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Summary

Fixes a parse-fidelity defect on Heroic Return.

Issue: Main effect "return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield" is dropped entirely (abilities empty, SwallowedClause warning) — no ChangeZone Graveyard->Battlefield; only surviving effect is a replacement that puts the +2 +1/+1 counters on SelfRef (the instant) with the "if a Hero" condition dropped.

Files changed

  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_classifier.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_nom\condition.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_nom\primitives.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_effect\sequence.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\swallow_check.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_tests.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\tests\integration\heroic_return_enters_this_way.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\tests\integration\main.rs

CR references

  • CR 608.2c
  • CR 614.1c
  • CR 614.12
  • CR 122.1
  • CR 400.7
  • CR 109.5

Track

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LLM

Model: claude-opus-4-8
Thinking: high

Tier: Frontier

Verification

  • cargo fmt --all — clean (exit 0)
  • ./scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh (Gate A) — clean (exit 0) - Gate A PASS head=9df85b9b4 base=9169d8f44; Family-D NOT skipped: worked around the Windows-Store python3 stub by using C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\python3.exe (3.9.7), detector self-tests 10/10 OK
  • CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean (exit 0, zero warnings, 7m57s)
  • CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo test -p phase-engine — clean (exit 0) - 24131 passed / 0 failed / 8 ignored across 5 test binaries; all 16 Heroic Return + rider-class tests green incl. 4 runtime integration tests
  • CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 cargo export-cards data --output data/card-data.json --stats — clean (exit 0) - 35009 cards, 32160 fully implemented (91.9%); main file written to data/card-data.json
  • cp data/card-data.json client/public/card-data.json — clean (exit 0) - both files 98712719 bytes, fresh
  • cargo coverage — clean (exit 0) - Heroic Return supported:true gap_count:0; totals 31810/35798 (88.8597%) unchanged from baseline
  • cargo semantic-audit — clean (exit 0) - 32765 audited, 257 flagged, Heroic Return absent from flagged_cards; category counts identical to baseline

Scope Expansion

Scope grew by one file: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_tests.rs, whose pre-existing test enters_with_n_additional_counters_parses_canonical_type PINNED the misparse (it asserted Heroic Return produced a PutCounter replacement); its Heroic Return sub-case was repointed to the corrected conditional_enter_with_counters location, preserving its canonical-Plus1Plus1 behavioral claim.

Validation Failures

None blocking: all verification gates passed (tests, coverage supported:true gap:0, semantic-audit clean). Note: the automated review loop was capped before returning fully clean, so some non-blocking reviewer suggestions may remain unaddressed.

CI Failures

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved parsing of “enters this way” clauses across active, passive, and pronoun-based wording.
    • Correctly treats qualifying entry counters as conditional effects instead of replacement effects.
    • Prevents rider text from interfering with spell classification and reanimation triggers.
    • Applies owner-based matching correctly in graveyards, hands, and libraries.
    • Rejects incomplete sentence fragments while preserving unrelated conditional clauses.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive parser, targeting, counter, and runtime coverage.

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This change adds shared sentence segmentation and scoped battlefield-entry rider parsing. Oracle classification now evaluates rider-stripped heads. Conditional entry counters are stored on ChangeZone effects. Off-zone target matching now applies ownership semantics to hand, library, and graveyard.

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Entry-rider parsing and classification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sentence and rider parser contracts
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_nom/primitives.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_nom/condition.rs
Adds period-based sentence helpers and scoped parsers for battlefield-entry riders across active, passive, typed, and pronoun forms.
Head-scoped replacement and trigger classification
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_classifier.rs
Strips reflexive entry riders before static, replacement, and trigger classification. Replacement parsing now requires complete sentence consumption.
Conditional counter integration
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/sequence.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/swallow_check.rs
Recognizes affirmative “enters this way” counter riders and stores them on conditional entry data while excluding negated and trigger-voiced variants.
Heroic Return and Recommission validation
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_tests.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/*
Adds parser and runtime coverage for targeting, conditional counters, unchanged non-targets, and the absence of replacement or unimplemented effects.

Owner-aware off-zone targeting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Zone-aware filter matching and enumeration
crates/engine/src/game/filter.rs, crates/engine/src/game/off_zone_characteristics.rs, crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs
Centralizes zone-specific filter matching and applies owner semantics to hand, library, and graveyard searches. Other zones retain controller-based matching.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d915a

The PR restores Heroic Return’s missing graveyard-to-battlefield behavior and adds coverage, but an owner-sensitive target resolution path still matches by controller, which can resolve the wrong object in affected cases. Merge should wait for that correctness issue to be addressed or explicitly accepted; the related rules annotations also need clarification.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OracleParser
  participant OracleClassifier
  participant ChangeZone
  participant GameRuntime
  OracleParser->>OracleClassifier: Strip entry riders and classify the head
  OracleClassifier->>OracleParser: Return the head classification
  OracleParser->>ChangeZone: Store conditional entry counters
  ChangeZone->>GameRuntime: Apply counters during battlefield entry
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6652-6661: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep bare-pronoun riders visible until they are lowered. parse_conditional_entry_this_way_rider accepts "If it enters this way, … counter …", but fold_enters_this_way_counter_rider only folds AbilityCondition::ZoneChangedThisWay { filter }. The bare-pronoun parser returns no filter, so this voice is suppressed by the audit without populating conditional_enter_with_counters. Lower it to the correct typed representation, or exclude it from the detector.

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/sequence.rs` around lines 6652 - 6661,
Update is_moved_object_entry_this_way_counters_clause and its downstream
handling so bare-pronoun riders accepted by
parse_conditional_entry_this_way_rider are not silently suppressed: either lower
the no-filter form into the appropriate typed representation consumed by
fold_enters_this_way_counter_rider and populate conditional_enter_with_counters,
or exclude that form from the detector.

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_nom/condition.rs`:
- Around line 9346-9350: Make strip_entry_this_way_riders fail closed by
requiring parse_reflexive_entry_this_way_rider to consume the entire unit before
discarding it, using all-consuming parsing at that consumer boundary. Preserve
parse_conditional_entry_this_way_rider’s remainder-based behavior for its payoff
body, and ensure sentences with a valid rider prefix followed by non-rider text
are retained.
- Around line 9291-9306: Update parse_entry_this_way_clause to recognize
trailing “enters with … this way” riders at valid word boundaries, in addition
to clause-initial forms, so strip_entry_this_way_riders scopes the COMMA_LESS
voice. Add or extend classifier coverage to assert the resulting head excludes
“enters with,” confirming the deferred form is accepted by the receiving path.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_classifier.rs` around
lines 1407 - 1414.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/heroic_return_enters_this_way.rs`:
- Around line 257-284: Extend the target-filter assertions in the reanimation
test around legal_target_slots_for_castable_spell to inspect the parsed
TargetFilter and verify that the “your graveyard” scope uses obj.owner rather
than controller. Keep the existing own-card and opponent-card legality
assertions, and assert the non-battlefield player-scoped query targets the
caster’s owner-controlled graveyard objects.

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- Around line 6652-6661: Update is_moved_object_entry_this_way_counters_clause
and its downstream handling so bare-pronoun riders accepted by
parse_conditional_entry_this_way_rider are not silently suppressed: either lower
the no-filter form into the appropriate typed representation consumed by
fold_enters_this_way_counter_rider and populate conditional_enter_with_counters,
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Parse changes introduced by this PR · 2 card(s), 3 signature(s) (baseline: main 0f37d27b3874)

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  • 1 card · ➕ ability/ChangeZone · added: ChangeZone (conditional_enter_with_counters=[(Typed(TypedFilter { type_filters: [Creature], controller: None, properties: [] }), Plus1Plus1, Fixed { value: 1 }…
    • Affected (first 3): Recommission
  • 1 card · ➕ ability/ChangeZone · added: ChangeZone (conditional_enter_with_counters=[(Typed(TypedFilter { type_filters: [Subtype("Hero")], controller: None, properties: [] }), Plus1Plus1, Fixed { val…
    • Affected (first 3): Heroic Return

🔴 Removed (1 signature)

  • 2 cards · ➖ replacement/Moved · removed: Moved (scope=self, to zone=battlefield)
    • Affected (first 3): Heroic Return, Recommission

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Changes requested — the bare-pronoun rider is classified as supported without an executable representation.

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[HIGH] If it enters this way, it enters with a +1/+1 counter is accepted by the swallow detector but is never lowered into the conditional-entry counter effect. Evidence: the bare-pronoun form is parsed by crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_nom/condition.rs:9267-9302 and suppresses the Condition_If diagnostic through crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/sequence.rs:6652-6661; only typed/active forms construct AbilityCondition::ZoneChangedThisWay in crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/conditions.rs:917-955, and crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/lower.rs:1967-1985 folds only that typed condition. Why it matters: the bare-pronoun card class is neither represented by conditional_enter_with_counters nor visibly unsupported, making parser coverage dishonest. Suggested fix: route the bare pronoun through a typed ZoneChangedThisWay condition with the correct production authority and add production runtime coverage, or retain the swallow diagnostic until the class is supported.

Recommendation: request changes. Please restore an honest unsupported signal or implement and runtime-test the bare-pronoun path before re-review.

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Follow-up to review feedback on the Heroic Return head-scoping fix.

CR 608.2c + CR 614.1c: `parse_entry_this_way_clause` now returns the
back-reference's SUBJECT FILTER alongside its negation flag, and the
swallow-detector voice requires that filter to be present. The bare-pronoun
voice ("if it enters this way, ...") carries no typed filter, so nothing lowers
it to `AbilityCondition::ZoneChangedThisWay { filter }` and
`fold_enters_this_way_counter_rider` never folds it into
`Effect::ChangeZone.conditional_enter_with_counters`. Accepting it at the
detector let a compound card whose OTHER rider populates the slot strip the
unrepresented one out of the residual, silencing its `Condition_If` warning.
Pinned by a compound-fixture test that flags on revert. Zero coverage cost: the
only printed pronoun entry rider is Pharika's Spawn, which is trigger-voiced and
already excluded by the mandatory `if `.

Documents the two contracts the recognizers deliberately hold, each with a
two-directional test rather than a claim:

  * POSITION - the clause is recognized clause-initially only. A trailing-position
    entry rider is unprinted (a Scryfall sweep for a sentence-final
    battlefield-entry back-reference returns zero cards); what does print
    sentence-finally is the opposite shape, a genuine CR 614.1c head with a
    trailing NON-entry back-reference (Arsenal Thresher, Gluttonous Hellkite,
    Thief of Blood), which must keep its tokens. The classifier test's COMMA_LESS
    fixture now uses a genuinely clause-initial rider and asserts the head is
    scoped, instead of asserting only its own premise.

  * CONSUMPTION - `parse_reflexive_entry_this_way_rider` is a PREFIX recognizer.
    Its remainder is the rider's own consequent, which is exactly why
    `strip_entry_this_way_riders` drops the whole sentence; requiring full
    consumption would reject every real rider, since the class exists only
    because it has a consequent. Fail-closed behavior comes from the
    recognizer's narrowness, now pinned in both directions.

CR 109.5 + CR 400.3: the Heroic Return integration test now pins both halves of
the "from your graveyard" scope (`InZone { Graveyard }` + `ControllerRef::You`)
so head-scoping cannot silently drop either, and records why the
owner-vs-stale-controller axis is not asserted at this seam: target enumeration
for non-battlefield zones runs through `targeting::add_zone_targets`, which is
controller-scoped rather than using `matches_target_filter_in_owner_zone`. That
is a pre-existing property of the shared enumeration path affecting every
graveyard/hand/library-targeting card, not something this card's parse decides.

Verification: cargo fmt --all clean; check-parser-combinators.sh Gate A PASS;
cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -D warnings clean; cargo test
-p phase-engine 24135 passed / 0 failed / 8 ignored across 5 binaries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review feedback addressed in d380554

Replying here to the outside-diff finding on oracle_effect/sequence.rs, which has no inline thread. The three inline threads have their own replies.


sequence.rs 6652-6661 — bare-pronoun riders suppressed without representation

Confirmed and fixed, taking the "exclude it from the detector" branch.

The chain you traced is right: parse_conditional_entry_this_way_rider accepted "If it enters this way, … counter …", but nothing lowers a filter-less subject to AbilityCondition::ZoneChangedThisWay { filter }, and fold_enters_this_way_counter_rider matches on exactly that condition — so the pronoun voice never reaches conditional_enter_with_counters.

One refinement to the reachability: conditional_enter_counters_if_is_only_if_marker opens with if !evidence.has_slot("conditional_enter_with_counters") { return false; }, so a card carrying only a pronoun rider was never suppressed — the slot guard held. The reachable case is the compound one: a card whose typed rider populates the slot and which also carries a pronoun rider. Both sentences then get stripped from the residual, has_other_if goes false, and the unrepresented pronoun clause loses its warning. Narrow, but a genuine hole in the audit's honesty.

Fix. parse_entry_this_way_clause now returns (Option<TargetFilter>, bool) rather than just the negation flag — None marks exactly the bare-pronoun voice, which names its referent anaphorically and yields no filter. The detector voice adds filter.is_some() as a third restriction alongside the mandatory if and affirmative-only polarity. Each of the three now names a shape the typed slot cannot represent, which is the invariant that keeps this recognizer honest.

Carrying the subject rather than testing for a pronoun spelling is deliberate: the discriminator is "does this lower into the slot", and that is a property of the filter, not of the word it. A future subject voice that parses but yields no filter is excluded automatically.

Zero coverage cost. A Scryfall sweep for o:/(it|they) (enters|enter) this way/ returns exactly one card — Pharika's Spawn — and it's trigger-voiced ("When it enters this way, …"), so the mandatory if already excluded it. No printed card uses the conditional pronoun voice.

Pinned by represented_typed_rider_does_not_hide_an_unrepresented_pronoun_rider: a compound fixture carrying both riders, with a reach-guard asserting the typed one really is represented by the slot (so the test is about the pronoun sentence, not about a total parse failure), then asserting Condition_If still fires. Fails on revert.


Summary of the four findings

Finding Outcome
sequence.rs — bare-pronoun rider suppressed without representation Fixed — detector requires a filter-carrying subject
condition.rs 9291-9306 — trailing rider voice unscoped, COMMA_LESS asserts only its premise Fixed as "state the limit" — the trailing voice is unprinted; test no longer over-claims
condition.rs 9346-9350 — recognizer is not full-consumption Documented + pinned, all_consuming declined — it would reject every real rider
Integration test — assert owner scope on the graveyard target Reframed — the suggested assertion isn't expressible; the underlying CR 400.3 concern is real but lives in targeting::add_zone_targets, filed as follow-up

Two of these I pushed back on rather than applied. In both cases the suggested change would have been actively wrong (all_consuming breaks the class; the owner assertion has no representation to assert against), so I've documented the contract and pinned it with two-directional tests instead of leaving the concern unanswered.

The owner-scoping finding was worth chasing even though the suggested fix didn't apply — probing it surfaced a real pre-existing defect: targeting::add_zone_targets evaluates matches_target_filter (controller-scoped) for the Graveyard/Hand/Library/Exile branches instead of matches_target_filter_in_owner_zone, so a card owned by you with a stale opponent controller is not enumerated as a legal target. Details and repro are in the reply on that thread.

Verification: cargo fmt --all clean · check-parser-combinators.sh Gate A PASS (head=d380554f base=9df85b9b4) · cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings clean, zero warnings · cargo test -p phase-engine — 24135 passed / 0 failed / 8 ignored across 5 binaries.

Note that cargo coverage and cargo semantic-audit were not re-run for this follow-up commit; they need regenerated card data, which isn't present in this checkout. The parse-affecting change is a narrowing of the swallow detector, which can only cause more Condition_If warnings, never fewer — and no printed card reaches the narrowed branch — so I don't expect movement, but that is reasoning rather than a measurement.

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[HIGH] Heroic Return's accepted target is still controller-scoped in owner zones. Evidence: crates/engine/tests/integration/heroic_return_enters_this_way.rs:283-301 deliberately keeps owner==controller and documents the gap; crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs:2033-2070 evaluates hand/library/graveyard via matches_target_filter; existing crates/engine/src/game/filter.rs:2332-2386 is the owner-zone authority. Why it matters: a P0-owned creature that P1 controlled before it died is excluded from P0's your graveyard, so this PR marks Heroic Return supported while its actual cast target is rules-wrong. Suggested fix: route graveyard/hand/library enumeration through matches_target_filter_in_owner_zone while retaining live-controller matching for exile/battlefield, and add a real Heroic Return target fixture that separates owner from stale controller (plus opponent-owned negative).

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Changes requested — the new target test documents a shared owner-zone defect instead of exercising the rules-correct target boundary.

🔴 Blocker

[HIGH] Non-battlefield target enumeration still applies controller-scoped matching to owner-scoped zones. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs:2033-2070 has add_zone_targets call matches_target_filter for every supplied zone object, while crates/engine/src/game/filter.rs:2332-2386 already provides matches_target_filter_in_owner_zone specifically for hand, library, and graveyard. The new Heroic Return fixture explicitly keeps owner and controller equal at crates/engine/tests/integration/heroic_return_enters_this_way.rs:283-301, so it passes while the affected production state remains wrong. Why it matters: a card owned by P0 with stale controller = P1 after dying from control-changing effects is excluded from P0's "your graveyard" targets, while a foreign-owned card can be considered under the opposite stale-controller arrangement. Suggested fix: select the existing owner-zone matcher in add_zone_targets (or its caller) for hand/library/graveyard, preserve live-controller matching for exile, and add runtime fixtures proving P0-owned/P1-stale-controller is legal and P1-owned/P0-stale-controller is illegal.

Recommendation: request changes. Please repair the shared zone-targeting authority and add the owner/controller-separating regression before re-review.

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CR 400.3: "If an object would go to any library, graveyard, or hand other than
its owner's, it goes to its owner's corresponding zone." Target enumeration did
not honor that. `targeting::add_zone_targets` evaluated every candidate with
`filter::matches_target_filter`, which is controller-scoped, for all four of its
zone branches -- so a player-scoped query on an owner-scoped zone ("target
creature card from your graveyard") matched against `obj.controller`.

Why ownership is the rules-correct scope there: a permanent is a card or token
ON THE BATTLEFIELD (CR 110.1) and every permanent has a controller (CR 110.2),
so a card sitting in a hand, library, or graveyard is not a permanent and has no
controller at all. CR 109.5 then resolves the possessive -- "you"/"your" refer to
the object's controller "or its owner (if it has no controller)". CR 400.3 fixes
which zones those are, and by its own wording excludes exile.

The divergence is reachable, not theoretical: `effects::change_zone` documents
that a creature stolen via Mind Control retains `obj.controller = thief` after
dying into its OWNER's graveyard, because `reset_for_battlefield_exit` does not
reset controller and the layer pass that would skips objects off the
battlefield. Under the old matching, that card was excluded from its own owner's
"your graveyard" query, and the mirror-image state made an opponent-owned card
targetable. Verified before the fix: Heroic Return with a P0-owned/P1-controlled
Hero in P0's graveyard enumerated ZERO legal targets.

The engine already had the right primitive -- `matches_target_filter_in_owner_zone`
-- and `off_zone_characteristics` already dispatched on an owner-scoped zone set,
via a private predicate. Rather than add a second copy of that partition, both
now route through one authority in `filter`:

  * `is_owner_scoped_zone` -- the CR 400.3 enumeration and nothing more.
  * `matches_target_filter_for_zone` -- the single entry point for "evaluate this
    filter against an object in zone Z".

`add_zone_targets` takes the zone it is reading from and dispatches through that.
Exile and battlefield keep controller matching deliberately: the engine matches
exiled objects against their at-exile controller via `effective_controller`'s LKI
fallback, which the Oversimplify class ("creatures they controlled that were
exiled this way") depends on.

Adds `heroic_return_targets_by_owner_not_stale_controller`, which separates the
two axes in both directions -- owner P0/controller P1 is legal, owner P1/
controller P0 is illegal -- with a premise block asserting the divergence is
actually staged, so neither assertion can pass on a state where owner and
controller coincide. It casts through to resolution, not just enumeration. The
preceding test's SCOPE NOTE documenting the gap is removed.

Verification: cargo fmt --all clean; cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets
-D warnings clean; cargo test -p phase-engine 24136 passed / 0 failed / 8
ignored across 5 binaries, no regression from the engine-wide scope change.

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Both blockers addressed. Bare-pronoun in d380554, owner-zone targeting in 30c2fee.


1. Bare-pronoun rider — fixed in d380554 (pushed 01:35, ~27 min after your review)

Took your second option: retain the honest unsupported signal rather than implement the class. Your trace was exactly right — parse_conditional_entry_this_way_rider accepted the form, only typed/active voices build AbilityCondition::ZoneChangedThisWay, and lower.rs folds only that condition.

parse_entry_this_way_clause now returns (Option<TargetFilter>, bool) instead of just the negation flag, and the swallow-detector voice requires filter.is_some() alongside the mandatory if and affirmative-only polarity. Each of the three restrictions now names a shape conditional_enter_with_counters cannot represent.

Gating on the filter rather than on a pronoun spelling is deliberate: the question is "does this lower into the slot," which is a property of the subject filter, not of the word it. A future subject voice that parses but yields no filter is excluded automatically.

One refinement to the reachability, for the record: conditional_enter_counters_if_is_only_if_marker opens with a has_slot("conditional_enter_with_counters") guard, so a pronoun-only card was never actually suppressed. The reachable case was the compound one — a card whose typed rider populates the slot and which also carries a pronoun rider, where both sentences got stripped from the residual and the unrepresented one lost its warning. Narrow, but real, and pinned by represented_typed_rider_does_not_hide_an_unrepresented_pronoun_rider.

Zero coverage cost: a Scryfall sweep for o:/(it|they) (enters|enter) this way/ returns only Pharika's Spawn, which is trigger-voiced and already excluded by the if gate.


2. Owner-zone targeting — fixed in 30c2fee

You're right, and I was wrong to defer it. I'd filed it as follow-up on the grounds that it's a shared-path defect rather than a parse defect — but your framing is the correct one: this PR marks Heroic Return supported while its actual cast target is rules-wrong, and my fixture passed only because it kept owner == controller. Documenting a defect that the card under test is subject to isn't a scope boundary, it's a gap in the claim.

Implemented as you specified.

Rules basis. Verifying the CR numbers against docs/MagicCompRules.txt turned up a stronger justification than the one I'd reasoned to. CR 400.3 enumerates the partition itself — "If an object would go to any library, graveyard, or hand other than its owner's, it goes to its owner's corresponding zone" — which is exactly hand/library/graveyard, and excludes exile by its own wording, independently confirming your call to preserve live-controller matching there. The chain for why ownership is right: CR 110.1 + CR 110.2 (a permanent is a card on the battlefield, and every permanent has a controller) means a card in one of those zones is not a permanent and has no controller at all; CR 109.5 then resolves the possessive — "you"/"your" refer to the controller "or its owner (if it has no controller)". So it follows from the rules rather than from engine convention.

Single authority rather than a second dispatch site. off_zone_characteristics already had a private is_owner_scoped_zone with the same partition. Adding a second copy in targeting would have been two places to drift, so both now route through filter:

  • is_owner_scoped_zone — the CR 400.3 enumeration and nothing more.
  • matches_target_filter_for_zone — the single entry point for "evaluate this filter against an object in zone Z".

add_zone_targets takes the zone it is reading from and dispatches through that; off_zone_characteristics's private predicate is deleted. Exile and battlefield keep controller matching, annotated with the effective_controller LKI-fallback reason (the Oversimplify class needs the at-exile controller, not the current owner).

Fixtures, both directions as requested — heroic_return_targets_by_owner_not_stale_controller:

  • owner P0 / stale controller P1 → legal
  • owner P1 / stale controller P0 → illegal

with a premise block asserting the divergence is actually staged on both objects, so neither assertion can pass on a state where owner and controller coincide. It then casts through to resolution rather than stopping at enumeration. The SCOPE NOTE is gone.

Non-vacuity is measured, not asserted. Before writing the fix I ran the fixture against the pre-fix code: Heroic Return with a P0-owned/P1-controlled Hero in P0's graveyard enumerated slots=[] — the owner's own card absent from its own query, and no slot published at all.


Verification on 30c2fee: cargo fmt --all clean · check-parser-combinators.sh Gate A PASS (head=30c2fee9 base=9df85b9b4) · cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings clean · cargo test -p phase-engine24136 passed / 0 failed / 8 ignored across 5 binaries, no regression from the engine-wide scope change.

The engine-wide risk here is legal-target sets shifting for every graveyard/hand/library-targeting card. The full suite is green, but the coverage and semantic-audit surface is validated by CI rather than locally — this checkout has no generated card data — so the Card data (generate, validate, coverage) job is the gate I'd want you to see green before merging.

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Maintainer follow-up at d915ace: corrected the CR documentation for off-zone controller fallback. CR 108.4/108.4a distinguishes cards without controllers from spells on the stack; the owner-zone targeting fix itself is unchanged. Holding for CI and the coverage-parse-diff sticky comment produced for this exact head before final approval/enqueue.

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CR 109.5 + CR 108.4 + CR 108.4a + CR 400.3: scoping only the ENUMERATION seam
left the two halves of targeting disagreeing. `add_zone_targets` owner-scoped
hand/library/graveyard at selection, but `target_ref_matches_resolved_filter_with_context`
-- the re-validation of an already-chosen target -- still called
`matches_target_filter` directly, so a card in its owner's graveyard carrying a
stale controller could be legally chosen and then fail its own filter on
resolution. A split like that is worse than the original defect, which at least
had both seams agreeing on the wrong answer.

Unlike the battlefield scans elsewhere in this file, an explicit target can live
in any zone, so the zone is read off the object rather than assumed. Both seams
now route through `filter::matches_target_filter_for_zone`, which owner-scopes
hand/library/graveyard per CR 400.3 and leaves battlefield and exile on
controller matching.

The remaining `matches_target_filter` call sites in this file are correct as-is:
all four enumeration scans and both `TrackedSet`/fallback branches iterate
`state.battlefield`, where controller is authoritative (CR 110.2). The CR 115.9b/c
`targets`/`targets only` constraint checks are deliberately left alone -- those
ask a different question (does spell X target Y) and no printed card exercises
the owner/controller difference there.

Adds `owner_scoped_zone_query_agrees_across_selection_and_resolution`, which
asserts BOTH seams on one state with the owner/controller divergence staged in
both directions, plus a premise block so no verdict can come from a state where
owner and controller coincide. Fails on revert of either seam.

CR citations follow the correction in d915ace: CR 108.4 + CR 108.4a ("if
anything asks for the controller of a card that doesn't have one, use its owner
instead") is the precise authority, replacing the CR 110.1/110.2 derivation.

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Pushed 9142c0be, rebased on top of your d915acea (fast-forward, no history rewritten). Heads-up that this resets the CI + coverage-parse-diff wait you mentioned — sorry for the timing, but the second seam below is worth not merging without.


Your CR correction is right, and thank you

CR 108.4a — "If anything asks for the controller of a card that doesn't have one (because it's not a permanent or spell), use its owner instead" — states directly what my CR 110.1/110.2 chain only inferred, and it is literally what matches_target_filter_in_owner_zone implements. I've adopted CR 109.5 + CR 108.4 + CR 108.4a + CR 400.3 in the new work so the citations stay uniform across all three seams.

For what it's worth on process: my verification grep was ^108\.4a\. — with a trailing period, which lettered subrules don't carry — so the check came back empty for a rule that does exist and I derived a longer chain instead of finding the short one. A false negative in the lookup, not a skipped lookup. Flagging it because the same footgun will bite anyone verifying a NNN.Na subrule against docs/MagicCompRules.txt.

New in 9142c0be: the resolution-time seam

CodeRabbit caught a real gap in 30c2fee, and it was mine: I scoped only the ENUMERATION path. target_ref_matches_resolved_filter_with_context — the re-validation of an already-chosen target — still called matches_target_filter directly. So a card in its owner's graveyard with a stale controller could be legally selected and then fail its own filter on resolution.

That split is worse than the original defect, which at least had both seams agreeing on the wrong answer. Both now route through matches_target_filter_for_zone. Unlike the battlefield scans elsewhere in the file, an explicit target can be in any zone, so the zone is read off the object rather than assumed.

Audit of the other call sites in targeting.rs, so this isn't a whack-a-mole fix:

  • 4 enumeration scans + the TrackedSet and fallback branches — all iterate state.battlefield, where controller is authoritative (CR 110.2). Correct as-is.
  • CR 115.9b/c targets / targets only constraint checks — deliberately left alone. They ask a different question ("does spell X target Y"), and no printed card exercises the owner/controller difference there. Happy to widen them if you'd rather have uniformity, but it looked like an unforced semantics change to me.

owner_scoped_zone_query_agrees_across_selection_and_resolution asserts both seams on one state, divergence staged in both directions, with a premise block so no verdict can come from a state where owner and controller coincide. Fails on revert of either seam.

Declining CodeRabbit's CR 404.2 citation

It asked me to cite CR 404.2 for graveyard ownership. CR 404.2 is "Each graveyard is kept in a single face-up pile. A player can examine the cards in any graveyard at any time…" — order and examination, not ownership. The ownership rule in that section is CR 404.1 ("…is put on top of its owner's graveyard"), and CR 108.4a is more precise still, so I've used your chain instead.

Worth fixing at the source: the bot quoted this as coming from repo path instructions — "Player-scoped queries on NON-battlefield zones (graveyard/library/hand/exile) must filter by obj.owner, not controller (CR 404.2)". That config line has the wrong CR number and will keep reproducing it on every future PR. It also lists exile as owner-scoped, which contradicts both CR 400.3's enumeration and the effective_controller LKI behavior the Oversimplify class depends on — the carve-out you asked for. Two separate corrections wanted in .coderabbit.yaml / the path-instruction file.

Verification on 9142c0be

cargo fmt --all clean · check-parser-combinators.sh Gate A PASS (head=9142c0be base=9df85b9b4) · cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings clean · cargo test -p phase-engine24137 passed / 0 failed / 8 ignored across 5 binaries.

Coverage and semantic-audit remain CI-side only (no generated card data in my checkout), so Card data (generate, validate, coverage) is still the gate I'd want green on this head before enqueue — it passed on 30c2fee, and this commit adds one re-validation branch plus a unit test on top of that.

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Maintainer recheck at 9142c0b: the new resolution-path owner-zone delta is clean and reuses the selection authority. Holding pending fresh Rust lint/tests and card-data CI, plus a coverage-parse-diff sticky comment generated for this exact head, before approval/enqueue.

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Approved at 9142c0be221117785e849981672a89766dafce29.

The owner-zone selection and resolution revalidation now use the same authority; current CI and the current-head parse diff are green and scoped to Heroic Return/Recommission.

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