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Fixes #7511 (the mandatory half; the optional half landed in #7414, the parser half in #7528).

CR 603.12: a reflexive triggered ability triggers "based on whether the trigger event or events occurred earlier during the resolution" of its parent. The WhenYouDo arm of evaluate_condition covers the optional parent and the failed-payment class but returned true for every MANDATORY parent — Cemetery Desecrator with every graveyard empty still offered its mode choice; Vhal, Scholar of Mortality reanimated for free off zero removed study counters.

Design (the seam question left open on #7511, resolved as the smaller shape): the sub-walk call site in resolve_ability_chain is the one place holding the parent's own event slice, so the mandatory question is answered there — when_you_do_mandatory_parent_did_nothing reuses the two existing authorities (mandatory_parent_effect_performed for the event witness, effect_manages_own_outcome_flag for the coin-flip/clash/dig/behold exemption) instead of plumbing a new flag. Suppression routes through the ordinary condition-false path, so else branches and surviving sequential siblings keep their printed semantics. Effect kinds without an event witness stay "mandatory means yes" (the witness fn's default arm), keeping RollDie/BecomeCopy reflexives unconditional.

Class (card-data.json, reminder text stripped): 81 cards carry a mandatory instruction before "When you do" — all three Vhals, Minsc & Boo, Tip the Scales, Yannik, Venom, Cemetery Desecrator, … The d20 dragons are outcome-owning and exempt by design.

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  • Flipped the third test of mandatory_reflexive_modal_parent.rs: an impossible exile now creates NO reflexive (was pinned as the known gap); the two positive rows (exile performed + mode list still offered) stay green.
  • Helper truth-table unit test: suppression iff mandatory ∧ no record ∧ witnessable kind ∧ no witness event; RollDie/BecomeCopy rows unconditional; the existing arm test's "mandatory means yes" row is unchanged and still pinned.
  • Counter-probe: gate removed → exactly the flipped test falls (2 pass / 1 fail).
  • Full suites: lib 19,471 + integration 5,291, 0 failures; clippy clean.

What the tests do NOT prove: the RemoveCounter (Vhal) shape is covered at the helper level only, not end-to-end (specialize setup); the end-to-end witness is the ChangeZone/exile shape.

Known remainder: a WhenYouDo carrier resumed from pending_continuation (gate on the carrier itself, no parent frame) is not covered — its parent paused for an interactive choice, so an action did occur there.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Mandatory actions that affect no items no longer incorrectly trigger reflexive follow-up effects.
    • Prevented unnecessary mode and target-selection prompts when a required action has no applicable result.
    • Preserved expected behavior for optional actions, recorded outcomes, witnessed events, and sequential effects.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for mandatory reflexive-effect gating and related edge cases.

cuinhellcat and others added 2 commits August 21, 2026 02:03
… do" reflexive (phase-rs#7511)

CR 603.12: a reflexive triggered ability triggers "based on whether the
trigger event or events occurred earlier during the resolution" of its
parent. The WhenYouDo arm of `evaluate_condition` covers the OPTIONAL
parent (phase-rs#7414) and the failed-payment class, but returned true for every
MANDATORY parent — Cemetery Desecrator with every graveyard empty still
offered its mode choice, and Vhal, Scholar of Mortality reanimated for
free off zero removed study counters.

The sub-walk call site is the one place that holds the parent's own event
slice, so the mandatory question is answered there:
`when_you_do_mandatory_parent_did_nothing` suppresses the reflexive when
the parent is mandatory, carries no performed-record, does not own its
outcome (`effect_manages_own_outcome_flag`: coin flip, clash, dig,
behold), and its event witness (`mandatory_parent_effect_performed`) saw
nothing. Suppression routes through the ordinary condition-false path, so
else branches and surviving sequential siblings keep their printed
semantics. Effect kinds without an event witness stay "mandatory means
yes" (the witness fn's default arm), which keeps RollDie/BecomeCopy
reflexives unconditional.

Class (card-data.json, reminder text stripped): 81 cards carry a
mandatory instruction before "When you do" (all three Vhals, Minsc & Boo,
Tip the Scales, Yannik, Venom, Cemetery Desecrator, ...). The d20
dragons are outcome-owning and exempt by design.

Known remainder: a WhenYouDo carrier resumed from `pending_continuation`
(gate on the carrier itself, no parent frame) is not covered — its parent
paused for an interactive choice, so an action did occur; and the
`evaluate_condition` arm itself still answers "mandatory means yes"
(pinned by test), because it has no event slice — the gate lives at the
call site that does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rs#7511)

The header still claimed the CR 603.12 mandatory gate was out of scope;
the previous commit made the file measure exactly that gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change suppresses mandatory WhenYouDo reflexive conditions when the parent effect did nothing. It preserves existing false-branch and sibling processing, adds coverage for performance and event cases, and updates affected source references.

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Mandatory reflexive gating

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Parent no-op detection and condition evaluation
crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs, crates/engine/src/game/engine.rs
Adds mandatory-parent no-op detection using recorded performance and event witnesses. Condition evaluation applies the suppression while preserving existing control flow. Producer census references are updated.
Integration coverage for impossible exile
crates/engine/tests/integration/mandatory_reflexive_modal_parent.rs
Updates the test documentation and verifies that an impossible mandatory exile creates neither a mode-choice nor a target-selection prompt.

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The change suppresses reflexive triggers when a mandatory parent did nothing while preserving other condition types. One small unit-test coverage improvement remains, but no actionable merge-blocking risk is identified.

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

20585-20688: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test case for a non-WhenYouDo condition.

The production call site calls when_you_do_mandatory_parent_did_nothing for every sub.condition type, not only AbilityCondition::WhenYouDo. The function's matches!(condition, AbilityCondition::WhenYouDo) guard is what prevents the function from wrongly suppressing other condition types (for example, QuantityCheck) when a mandatory parent effect did nothing.

Add one row to the existing table-style test that passes a non-WhenYouDo condition (with the other four conjuncts satisfied) and asserts the function returns false. This closes the one branch the current test table does not exercise.

💡 Suggested test row
// The guard: a non-WhenYouDo condition must never be suppressed by this
// stage, even when every other conjunct would otherwise suppress it.
let quantity_check = AbilityCondition::QuantityCheck {
    lhs: QuantityExpr::Fixed { value: 0 },
    comparator: Comparator::EQ,
    rhs: QuantityExpr::Fixed { value: 0 },
};
assert!(
    !when_you_do_mandatory_parent_did_nothing(
        &quantity_check,
        &parent(false, false),
        &no_events
    ),
    "only AbilityCondition::WhenYouDo is this stage's business"
);
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In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs` around lines 20585 - 20688, Add a
table row in a_mandatory_parent_that_did_nothing_suppresses_its_reflexive using
a non-WhenYouDo condition such as QuantityCheck, with a mandatory unperformed
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returns false. This must exercise the condition guard while leaving the existing
WhenYouDo cases unchanged.
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- Around line 20585-20688: Add a table row in
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non-WhenYouDo condition such as QuantityCheck, with a mandatory unperformed
parent and no events, and assert when_you_do_mandatory_parent_did_nothing
returns false. This must exercise the condition guard while leaving the existing
WhenYouDo cases unchanged.

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Changes requested — the RemoveCounter witness branch lacks a production-path regression.

🔴 Blocker

crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:6417-6419 makes the new mandatory-parent gate depend on a real GameEvent::CounterRemoved, but the runtime regression in crates/engine/tests/integration/mandatory_reflexive_modal_parent.rs:143-169 exercises only the separate ChangeZone/ZoneChanged witness path. The added unit test at crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:20585-20688 constructs CounterRemoved directly, and the PR body explicitly says the Vhal/RemoveCounter shape is helper-only.

That leaves the actual resolver → event slice → resolve_chain_body path unpinned for a class the PR claims to fix. Please add a production-pipeline regression for a mandatory RemoveCounter ... When you do chain that proves zero counters suppresses the reflexive and an available counter preserves it. This must fail if the new event-witness gate is reverted or the counter event is not threaded into the parent slice.

✅ Clean

The existing Cemetery Desecrator scenario is a discriminating regression for the ChangeZone witness path, and the CR 603.12 citation is accurate.

Recommendation: add the RemoveCounter runtime pair, then request a fresh review on the resulting head.

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Reflexive "when you do" fires when its mandatory parent did nothing (Cemetery Desecrator; #7414 remainder)

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