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fix(engine): name the sourceless rule triggers on the stack - #7523

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Closes #7520.

A stack entry for an inherent rule ability reached the client with an empty source name, and the client filled the hole with a literal "Unknown" of its own — then asked the card-image layer for a card by that name. Reported from a real game: increasing speed off combat damage briefly showed a blank card on the stack.

trigger source_name before after
monarch end-step draw (CR 725.2) "" The Monarch
speed increase (CR 702.179d) "" Start your engines!

Rules

CR 113.7 defines an ability's source. CR 113.8 instead defines its controller. The four sourceless rule-trigger forms this change constructs — CR 725.2 (monarch), CR 726.2 (initiative), CR 728.1 (rad counters), and CR 702.179d (speed) — each state that the ability has no source. CR 901.8 separately gives Planechase's planeswalking ability no source; that ability is outside this PR's implemented set. The engine models the four constructed forms with the ObjectId(0) no-source sentinel, so the objects-map lookup that fills source_name finds nothing.

Nothing about that is a rules defect. The defect is what the wire left the display layer to do:

const sourceName = details?.source_name || triggerSourceName || sourceObj?.name || "Unknown";
const { src } = useCardImage(sourceObj ? imageLookup.name : sourceName, { ... });

"Unknown" is game-facing text no rule produces, invented because the wire carried nothing — the frontend deriving content, which CLAUDE.md forbids. It then travels into the image lookup, which searches for a card by that name, finds none, and paints a card-shaped box labelled "Unknown".

What changed

Engine. trigger_source_display_name is now the single authority for "what names this trigger's source", answering in a fixed order:

  1. the ability's captured trigger_source (CR 400.7 + CR 113.7a — lki(), so "From " survives the source dying),
  2. otherwise source_id in the objects map (CR 603.7d — delayed triggers carry no captured source but do point at a live object),
  3. otherwise the trigger's own description.

Both callers — the stack push and the trigger-ordering prompt — go through it. They previously answered the same question two different ways, and step 2 exists because collapsing them onto step 1 alone blanked every delayed and co-triggered entry (caught by issue_423_co_triggered_targeted_observer_reaches_stack).

The four sourceless descriptions become display-ready labels — The Monarch, The Initiative, Start your engines!, Rad counters — matching the short-label convention already used for Prowess / Storm / Cascade. The CR reference moves into a code comment, where CLAUDE.md wants it; it was previously rendered to players as part of the label.

Guard. A debug_assert! in the push path: an entry carrying the ObjectId(0) sentinel must carry its own name. Keyed on the sentinel rather than a list of the four rules, so a fifth sourceless rule is covered the day it is written.

Client. The || "Unknown" literal is deleted, not replaced. An empty label is the honest answer if a name is ever missing; the engine-side guard is what should fail.

Also fixed: two descriptions cited CR 725.2 for an initiative ability. The initiative is CR 726.2 (docs/MagicCompRules.txt:6250); CR 725.2 is the monarch.

Scope

Exactly the four sourceless rule-trigger forms this engine path constructs. Monarch steal and initiative steal are unaffected — they carry the damaging creature as a real source. Planechase's separately sourceless planeswalking ability is outside this implementation.

Tests

  • crates/engine/tests/integration/inherent_rule_trigger_display_name.rs — the two rows above, asserted by VALUE rather than !is_empty(), since an emptiness check passes on any placeholder the engine might grow later.
  • client/.../StackEntry.test.tsx — two rows: the engine-provided name is what gets rendered, and an entry whose wire name is empty produces no invented text.

Counter-probes. Engine: replacing the description fallback with String::new() drops both integration rows, and they fail on the guard, before the assertion is reached. Client: restoring || "Unknown" drops invents no name when the wire carries none.

What the tests do not prove. The client's first row (labels a sourceless rule ability…) stays green under the counter-probe — it supplies a source_name, so the fallback chain short-circuits before the deleted literal. It is a pin, not evidence; the second row is the one that covers the change. That was measured, not assumed: the first version of this PR had only the first row and the counter-probe passed.

cargo test -p phase-engine: 19404 + 5202 passed, 0 failed. cargo fmt --all, cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -D warnings, and tsc --noEmit clean. Client tests run directly through node_modules/.bin/vitest; pnpm was deliberately not invoked, since its pre-run dependency check wanted to purge and reinstall node_modules. (Tilt was not running in this checkout.)

Open gap, deliberately not closed

The stronger invariant "every stack entry names its source" is false today, and this PR does not pretend otherwise. Asserting it fails 53 existing tests — delayed triggers (CR 603.7d) carry neither a captured source nor a description — and the middle form (objects must contain source_id) fails 10 more whose fixtures name a source id they never insert. Both groups remain nameable by a viewer, the first through source_id and the second in any real game, so neither is this defect. Closing that is separate work.

Also not covered: whether a viewer now resolves the printed helper card face (e.g. Aetherdrift's Start your engines! // Max speed) for these entries. The name is correct on the wire and the fallback renders it; whether the image lookup happens to match a token printing by that name is not asserted here and should not be relied on.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved names shown for triggered abilities, including sourceless abilities.
    • Replaced misleading “Unknown” labels with accurate engine-provided, live-object, or descriptive names.
    • Updated viewer-facing labels for monarch, initiative, speed, and rad-counter triggers.
    • Corrected the initiative rule reference displayed to players.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage verifying trigger names in stack entries and ordering prompts.

CR 113.8's four exceptions — CR 725.2 (monarch), CR 726.2 (initiative),
CR 728.1 (rad counters), CR 702.179d (speed) — mint triggered abilities
with no source object, so the objects-map lookup that fills `source_name`
found nothing and the wire carried an empty name. The client filled that
hole with a literal "Unknown" and fed it to the card-image lookup, which
painted a card-shaped box by that name on the stack. Inventing
game-facing content is not the display layer's call.

`trigger_source_display_name` is now the single authority for the
question, answering in order: the ability's captured `trigger_source`
(CR 400.7 + CR 113.7a, via `lki()`), else `source_id` in the objects map
(CR 603.7d — delayed triggers carry no captured source but do point at a
live object), else the trigger's own description. Both the stack push and
the ordering prompt route through it; they previously answered the same
question two different ways.

The four sourceless descriptions become display-ready labels, matching
the short-label convention already used for Prowess / Storm / Cascade.
Their CR references move into code comments, where CLAUDE.md wants them —
they were being rendered to players as part of the label.

A debug_assert in the push path holds the line: an entry carrying the
ObjectId(0) no-source sentinel must carry its own name. Keyed on the
sentinel, not on a list of the four rules.

Also corrects two descriptions that cited CR 725.2 for an initiative
ability; the initiative is CR 726.2.

NOT closed: the stronger invariant "every stack entry names its source"
is false today — asserting it fails 53 tests (delayed triggers) and the
middle form fails 10 more (fixtures naming an uninserted source id).
Both groups stay nameable by a viewer, so neither is this defect.

Closes phase-rs#7520.
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The engine now resolves names for sourceless triggers from captured sources, live objects, or trigger descriptions. Viewer-facing descriptions were updated for inherent rule triggers. The client no longer displays "Unknown". Unit and integration tests cover the new behavior.

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Sourceless trigger display names

Layer / File(s) Summary
Engine trigger naming and resolution
crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs
Trigger descriptions now use viewer-facing labels. Shared resolution checks captured sources, live sources, and trigger descriptions. Stack entries and ordering prompts use the shared resolver.
Client stack rendering
client/src/components/stack/StackEntry.tsx, client/src/components/stack/__tests__/StackEntry.test.tsx
The client no longer renders "Unknown" when a trigger has no source name. Tests cover named and unnamed sourceless triggers.
Integration validation
crates/engine/tests/integration/inherent_rule_trigger_display_name.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs
Integration tests verify display names for monarch and speed triggers, and register the new test module.

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The change localizes sourceless trigger naming to the engine and removes invented client text; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Possibly related PRs

  • phase-rs/phase#7041: Both PRs modify stack entries and trigger source-name handling, but #7041 addresses Storm provenance and counts.
  • phase-rs/phase#7461: Both PRs modify trigger handling and monarch-related engine code, but #7461 changes targeting and intervening-condition semantics.

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@cuinhellcat thanks for all your contributions over the last week! Much appreciated.

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Maintainer fixup 8a517c472a053f4c5e5ed567c1542e3f7c81a2f0 corrects the sourceless-trigger CR citations: CR 113.7 defines source, CR 113.8 defines controller, and CR 901.8 separately establishes Planechase's sourceless planeswalking ability. Enrollment remains held for fresh CI, the SHA-bound parse-diff artifact, and current independent feedback on this exact head; no contributor action is requested.

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Approved on exact head 8a517c472a053f4c5e5ed567c1542e3f7c81a2f0: current required checks, SHA-bound no-parse-change evidence, and current independent feedback are clear.

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