified by instrumenting the arm, not assumed).

Stated plainly: that row does not discriminate TriggeringSource from ParentTarget — they agree on a zone change, which is precisely why the shipped cards were safe either way. It pins the referent-is-not-the-source property, and fails left: Some(Object(ObjectId(1))) right: Some(Object(ObjectId(2))) against a fallback that reads source_id. The evidence that the swap is safe is that all 11 rows, including Faunsbane Troll and Cursed Courtier end to end, are green after it.

A correction to my own method while I am here: my first counter-measurement of that swap reported "passes either way", and it was worthless — cargo fmt had rewrapped the expression, my textual revert matched nothing and silently did nothing, so I measured the unmodified code. Every revert probe quoted above now aborts if the substitution does not apply.

cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo test -p phase-engine green (19 180 unit + 5 025 integration); the attach-host suite 11/11 with FORGE_TEST_FULL_DB=1. Also added the direct unit test for denotes_player_target CodeRabbit asked for, covering both player slots, the empty Typed across controller scopes, and the [Token] / CR 115.4 [Another] negatives.

[cuinhellcat]

Edited: the fourth point below originally read "declined". I reversed that after reading review #4 — the correction is in place rather than hidden.

@coderabbitai — all four findings accepted and fixed. The fourth is the one I first declined; see the note above.

[Major] ChosenPlayer unbound → the controller. Accepted; this was a real fail-open. resolve_player_for_context_ref falls back to ability.controller for an out-of-range index, which is correct for a sub-effect that must still act ("the chosen player draws a card") and wrong for a host: nobody was named, and inventing a host is the exact defect this resolver exists to prevent. The arm now reads ability.chosen_players directly and yields None when the slot is unbound; AttachHostAuthority::ChosenPlayer carries the index so it can. Regression an_unbound_chosen_player_yields_no_host_rather_than_the_controller; counter-measured with the old resolver restored — left: Some(Player(PlayerId(0))), the Curse on the controller.

[Major] And { ExiledBySource, Typed } classifies as SelectedTarget. Accepted. Verified: references_exiled_by_source recurses through And/Or, so is_context_ref() is true for the composite while its outer shape is an object predicate — the two ways of deciding disagree, which is precisely the class of bug this PR is about. And/Or/Not now consult the authority ahead of the object-predicate arm and fail closed. Unit guard a_composite_carrying_the_exile_anaphor_is_not_a_selected_target; without it the assertion fires, which is the assertion doing its job rather than a false positive.

[Major] Drive Selenia's death through the SBA path. Accepted. She now takes lethal damage and check_state_based_actions is what moves her (asserted), so the dies trigger observes a real death rather than a hand-moved zone.

[Major] Route the pronoun fallback through ParentTarget. Accepted — I declined this an hour ago and was wrong.

My reasoning was corpus-shaped: all 13 ParentTarget hosts in the export sit on zone-change triggers or on spells that always declare a target, so the attack-batch and blocker paths are unreachable today, and I weighted "do not reroute 8 working cards through an untested path" above it. The maintainer's citation is the answer: resolved_targets yields the entering object on a zone change only when it is not the source, and otherwise falls back to the source — so the shipped shapes keep exactly the binding they have, and every other event kind gains the right one. There was no trade to make. Detail and the counter-measurement are in the reply to review #4 above.

[Nitpick] Direct unit test for denotes_player_target. Added, in its own module: both player slots, the empty Typed across controller scopes including ChosenPlayer, and the two negatives that matter — properties: [Token] ("target token you control") and the CR 115.4 properties: [Another] "any other target" shape.

cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo test -p phase-engine green; the attach-host suite 10/10 with FORGE_TEST_FULL_DB=1.

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@cuinhellcat Thanks for the detailed follow-up.

The ChosenPlayer change fixes the fail-open behavior. Reading ability.chosen_players directly is correct for attachment-host resolution.

The composite context-reference change fixes the authority mismatch. The unit guard covers the recursive is_context_ref() behavior.

The SBA-driven Selenia test now validates the actual dies-trigger path.

The direct denotes_player_target test covers the important positive and negative cases.

I accept the ParentTarget deferral for this PR. The corpus measurement bounds the current impact. The condition for revisiting the behavior is clear if a reachable non-zone-change ParentTarget attachment case appears.

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Learnt from: cuinhellcat
URL: https://github.com/phase-rs/phase/pull/7397

Timestamp: 2026-08-15T10:55:05.172Z
Learning: In `crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs`, attachment host resolution for `ChosenPlayer` must read the indexed `ability.chosen_players` slot directly. An unbound chosen-player slot must yield no attachment host. `targeting::resolve_player_for_context_ref` may fall back to `ability.controller` for ordinary sub-effects, but that fallback is invalid for attachment-host resolution.

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Learnt from: cuinhellcat
URL: https://github.com/phase-rs/phase/pull/7397

Timestamp: 2026-08-15T10:55:05.172Z
Learning: For `TargetFilter` attachment-host classification in the Rust engine, composite `And`, `Or`, and `Not` filters must check context-reference authority before object-predicate classification. `TargetFilter::is_context_ref()` can recurse into a composite such as `And { ExiledBySource, Typed }`; such a filter must not inherit selected-target attachment-host authority.

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Repo: phase-rs/phase PR: 6561
File: crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:11555-11569
Timestamp: 2026-07-23T21:02:20.361Z
Learning: In `crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs`, the singular referent guard used by `parent_referent_context_from_events` and tested by `multiple_qualifying_moves_bind_no_parent_referent` is correctly annotated with CR 608.2k because it requires “a specific untargeted object.” The qualifying public-to-hidden zone-change LKI predicate is separately grounded in CR 608.2h and CR 400.7j; CR 608.2c is not the basis for singular referent resolution.

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Repo: phase-rs/phase PR: 7099
File: crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:23828-23850
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T12:14:01.090Z
Learning: For delayed-trigger incarnation pinning in the Rust engine, `ParentTargetSlot` consumers must preserve declared target-slot indexes. Filtering stale targets from the list can renumber slots, and an empty filtered `ParentTarget` list can fall back to `ability.source_id` in `crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs`. Per-slot incarnation validation is required for any slot-indexed `ParentTarget` consumer; this architectural follow-up is tracked in GitHub issue `#7100`.

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@cuinhellcat, thanks for the detailed follow-up.

The fixes address the reported host-resolution failures. In particular, the ChosenPlayer path now fails closed when no player is bound, and composite context references cannot inherit selected object targets.

The SBA-based Selenia test and the direct denotes_player_target coverage also close the test gaps. The ParentTarget fallback now uses the declared pronoun authority.

🐇 ✅

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URL: https://github.com/phase-rs/phase/pull/7397

Timestamp: 2026-08-15T10:55:15.866Z
Learning: In `crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs`, an `AttachHostAuthority::ChosenPlayer` host lookup must read `ability.chosen_players` directly and return no host for an unbound index. `targeting::resolve_player_for_context_ref` can fall back to `ability.controller` for normal sub-effects, but that fallback is invalid when resolving an attachment host.

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URL: https://github.com/phase-rs/phase/pull/7397

Timestamp: 2026-08-15T10:55:15.866Z
Learning: For `TargetFilter` attachment-host classification in the Rust engine, composite `And`, `Or`, and `Not` filters must consult context-reference authority before object-predicate classification. A composite can contain references such as `ExiledBySource`, making `TargetFilter::is_context_ref()` true even when its outer shape resembles an object-target predicate.

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Repo: phase-rs/phase PR: 6561
File: crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:11555-11569
Timestamp: 2026-07-23T21:02:20.361Z
Learning: In `crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs`, the singular referent guard used by `parent_referent_context_from_events` and tested by `multiple_qualifying_moves_bind_no_parent_referent` is correctly annotated with CR 608.2k because it requires “a specific untargeted object.” The qualifying public-to-hidden zone-change LKI predicate is separately grounded in CR 608.2h and CR 400.7j; CR 608.2c is not the basis for singular referent resolution.

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Repo: phase-rs/phase PR: 7099
File: crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:23828-23850
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T12:14:01.090Z
Learning: For delayed-trigger incarnation pinning in the Rust engine, `ParentTargetSlot` consumers must preserve declared target-slot indexes. Filtering stale targets from the list can renumber slots, and an empty filtered `ParentTarget` list can fall back to `ability.source_id` in `crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs`. Per-slot incarnation validation is required for any slot-indexed `ParentTarget` consumer; this architectural follow-up is tracked in GitHub issue `#7100`.

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@cuinhellcat Thanks for the detailed verification.

The fixes address all four findings.

• ChosenPlayer now returns no host for an unbound slot.
• Composite context references no longer inherit selected-target authority.
• The Selenia test now uses the state-based-action death path.
• ParentTarget now resolves through its declared pronoun authority.
• The denotes_player_target unit test covers the relevant positive and negative filters.

The reported clippy, engine-test, and full-database attach-host results provide sufficient validation.

🐇 ✅

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URL: https://github.com/phase-rs/phase/pull/7397

Timestamp: 2026-08-15T10:55:45.664Z
Learning: In `crates/engine/src/game/effects/token.rs`, the no-selected-target fallback for `TargetFilter::ParentTarget` attachment hosts must use `targeting::resolved_targets(ability, &TargetFilter::ParentTarget, state)`, not `ability.source_id` or `TargetFilter::TriggeringSource`. This preserves the declared pronoun referent for non-zone-change events while retaining existing zone-change behavior.

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Repo: phase-rs/phase PR: 6561
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Timestamp: 2026-07-23T21:02:20.361Z
Learning: In `crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs`, the singular referent guard used by `parent_referent_context_from_events` and tested by `multiple_qualifying_moves_bind_no_parent_referent` is correctly annotated with CR 608.2k because it requires “a specific untargeted object.” The qualifying public-to-hidden zone-change LKI predicate is separately grounded in CR 608.2h and CR 400.7j; CR 608.2c is not the basis for singular referent resolution.

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Learnt from: matthewevans
Repo: phase-rs/phase PR: 7099
File: crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:23828-23850
Timestamp: 2026-08-08T12:14:01.090Z
Learning: For delayed-trigger incarnation pinning in the Rust engine, `ParentTargetSlot` consumers must preserve declared target-slot indexes. Filtering stale targets from the list can renumber slots, and an empty filtered `ParentTarget` list can fall back to `ability.source_id` in `crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs`. Per-slot incarnation validation is required for any slot-indexed `ParentTarget` consumer; this architectural follow-up is tracked in GitHub issue `#7100`.

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[matthewevans]

Hold — current-head evidence is still pending. I rechecked head 986ca4d8f2d94f44888104768af8f22d34069f41. The parse-diff comment is still bound to prior head 989487f2e3c28974e9cf535eaafada410a49d592, and the required Rust lint, Rust test, and card-data checks are in progress for this head. The implementation review's earlier functional blockers are clean, but I cannot approve or enqueue until the current-head parse artifact and required checks settle.

Next step: CI will publish the current-head evidence; I will resume approval/enqueue review after it is available.

[matthewevans]

Approved: current head resolves Aura-token host authority through the correct target/context paths, and the production-pipeline regressions plus exact-head CI and parse artifact are clean.