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Summary

Fixes a parse-fidelity defect on Make Your Move.

Issue: "power 4 or greater" is applied to all three Or-filters; per the card it restricts only "creature" (any artifact/enchantment is a legal target regardless of power — CR 208.3: noncreature permanents have no power).

Files changed

  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_target.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\src\parser\oracle_effect\search.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\tests\integration\make_your_move_pt_suffix_binds_creature_leg.rs
  • G:\Repos\phase-card-runs\crates\engine\tests\integration\main.rs

CR references

  • CR 208.1
  • CR 208.3
  • CR 208.4
  • CR 208.5
  • CR 202.3
  • CR 205.2a
  • CR 205.2b
  • CR 205.3a
  • CR 205.3c
  • CR 308.1
  • CR 509.1b
  • CR 613.4a
  • CR 700.6
  • CR 700.9
  • CR 701.23a
  • CR 115.1a
  • CR 601.2c

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LLM

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

Tier: Frontier

Verification

  • export CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 (step 0, applied to every later cargo invocation; CARGO_TARGET_DIR left unset) — clean
  • cargo fmt --all — clean (exit 0, no reformatting emitted)
  • ./scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh — clean (Gate A PASS + Gate G PASS, exit 0). First run exited 1 solely because command -v python3 resolved to the Windows-Store stub (Permission denied), tripping the script's detector-suite bail-out before families A-F ran. A real msys2 python3 3.9.7 existed but was shadowed; with the stub unshadowed the cross-product detector's own test suite passed 10/10 and Family D ran for real. No family skipped.
  • cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean (exit 0)
  • cargo test -p phase-engine — clean (exit 0): 24302 passed, 0 failed, 15 pre-existing ignored across 5 test binaries (19218+21+9+5054+0). No test skipped. All 7 new make_your_move_pt_suffix_binds_creature_leg tests passed.
  • cargo export-cards data --output data/card-data.json --stats && cp data/card-data.json client/public/card-data.json — clean (exit 0): 35009 cards, 32161/35009 fully implemented (91.9%). Both data/card-data.json and client/public/card-data.json refreshed, identical at 98722478 bytes.
  • cargo coverage — clean (exit 0): Make Your Move supported=true gap_count=0, rendered target 'artifact or enchantment or power >=4 creature'. NOTE: read from the fresh stdout report, not data/coverage-data.json, which was stale (dated Aug 14) and still showed the pre-fix 'power >=4 artifact or power >=4 enchantment or power >=4 creature'.
  • cargo semantic-audit — clean (exit 0): 32767 cards audited, 257 with findings repo-wide; Make Your Move has 0 findings (siblings Exorcise and Broken Wings also 0).

Scope Expansion

Scope grew by one file beyond the parser fix + tests: nine misattributed CR 700.4 comments in oracle_target.rs (the "dies" rule cited for "modified"/"historic") were corrected to CR 700.9/CR 700.6 per CLAUDE.md's rule that existing CR annotations in touched code must be verified; three further misattributions I initially introduced (CR 208.4, CR 205.4b, CR 608.2b) were caught and corrected before finalizing.

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 search-filter parsing for mixed creature and noncreature card types.
    • Power and toughness restrictions now apply only to eligible creature targets.
    • Preserved mana-value restrictions across all applicable search branches.
    • Improved handling of Vehicles, artifact creatures, nested filters, and target discovery.
    • Maintained correct type scope for open-ended alternatives and mixed target lists.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive regression and integration coverage for these parsing scenarios, including runtime target legality and destruction cases.

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The target parser now applies power and toughness restrictions only to creature-compatible disjuncts. It preserves other property distribution, supports subtype, Vehicle, and type-open cases, and adds parser and integration tests.

Changes

Creature-Scoped Power Restrictions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Disjunction finalization and property gating
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs
The parser finalizes type backfills before property distribution. Power and toughness properties are gated by receiving-leg types and relocated only when an exact witness exists.
Parser and search regression coverage
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs
Tests cover type ordering, subtypes, type-open branches, relocation, nested disjunctions, Vehicle branches, and mana-value distribution.
Make Your Move integration fixture
crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/make_your_move_pt_suffix_binds_creature_leg.rs
Integration tests verify target legality, runtime destruction, Vehicle handling, and the parsed AST shape.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 78aba

This localized parser fix corrects target restrictions for Make Your Move, with validation passing and no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining.

Possibly related PRs

  • phase-rs/phase#6626: Both changes update Oracle parsing and tests for distributing power predicates only to creature-eligible branches.
  • phase-rs/phase#7204: Both changes update power/toughness parsing and target-filter tests in related parser functionality.

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs`:
- Around line 4273-4296: Update parse_search_filter_disjunction to route merged
disjunctions through finalize_or_disjunction instead of calling
distribute_properties_to_or directly, ensuring controller, core-type, and
negation backfills precede property distribution. Add a regression test covering
a generic card branch that preserves a TypeFilter::Any leg and verifies correct
P/T property binding.
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Comment on lines +4273 to +4296
/// Single authority for finishing a freshly merged type disjunction: the fixed
/// order in which the controller/type backfills and the two property
/// distributors must run.
///
/// ORDER IS LOAD-BEARING, and it is stated here once so the two property
/// distributors cannot disagree about it. Both `distribute_shared_properties`
/// (the left-to-right path) and `distribute_properties_to_or` (the
/// trailing-suffix path) consult the CR 208.3 gate `prop_distributes_to_leg`,
/// which reads each leg's `type_filters`. A leg assembled as `[TypeFilter::Any]`
/// (its type noun appeared only in a later disjunct) or one that has not yet
/// inherited a leading `Non(Creature)` does not yet know its own card type, so
/// BOTH backfills must complete first — otherwise the "with power N" binding
/// silently goes wrong on exactly those legs.
///
/// The backfills only add `TypeFilter`s and never read `properties`, so ordering
/// the shared-prop push after them is inert for every non-P/T prop and strictly
/// better informed for P/T props.
fn finalize_or_disjunction(combined: TargetFilter, shared_props: &[FilterProp]) -> TargetFilter {
let combined = distribute_controller_to_or(combined);
let combined = distribute_core_type_to_or(combined);
let combined = distribute_neg_type_filters_to_or(combined);
let combined = distribute_shared_properties(combined, shared_props);
distribute_properties_to_or(combined)
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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# Description: Trace every caller of the Or distributors and check backfill ordering.
set -euo pipefail

rg -nP -C 12 '\b(distribute_properties_to_or|distribute_shared_properties|finalize_or_disjunction|distribute_core_type_to_or|distribute_neg_type_filters_to_or)\s*\(' --type=rust crates/engine/src

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printf '%s\n' '--- search disjunction construction and call site ---'
sed -n '1010,1125p' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- search parser helpers and relevant tests ---'
rg -n -C 8 'parse_search|search_filter|normalize_search_filter|leading_search_properties|distribute_properties_to_or' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- distributor implementation and gate ---'
sed -n '4290,4385p' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs
sed -n '4895,5025p' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- search-related fixtures/assertions involving Any, Creature, Non, and power ---'
rg -n -C 6 'TypeFilter::Any|TypeFilter::Creature|Non\(Creature\)|power|toughness|mana value|distribute_properties_to_or' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs

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sed -n '1615,1685p' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- target distributor gate and relocation ---'
rg -n -C 18 'fn prop_distributes_to_leg|prop_distributes_to_leg\(' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs
sed -n '4921,5030p' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs
sed -n '5040,5125p' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- focused search disjunction tests and examples ---'
rg -n -C 5 'search.*disj|disj.*search|creature card,|instant card,|sorcery card,|noncreature|with power|with toughness|power [0-9]' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs | head -n 500

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printf '%s\n' '--- search PT assertion helper and complete test body ---'
sed -n '5480,5625p' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- all search disjunction tests that construct a generic card leg ---'
rg -n -C 10 '"[^"]*card[^"]*,[^"]*(creature|artifact|enchantment|instant|sorcery)[^"]*with (power|toughness)|"[^"]*(creature|artifact|enchantment|instant|sorcery)[^"]*or[^"]*card with (power|toughness)' crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs

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#!/bin/bash
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python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path

search = Path("crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs").read_text()
target = Path("crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs").read_text()

# Verify the call graph and the concrete untyped-leg construction.
disj = search[search.index("fn parse_search_filter_disjunction"):search.index("fn apply_shared_leading_search_properties")]
assert "normalize_search_filter(TargetFilter::Or { filters })" in disj
assert "distribute_properties_to_or(filter)" in disj
assert "finalize_or_disjunction" not in disj

fallback = search[search.index("fn parse_search_specialized_type_word"):search.index("fn normalize_search_filter")]
assert 'if type_word == "card"' in fallback
assert "TargetFilter::Typed(TypedFilter::default())" in fallback

suffix = search[search.index("fn apply_search_suffix_constraints"):search.index("fn basic_land_type_any_of")]
assert "TargetFilter::Any =>" in suffix
assert "Typed(apply_search_suffix_to_typed(TypedFilter::default(), suffix))" in suffix

# Verify that the proposed shared finalizer performs the missing type backfills
# before the property distributor.
finalizer = target[target.index("fn finalize_or_disjunction"):target.index("fn distribute_shared_properties")]
order = [
    "distribute_controller_to_or",
    "distribute_core_type_to_or",
    "distribute_neg_type_filters_to_or",
    "distribute_shared_properties",
    "distribute_properties_to_or",
]
positions = [finalizer.index(name) for name in order]
assert positions == sorted(positions), positions

print("search disjunction calls only distribute_properties_to_or")
print("search fallback can create a TypedFilter with no type_filters")
print("search suffixes preserve that untyped leg")
print("finalize_or_disjunction performs both type backfills before property distribution")
PY

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Route search disjunctions through finalize_or_disjunction

parse_search_filter_disjunction can preserve a [TypeFilter::Any] leg from a generic card branch, but it calls distribute_properties_to_or without the type backfills. Use finalize_or_disjunction so core-type and negation backfills run before P/T distribution, and add a regression test for this shape.

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs` around lines 4273 - 4296, Update
parse_search_filter_disjunction to route merged disjunctions through
finalize_or_disjunction instead of calling distribute_properties_to_or directly,
ensuring controller, core-type, and negation backfills precede property
distribution. Add a regression test covering a generic card branch that
preserves a TypeFilter::Any leg and verifies correct P/T property binding.

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Addressed in 78aba56, but not by routing through finalize_or_disjunction — that remedy would not have fixed anything here. Measured rather than assumed:

distribute_core_type_to_or rewrites a leg only when its type_filters are exactly [TypeFilter::Any]. Instrumenting parse_search_filter on the pre-fix head shows the legs that actually leak are never that shape:

filter text leaking leg wrongly inherits power ≥ 4?
a green card or a creature card with power 4 or greater [Card] yes
a permanent card or a creature card … [Permanent] yes
a card named Llanowar Elves or a creature card … [] (no type filters) yes

parse_search_specialized_type_word's "card" arm returns TypedFilter::default(), i.e. empty type_filters — not [Any]. So finalize_or_disjunction is a no-op on every leaking row, while distribute_core_type_to_or can project one segment's core type onto a standalone article-led segment that never named it. @matthewevans flagged exactly that narrowing risk, and the data backs it.

The real defect is in the gate, not the ordering: leg_pins_noncreature_core_type answers "is this restriction vacuous here?", which is only half the CR 208.3 question. A [Card] leg is not vacuous, so it was accepted. prop_distributes_to_leg now consults leg_admits_creature_pt, which additionally rejects legs naming no card type scope at all. That makes the gate fail closed, so an un-backfilled leg is left unrestricted rather than wrongly restricted — which is the property your comment was really after ("assessed against unfinished scope"), obtained without making the search grammar depend on backfill ordering.

Regression test added as requested, though for the shapes that actually occur: search_disjunction_leaves_type_open_legs_unbound_by_pt_suffix drives five rows end to end through parse_search_filter, asserting per row that the creature leg retains the predicate and the type-open leg acquires neither the predicate nor a type restriction. A mana value 3 or less row guards the other direction (CR 202.3), so a blanket "never distribute to a generic leg" rule cannot pass.

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Parse changes introduced by this PR · 2 card(s), 2 signature(s) (baseline: main 12ea90497eb2)

🟡 Modified fields (2 signatures)

  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/ChangeZone · changed field target: power ≥4 artifact or power ≥4 enchantment or power ≥4 creatureartifact or enchantment or power ≥4 creature
    • Affected (first 3): Exorcise
  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/Destroy · changed field target: power ≥4 artifact or power ≥4 enchantment or power ≥4 creatureartifact or enchantment or power ≥4 creature
    • Affected (first 3): Make Your Move

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Request changes — the Make Your Move / Exorcise correction is valid, but the shared P/T distributor is invoked before the search grammar has finalized each leg's syntactic type scope.

🟡 Medium

parse_search_filter_disjunction normalizes independently parsed segments and immediately calls distribute_properties_to_or at crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/search.rs:1075-1104. The P/T gate in crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs:4779-4781 decides whether to distribute from the receiver's current type_filters, while the generic card fallback at search.rs:1528-1557 can construct a typed leg with no concrete type. That leaves a path where a trailing P/T predicate is assessed against unfinished scope rather than the completed disjunction. This is a correctness gap beyond the two changed cards; the current regression test covers explicit artifact/enchantment/creature and Vehicle legs but not the generic/Any shape.

Evidence: CR 208.3 says, “A noncreature permanent has no power or toughness,” so a P/T constraint must be attached only after the grammar can establish which leg is creature-scoped. The checked-in rules text is at docs/MagicCompRules.txt:1519.

Please make the search path scope-aware before P/T distribution, preserving the existing semantics of standalone article-led/generic legs rather than unconditionally routing it through the target-parser finalizer (whose core-type backfill can narrow those shapes). Add an end-to-end search-parser regression with a generic/Any branch that proves both (1) the intended creature-scoped leg retains the P/T predicate and (2) unrelated/generic legs do not acquire an incorrect type restriction or P/T predicate. Keep the existing explicit-type coverage as the positive control.

Recommendation: request changes for a scope-aware repair plus the generic-branch regression; do not enqueue this head.

@matthewevans matthewevans added the bug Bug fix label Aug 16, 2026
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…ble type

Review follow-up on phase-rs#7472. The CR 208.3 gate this PR added answers "is a
power/toughness restriction VACUOUS on this leg?", which is only half the
binding question. A leg that names no card type at all is not vacuous, so it
was accepted — and a restriction printed on a sibling `creature` noun silently
narrowed a disjunct whose own text never mentioned creatures.

Measured on the pre-fix head, through the real search grammar:

  a green card or a creature card with power 4 or greater
      -> [Card] leg wrongly inherits power >= 4
  a permanent card or a creature card with power 4 or greater
      -> [Permanent] leg wrongly inherits it
  a card named Llanowar Elves or a creature card with power 4 or greater
      -> the name-only leg (no type filters) wrongly inherits it

CR 208.1: a postnominal modifier binds to the noun it follows. None of those
legs is that noun.

`prop_distributes_to_leg` now consults a three-valued verdict,
`leg_admits_creature_pt`:

  1. CR 205.2b - the leg guarantees creature ("artifact creature") -> accept
  2. CR 208.3  - the leg pins a noncreature card type            -> reject
  3. the leg names no card type scope at all                     -> reject

Case 3 is decided by a new exhaustive sibling of the two predicates this PR
already added, `type_filter_names_a_card_type_scope`. `Permanent`, `Card` and
`Any` are "whatever its type" quantifiers naming no card type (CR 205.2a
enumerates the card types; CR 110.1, CR 108.2); every other variant names a
card type or a subtype pool (CR 205.3), so `Subtype("Goblin")` and `Non(_)`
keep distributing and the CR 205.3m creature-subtype class is unaffected.

The gate now FAILS CLOSED. A leg still naming no type - because a backfill has
not run, or could not resolve it - is left unrestricted rather than wrongly
restricted. Ordering is therefore load-bearing for precision, not for safety:
`finalize_or_disjunction` still backfills first so resolvable `[Any]` legs are
decided on their real type, but `oracle_effect::search`, which composes its own
`Or` from independently parsed segments and runs no backfill, is now merely
coarser rather than wrong. That is why the search grammar is deliberately NOT
routed through `finalize_or_disjunction`: `distribute_core_type_to_or` rewrites
only an exactly-`[Any]` leg, so it is a no-op on every leaking shape above,
while it CAN project one segment's core type onto a standalone article-led
segment that never named it.

`pt_hosting_leg_props` / `strip_misplaced_pt_props_from_or_legs` stay keyed on
`leg_pins_noncreature_core_type` and NOT on the new gate; the "exact
complement" doc is corrected to say why. That sweep relocates a restriction off
a leg where it is vacuous, while the gate refuses to place one where it does
not belong. A type-open leg is ineligible under the gate but is not vacuous, so
widening the sweep to it would delete a live predicate from the leg that
syntactically parsed it - exactly what the PR's invariant 5 forbids.

Tests:
* `search_disjunction_leaves_type_open_legs_unbound_by_pt_suffix` - end to end
  through `parse_search_filter`, five rows covering `[Card]`, `[Permanent]`,
  no-type-filters, and a type-open leg sitting between a pinned leg and the
  creature leg. Each row asserts the creature leg RETAINS the predicate, the
  type-open leg does not acquire it, and the type-open leg's `type_filters`
  still equal exactly what its own text named (so a future backfill that
  narrows it fails here instead of passing silently). A CR 202.3 mana-value row
  is the discriminator against a blanket "never distribute to a generic leg".
* `leg_admits_creature_pt_rejects_type_open_legs_but_keeps_creature_scopes` and
  `distribute_skips_pt_on_a_type_open_leg_but_still_distributes_cmc` - the same
  claims at the building-block level, with `Subtype("Goblin")` and CR 205.2b
  accept controls that a naive "reject unless provably creature" gate fails.

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Addressed — the gap was real, and it is wider than the Any shape. Fixed at the gate rather than by reordering the search grammar.

@matthewevans was right on both counts: there was a path where the P/T predicate was assessed against unfinished scope, and routing through finalize_or_disjunction was the wrong remedy. Measuring it first showed why.

What the search grammar actually produces

Instrumented parse_search_filter on the disjunction shapes, on the pre-fix head:

filter text non-creature leg inherited power ≥ 4?
a green card or a creature card with power 4 or greater [Card] yes
a legendary card or a creature card … [Card] yes
a permanent card or a creature card … [Permanent] yes
a card named Llanowar Elves or a creature card … [] (no type filters) yes
an artifact, a green card, or a creature card … [Artifact] / [Card] no / yes
an artifact, enchantment, or creature card … [Artifact], [Enchantment] no (the PR's fix)

Two things fall out of that:

  1. finalize_or_disjunction would not have fixed any of it. distribute_core_type_to_or rewrites a leg only when its type_filters are exactly [TypeFilter::Any]. None of the leaking legs are that shape — they are [Card], [Permanent], or empty. Routing through the finalizer is a no-op on every one of these rows, while adding exactly the narrowing risk the review flagged (projecting one segment's core type onto a standalone article-led segment). So this declines CodeRabbit's specific remedy and takes the review's.

  2. The defect is not "unfinished scope", it is an under-specified gate. leg_pins_noncreature_core_type answers "is a P/T restriction vacuous here?" — which is only half the CR 208.3 question. A [Card] leg is not vacuous (it still matches creature cards), so it was accepted, and the restriction printed on the creature noun silently narrowed a disjunct whose own text never mentioned creatures (CR 208.1: a postnominal modifier binds to the noun it follows). Same defect as Make Your Move, just quieter.

The fix

prop_distributes_to_leg now consults a three-valued verdict, leg_admits_creature_pt:

  1. CR 205.2b — leg guarantees creature (artifact creature) → accept.
  2. CR 208.3 — leg pins a noncreature card type → reject (unchanged).
  3. leg names no card type scope at all ([Card], [Permanent], [Any], []) → reject (new).

Case 3 is decided by a new exhaustive sibling, type_filter_names_a_card_type_scope, alongside the two the PR already added. Permanent/Card/Any are "whatever its type" quantifiers and name no card type (CR 205.2a enumerates the card types; CR 110.1, CR 108.2); every other variant names a card type or a subtype pool (CR 205.3), including Subtype("Goblin") and Non(_) — so the CR 205.3m creature-subtype class the PR deliberately protects keeps distributing.

The gate now fails closed, which is the part that answers the review directly. A leg that still names no type — because a backfill has not run, or could not resolve — is left unrestricted rather than wrongly restricted. Ordering is therefore load-bearing for precision, not for safety: finalize_or_disjunction still backfills first so resolvable [Any] legs are decided on their real type, but a grammar that composes its own Or without backfills (oracle_effect::search) is now merely coarser, never wrong. That is the same "preserve the looser behavior" policy distribute_core_type_to_or already applies to an ambiguous disjunction.

Deliberate asymmetry (worth flagging)

pt_hosting_leg_props / strip_misplaced_pt_props_from_or_legs stay keyed on leg_pins_noncreature_core_type, not on the new gate — the PR's "exact complement" doc is updated to say why. The sweep relocates a restriction off a leg where it is vacuous; the gate refuses to place one where it does not belong. A type-open leg is ineligible under the gate but is not vacuous, so widening the sweep to it would delete a live predicate from the leg that syntactically parsed it — exactly what the PR's invariant 5 forbids.

Tests

  • search_disjunction_leaves_type_open_legs_unbound_by_pt_suffix (end-to-end through parse_search_filter, the shape requested): five rows covering [Card], [Permanent], [], and a type-open leg sitting between a pinned leg and the creature leg. Each row asserts all three halves — (1) the creature leg retains the predicate, (2a) the type-open leg does not acquire it, and (2b) the type-open leg's type_filters still equal exactly what its own text named, so a future backfill that narrows it fails here instead of passing silently.
  • A mana value 3 or less row is the discriminator in the other direction: a gate that simply refused to distribute anything to a generic leg would pass (1)/(2) and fail this (CR 202.3 — every object has a mana value), so Monocolored hybrid (2/C) mana value computed too low — The Reaper, King no More findable at converge 5 (MV should be 6) #2892 cannot regress unnoticed.
  • Building-block rows leg_admits_creature_pt_rejects_type_open_legs_but_keeps_creature_scopes (accept/reject/type-open matrix, including the Subtype("Goblin") and CR 205.2b accept controls that a naive "reject unless provably creature" gate would fail) and distribute_skips_pt_on_a_type_open_leg_but_still_distributes_cmc.

The existing explicit-type coverage is retained unchanged as the positive control, as requested.

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Request changes — the P/T distribution gate still lets an exclusion-only leg inherit a predicate that grammatically belongs to the creature leg.

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[HIGH] Non(Artifact) is treated as creature-admitting even though it also matches noncreature permanents. Evidence: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_target.rs:4826-4838 first rejects only creature-guaranteeing or definitely-noncreature legs, then accepts any type_filter_names_a_card_type_scope; that helper includes TypeFilter::Non(_) at :4772-4784. distribute_properties_to_or consequently pushes every trailing P/T property to that receiver at :5071-5080. The parse of target nonartifact or creature with power 4 or greater therefore restricts the standalone nonartifact leg too, excluding a nonartifact noncreature (for example, an enchantment) because CR 208.3 says: “A noncreature permanent has no power or toughness.” The postnominal P/T predicate belongs to the creature disjunct; an exclusion alone is not a creature anchor.

Suggested fix: make the shared admission predicate require a positively creature-anchored receiver (while retaining the explicit creature and creature-subtype cases), instead of treating any scoped exclusion as eligible. Add parser and production-pipeline coverage where a nonartifact noncreature remains targetable while a small creature is rejected.

✅ Clean

The current search-specific repair correctly rejects type-open legs, so this finding is limited to the remaining exclusion-only shape; it does not require routing that grammar through the target finalizer.

Recommendation: request changes for the creature-anchored admission rule and the runtime discriminator; do not enqueue this head.

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