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Parse plural subtypes for Affinity (e.g. Elves → Elf) and add affinity test for Elves - #11

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Parse plural subtypes for Affinity (e.g. Elves → Elf) and add affinity test for Elves#11
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Motivation

  • Ensure "Affinity for " correctly recognizes irregular plurals (for example, "Elves" → "Elf") so cost reductions apply as rules intend.

Description

  • Update parse_affinity_type to prefer the shared subtype parser by calling crate::parser::oracle_util::parse_subtype and require full-string consumption before accepting the parsed subtype.
  • Retain the generic fallback that capitalizes the input when subtype parsing doesn't match, and keep the existing trailing-s stripping behavior (with the "Plains" exception).
  • Add a new test affinity_for_elves_counts_controlled_elves in crates/engine/src/game/casting_tests.rs that verifies affinity reduces the cost for controlled Elves and that the creature can be cast and resolves to the battlefield.

Testing

  • Ran the engine test suite with cargo test -p engine, which included the new affinity_for_elves_counts_controlled_elves test, and all tests passed.
  • Existing affinity tests such as the Dalek affinity test were exercised and continued to pass under the changes.

Codex Task

…ion test

Tier: Frontier
Model: claude-opus-4-8
Thinking: High

### Motivation
- Root cause: the affinity parameter fallback built a subtype by naively capitalizing and stripping a trailing `s`, which caused plural subtypes like "Elves" to be mis-canonicalized (e.g. produced the wrong subtype string) so affinity filters did not match battlefield Elves.
- Intent: minimally fix parser/AST generation so MTG-native subtype pluralization (irregulars like "Elves") is canonicalized before producing the `Affinity` TypedFilter, without changing engine cost logic or other cards.
- Scope constraint: only the affinity-type parsing fallback was changed and a focused regression test was added; unrelated systems were not refactored or modified.

### Description
- Use the shared subtype parser to canonicalize affinity subtypes: `parse_affinity_type` now delegates to `crate::parser::oracle_util::parse_subtype(s)` and uses the parsed canonical subtype when it consumes the full parameter, falling back to the previous capitalization-only behavior only when the subtype parser does not match.
- Added a focused unit test `affinity_for_elves_counts_controlled_elves` in `crates/engine/src/game/casting_tests.rs` that builds a Cantankerous Keepers-like object with `"Affinity for Elves"`, puts three Elf permanents onto the battlefield, and asserts the generic mana reduction and preservation of colored pips.
- Files changed: `crates/engine/src/types/keywords.rs` (affinity parsing fallback) and `crates/engine/src/game/casting_tests.rs` (new regression test).

### Testing
- Ran `cargo test -p phase-engine affinity_for_elves_counts_controlled_elves` and the new test passed.
- Ran repository checks: `cargo fmt --all`, `./scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh` (Gate A PASS), and `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings`, all of which completed without failures.
- Also ran `git diff --check` and targeted test runs; all automated checks listed above succeeded in this environment (note: fetching upstream/creating a remote PR was blocked by the environment network/proxy, so upstream merge-base/diff steps were not completed here).
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