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Rebased onto current main and reworked to address the review on #7490.

The conjoined "enters with" counter grammar had THREE readers. This gives it one
authority and extends that authority, rather than widening one reader in a path
production does not take.

  1. The cast-enters TRIGGER path now routes through the shared list reader.
    parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with parsed exactly one +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter
    of its own, so any conjoined list handed to it was truncated -- and that, not the
    self-ETB replacement path, is the reader a "Whenever you cast ..., that creature
    enters with ..." line actually reaches (oracle.rs Priority 5-pre intercepts and
    routes there). It now tries parse_enters_counter_entries first and keeps its
    bespoke parse only as the fallback.

The list route is gated on every count being Fixed, which is what keeps the two
count axes from crossing. The shared reader rewrites a bare X to the entering
object's CostXPaid -- correct for a self-ETB "enters with X counters"
(CR 614.12), wrong here, where X is bound by the trailing "where X is ..."
clause. Communal Brewing ("enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X
is the number of ingredient counters on this enchantment") would silently become
CostXPaid without the gate. No printed card combines a conjoined list with an X
count in this position, so the gate costs no coverage.
whenever_you_cast_trigger_keeps_where_x_count_dynamic pins it.

  1. Elided-count conjuncts, as before. English coordination lets the leading
    determiner distribute -- "an additional [+1/+1 counter] and [deathtouch
    counter]" -- so a later conjunct can carry no count. Shared
    parse_countless_counter_element serves both readers; its two guards
    (recognized-type-only via parse_strict_counter_type, singular noun) replace the
    leading number that anchors the counted form.

  2. Corrects the doc comment on parse_enter_counters_clause_body, which is
    wrong on main: it claims the self-referential seam lifts only the first conjunct
    and that routing it through this list is the follow-up. That seam is a CR 614.1c
    object-hosted replacement with its own conjoined-list reader and has always
    lifted every conjunct.

Review asks, addressed:

  • Production-path tests. whenever_you_cast_trigger_lifts_conjoined_counter_list
    goes through parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger -- the real entry
    point -- and asserts both conjuncts on the floating replacement's payload,
    anchored by positive reach guards (trigger is Some, mode is SpellCast, the
    install is the one-shot AddTargetReplacement) so it cannot pass vacuously on a
    parse that never arrived.

  • CR annotations. The CR 122.1 tags added to pure grammar are removed: 122.1
    defines what a counter IS and governs none of elision, conjunct position, or
    reader plumbing. The elided-count combinator now states explicitly why NO CR is
    cited on it, and points at CR 614.1c where the counters are actually applied.

  • Suffix preservation. The Voidpouncer case pins where the counter list STOPS;
    the trailing "and with haste" rider is dropped on this branch. That is a
    separate pre-existing bug covering nine Invasion kicker cards, fixed in fix(parser): lift the "and with <keyword>" entry rider on the kicker cycle #7768
    and tracked by Kicker cycle: "enters with ... and with <ability>" silently drops the granted ability (9 cards) #7721. A scope note now records that in place, so the silence is
    deliberate rather than mistaken for correct behavior, and names the assertion
    to add once fix(parser): lift the "and with <keyword>" entry rider on the kicker cycle #7768 lands.

Still no card-parse change expected: the three cards that print an elided-count
list (March Toward Perfection, Arcane Archery, Tenacious Pup) are blocked
upstream by an unparsed "You get a one-time boon with ..." wrapper (#7495), which
feeds the whole boon sentence to the counter grammar.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for omitting counts on subsequent recognized singular counter entries; omitted counts default to one.
    • Improved mixed counted and uncounted counter lists with and, comma, and Oxford-comma separators.
    • Added support for choosing two different counters from a specified list.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Leading counter entries now require explicit counts.
    • Prevented trailing non-counter text from being consumed.
    • Improved handling of unsupported and invalid counter-entry formats.
    • Preserved dynamic replacement handling when counts cannot be fixed.

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The Oracle parsers now require a counted leading counter, allow singular elided conjuncts with an implicit count of one, reject invalid elisions, preserve trailing instructions, retain dynamic where X is ... counts, and support counter-pair choices.

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Counter parsing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Countless counter support
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/lower.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs
The lower parser adds guarded implicit-one counter parsing. Recognized singular counter types are accepted. Unknown, plural, and uncounted leading forms are rejected.
Counter-list integration
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_replacement.rs
The replacement parser handles counted and elided entries, validates separators before extending lists, consumes on it, preserves trailing instructions, and keeps dynamic where X is ... handling. Tests cover separator variants, elision guards, trailing riders, and production paths.
Trigger dispatch and pair choices
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_replacement.rs
Cast-enter parsing distinguishes parsed, unsupported, and unrelated shapes. Grimdancer's two-different-counters form builds a controller ChooseOneOf with pair branches.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f74df

This change centralizes parsing of conjoined enters-with counter lists and supports elided counts, but the affected replacement path can still drop trailing riders such as “and with haste.” The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up for that bounded parsing correctness issue.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Oracle
  participant OracleReplacement
  participant CounterEntryParser
  participant LowerParser
  participant ChoiceController
  Oracle->>OracleReplacement: parse cast-enter trigger outcome
  OracleReplacement->>CounterEntryParser: parse counted leading entry
  CounterEntryParser->>LowerParser: parse counted or singular elided counter
  LowerParser-->>CounterEntryParser: return counter and quantity
  CounterEntryParser-->>OracleReplacement: return counter list and remainder
  OracleReplacement->>ChoiceController: build counter-pair branches when requested
  ChoiceController-->>OracleReplacement: return ChooseOneOf ability
  OracleReplacement-->>Oracle: return parsed trigger or unsupported shape
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Parse changes introduced by this PR

✓ No card-parse changes detected.

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Request changes — this parser fix is in a path that production bypasses.

🔴 Blocker

[HIGH] The list grammar is only wired into the generic object-hosted replacement parser. Evidence: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs:5212-5227 detects Whenever you cast … enters with … and calls the dedicated parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger; its parser at crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_replacement.rs:4912-5000 consumes exactly one +1/+1/-1/-1 counter, while this PR changes only parse_replacement_line_ir at oracle_replacement.rs:4061-4072. Why it matters: the actual trigger path therefore rejects or truncates the counter lists this PR claims to support. Suggested fix: extract/reuse the counter-entry list grammar from the dedicated trigger parser, then build every PutCounter payload there.

[HIGH] The added parser tests do not prove the production trigger pipeline or malformed-input behavior. Evidence: the dedicated trigger path above is selected before the generic replacement path; the negative test proceeds when parsing returns None. Why it matters: such tests can pass while March Toward Perfection, Arcane Archery, and Tenacious Pup still do not produce the intended trigger/engine behavior. Suggested fix: add production trigger-AST and runtime regressions for all three cards, including an assertion that the parser reaches the intended trigger rather than accepting None.

Recommendation: request changes. Please generalize the counter-list grammar at the trigger parser’s actual authority and cover the real trigger/runtime path before this is reconsidered.

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Parse diff came back empty — the review's conclusion is correct

CI posted ✓ No card-parse changes detected, and I'd independently reached the same conclusion as @matthewevans before reading the review: March Toward Perfection, Arcane Archery and Tenacious Pup are not fixed by this PR. The PR body (filled from the commit message) overclaims that they are. That's my error and it needs correcting.

Where I differ is the mechanism, and it changes what the fix should be.

It isn't the trigger path — the boon wrapper is never stripped

Running all three cards end-to-end on this branch:

CARD March Toward Perfection: abilities=1 triggers=0 replacements=1
   repl[0] counter_type = "\"when you cast a phyrexian creature spell,
                            that creature enters with an additional +1/+1"
CARD Arcane Archery:         abilities=1 triggers=0 replacements=1   (same shape)
CARD Tenacious Pup:          abilities=0 triggers=1 replacements=0

triggers=0 on the first two: parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger never runs for them. The Priority 5-pre interceptor (oracle.rs:5226) gates on has_trigger_prefix(&lower), and these lines begin You get a one-time boon with "When you cast …" — the trigger prefix is inside a quoted grant, not at the head of the line.

There is no boon handling anywhere in the parser (grep -rn "one-time boon\|boon" crates/engine/src/parser/ finds nothing). So the entire boon sentence reaches parse_enters_with_counters, strip_after(work_text, "with ") latches onto the boon's own boon with , and the counter grammar is handed text starting with a ". My list reader correctly rejects that; the single-counter fallback's unbounded take_until(" counter") then swallows the whole sentence as the counter type — the garbage Generic above.

So the counter-list grammar is never reached with clean input for any of the three. Wiring it into the trigger parser would not fix them either.

On the two blockers

[HIGH] #1 — partly stands, but not as the blocker for these cards. parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with really is a third single-counter reader (alt((value(Plus1Plus1, tag("+1/+1")), value(Minus1Minus1, tag("-1/-1"))))), and I agree that's a latent duplication worth removing. But it is not "the actual trigger path" for these cards, per triggers=0 above. A corpus sweep over every printed enters/enter with … counter and battlefield-rider line finds conjoined lists on only these three plus the self-referential ones — none reach the trigger parser today, so generalizing it now would be speculative rather than card-driven. Happy to do it if you'd rather have the readers unified on principle.

Small correction: the citation oracle_effect/mod.rs:5212-5227 is try_parse_airbend_clause, unrelated to this. The interceptor is oracle.rs:5226. The oracle_replacement.rs line references are accurate.

[HIGH] #2 — accepted in full. The tests pass while the cards remain broken; that's exactly what happened. My mistake was validating against the quoted body extracted by hand, which the parser never sees in that form.

What this PR actually delivers

With the card claims removed, what's left is real but narrower:

  • Corrects a doc comment that is actively misleading on main — it asserts the self-referential enters with seam "still lifts only the first conjunct" and that routing it through the list is "the follow-up". Both halves are wrong: that line is a CR 614.1c object-hosted replacement with its own conjoined-list reader, and routing it through the list would regress the X-counted cards (Astral Cornucopia, Sin, Unending Cataclysm), since parse_number doesn't accept x. That text is what sent this work down the wrong path to begin with.
  • Regression pins for the gated conjoined shapes (Dust Animus, Voidpouncer) — gate × conjunct × multi-count, previously uncovered.
  • Elided-count support, ready for when the boon wrapper is handled. Zero card impact today, and the empty parse diff also confirms the after_additionalafter_with change causes no regression in either direction.

Separately: a pre-existing misparse on main

Those garbage Generic counter types are not introduced here — the empty parse diff proves these cards parse identically with and without this commit. Two cards on main currently carry a counter type that is an entire English sentence. That's worse than a dropped counter and is worth its own issue.

Proposed next steps

  1. Amend this PR's message to drop the card claims and describe it as doc correction + regression pins + unused-but-tested grammar. Happy to force-push that.
  2. Handle the You get a one-time boon with "…" wrapper as separate work — that's what actually fixes all three cards and kills the garbage-Generic misparse.
  3. Optionally fold the trigger parser into the shared element grammar, as a duplication cleanup rather than a card fix.

Would you prefer 1+2 split this way, or this PR held until the boon wrapper lands so the cards move in one change?

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@JacobWoodson JacobWoodson changed the title fix(parser): lift every conjunct when an enters-with counter list elides its count fix(parser): correct the enters-with conjunct doc, and support elided counts Aug 16, 2026
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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/lower.rs`:
- Around line 10911-10917: Update the counter-element list parser around
parse_counter_suffix_body_combinator and parse_countless_counter_element to
accept comma-space, comma-and-space, and and-space separators through the same
preceded separator-element grammar. Preserve existing parsing behavior and add
regression coverage for comma-separated elided counter elements, including the
example sequence.
- Around line 10906-10909: Remove the incorrect CR 122.1 citations and replace
them with parser-grammar rationale in lower.rs at 10906-10909 and 10932-10946,
and oracle_replacement.rs at 4061-4069, 4743-4746, and 4763-4780. Correct the
elided-count test documentation in oracle_replacement.rs at 15733-15737;
preserve the existing parsing behavior and update comments only.

In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_replacement.rs`:
- Around line 4061-4072: Update parse_enters_counter_entries and its caller to
preserve and return the unconsumed suffix after the counter list; parse that
suffix as a replacement rider and include it in the PutCounter chain. If the
suffix cannot be parsed as a supported rider, return None rather than publishing
a partial replacement. Preserve the existing unstripped after_with input and
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Request changes — the current refactor still leaves the production cast-enters authority on a separate single-counter grammar, and its tests do not reach that authority.

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[HIGH] The generic replacement change is not wired through the cast-enters dispatcher. Evidence: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle.rs:5217-5229 routes a matching Whenever you cast … enters with … line to parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger, whose payload parser at crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_replacement.rs:4912-5000 still accepts exactly one +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter. This PR changes the generic replacement reader at oracle_replacement.rs:4061-4072. Why it matters: a real cast-enters line bypasses the new list grammar, so the duplicated production authority cannot implement or prove conjoined/elided counters. Suggested fix: factor the shared counted/elided entry-list grammar at the trigger authority (while preserving its dynamic-count semantics), construct every PutCounter payload from that list, and retain strict failure for unsupported suffixes.

[HIGH] The added parser tests bypass the selected production trigger path, and the negative guard is vacuous when the parser returns None. Evidence: production dispatch selects parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger before the generic replacement path (oracle.rs:5226-5229); the PR's direct parse_replacement_line/entry-reader tests therefore do not establish trigger AST or runtime behavior. Why it matters: passing unit tests can coexist with a trigger that neither parses nor installs every counter replacement. Suggested fix: add a production trigger-AST assertion and a scenario/runtime assertion that fail on reverting the production list wiring, plus a positive reach guard before every malformed-input negative assertion.

The contributor correctly identified that March Toward Perfection, Arcane Archery, and Tenacious Pup are additionally blocked upstream by their quoted-boon wrapper; that does not remove the independent duplicated cast-enters authority above. The parse-diff sticky is still bound to old head f53e6d42054d1b0348f8d7acd0abd2e8a58b483d, and the CI run for this head is queued, so neither is current-head evidence.

Recommendation: request changes. Generalize at the production trigger authority and demonstrate the end-to-end trigger behavior; keep the boon-wrapper repair separately scoped.

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The current formal request-changes review remains the disposition for head 4101b65b41fda98021079606d2ac7109b0e3f48f; this clarifies the remaining scope.

The quoted-boon wrapper explains why the named cards are not reached today, but it does not remove the separate production cast-enters reader at crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_replacement.rs:4912-5000, which still accepts one +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter while this PR changes the generic reader at 4061-4072. Please either route the shared counter-entry grammar through that production authority or narrow this PR to its demonstrated scope.

Before the requested changes can clear, add a production trigger AST/runtime test with a positive reach guard and a suffix-preservation case (the Voidpouncer test currently drops and with haste), and replace the CR 122.1 parser-grammar annotations in oracle_effect/lower.rs and oracle_replacement.rs with accurate grammar rationale. The current parse-diff and CI are head-bound and green, but neither proves these production-path semantics.

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Expiry warning — this PR remains blocked at 4101b65b41fda98021079606d2ac7109b0e3f48f.

The requested change is still to move the counter-list grammar to the production cast-enters trigger authority and demonstrate the real trigger/runtime path. Please provide that substantive update. If there is no substantive update within 7 days, this PR will be auto-closed.

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…lided counts

Rebased onto current main and reworked to address the review on phase-rs#7490.

The conjoined "enters with" counter grammar had THREE readers. This gives it one
authority and extends that authority, rather than widening one reader in a path
production does not take.

1. The cast-enters TRIGGER path now routes through the shared list reader.
`parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with` parsed exactly one +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter
of its own, so any conjoined list handed to it was truncated -- and that, not the
self-ETB replacement path, is the reader a "Whenever you cast ..., that creature
enters with ..." line actually reaches (oracle.rs Priority 5-pre intercepts and
routes there). It now tries `parse_enters_counter_entries` first and keeps its
bespoke parse only as the fallback.

The list route is gated on every count being `Fixed`, which is what keeps the two
count axes from crossing. The shared reader rewrites a bare X to the entering
object's `CostXPaid` -- correct for a self-ETB "enters with X counters"
(CR 614.12), wrong here, where X is bound by the trailing "where X is ..."
clause. Communal Brewing ("enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X
is the number of ingredient counters on this enchantment") would silently become
CostXPaid without the gate. No printed card combines a conjoined list with an X
count in this position, so the gate costs no coverage.
`whenever_you_cast_trigger_keeps_where_x_count_dynamic` pins it.

2. Elided-count conjuncts, as before. English coordination lets the leading
determiner distribute -- "an additional [+1/+1 counter] and [deathtouch
counter]" -- so a later conjunct can carry no count. Shared
`parse_countless_counter_element` serves both readers; its two guards
(recognized-type-only via `parse_strict_counter_type`, singular noun) replace the
leading number that anchors the counted form.

3. Corrects the doc comment on `parse_enter_counters_clause_body`, which is
wrong on main: it claims the self-referential seam lifts only the first conjunct
and that routing it through this list is the follow-up. That seam is a CR 614.1c
object-hosted replacement with its own conjoined-list reader and has always
lifted every conjunct.

Review asks, addressed:

* Production-path tests. `whenever_you_cast_trigger_lifts_conjoined_counter_list`
  goes through `parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger` -- the real entry
  point -- and asserts both conjuncts on the floating replacement's payload,
  anchored by positive reach guards (trigger is Some, mode is SpellCast, the
  install is the one-shot AddTargetReplacement) so it cannot pass vacuously on a
  parse that never arrived.

* CR annotations. The `CR 122.1` tags added to pure grammar are removed: 122.1
  defines what a counter IS and governs none of elision, conjunct position, or
  reader plumbing. The elided-count combinator now states explicitly why NO CR is
  cited on it, and points at CR 614.1c where the counters are actually applied.

* Suffix preservation. The Voidpouncer case pins where the counter list STOPS;
  the trailing "and with haste" rider is dropped on this branch. That is a
  separate pre-existing bug covering nine Invasion kicker cards, fixed in phase-rs#7768
  and tracked by phase-rs#7721. A scope note now records that in place, so the silence is
  deliberate rather than mistaken for correct behavior, and names the assertion
  to add once phase-rs#7768 lands.

Still no card-parse change expected: the three cards that print an elided-count
list (March Toward Perfection, Arcane Archery, Tenacious Pup) are blocked
upstream by an unparsed "You get a one-time boon with ..." wrapper (phase-rs#7495), which
feeds the whole boon sentence to the counter grammar.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Substantive update — all three asks addressed at dfa79c4e

Rebased onto current main first (the branch was 143 commits behind; the rebase was clean). Then reworked. Taking the asks in order.

1. Grammar moved to the production cast-enters authority

You were right that this was the blocker, and the fix is where you pointed. parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with parsed exactly one +1/+1/-1/-1 counter of its own, so any conjoined list handed to it was truncated — and that IS the reader a Whenever you cast …, that creature enters with … line reaches, since oracle.rs Priority 5-pre intercepts and routes there. It now tries the shared parse_enters_counter_entries first and keeps its bespoke parse only as a fallback. Three readers of one grammar became one authority plus fallbacks.

One thing worth flagging, because a naive route-through breaks a card. The list route is gated on every count being Fixed. The shared reader rewrites a bare X to the entering object's CostXPaid — correct for a self-ETB enters with X counters (CR 614.12), wrong here, where X is bound by the trailing where X is … clause. Without the gate, Communal Brewing (enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of ingredient counters on this enchantment) silently becomes CostXPaid. That is the count-axis divergence between the two readers, and it is why they cannot simply be collapsed into one. whenever_you_cast_trigger_keeps_where_x_count_dynamic pins it in both directions.

2. Production-path tests with a positive reach guard

whenever_you_cast_trigger_lifts_conjoined_counter_list goes through parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger — the real entry point, not parse_replacement_line — and asserts both conjuncts on the floating replacement's payload. Every assertion is anchored: the trigger must be Some, mode SpellCast, and the install the one-shot AddTargetReplacement, so a parse that never reached this path cannot satisfy the counter-chain assertions vacuously. parses_wildgrowth_archaic_trigger still passes unchanged, so the existing single-counter shape is untouched.

3. CR annotations

Removed. CR 122.1 defines what a counter is; it governs none of elision, conjunct position, or reader plumbing, and I had tagged all three with it. The elided-count combinator now states explicitly why no CR is cited on it — the elision is English determiner scope, and singular-means-one follows from the noun — and points at CR 614.1c where the counters are actually applied. Verified against docs/MagicCompRules.txt:1178.

On suffix preservation

You were right about and with haste — I confirmed it end-to-end, and it is worse than a test gap. The rider is dropped for nine Invasion kicker cards (Anavolver, Cetavolver, Faerie Squadron, Kavu Titan, Necravolver, Pouncing Kavu, Pouncing Wurm, Rakavolver, Voidpouncer), and two long-standing tests were passing green through the gap by asserting the counter and ignoring the rider.

That is out of scope here — it is a separate pre-existing bug with a runtime dimension, so it is filed as #7721 and fixed in #7768, which routes the rider to a continuous AddKeyword with Duration::UntilHostLeavesPlay (CR 611.2a) and carries a real runtime test paying the kicker through DecideOptionalCost. The Voidpouncer case here now carries a scope note saying it pins where the list stops, not that the rider survives, and naming the assertion to add once #7768 lands — so the silence is deliberate and visible rather than mistaken for correct behavior.

Still no card-parse change

Expected, and I want to be explicit rather than let CI's ✓ No card-parse changes detected read as the fix working. The three cards that print an elided-count list (March Toward Perfection, Arcane Archery, Tenacious Pup) are blocked upstream by an unparsed You get a one-time boon with "…" wrapper, which feeds the whole boon sentence to the counter grammar and yields a Generic counter type named after an entire English sentence. Filed separately as #7495. This PR's grammar is correct and reachable through the trigger authority; those particular cards need the wrapper first.

fmt, parser gate (exit 0), clippy -D warnings (exit 0), and the full engine suite (19585 + 5364 + 30 passed, 0 failed) are all green on this tree.

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Required: carry elided counter lists through comma separators

At dfa79c4e83cd5b4387e8510b468825136b22d20f, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/lower.rs:11084-11090 grows the new elided-count tail with only tag(" and "). The same shared suffix reader is used by the imperative path at crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/imperative.rs:9050; a comma/Oxford-comma list such as with an additional +1/+1 counter, reach counter, and trample counter on it therefore stops after the first counter instead of lifting all singular elided riders. The replacement-side reader already recognizes ", " and ", and " (crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_replacement.rs:4802-4806), so this is an unhandled sibling grammar rather than a deliberate syntax boundary.

Please use a composed separator combinator covering ", ", ", and ", and " and " at this reader as well, and add a discriminating comma/Oxford-comma elided-count parser regression. The production cast-enters authority and its reach-guard test now satisfy the prior request; this is the remaining current-head blocker.

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Reviewed 8971e47a8639e738975b19addf76c2b85fba7bf0. The revised negative regression now asserts the leading counter quantity, including the two-counter case, so the preceding requested change is addressed.

This parser-surface head still needs its own required Rust/frontend results and <!-- coverage-parse-diff --> receipt; the visible receipt is for 1106e458, not this head. I will resume approval/enqueue when those current-head artifacts settle.

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Request changes — the new shared counter-list route can publish a partial triggered ability.

🔴 Blocker

[MED] A fixed conjoined counter list is accepted without preserving or validating the text after on it. Evidence: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_replacement.rs:5028-5039 returns a complete ChangeZone replacement immediately after parse_enters_counter_entries(rest), while parse_enters_counter_entries at :4772-4794 consumes only through on it and returns no remainder. Why it matters: a line such as Whenever you cast a creature spell, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter and deathtouch counter on it and with haste now installs counters but silently drops the haste rider; that falsely treats a rules-bearing full sentence as supported. Suggested fix: have the shared-list route return/validate its suffix and either compose a supported rider or fail closed before constructing AddTargetReplacement; add a production-entry regression for the trailing-rider case.

The exact-head parse receipt reports no current card-parse change and required CI is green, but neither addresses this semantic partial-parse path.

Recommendation: preserve or fail closed on the remaining rider, then request a fresh current-head review.

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Rebased onto current main and reworked to address the review on phase-rs#7490.

The conjoined "enters with" counter grammar had THREE readers. This gives it one
authority and extends that authority, rather than widening one reader in a path
production does not take.

1. The cast-enters TRIGGER path now routes through the shared list reader.
`parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with` parsed exactly one +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter
of its own, so any conjoined list handed to it was truncated -- and that, not the
self-ETB replacement path, is the reader a "Whenever you cast ..., that creature
enters with ..." line actually reaches (oracle.rs Priority 5-pre intercepts and
routes there). It now tries `parse_enters_counter_entries` first and keeps its
bespoke parse only as the fallback.

The list route is gated on every count being `Fixed`, which is what keeps the two
count axes from crossing. The shared reader rewrites a bare X to the entering
object's `CostXPaid` -- correct for a self-ETB "enters with X counters"
(CR 614.12), wrong here, where X is bound by the trailing "where X is ..."
clause. Communal Brewing ("enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X
is the number of ingredient counters on this enchantment") would silently become
CostXPaid without the gate. No printed card combines a conjoined list with an X
count in this position, so the gate costs no coverage.
`whenever_you_cast_trigger_keeps_where_x_count_dynamic` pins it.

2. Elided-count conjuncts, as before. English coordination lets the leading
determiner distribute -- "an additional [+1/+1 counter] and [deathtouch
counter]" -- so a later conjunct can carry no count. Shared
`parse_countless_counter_element` serves both readers; its two guards
(recognized-type-only via `parse_strict_counter_type`, singular noun) replace the
leading number that anchors the counted form.

3. Corrects the doc comment on `parse_enter_counters_clause_body`, which is
wrong on main: it claims the self-referential seam lifts only the first conjunct
and that routing it through this list is the follow-up. That seam is a CR 614.1c
object-hosted replacement with its own conjoined-list reader and has always
lifted every conjunct.

Review asks, addressed:

* Production-path tests. `whenever_you_cast_trigger_lifts_conjoined_counter_list`
  goes through `parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger` -- the real entry
  point -- and asserts both conjuncts on the floating replacement's payload,
  anchored by positive reach guards (trigger is Some, mode is SpellCast, the
  install is the one-shot AddTargetReplacement) so it cannot pass vacuously on a
  parse that never arrived.

* CR annotations. The `CR 122.1` tags added to pure grammar are removed: 122.1
  defines what a counter IS and governs none of elision, conjunct position, or
  reader plumbing. The elided-count combinator now states explicitly why NO CR is
  cited on it, and points at CR 614.1c where the counters are actually applied.

* Suffix preservation. The Voidpouncer case pins where the counter list STOPS;
  the trailing "and with haste" rider is dropped on this branch. That is a
  separate pre-existing bug covering nine Invasion kicker cards, fixed in phase-rs#7768
  and tracked by phase-rs#7721. A scope note now records that in place, so the silence is
  deliberate rather than mistaken for correct behavior, and names the assertion
  to add once phase-rs#7768 lands.

Still no card-parse change expected: the three cards that print an elided-count
list (March Toward Perfection, Arcane Archery, Tenacious Pup) are blocked
upstream by an unparsed "You get a one-time boon with ..." wrapper (phase-rs#7495), which
feeds the whole boon sentence to the counter grammar.

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Route fails closed at 2fb68e26 — with one honest limit

Confirmed and fixed. parse_enters_counter_entries consumed through " on it" and threw the remainder away, so my route could publish a complete-looking AddTargetReplacement for a sentence it had only half-read.

parse_enters_counter_entries_with_rest now returns that remainder, and the cast-enters route refuses to build anything when it is not exhausted:

if !counter_list_remainder_is_exhausted(after_list) {
    return None;   // whole recognizer, not a fallthrough to the single-counter parse
}

Returning None for the whole recognizer rather than falling through is deliberate — falling through would re-publish the same partial ability with fewer counters.

whenever_you_cast_trigger_fails_closed_on_unconsumed_rider asserts this at the production entry point, paired with the rider-free clause as a reach guard so the None is provably the rider's doing.

The limit, measured rather than assumed

Closing the route does not close the pipeline, and I would rather say so than let the test imply otherwise. oracle.rs Priority 5-pre falls through to parse_replacement_line_ir when the recognizer declines, and that path still lifts both counters without the rider:

RIDER trigger_recognizer = None          ← the new gate fires
RIDER end-to-end: replacements=1         ← still partial, via the pre-existing fallback
CLEAN trigger_recognizer = Some
CLEAN end-to-end: triggers=1

That fallthrough is not something this PR introduced. The pre-existing single-counter parse also rejected this line — its " counter on it" / " counters on it" tag cannot match " counter and deathtouch…" — so the recognizer returned None here before my route existed, and the same partial replacement came out the other side. The gate changes which node publishes it, not whether the line is partially parsed.

Closing it end-to-end needs one of two things, and both are outside what this PR can safely do:

  1. Parse the rider — that is Kicker cycle: "enters with ... and with <ability>" silently drops the granted ability (9 cards) #7721/fix(parser): lift the "and with <keyword>" entry rider on the kicker cycle #7768, the nine-card Invasion keyword-rider class.
  2. Tighten the self-ETB path, which shares parse_enters_counter_entries. That path has always tolerated a trailing rider, and failing it closed would drop the counters those same nine cards place today — trading a partial parse for no parse.

I scoped the remainder gate to the new route for exactly that reason, and documented it at both the helper and the call site. If you would rather I tighten the self-ETB path too and accept the nine-card coverage loss, say so and I will — it is a one-line change to pass the same predicate there — but it looked like the worse trade to make unilaterally.

Verification

Check Result
cargo fmt --all clean
scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh exit 0
clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -D warnings exit 0
cargo test -p phase-engine 19647 + 5387 + 30 passed, 0 failed

Prior head 8971e47a was green on all 13 required checks with a clean exact-head parse receipt; this head is test-plus-one-guard on top of it, so I expect the same.

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Request changes — the new trigger-level fail-closed guard still falls through to an object-hosted replacement in the production dispatcher.

🔴 Blocker

[HIGH] The production route does not fail closed on the trailing rider. Evidence: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle.rs:5271-5283 calls the dedicated cast-enters recognizer and, when it returns None, immediately passes the same Whenever you cast … line to parse_replacement_line_ir; that replacement dispatcher’s broad enters/counter route at crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_replacement.rs:721-728 accepts it through parse_enters_with_counters. The new test at oracle_replacement.rs:21657-21670 only asserts the dedicated recognizer is None, so it does not reach this fallback. Why it matters: Whenever you cast a creature spell, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter and deathtouch counter on it and with haste is still published as an object-hosted counter replacement and silently loses the haste rider; it also changes the cast-trigger lifetime/authority the parser’s own oracle_replacement.rs:703-713 comment says must not be modeled there. Suggested fix: make the Priority 5-pre dispatcher preserve the dedicated trigger authority for this recognized cast-enters shape when its full clause is unsupported—emit the existing strict/unimplemented path or otherwise prevent the generic replacement fallback—and add a parse_oracle_text regression for the rider case that proves no partial replacement is emitted, paired with the rider-free positive production-path case.

Recommendation: request changes. The current head needs an end-to-end fail-closed boundary before the counter-list support can be approved.

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Rebased onto current main and reworked to address the review on phase-rs#7490.

The conjoined "enters with" counter grammar had THREE readers. This gives it one
authority and extends that authority, rather than widening one reader in a path
production does not take.

1. The cast-enters TRIGGER path now routes through the shared list reader.
`parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with` parsed exactly one +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter
of its own, so any conjoined list handed to it was truncated -- and that, not the
self-ETB replacement path, is the reader a "Whenever you cast ..., that creature
enters with ..." line actually reaches (oracle.rs Priority 5-pre intercepts and
routes there). It now tries `parse_enters_counter_entries` first and keeps its
bespoke parse only as the fallback.

The list route is gated on every count being `Fixed`, which is what keeps the two
count axes from crossing. The shared reader rewrites a bare X to the entering
object's `CostXPaid` -- correct for a self-ETB "enters with X counters"
(CR 614.12), wrong here, where X is bound by the trailing "where X is ..."
clause. Communal Brewing ("enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X
is the number of ingredient counters on this enchantment") would silently become
CostXPaid without the gate. No printed card combines a conjoined list with an X
count in this position, so the gate costs no coverage.
`whenever_you_cast_trigger_keeps_where_x_count_dynamic` pins it.

2. Elided-count conjuncts, as before. English coordination lets the leading
determiner distribute -- "an additional [+1/+1 counter] and [deathtouch
counter]" -- so a later conjunct can carry no count. Shared
`parse_countless_counter_element` serves both readers; its two guards
(recognized-type-only via `parse_strict_counter_type`, singular noun) replace the
leading number that anchors the counted form.

3. Corrects the doc comment on `parse_enter_counters_clause_body`, which is
wrong on main: it claims the self-referential seam lifts only the first conjunct
and that routing it through this list is the follow-up. That seam is a CR 614.1c
object-hosted replacement with its own conjoined-list reader and has always
lifted every conjunct.

Review asks, addressed:

* Production-path tests. `whenever_you_cast_trigger_lifts_conjoined_counter_list`
  goes through `parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger` -- the real entry
  point -- and asserts both conjuncts on the floating replacement's payload,
  anchored by positive reach guards (trigger is Some, mode is SpellCast, the
  install is the one-shot AddTargetReplacement) so it cannot pass vacuously on a
  parse that never arrived.

* CR annotations. The `CR 122.1` tags added to pure grammar are removed: 122.1
  defines what a counter IS and governs none of elision, conjunct position, or
  reader plumbing. The elided-count combinator now states explicitly why NO CR is
  cited on it, and points at CR 614.1c where the counters are actually applied.

* Suffix preservation. The Voidpouncer case pins where the counter list STOPS;
  the trailing "and with haste" rider is dropped on this branch. That is a
  separate pre-existing bug covering nine Invasion kicker cards, fixed in phase-rs#7768
  and tracked by phase-rs#7721. A scope note now records that in place, so the silence is
  deliberate rather than mistaken for correct behavior, and names the assertion
  to add once phase-rs#7768 lands.

Still no card-parse change expected: the three cards that print an elided-count
list (March Toward Perfection, Arcane Archery, Tenacious Pup) are blocked
upstream by an unparsed "You get a one-time boon with ..." wrapper (phase-rs#7495), which
feeds the whole boon sentence to the counter grammar.

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Maintainer fixup at f74df17 adds the missing end-to-end reach assertion: the fail-closed cast-enters rider must remain an explicit Effect::Unimplemented residual, not merely produce no trigger/replacement.

This exact head is held for its refreshed CI and parse-diff receipt. Once those current-head receipts are available, maintainer review/enqueue will resume. The existing bug label is retained.

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Rebased onto current main and reworked to address the review on phase-rs#7490.

The conjoined "enters with" counter grammar had THREE readers. This gives it one
authority and extends that authority, rather than widening one reader in a path
production does not take.

1. The cast-enters TRIGGER path now routes through the shared list reader.
`parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with` parsed exactly one +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter
of its own, so any conjoined list handed to it was truncated -- and that, not the
self-ETB replacement path, is the reader a "Whenever you cast ..., that creature
enters with ..." line actually reaches (oracle.rs Priority 5-pre intercepts and
routes there). It now tries `parse_enters_counter_entries` first and keeps its
bespoke parse only as the fallback.

The list route is gated on every count being `Fixed`, which is what keeps the two
count axes from crossing. The shared reader rewrites a bare X to the entering
object's `CostXPaid` -- correct for a self-ETB "enters with X counters"
(CR 614.12), wrong here, where X is bound by the trailing "where X is ..."
clause. Communal Brewing ("enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X
is the number of ingredient counters on this enchantment") would silently become
CostXPaid without the gate. No printed card combines a conjoined list with an X
count in this position, so the gate costs no coverage.
`whenever_you_cast_trigger_keeps_where_x_count_dynamic` pins it.

2. Elided-count conjuncts, as before. English coordination lets the leading
determiner distribute -- "an additional [+1/+1 counter] and [deathtouch
counter]" -- so a later conjunct can carry no count. Shared
`parse_countless_counter_element` serves both readers; its two guards
(recognized-type-only via `parse_strict_counter_type`, singular noun) replace the
leading number that anchors the counted form.

3. Corrects the doc comment on `parse_enter_counters_clause_body`, which is
wrong on main: it claims the self-referential seam lifts only the first conjunct
and that routing it through this list is the follow-up. That seam is a CR 614.1c
object-hosted replacement with its own conjoined-list reader and has always
lifted every conjunct.

Review asks, addressed:

* Production-path tests. `whenever_you_cast_trigger_lifts_conjoined_counter_list`
  goes through `parse_whenever_you_cast_enters_with_trigger` -- the real entry
  point -- and asserts both conjuncts on the floating replacement's payload,
  anchored by positive reach guards (trigger is Some, mode is SpellCast, the
  install is the one-shot AddTargetReplacement) so it cannot pass vacuously on a
  parse that never arrived.

* CR annotations. The `CR 122.1` tags added to pure grammar are removed: 122.1
  defines what a counter IS and governs none of elision, conjunct position, or
  reader plumbing. The elided-count combinator now states explicitly why NO CR is
  cited on it, and points at CR 614.1c where the counters are actually applied.

* Suffix preservation. The Voidpouncer case pins where the counter list STOPS;
  the trailing "and with haste" rider is dropped on this branch. That is a
  separate pre-existing bug covering nine Invasion kicker cards, fixed in phase-rs#7768
  and tracked by phase-rs#7721. A scope note now records that in place, so the silence is
  deliberate rather than mistaken for correct behavior, and names the assertion
  to add once phase-rs#7768 lands.

Still no card-parse change expected: the three cards that print an elided-count
list (March Toward Perfection, Arcane Archery, Tenacious Pup) are blocked
upstream by an unparsed "You get a one-time boon with ..." wrapper (phase-rs#7495), which
feeds the whole boon sentence to the counter grammar.

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End-to-end fail-closed boundary at fd644b51

You were right, and the rules argument is the part I had underweighted: falling through re-parsed a cast TRIGGER as an object-hosted replacement, which is the wrong authority regardless of the dropped rider — the effect must outlive its source leaving the battlefield (CR 603.1 + CR 603.3), which a permanent-hosted replacement does not.

Your commit is preserved. f74df179 is in this stack, still authored by you, replayed as fd644b51. My earlier push was rejected by --force-with-lease — that guard is the only reason it wasn't clobbered, and I took the remote tip rather than my local line once I saw it.

Your added assertion passes against the implementation, which is a useful confirmation: the residual really is an Effect::Unimplemented, not merely an absence.

What changed

The dispatcher could not tell "not my shape" from "my shape, unsupported clause" — both were None. That distinction is now explicit, mirroring EntersWithLeadingIfOutcome in the same module:

pub(crate) enum CastEntersWithOutcome {
    NotThisShape,        // keep dispatching
    Parsed(Box<TriggerDefinition>),
    ShapeUnsupported,    // caller MUST fail closed, never fall through
}

The shape half of the recognizer is factored into parse_cast_enters_with_prefix (everything through "enters with ") so "is this the shape?" and "does the payload parse?" are answered from one grammar rather than a duplicated predicate. Priority 5-pre now emits the honest-failure residual via the existing unsupported_at emitter on ShapeUnsupported, and only falls through on NotThisShape.

cast_enters_with_rider_emits_no_partial_ability_end_to_end asserts through parse_oracle_text: no replacement, no trigger, and — with your addition — an explicit Effect::Unimplemented residual, paired with the rider-free line as a positive control that still yields exactly one trigger and no replacement.

Also rebased onto current main

d0ea604b, 13 commits forward. Two reasons beyond hygiene: the previous head sat far enough behind that the parse receipt reported another commit's changes as mine, and #7824 ("scope bare-plural enters-with subjects") lands in exactly this area, so I wanted the stack verified against it rather than around it. It replayed cleanly and the suite is green on top of it.

Verification

Check Result
cargo fmt --all clean
scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh exit 0
clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -D warnings exit 0
cargo test -p phase-engine 19675 + 5408 + 30 passed, 0 failed

Counts moved with the rebase (19648 → 19675, 5387 → 5408) — those are #7824 and siblings' tests passing alongside this change.

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Current-head hold — CI and parser receipt still pending

Reviewed fd644b511a5b287684671c7d2e85c1699c60d6ce. The parser/source and regression-test update is not approvable yet because the current CI run still has Rust lint (fmt, clippy, parser gate) and Rust test shards 1–4 in progress. The only <!-- coverage-parse-diff --> receipt remains bound to f74df1790dbf4aba7cc596fabfe7d9c08d91d4bb, not this head.

Once CI publishes terminal results and an exact-head parse-diff receipt, maintainer review will resume for approval/enqueue. The existing bug label is retained.

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Approved at fd644b511a5b287684671c7d2e85c1699c60d6ce: the cast-enters outcome now distinguishes an unsupported recognized shape from a non-match, emits an explicit residual rather than falling through, and has paired production-path regressions. Required CI is green and the current parse-diff receipt reports no card-parse changes.

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