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fix(parser): keep the source exclusion in "tap another untapped" costs (#7522) - #7530

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Closes #7522.

Defect

parse_oracle_cost's tap-cost branch consumed "another untapped " in the same alt as "an untapped " / "an ", all yielding a bare count of 1. The qualifier was gone from the phrase handed to parse_target, so the cost filter came out without FilterProp::Another and the ability source was an eligible payment for its own cost. Spire Mechcycle is a Vehicle paying "Tap another untapped Mount or Vehicle you control".

Fix

The leading-quantifier alt now reports the typed CountWord that the sacrifice imperative already uses for this exact failure (#4513), and the exclusion is applied to every leg of the built filter. apply_source_exclusion is extracted from the existing ensure_another_sacrifice_filter so both cost paths share one authority.

The numeric branch ("tap two other untapped artifacts you control") is unchanged: it never consumes "other", so the phrase reaches parse_type_phrase intact and that supplies the property. A test row pins it.

The runtime is not touched. has_enough_tap_creatures evaluates the cost filter against a FilterContext::from_source, so the property takes effect the moment the parser emits it; the separate exclude_source flag for composite {T} costs is untouched.

Class

Measured over the 96 distinct printed tap-cost phrases in client/public/card-data.json (35,795 cards):

before after
phrases parsing to TapCreatures 94 94
of those, saying "another"/"other" 11 11
of those, carrying FilterProp::Another 4 11

The 7 newly fixed phrases cover 11 cards / 11 activated abilities: Black Oak of Odunos, Kumena Tyrant of Orazca, Network Terminal, Radiant Serra Archangel, Ranger's Hawk, Shadow Stinger, Spire Mechcycle, Sure-Footed Infiltrator, Tyvar the Pummeler, Veteran Warleader, Wanderbrine Trapper.

Meanders Guide's triggered "you may tap another untapped Merfolk you control" runs through the same branch and is fixed too — measured separately through parse_oracle_text: filter properties [] before, [Another] after. 12 cards in total. The issue reported 8; the measured class is 12. I will correct the issue.

Counter-probe

With CountWord::SourceExclusion => filter: tap_cost_another_carries_the_source_exclusion fails with "Tap another untapped Merfolk you control" exclusion mismatch, got [], tap_cost_another_marks_every_leg_of_a_disjunction fails, and the_source_alone_cannot_pay_its_own_tap_another_cost fails. The two counter-direction tests (a_second_untapped_creature_pays_the_tap_another_cost, a_plain_tap_cost_still_includes_the_source) stay green — the second is also the reach guard that keeps the first test's negative assertion from being vacuous.

Not covered

The "other than this creature" tail forms reach the exclusion through a different grammar and were already correct (Impelled Giant). Mossbridge Troll's "tap any number of untapped creatures you control other than this creature with total power 10 or greater" does not lower to a TapCreatures cost at all — it becomes an EffectCost — and this change does not address that.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected parsing of “tap another” and similar tap-cost restrictions.
    • Preserved source exclusions across alternative and combined tap-cost conditions.
    • Prevented an ability’s source from incorrectly satisfying its own “another” requirement.
    • Preserved normal behavior for unrestricted tap costs.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for legal actions, activation rejection, successful payment, and multi-option tap-cost conditions.

phase-rs#7522)

CR 109.4 + CR 601.2b + CR 701.21a. `parse_oracle_cost`'s tap-cost branch
consumed "another untapped " as a bare count of 1, so the phrase handed to
`parse_target` no longer carried the qualifier and the cost filter came out
without `FilterProp::Another`. The ability source was therefore an eligible
payment for its own cost — Spire Mechcycle is a Vehicle paying "Tap another
untapped Mount or Vehicle you control".

The leading-quantifier `alt` now reports the same typed `CountWord` the
sacrifice imperative already uses for this exact failure (phase-rs#4513), and the
exclusion is re-applied to every leg of the built filter. The numeric branch
("tap two other untapped artifacts you control") is unchanged: it never
consumes "other", so the phrase reaches `parse_type_phrase` intact and that
supplies the property itself.

The runtime is not touched. `has_enough_tap_creatures`
(`game/cost_payability.rs`) evaluates the cost filter against a
`FilterContext::from_source`, so `FilterProp::Another` takes effect as soon as
the parser emits it; the separate `exclude_source` flag (composite `{T}` costs,
CR 601.2b) stays as it is.

Class, measured over the 96 distinct printed tap-cost phrases in
`client/public/card-data.json` (35,795 cards): 94 parse to `TapCreatures`, 12
say "another"/"other", and phrases carrying `FilterProp::Another` go 4 -> 11.
The 7 newly fixed phrases cover 11 cards / 11 activated abilities: Black Oak of
Odunos, Kumena Tyrant of Orazca, Network Terminal, Radiant Serra Archangel,
Ranger's Hawk, Shadow Stinger, Spire Mechcycle, Sure-Footed Infiltrator, Tyvar
the Pummeler, Veteran Warleader, Wanderbrine Trapper. Meanders Guide's
triggered "you may tap another untapped Merfolk you control" runs through the
same branch and is fixed too, measured separately through `parse_oracle_text`
(properties `[]` before, `[Another]` after) — 12 cards in total. The issue
reported 8; the measured class is 12.

Counter-probe: with `CountWord::SourceExclusion => filter` the two new parser
tests and `the_source_alone_cannot_pay_its_own_tap_another_cost` fail
("exclusion mismatch, got []"); the two counter-direction tests stay green, as
does the Meanders Guide measurement's `[]`.

Not covered: the "other than this creature" tail forms reach the exclusion
through a different grammar and were already correct (Impelled Giant), and
Mossbridge Troll's "tap any number of untapped creatures you control other than
this creature with total power 10 or greater" does not lower to a `TapCreatures`
cost at all — it becomes an `EffectCost`, which this change does not address.

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The parser now preserves another and other source exclusions in tap costs. Shared properties propagate through composite filters. Integration tests verify excluded, valid alternate, and plain tap-cost behavior.

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Tap-cost source exclusion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parser exclusion propagation
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_cost.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_util.rs
Tap-cost parsing classifies another and other as source exclusions. Shared filter properties propagate through disjunctive and conjunctive filters. Parser tests cover excluded and ordinary tap costs.
Integration validation
crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/tap_cost_another_self_exclusion.rs
Integration tests verify that a source cannot pay its own tap another cost, another creature can pay it, and a plain tap cost remains payable by the source.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2cc86

The parser now preserves the source exclusion for “tap another untapped” costs, preventing a permanent from paying its own cost. The change is mergeable with owner awareness because two regression tests still have bounded validation weaknesses and may not reliably detect a parser or payment-path regression.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OracleText
  participant TapCostParser
  participant ActivationEngine
  participant IntegrationTest
  OracleText->>TapCostParser: Parse "tap another"
  TapCostParser->>ActivationEngine: Build source-excluding TapCreatures cost
  IntegrationTest->>ActivationEngine: Generate or attempt activation
  ActivationEngine->>IntegrationTest: Reject source payment or tap another creature
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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_cost.rs`:
- Around line 1564-1579: Correct the rules citations describing tap-cost source
exclusion: update the annotation for apply_source_exclusion in
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_cost.rs:1564-1579 to use verified activated-cost
rules such as CR 602.2b and CR 118.3, reserving CR 702.184a for Station-specific
text only. Apply the corresponding citation correction to the parser-test
annotation in crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_cost.rs:2389-2401 and the
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- Around line 1588-1591: Update apply_source_exclusion to recursively process
every composite TargetFilter variant, including And, so source-exclusion
properties reach all typed child filters. Replace the catch-all arm with an
exhaustive match over all known TargetFilter variants, leaving terminal variants
unchanged.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/tap_cost_another_self_exclusion.rs`:
- Around line 99-105: Extend
a_second_untapped_creature_pays_the_tap_another_cost beyond offers_activation by
executing the offered activation through GameRunner::act and each required
WaitingFor step. Complete cost selection and payment via the production
pipeline, then assert the chosen helper is tapped while the source remains
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Maintainer fixup is now at 279c2beb05f6333b5c329c39a3c264b162d64ccf:

  • reused oracle_target::distribute_shared_properties so source exclusion reaches typed legs through Or and And without changing the negated ownership predicate;
  • added the conjunctive parser regression and a real activate(...).pay_with(...).resolve() payment assertion; and
  • corrected the cost annotations against CR 602.2b and CR 118.3.

The previous CodeRabbit review and parse-diff sticky are for 2ff39f9, so this head is held for fresh CI, a current-head parse-diff sticky, and current-head independent review feedback before enqueue.

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78-92: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add a positive reach guard for the parsed ability.

!offers_activation(...) and GameAction::ActivateAbility(...).is_err() can both pass if ANOTHER fails to parse and ability index 0 is absent. Assert that the fixture contains the expected activated ability, with no Effect::Unimplemented, before checking that the source cannot activate. This prevents an upstream parser failure from producing a false-green self-exclusion test.

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In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/tap_cost_another_self_exclusion.rs` around
lines 78 - 92, The test the_source_alone_cannot_pay_its_own_tap_another_cost
must first positively verify that the ANOTHER fixture parsed into the expected
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the_source_alone_cannot_pay_its_own_tap_another_cost must first positively
verify that the ANOTHER fixture parsed into the expected activated ability and
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Maintainer hold — current-head evidence refresh pending. I pushed a scoped review fixup at 2cc86406c7521efabdce42459760cdff5ca45d04: the lone-source regression now proves ability 0 was published as a concrete TapCreatures cost with no Effect::Unimplemented, and its activation-cost annotation now cites CR 602.2b + CR 601.2h + CR 118.3 rather than claiming CR 601.2b establishes source eligibility.

The bug label remains. This PR is awaiting fresh CI and current-head parser/coverage evidence before the review can resume; no approval or enqueue is implied by this hold.

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Thanks — both fixups are strictly better than what I wrote, and both were my misses.

oracle_target::distribute_shared_properties already answered "put these properties on every typed leg of this filter tree", and I wrote a second one anyway; mine also only recursed through Or, so the And shape you added a regression for would have silently dropped the exclusion. And the annotations were wrong in the same direction as the last round: CR 109.4 / CR 701.21a describe the sacrifice case, not an activation cost.

Nothing outstanding from me on this branch — I have not pushed since 2ff39f9 and will not, so the head stays where you put it.

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Approved for merge queue: the current head preserves source exclusion through the parser filter tree, and the regression executes the real activation payment path with a distinct helper.

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