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Fixes #7406.

The defect

filter_binding_diverges and gate_binding_diverges_at_fire_time (crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs) both ended in _ => false. In this module false means "both legs of the CR 603.4 hoist read this identically, so hoisting is safe", so every unclassified variant was silently asserted to be reproducible at fire time.

That is fail-open in the destructive direction. A wrong true costs a conservative re-check; a wrong false gates the ability off the stack and, for a consumed one-shot, deletes it outright (false_gate_consumes_one_shot). The same tail on the sibling QuantityRef axis was already found wrong in practice in #7389, which is why that one was made exhaustive there and this one was split out.

Both classifiers are now exhaustive and wildcard-free, matching object_scope_unbound_at_fire_time / player_scope_unbound_at_fire_time / quantity_ref_binding_diverges, so a new variant fails to compile until it is adjudicated.

filter_binding_diverges — all 54 TargetFilter variants

Newly declining, i.e. the families the tail swallowed:

Family Variants Why it diverges
Resolution-published ledgers (CR 608.2c) LastCreated, LastRevealed, LastZoneChanged, TrackedSet, TrackedSetFiltered Written by a resolution; at fire time they hold whatever an unrelated earlier resolution left. Same argument QuantityRef::TrackedSetSize already declines under.
Linked exile (CR 607.2a) ExiledBySource, ExiledCardByIndex Matches the existing QuantityRef::CardsExiledBySource / CardTypeSetSource::ExiledBySource verdicts.
Cost referent (CR 608.2k) CostPaidObject Lives on ResolvedAbility, which is None at fire time — the population-level counterpart of ObjectScope::CostPaidObject.
Choice / replacement windows (CR 609.7a, CR 615.5) ChosenDamageSource, PostReplacementSourceController, PostReplacementDamageSource, PostReplacementDamageTarget, PostReplacementDamageTargetOwner Populated only while the choice or the prevention replacement is being applied; nothing populates them at detection.

Everything else is adjudicated non-divergent with its reasoning inline: literals and snapshots, controller-derived players, source-relative reads served by the TriggerSourceContext, durable per-source/per-player choices, and the matched-event referents (which both legs read through the current_trigger_event-or-DETECTION_TRIGGER_EVENT dual path — the same argument ObjectScope::EventTarget and PlayerScope::DefendingPlayer are already non-divergent under).

A second fail-open inside the arm that was already there

TargetFilter::Typed read only tf.properties for FilterProp::Another and ignored tf.controller entirely.

ControllerRef::TargetPlayer / TargetOpponent / ParentTargetController / ParentTargetOwner / ChosenPlayer / ScopedPlayer all read ability.targets, ability.chosen_players or the per-iteration player. The fire-time FilterContext is built with ability = None and targets = &[], so TargetPlayer silently falls back to the triggering player and counts a different population — with no gate rejection to catch it. That axis is reachable through every Typed filter in the engine, which makes it the widest door into the hoist decision.

New controller_ref_binding_diverges adjudicates all 14 variants; Typed and StackAbility both consult it. This is slightly beyond the issue's literal text, but the issue asks each variant to be justified against the module's one question, and Typed cannot be answered honestly without it.

gate_binding_diverges_at_fire_time — all 57 AbilityCondition variants

Each is adjudicated on its own reading rather than on "does the bridge pass it". The old tail was inert only because ability_condition_to_static_condition happens to decline the arms it covered — a claim about a different function, silently re-underwritten every time that bridge grows an arm.

Every arm the bridge passes today (IsYourTurn, CompletedDungeon { specific: None }, SourceAttachedToCreature, ControlsCommander, QuantityCheck, Not) answers false or recurses, so this half is a pure hardening change with no behaviour difference — pinned by a test. SourceMatchesFilter / ControllerControlsMatching / WasStartingPlayer now recurse into their filter and controller payloads.

Deliberately out of scope

The FilterProp payload axis of Typed — ~90 variants, several carrying nested TargetFilters and resolution-scoped referents. It is documented as unadjudicated in the function's doc comment rather than left implicit, and wants its own pass.

Behaviour change

Only in the conservative direction: the shapes above stop being hoisted and keep today's resolution-only reading, costing CR 603.4's fire-time half for those gates. No hoist that happens today stops happening for any other reason, and nothing newly hoists.

Verification

  • cargo fmt --all clean; cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings clean.
  • 19,327 engine lib tests and 5,099 engine integration tests pass, 0 failures. (Tilt was not running in this worktree, so these ran directly.)
  • All CR numbers cited were grepped against docs/MagicCompRules.txt before being written.
  • New pin resolution_published_population_gate_declines_the_fire_time_hoist drives two production minimal pairs (ObjectCount{F} >= 2, differing only in F) plus per-family unit pins, and asserts the four payload-free bridging gates still hoist.
  • The existing hoist pins — divergent_gate_bindings_decline_the_fire_time_hoist, non_battlefield_presence_gate_declines_the_fire_time_hoist, resolution_scoped_quantity_gate_declines_the_fire_time_hoist — pass unchanged and still assert what they intend. They scope their populations with ControllerRef::You, which remains non-divergent, so the new controller screen does not silently relax them.

Not checked against real cards: card-data.json is gitignored and not generated in this worktree. The issue records that no card is known to reach a misclassified filter, and every change here declines rather than admits a hoist, so the worst case is a delayed trigger losing CR 603.4's fire-time half rather than one deleted off the stack.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of delayed and triggered abilities so conditions are evaluated at the correct time.
    • Prevented resolution-only information from being incorrectly reused when abilities are triggered.
    • Improved accuracy for conditions involving controllers, populations, properties, targets, and nested filters.
    • Added safeguards for one-shot delayed abilities to ensure conditions are neither prematurely applied nor consumed.

…hase-rs#7406)

`filter_binding_diverges` and `gate_binding_diverges_at_fire_time` both ended
in `_ => false`. In this module `false` means "both legs of the CR 603.4 hoist
read this identically, so hoisting is safe", so every unclassified variant was
silently asserted to be reproducible at fire time. That is fail-open in the
destructive direction: a wrong `true` costs a conservative re-check, a wrong
`false` gates the ability off the stack and, for a consumed one-shot, deletes
it outright (`false_gate_consumes_one_shot`). The same tail on the sibling
`QuantityRef` axis was already found wrong in practice.

Both are now exhaustive and wildcard-free, matching the three sibling
classifiers, so a new variant fails to compile until it is adjudicated.

`filter_binding_diverges` newly declines the resolution-published population
families the tail swallowed: the `last_*_ids` anaphora, tracked sets, the
CR 607.2a linked-exile population and its order, the CR 609.7a chosen damage
source, the CR 615.5 post-replacement window, and the CR 608.2k cost-paid
referent.

`Typed` also gained the CONTROLLER axis, adjudicated by a new
`controller_ref_binding_diverges`. `ControllerRef::TargetPlayer` /
`TargetOpponent` / `ParentTarget*` / `ChosenPlayer` / `ScopedPlayer` all read
`ability.targets` / `chosen_players` / the per-iteration player, which the
fire-time `FilterContext` (built with `ability = None`, `targets = &[]`) does
not carry — it silently re-scopes the same printed population to the
triggering player instead. That axis was reachable through every `Typed`
filter while the arm read only `FilterProp::Another`.

`gate_binding_diverges_at_fire_time` answers `false` or recurses for every arm
`ability_condition_to_static_condition` can bridge today, so that half is pure
hardening with no behaviour change; the resolution-scoped arms answer `true`
on their own reading so widening the bridge cannot re-open the hole.

The `FilterProp` payload axis of `Typed` is deliberately still out of scope
and documented as such.

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The trigger engine replaces wildcard divergence fallbacks with exhaustive classification for ability conditions and target-filter bindings. New tests cover resolution-scoped populations, controllers, properties, and delayed one-shot triggers.

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Delayed-trigger divergence classification

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Exhaustive ability-condition classification
crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs
AbilityCondition handling now explicitly classifies source-relative, starting-player, resolution-scoped, controller-relative, event-relative, and global-state conditions.
Recursive target-filter classification
crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs
filter_binding_diverges now evaluates target-filter variants, nested filters, controllers, properties, player filters, quantity expressions, and count scopes. Regression tests cover resolution-published bindings and delayed one-shot trigger resolution.

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The change hardens several fail-closed classifiers, but two nested filter axes still use non-exhaustive matching, so future variants could be incorrectly treated as safe and hoisted. Merge should wait for exhaustive handling or explicit owner acceptance.

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Request changes — the TargetPlayer classifier is not grounded in the fire-time data model.

🔴 Blocker

[HIGH] TargetPlayer is treated as fire-time-safe even though its authority is a player target on the resolved ability. Evidence: crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs:22065-22070 constructs ResolvedAbility with vec![] targets and claims the fire-time path would count the triggering player's creatures; crates/engine/src/game/filter.rs:1461-1467 instead resolves TargetPlayer (and TargetOpponent) solely from an actual TargetRef::Player in ability.targets. Why it matters: the fixture never exercises target-bound resolution, so it cannot establish that the classifier preserves or correctly declines the target-player population at fire time. Suggested fix: use a TargetRef::Player fixture with creature populations that distinguish trigger controller from target, and demonstrate both that fire-time evaluation has no target and that resolution reads the target-bound population; classify this controller reference conservatively until that behavior is represented correctly.

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Recommendation: request changes with the target-bound runtime proof and conservative classification above before reconsidering this hardening PR.

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Review feedback on phase-rs#7491: the `ControllerRef::TargetPlayer` half of
`resolution_published_population_gate_declines_the_fire_time_hoist` rode the
shared `run` fixture, which builds its `ResolvedAbility` with `targets: vec![]`.
With no player target on either leg, both the fire-time and resolution-time
readings fall through to the same triggering-player population, so the row
could show the decline happening but never that declining PRESERVES a correct
outcome. Its assertion message claimed a divergence the board did not exhibit.

Adds `run_target_bound`, which binds a real `TargetRef::Player` and splits the
boards so the two legs genuinely disagree:

  * the TARGET (P1) controls two creatures      -> resolution gate TRUE
  * the controller / triggering player (P0) has none, and
    `ZoneChangeRecord::test_minimal` pins the event's controller to P0, so the
    fire-time `Typed` arm falls back to P0 -> fire-time gate FALSE

It then resolves the survivor and asserts `monarch == Some(P0)`, which is the
part the old row could not state: a hoist here does not re-check, it DELETES a
one-shot whose resolution-time gate was true.

Confirmed discriminating by reclassifying `ControllerRef::TargetPlayer` as
non-divergent and re-running: `stack` drops 1 -> 0.

Also corrects the `TargetPlayer` / `TargetOpponent` comment in
`controller_ref_binding_diverges`. It said both arms "fall back to the
TRIGGERING player", which holds for `filter_inner_for_object`'s `Typed` arm but
not for `filter::controller_ref_player`, which has no such fallback and answers
`None`. Both readings diverge from the target-bound one; the comment now says
so per site.

No classification changed: `TargetPlayer` was already `true` (declines the
hoist), which is the conservative answer.

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Thanks — the evidence pointed at a real hole in the test, fixed in 36bcd7d. One correction on the framing first, because it changes what the fix needed to be.

The classification was already the conservative one

TargetPlayer is treated as fire-time-safe

It isn't. controller_ref_binding_diverges answers true for TargetPlayer / TargetOpponent, and in this module true means diverges → decline the hoist → keep today's resolution-only reading. false is the permissive answer. So TargetPlayer already fails closed, and "classify this controller reference conservatively" is the state the PR shipped in. Before this PR it was not classified at all — Typed read only tf.properties for FilterProp::Another and never looked at tf.controller — which is the fail-open the PR closes.

The test criticism is correct, and was the actual defect

The fixture genuinely could not establish what its assertion message claimed. run builds its ResolvedAbility with targets: vec![], so ability.targets is empty at resolution too, and both legs fall through to the same triggering-player population. The row showed the decline happening; it never showed that declining preserves a correct outcome. The message asserting it "would count the TRIGGERING player's creatures instead of the target's" described a divergence that board did not exhibit.

Fixed with a dedicated run_target_bound fixture that does exactly what you asked for — binds a real TargetRef::Player and splits the populations so the two legs disagree:

  • target P1 controls two creatures → resolution-time gate reads 2 >= 2 TRUE
  • controller / triggering player P0 controls none, and ZoneChangeRecord::test_minimal pins the event's controller to PlayerId(0), so the fire-time Typed arm falls back to P0 → FALSE

It then resolves the survivor and asserts monarch == Some(PlayerId(0)). That is the claim the old row could not make: a hoist here does not re-check, it deletes a one-shot whose resolution-time gate was true.

Confirmed discriminating, rather than assumed: reclassifying ControllerRef::TargetPlayer as non-divergent and re-running drops stack from 1 to 0, with monarch == None.

Your filter.rs:1462 citation caught a wrong comment

You're right that controller_ref_player resolves TargetPlayer solely from ability.targets with no fallback. My comment said both arms "silently fall back to the TRIGGERING player", which is true of filter_inner_for_object's Typed arm (the .or_else(triggering_event_player) after the TargetRef::Player scan) but not of that site. Both readings still diverge from the target-bound one — one lands on the wrong player, the other on None — so the verdict is unchanged, but the comment now states it per site instead of over-generalising.

Verification on the rebased base

The branch picked up the phase-rs:main merge (now on v0.57.0) before this push. Re-run against that base: cargo fmt clean, cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings clean, 19,404 engine lib tests pass, 0 failures.

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Held pending current-head CI evidence. The previous TargetPlayer test-scope blocker is resolved on 36bcd7dc206fea0516a8dcffe7631a935ca6697f; the new target-bound fixture distinguishes the resolution-time target population from the triggering-player population.

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Request changes — the current head is still not fail-closed across the Typed filter surface.

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crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs:10715-10721 explicitly leaves the FilterProp payload axis unadjudicated, while filter_binding_diverges at :10727-10735 returns false for every property except Another. That includes payloads such as SharesQuality, InTrackedSet, and SameNameAsParentTarget that can depend on a nested/resolution-bound referent. A delayed trigger can therefore still hoist a condition whose fire-time and resolution-time populations differ—the failure mode this PR is meant to eliminate.

Extend the same authority with a recursive property-level divergence classifier (including nested filters and resolution-bound referents), then add a target-bound production-path regression that fails when that classifier is removed. The existing TargetPlayer case is a good shape, but it does not cover the omitted property axis.

✅ Clean

The current TargetPlayer fixture does repair the previous review’s specific target-binding test gap: it reaches the real delayed-trigger path and distinguishes the two player populations.

Recommendation: request changes — complete the Typed property axis before claiming the hoist classifiers fail closed.

Review feedback on phase-rs#7491: `filter_binding_diverges`'s `Typed` arm read
`tf.properties` only for `FilterProp::Another` and let all 98 other properties
through as "cannot diverge". A delayed trigger could therefore still hoist a
gate whose population is narrowed by a property the fire-time context cannot
reproduce — the exact failure mode this PR exists to close, one level further
down than the tail it started with.

Adds `filter_prop_binding_diverges`, exhaustive and wildcard-free over all 99
`FilterProp` variants, plus `player_filter_binding_diverges` (26 variants) and
`count_scope_binding_diverges` for the sub-axes it reaches. Nested payloads
recurse into the classifier that owns them rather than being re-derived:
`filter_binding_diverges` for a nested `TargetFilter`,
`controller_ref_binding_diverges` for a controller scope, and
`quantity_expr_binding_diverges` for a comparison operand — which also closes
CR 107.3a, since `Counters`/`Cmc`/`PtComparison` can carry `Variable("X")`.

Newly declining:

  * ability-bound       SameNameAsParentTarget, AttachedToRecipient,
                        CombatRelation{ParentTarget}, CountersPutOnThisTurn
                        {ScopedPlayer}
  * resolution ledgers  InTrackedSet, MatchesLastChosenCardPredicate,
                        ManaValueParity{LastNamedChoice},
                        SameNameAsExiledBySource
  * event, no fallback  CouldBeTargetedByTriggeringSpell
  * PlayerFilter        TriggeringPlayer and its three opponent-of variants,
                        ZoneChangedThisWay, PerformedActionThisWay, VotedFor,
                        TrackedSetPossessor, OwnersOfCardsExiledBySource,
                        ChosenPlayer, ParentObjectTarget{Controller,Owner}

Each verdict comes from the READER, not the variant name, which splits two
pairs that look alike:

  * `ControllerRef::TriggeringPlayer` does NOT diverge (its reader
    `triggering_event_player` falls back to the detection thread-local), while
    `PlayerFilter::TriggeringPlayer` and `CouldBeTargetedByTriggeringSpell` DO
    (their readers consult `state.current_trigger_event` and nothing else, so
    they answer `false` for every candidate at fire time).
  * a choice PERSISTED on the source (`chosen_attributes`, chosen creature
    type) does not diverge; one published into global state by a resolution
    (`state.last_named_choice`) does.

`CanEnchant` recurses rather than declining outright: its reader
`referenced_targets_for_filter` returns the empty list for every filter except
`ParentTarget`/`ParentTargetSlot`, so it diverges exactly when the nested
filter does.

New regression `resolution_scoped_filter_property_declines_the_fire_time_hoist`
uses the target-bound shape the reviewer asked for: three identically-named
creatures with the delayed ability targeting one, gated on
`ObjectCount{creature with SameNameAsParentTarget} >= 2`. Resolution counts
three; fire time counts none, because `parent_target_name` opens with
`let ability = ability?`. It resolves the survivor and asserts the monarch
changed, so the decline is shown to preserve a live ability rather than merely
re-check one. `FilterProp::NonToken` is the leg-independent reach-guard.

Confirmed discriminating by restoring the `Another`-only property check and
re-running: `stack` drops 1 -> 0 with `monarch == None`.

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Done in 8f271522 — the Typed property axis is now adjudicated, and the "fail closed" claim covers the whole Typed surface.

What landed

filter_prop_binding_diverges, exhaustive and wildcard-free over all 99 FilterProp variants, plus player_filter_binding_diverges (26) and count_scope_binding_diverges for the sub-axes it reaches. Nested payloads recurse into the classifier that owns them rather than being re-derived — filter_binding_diverges for a nested TargetFilter, controller_ref_binding_diverges for a controller scope, quantity_expr_binding_diverges for a comparison operand. That last one also closes CR 107.3a, since Counters / Cmc / PtComparison can carry Variable("X").

The three properties you named are all covered: SharesQuality (divergent with reference: None — the subject is then the resolution-local effect-context object — and recursing when Some), InTrackedSet, SameNameAsParentTarget.

Newly declining:

Reason Properties
Reads the resolving ability SameNameAsParentTarget, AttachedToRecipient, CombatRelation{ParentTarget}, CountersPutOnThisTurn{ScopedPlayer}
Resolution-published ledger InTrackedSet, MatchesLastChosenCardPredicate, ManaValueParity{LastNamedChoice}, SameNameAsExiledBySource
Trigger event, no detection fallback CouldBeTargetedByTriggeringSpell
PlayerFilter axis TriggeringPlayer + its three opponent-of variants, ZoneChangedThisWay, PerformedActionThisWay, VotedFor, TrackedSetPossessor, OwnersOfCardsExiledBySource, ChosenPlayer, ParentObjectTarget{Controller,Owner}

Every verdict comes from the reader, not the variant name

That distinction split two pairs that look identical from the type definition:

  • ControllerRef::TriggeringPlayer does not divergequantity::triggering_event_player falls back to the detection-time thread-local. PlayerFilter::TriggeringPlayer and CouldBeTargetedByTriggeringSpell do — their readers consult state.current_trigger_event and nothing else, so at fire time they see None and answer false for every candidate.
  • A choice persisted on the source (chosen_attributes, chosen creature type) does not diverge — the TriggerSourceContext carries it on both legs. One published into global state by a resolution (state.last_named_choice) does.

CanEnchant recurses rather than declining outright, because referenced_targets_for_filter returns the empty list for every filter except ParentTarget / ParentTargetSlot — so it diverges exactly when its nested filter does. Precise rather than merely conservative.

The regression, in the shape you asked for

resolution_scoped_filter_property_declines_the_fire_time_hoist reaches the real delayed-trigger path: three identically-named creatures, the delayed ability targeting one, gated on ObjectCount{creature with SameNameAsParentTarget} >= 2. Resolution counts three; fire time counts none, because filter::parent_target_name opens with let ability = ability?. It resolves the survivor and asserts the monarch changed, so the decline is shown to preserve a live ability, not merely re-check one. FilterProp::NonToken is the leg-independent reach-guard, proving the gate bridges and is evaluated at fire time.

Confirmed discriminating, per your "fails when that classifier is removed": restoring the Another-only property check drops stack from 1 to 0 with monarch == None.

Verification

cargo fmt clean, cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings clean, 19,405 engine lib tests pass, 0 failures, on the current phase-rs:main merge base (v0.57.0).

One note on the CI state

The four still-red checks on the previous head were all HTTP 429s from GitHub's action-download CDN (Swatinem/rust-cache, pnpm/action-setup) — the jobs never started. phase-rs:main's own run failed the same way at the time. I can't re-run them (pull access only), but this push starts a fresh run on a new head, which should also regenerate the parse-diff comment that was still bound to a05fb674.

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Current-head review — changes requested

Reviewed head 8f271522387446b4af2bd7f6da0adde76eb3f742. Required CI is green and the current SHA-bound parse-diff receipt reports no card-parse changes.

The new property classifier still has two implicit fail-open sub-axes. filter_prop_binding_diverges says each payload is adjudicated exhaustively and wildcard-free, but ManaValueParity classifies ParitySource with matches! at crates/engine/src/game/triggers.rs:11007-11011, and CombatRelation does the same for CombatRelationSubject at :11012-11018. A future resolution-scoped variant on either enum then evaluates as false without a compiler-required decision and allows the CR 603.4 hoist—the same failure mode this PR removes for TargetFilter and FilterProp.

Replace both shortcuts with exhaustive matches (fixed parity/source subject => false; LastNamedChoice/ParentTarget => true) and add the matching classifier assertions. This keeps the classifier's stated fail-closed extension contract real rather than relying on the present two-variant enums.

The prior TargetPlayer and omitted FilterProp-axis requests are resolved at this head; the current unresolved CodeRabbit thread independently identifies this remaining issue.

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Review feedback on phase-rs#7491 (and an independent CodeRabbit thread):
`filter_prop_binding_diverges` claimed each payload was adjudicated
exhaustively, but classified `ParitySource` and `CombatRelationSubject` with
`matches!`. A `matches!` IS a wildcard — it compiles a two-variant enum into
"the one I named, else safe" — so a future resolution-scoped variant on either
would answer `false` and permit the CR 603.4 hoist with no compile error. That
is the same tail this change set removes one and two levels up, reintroduced at
the leaf.

Both are now `parity_source_binding_diverges` and
`combat_relation_subject_binding_diverges`, exhaustive and wildcard-free.

Swept the rest of the classifiers rather than fixing only the two reported, on
the rule that a sub-axis needs its own exhaustive classifier when it names a
REFERENT (a player, an object scope, a subject the fire-time context might not
bind). That found three more the review did not name:

  * `PtComparison.scope` was discarded entirely through `..` — now
    `pt_value_scope_binding_diverges` (both scopes read a characteristic of the
    MATCHED object, so the verdict is unchanged; the guarantee is not);
  * `ControlsCount.relation` / `PlayerAttribute.relation` — now
    `player_relation_binding_diverges`;
  * `OpponentAttacked.subject` — now `attack_subject_binding_diverges`.

Fields still discarded through `..` are documented in a BINDING-FREE PAYLOADS
note at the end of the match, with the reason each cannot acquire a referent:
characteristic selectors (`PtStat`, `SharedQuality`, `CounterMatch`,
`AttachmentKind`, `DamageKindFilter`, `Zone`), polarity flags
(`SharedQualityRelation`, `SourceExclusion`), comparison data, and the one
genuinely interesting case — `AttackScope`, a time WINDOW. Both legs read the
same window, and state moving between them is what CR 603.4's two checks are
FOR, not a divergence in the sense this module screens.

Proven by construction, since `matches!` and an exhaustive match are
indistinguishable at runtime: adding a probe variant to `ParitySource` makes
`triggers.rs` fail to compile with the exhaustive match and produce ZERO errors
with the `matches!`. The runtime pins added alongside cover the split that
exists today; the exhaustive match is what covers the variants not yet written.

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Fixed in 987f4afa. You and the CodeRabbit thread are both right, and the framing is worth stating plainly: matches! IS a wildcard. It compiles a two-variant enum into "the one I named, else safe" — exactly the tail this PR removes one and two levels up, reintroduced at the leaf. My doc comment claimed a contract those two arms did not honour.

The two you named

parity_source_binding_diverges and combat_relation_subject_binding_diverges, both exhaustive and wildcard-free, with the mapping you specified (Fixed / Sourcefalse; LastNamedChoice / ParentTargettrue).

Three more, from sweeping rather than patching

I took the instance as a sample rather than the population, since that is what the last two rounds taught. The rule I applied: a sub-axis needs its own exhaustive classifier when it names a REFERENT — a player, an object scope, or a subject whose identity the fire-time context might not bind. That surfaced three the review did not name:

  • PtComparison.scope was discarded entirely through .. — not even a matches!. Now pt_value_scope_binding_diverges. Both Current and Base read a characteristic of the matched object, so the verdict is unchanged; the guarantee was not there before.
  • ControlsCount.relation / PlayerAttribute.relationplayer_relation_binding_diverges.
  • OpponentAttacked.subjectattack_subject_binding_diverges.

And a note on what stays discarded

Sweeping everything would be noise, so the fields still taken with .. now carry a BINDING-FREE PAYLOADS note at the end of the match saying why each cannot acquire a referent: characteristic selectors (PtStat, SharedQuality, CounterMatch, AttachmentKind, DamageKindFilter, Zone), polarity flags (SharedQualityRelation, SourceExclusion), and comparison data.

The one genuinely interesting case is AttackScope, a time window. I classified it binding-free deliberately: both legs read the same window, and the fact that game state moves between them is what CR 603.4's two checks are for — not a divergence in the sense this module screens. Flagging it explicitly in case you read that boundary differently.

Proof

Runtime pins can't distinguish matches! from an exhaustive match — they agree on every variant that exists today. So the check is by construction: adding a probe variant to ParitySource makes triggers.rs fail to compile with the exhaustive match, and produce zero errors with the matches!. The pins added alongside cover the split that exists; the exhaustive match covers the variants not yet written.

Verification

cargo fmt clean, cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings clean, 19,405 engine lib tests pass, 0 failures. Diff is one file.

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@matthewevans — ready for re-review on 987f4afa. Both hold conditions from your earlier comment are now satisfied at this head.

CI: every required check green (4 Rust shards, Rust lint, card data, frontend, WASM, lobby worker, security scan; Tauri and draft pools skipped). No 429s this run.

Parse-diff receipt: now SHA-bound to 987f4afa — the stale a05fb674 binding you flagged is gone — and it reports no card-parse changes.

Your last blocker, the matches! sub-axes: fixed as specified, plus three more found by sweeping rather than patching the two reported (PtComparison.scope, which was discarded through .. entirely; ControlsCount/PlayerAttribute.relation; OpponentAttacked.subject). Details and the compile-time proof are in the comment above.

Two things I'd specifically like your eye on, since both are judgment calls rather than mechanical fixes:

  1. AttackScope classified binding-free. It is a time window, and I reasoned that both legs read the same window — state moving between them being what CR 603.4's two checks are for, not a divergence this module screens. If you draw that boundary differently, it is a one-line change.
  2. The BINDING-FREE PAYLOADS note at the end of filter_prop_binding_diverges, which is the written-down version of the rule I applied: a sub-axis gets its own exhaustive classifier when it names a referent, not when it merely carries data. That rule is what decides every remaining .. in the file, so it is worth disagreeing with now if you are going to.

Three rounds, three real defects, each one level below the last — wildcard tail, then unadjudicated Typed payloads, then matches! at the leaf. Thanks for staying on it; the guard is meaningfully closed now in a way it was not after round one.

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Approved at 987f4afaefee7f34b357db29ccf14e390aa6fd58: the CR 603.4 hoist classifiers are now exhaustive through their referent-bearing sub-axes, and the current SHA-bound parse receipt and required CI are clean.

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@matthewevans — ready for another look, at 987f4afa.

Your last review flagged the two matches! sub-axes. That head replaces both with exhaustive, wildcard-free classifiers, and closes three more carrying the same implicit-default shape:

helper diverges binds identically
parity_source_binding_diverges LastNamedChoice Fixed
combat_relation_subject_binding_diverges ParentTarget Source
pt_value_scope_binding_diverges Current, Base
player_relation_binding_diverges Controller, Opponent, All
attack_subject_binding_diverges You, Source

Sweeping all seven classifiers in the guard family — gate_, quantity_expr_, quantity_ref_, filter_, filter_prop_, controller_ref_, player_filter_binding_diverges — now finds zero matches! shortcuts and zero _ => arms. Every axis the hoist decision reaches is compiler-enforced, so the fail-closed extension contract in the doc comments is real rather than resting on the present variant counts.

CI is green on this head, and the Card data job re-bound the parse-diff receipt to 987f4afa (no card-parse changes).

Two follow-ups I'd rather record than leave implicit. Neither is a merge gate, and I'm happy to split either out:

  • resolution_scoped_filter_property_declines_the_fire_time_hoist places its unit assertions ahead of the production halves. It does go red under a revert, but on the unit pin — the production-path regression is never reached, so that half isn't proven in isolation. Splitting the unit adjudication from the production drive fixes it.
  • Nothing measures how many live cards newly decline a hoist. The parse-diff receipt covers parser output, not hoist classification, so those are different claims. Every change here is in the conservative direction — a declined hoist costs CR 603.4's fire-time half and never deletes an ability — so this is a measurement gap rather than a risk, but it is currently unmeasured rather than verified.

Merged via the queue into phase-rs:main with commit be05420 Aug 23, 2026
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… paths

Review find (matthewevans, CodeRabbit): the face-down offer/cost
regressions constructed only `Keyword::Morph`, while
`object_has_effective_face_down_keyword` spans Morph, Megamorph, and
Disguise — a regression narrowing that scan to Morph would have passed
every existing test.

Four discriminating siblings through the real cast path:
- offer: a Megamorph card and a Disguise card, printed {1}{G}
  unpayable against three Islands, must be offered and dispatch face
  down (face_down_cast_offer.rs).
- cost: Kadena reduces a Megamorph face-down cast to {0}; Dream Chisel
  takes {1} off a Disguise face-down cast (face_down_spell_cost_filter.rs).

The branch also carries a merge of current main (5037022): the parse
receipt's two "removed" signatures were main-baseline movement
(phase-rs#7491's fail-closed classifiers); this branch touches no parser file,
so the regenerated receipt should be empty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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