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fix(engine): offer the face-down cast when only the {3} is payable - #7778

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Fixes #7770. Stacked on #7771 — the first two commits are that PR; only the top commit is new here.

Defect. A morph/megamorph/disguise card whose printed cost was not payable was never OFFERED, although dispatching CastSpell directly succeeded and auto-routed to the face-down cast (#7770's board: three Islands, a {1}{G} morph creature).

Cause. castable_spell_verdict_with_probe judges a successfully prepared spell by its printed cost plus the casting-variant menu — and CastingVariant::FaceDown only enters that menu under an unlimited_hand_cast_free_source permission (Omniscience). Without one the offer said no while the reducer said yes.

Fix. The three questions the dispatch gate and the prepare-failure branch already ask (effective keyword, permitted against the blanked 2/2 profile, {3}-after-modifiers payable) are now one named predicate — face_down_cast_is_feasible — and the prepare-success branch asks it too, returning prepared_cost: None exactly like the failure branch (payment mode Auto, what the auto-route dispatches with).

Reach. The verdict is shared by can_cast_object_now (dispatch preflight, effect-granted cast prompts) and the candidate emitters — every consumer gains the same yes precisely where the reducer already accepted.

Class (card-data.json, 35,798 cards): 220 keyword carriers (141 Morph, 31 Megamorph, 48 Disguise).

Tests. 6 in tests/integration/face_down_cast_offer.rs: the Islands board is offered and dispatches face down; the Kadena empty board is offered (needs #7771's modifier-aware affordability — the stacking reason); three pins (sorcery-speed timing respected, no morphless leak, printed-affordable unchanged — green without the fix, stated as pins). Counter-proof: with the success-branch rescue removed, exactly the three discriminating tests fail. Playtested: the Islands board and the Kadena empty board both offer the cast and resolve it face down. Suites: fmt 0, clippy 0, --lib 19552, --test integration 5375, 0 failed.

Not covered.

  • The casting-variant CHOICE MENU still lists FaceDown only under an unlimited free-cast permission; election keeps flowing through AlternativeCastChoice / the auto-route, unchanged.
  • The NoCost gate in can_cast_prepared_now_with_probe still pairs keyword + affordability without the permitted question (pre-existing).
  • Feasibility adds up to two state clones per morph card in hand, only in the printed-unaffordable case.

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  • New Features

    • Improved face-down spell casting for Morph, Megamorph, and Disguise.
    • Face-down casting now reflects applicable cost reductions, increases, permissions, and alternative costs.
    • Face-down spells are offered only when their effective cost is affordable.
    • Spell filters and cast records now accurately identify face-down casts.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected displayed costs and casting offers for face-down spells.
    • Preserved face-down status when eligible spells move from exile to the stack.
    • Kept legal face-up casting options available when face-down casting is unavailable.

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CR 708.4 puts a face-down spell on the stack as a real spell, but the live
cost seam projects the spell into a `SpellCastRecord` and
`FilterProp::FaceDown` failed closed against that record — grouped with
battlefield-only predicates. "Face-down creature spells you cast cost {N}
less" therefore never matched anything.

The fact was already in the record: `cast_variant`. The ledger writes the
variant its caller announced, while the two live projections hardcoded
`CastingVariant::Normal`. `live_spell_cast_record_for` now states the one
variant the object itself evidences — `apply_face_down_entry_profile` has
blanked it (CR 708.2), which `GameObject::spell_is_cast_face_down` reads.
That predicate is phase-rs#5171's discriminator (`face_down && back_face.is_some()`,
exact against foretell/hideaway and against printed DFC back faces); it
moves to a named method so the restricted-mana payment seam and the filter
projection cannot answer the same question differently.

Playtest found a second half: the offer was judged against the printed {3}.
`effective_face_down_cast_cost` runs the same modifier passes the real cast
runs, so a reduction to {0} is castable with an empty pool, and the
`AlternativeCastChoice` menu now carries the reduced cost instead of {3}
while the payment takes {0} (the client renders that number verbatim).

Class (measured against card-data.json, 3 cards): Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer;
Dream Chisel; Obscuring Aether.

Counter-proof: with `FilterProp::FaceDown` back to `false`, three of the
seven regressions fail (`left: 0, right: 3`); with the offer-side modifier
pass removed, `kadena_lets_a_face_down_creature_be_cast_with_an_empty_pool`
fails alone. `a_face_up_creature_spell_is_not_reduced` and
`off_color_mana_pays_the_generic_face_down_cost` stay green either way —
they pin behaviour, they do not evidence this fix.

Not covered:
- A morph card whose PRINTED cost is unaffordable is still not OFFERED at
  all, so this reduction stays unreachable from the UI in that case. Own
  defect in candidate generation, filed as phase-rs#7770 with measurements.
- `zone_change_record_matches_property` still fails closed on
  `FilterProp::FaceDown`; no card measured needs a face-down predicate
  against a zone-change snapshot.
- The per-turn cast-limit filter is routed through the same authority for
  consistency; 0 cards carry `FilterProp::FaceDown` in a cast restriction,
  so that half changes no card's behaviour today.
- The offer resolves modifiers with no casting-variant context, which is
  exact for this class (the object evidences the variant) but would not see
  a variant-keyed reduction; 5 cards use one, all Flashback, none reachable
  from a face-down offer.

Fixes phase-rs#7769

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review find (matthewevans): `effective_face_down_cast_cost` projected
through `apply_cost_modifiers_to_base`, which passes no casting variant
and no permission index to `apply_all_cost_modifiers`, while the real
face-down prepare passes `Some(CastingVariant::FaceDown)` and its
elected permission. The projections could price different casts: with
no variant the permission election infers Foretell first for a foretold
exile card, while the explicit face-down cast routes through
`PlayFromExile` — and only that grant carries `cast_cost_raise`; a
`StaticCondition::CastingAsVariant` modifier was likewise invisible to
the projection.

`apply_cost_modifiers_to_base` keeps its signature (25 projection call
sites stay variant-less by design) and delegates to a new
`apply_cost_modifiers_to_base_for_variant`; the face-down projection
now elects its permission via `selected_object_cast_permission_index`
with the explicit `FaceDown` variant — the same authority the real
prepare uses — and threads both through.

The requested exile regression exposed a second defect on the same
path: the exile-exit cleanup cleared `face_down` unconditionally
(correct for the foretold/hideaway exile designation), stripping a
spell CAST face down of its status on the way to the stack (CR 708.4) —
which would in turn hide it from the face-down spell filter this PR
fixes. The cleanup now keeps the flag exactly for the casting move
(`to == Zone::Stack && spell_is_cast_face_down()`).

Tests (both discriminating):
- the_face_down_offer_from_exile_prices_the_play_from_exile_raise: the
  menu must show {3}+{2}={5} and charge exactly that; the variant-less
  projection shows {3}.
- an_unpayable_exile_raise_withholds_the_face_down_offer: with 3 mana
  the {5} face-down cast is withheld and the legal face-up Foretell
  cast proceeds; the variant-less projection auto-routes and the cast
  dies in payment.

Counter-proofs (abort-guarded probes, run separately): threading
removed → exactly the two new tests fail, the seven prior stay green;
exile-exit guard removed → exactly the pricing test fails.

Class: no printed card carries a face-down-keyed `CastingAsVariant`
modifier (5 cards use the condition, all Flashback); the
raise/permission divergence is reachable through any `PlayFromExile`
grant with `cast_cost_raise` (Lightstall Inquisitor) alongside a
competing exile permission.

Not covered: the other per-keyword offer projections (dash, blitz,
spectacle, prowl, overload, cleave, mutate, awaken, impending,
prototype, warp, emerge) still project variant-less through the
unchanged wrapper — same latent divergence class, pre-existing there.

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A morph/megamorph/disguise card whose printed cost was not payable was
never OFFERED, although dispatching `CastSpell` directly succeeded and
auto-routed to the face-down cast (issue phase-rs#7770: three Islands could not
cast a green morph creature from the UI).

The offer gate (`castable_spell_verdict_with_probe`) judged a
successfully prepared spell by its printed cost plus the casting-variant
menu, and `CastingVariant::FaceDown` only enters that menu under an
`unlimited_hand_cast_free_source` permission (Omniscience). Without one
the offer said no while the reducer said yes.

The prepare-FAILURE branch and the dispatch gate already asked the right
three questions (effective keyword, permitted against the blanked 2/2
profile, {3} payable after cost modification). They are now one named
predicate — `face_down_cast_is_feasible` — and the prepare-success
branch asks it too, returning `prepared_cost: None` exactly like the
failure branch (payment mode Auto, the mode the auto-route dispatches
with).

Reach: the verdict is shared by `can_cast_object_now` (dispatch
preflight, effect-granted cast prompts) and the candidate emitters, so
every consumer gains the same yes precisely where the reducer already
accepted.

Class (measured against card-data.json, 35,798 cards): 220 carry the
keyword (141 Morph, 31 Megamorph, 48 Disguise).

Counter-proof: with the success-branch rescue removed, the three
discriminating tests fail (offer absent); the three pins stay green.
Playtested: the three-Islands board and the Kadena empty-board case both
offer the cast and resolve it face down.

Not covered:
- The casting-variant CHOICE MENU still lists FaceDown only under an
  unlimited free-cast permission; election without one keeps flowing
  through `AlternativeCastChoice` / the auto-route, unchanged.
- The NoCost gate in `can_cast_prepared_now_with_probe` still pairs
  keyword + affordability without the `permitted` question
  (pre-existing).
- Feasibility adds up to two state clones per morph card in hand, only
  in the printed-unaffordable case.

Fixes phase-rs#7770

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Face-down casting now uses authoritative cast-state detection and variant-aware cost projections. Offer generation, castability, filtering, exile transitions, and integration tests reflect modified face-down costs and casting permissions.

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Face-down casting flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Live face-down cast state and records
crates/engine/src/game/game_object.rs, crates/engine/src/game/restrictions.rs, crates/engine/src/game/filter.rs, crates/engine/src/game/zones.rs, crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs
Live objects identify face-down casts through spell_is_cast_face_down(). Records and filters use the casting variant. Exile cleanup preserves qualifying state.
Variant-aware cost and castability
crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs
Cost projections accept casting variants and permissions. Face-down affordability, offer pricing, feasibility, and fallback castability use the modified effective cost.
Face-down offer and dispatch coverage
crates/engine/tests/integration/face_down_cast_offer.rs
Tests cover Morph, Megamorph, and Disguise offers, dispatch, timing, eligibility, reductions, and printed-cost behavior.
Effective cost and filter integration coverage
crates/engine/tests/integration/face_down_spell_cost_filter.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs
Tests cover reductions, alternative-cost display, generic payment, face-up exclusion, exile permissions, and integration-module registration.

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The PR broadens face-down cast offers to match successful dispatch behavior for eligible morph, megamorph, and disguise cards; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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  participant Castability
  participant face_down_cast_is_feasible
  participant apply_cost_modifiers_to_base_for_variant
  participant ManaPayment
  Castability->>face_down_cast_is_feasible: evaluate permission and affordability
  face_down_cast_is_feasible->>apply_cost_modifiers_to_base_for_variant: project FaceDown cost
  apply_cost_modifiers_to_base_for_variant->>ManaPayment: return modified effective cost
  ManaPayment->>Castability: report face-down castability
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Current-head implementation review is clean for 817540e273c8da4674da4e4150b70f3b922d3549.

The face-down offer now threads the committed FaceDown variant and elected permission through cost projection (crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:7547-7610, 10396-10454), and the shared feasibility gate keeps legal-actions and dispatch aligned (:10491-10504, 14155-14190). Current integration coverage exercises Kadena/Dream Chisel, first-only and empty-pool behavior, displayed cost, and competing Foretell/PlayFromExile authority (crates/engine/tests/integration/face_down_spell_cost_filter.rs, face_down_cast_offer.rs).

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Parse-diff receipt: both entries are main's own movement, not this PR's.

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parser files in this PR's diff 0 (engine casting.rs/zones.rs + tests only)
branch base 0bc7d7e0c; receipt baseline: main 5037022bb
parser lines changed on main between those ~1,983 insertions / 29 deletions across 5 files, incl. #7491 ("make the CR 603.4 hoist binding classifiers fail closed" — exactly the shape that removes a ChangesZone trigger and a Fear keyword signature)

I'll merge current main into the branch together with the Megamorph/Disguise coverage CodeRabbit asked for (accepted — the offer tests exercise only Keyword::Morph today, and object_has_effective_face_down_keyword spans all three kinds); the receipt should then regenerate empty.

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Required: cover every supported face-down keyword sibling

At 817540e273c8da4674da4e4150b70f3b922d3549, object_has_effective_face_down_keyword covers Morph, Megamorph, and Disguise (crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:10347-10358), but the new offer/cost regressions construct only Keyword::Morph (crates/engine/tests/integration/face_down_spell_cost_filter.rs and face_down_cast_offer.rs). Add discriminating Megamorph and Disguise coverage through the real offer/cast path so the three-keyword class cannot silently diverge.

The current parse receipt's removed signatures are acknowledged as main-baseline movement: this PR changes no parser files. That artifact does not itself allege a PR parser regression; the test sibling gap above is the required change.

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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.

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Accepted — sibling coverage landed in 5621e8f3a.

Four discriminating tests through the real offer/cast path, one per keyword sibling per seam:

seam Megamorph Disguise
offer (face_down_cast_offer.rs) offered vs. 3 Islands, dispatches face down offered vs. 3 Islands, dispatches face down
cost (face_down_spell_cost_filter.rs) Kadena reduces the face-down cast to {0} (3 of 3 mana unspent) Dream Chisel takes {1} off (1 of 3 unspent)

Each asserts the spell reaches the stack face down and measures the mana actually paid, so a scan narrowed to Morph fails all four.

The head also carries a merge of current main (5037022bb), so the parse receipt regenerates against the true baseline — the two previously "removed" signatures were main's own #7491 movement; this branch touches no parser file.

Suites on the merged head: fmt 0, clippy 0, --lib 19606, --test integration 5381+ (full pre-push chain green).

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CI: shard 2/4 hit the 20m job time limit — no test failed. The job's own annotations: The job has exceeded the maximum execution time of 20m0s with a cold cache (0% - 0 hits, 0 misses). The prior green run's shard 2 took 17m5s with a warm cache, so a cold-cache compile pushes it over the budget. Needs a maintainer rerun; I can't dispatch one from a fork.

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Current-head implementation review is clean for 5621e8f3a9b93ac1eaaa573a6d70b377634376cf.

The prior requested sibling coverage is now discriminating on both seams: Megamorph and Disguise are offered with only the generic {3} payable and reach the stack face down (crates/engine/tests/integration/face_down_cast_offer.rs:219-283); their reduced face-down costs are also charged through the real cast path (face_down_spell_cost_filter.rs:422-484). That exercises the shared Morph/Megamorph/Disguise keyword authority rather than merely duplicating Morph coverage. The current SHA-bound parse receipt reports “No card-parse changes detected,” and the current CodeRabbit pass has no actionable finding.

Holding only for required CI: Rust tests shard 2/4 was cancelled on its 20-minute job limit, making the aggregate required Rust check fail. No test failure or code change is alleged by this hold. Please rerun the required Rust shard/check for this head; on green evidence this is ready for approval and queueing.

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Reopen only to re-trigger the required CI run for the unchanged head 5621e8f3 — the fork side cannot dispatch reruns on base-repo workflows. No code change.

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Resolve the maintainer-caused integration-test conflict while preserving the stacked face-down cost-reduction behavior and the Morph/Megamorph/Disguise runtime coverage.

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Maintainer ported this PR across current main at cfdd69a1fdeec28af286aaf02b60165e53bf5fe9 because its prior merge base (5037022bb) predates merged #7771 and later face-down work in the same casting/test seams. The only textual conflict was the add/add face_down_spell_cost_filter.rs; the resolution preserves main’s stacked #7771 cost-reduction behavior and this PR’s discriminating Megamorph/Disguise runtime cases.

The port is clean on hand review: the shared face_down_cast_is_feasible authority still gates keyword, blanked-profile permission, and modified {3} affordability (crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:10673-10682, 14330-14335, 14359-14364); the real-pipeline sibling tests remain registered in crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs and cover Morph, Megamorph, and Disguise. This is a current-head hold only: fresh required CI and a new SHA-bound <!-- coverage-parse-diff --> receipt must settle before the implementation is reviewed again or approved/enqueued. No contributor code change is requested.

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CI is green on the current maintainer-port head cfdd69a1: 13 pass, 0 fail (2 skipped as usual). The previously cancelled Rust shard 2/4 completed within budget this run.

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Approved on cfdd69a1fdeec28af286aaf02b60165e53bf5fe9.

The maintainer port preserves the offer/reducer parity at crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:10673 and the current registered runtime coverage for Morph, Megamorph, and Disguise. The SHA-bound parse receipt reports no card-parse changes and required checks are green.

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…cost grants (phase-rs#7948)

* fix(engine): deny the face-down cast zone authority from alt-cost grants

Fixes phase-rs#7945. CR 118.9a (only one alternative cost per cast) + CR 601.2b
(never two alternative methods/costs on one spell): a "without paying its
mana cost" exile grant is itself the alternative cost being applied, so it
cannot admit the {3} face-down (morph/disguise) cast — which auto-routed
and charged {3} whenever the printed cost looked unaffordable (phase-rs#7778's
auto-route, correct from hand, wrong under an alt-cost grant).

Three gates, one per admission path of the `FaceDown` variant:
- `has_exile_cast_permission` is variant-aware: the alternative-cost arms
  (`ExileWithAltCost`, `ExileWithAltAbilityCost`, `ExileWithEnergyCost`,
  `Plotted`, `Foretold`) lend it no authority, and the head `PlayFromExile`
  check skips the land/look companion that `cast_from_zone.rs` installs
  alongside an alt-cost "play" grant.
- `castable_zone`: the unowned-exile alt-cost branch, the
  during-resolution free-cast window, and the graveyard alt-cost/keyword
  branches are FaceDown-gated.
Normal-cost authorities (hand, command zone, impulse `PlayFromExile`,
Adventure, Warp, Lurrus-class graveyard permissions, top-of-library,
battlefield exile-cast statics) are untouched.

Known gaps: Bestow/Evoke/Prototype can still take zone authority from an
alt-cost exile grant (same CR 601.2b class, separate follow-up); an
independent impulse `PlayFromExile` coexisting with a free grant also
loses its face-down offer (no source link distinguishes the companion).

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

* fix(engine): elect face-down authority by provenance, not presence

Review rework for phase-rs#7948, both blockers:

- Typed provenance: `PlayFromExile.land_look_companion` marks the
  land-play/look companion that `cast_from_zone` installs alongside an
  alternative-cost grant. Cast elections and the face-down authority skip
  companions, so an independent impulse grant coexisting with an unrelated
  free grant keeps its legal face-down cast — the previous presence
  heuristic suppressed it (CR 118.9a: the impulse route is a normal-cost
  route; disguise supplies the single alternative cost).
- A free `StaticMode::ExileCastPermission` (`WithoutPayingManaCost`,
  Maralen-class) no longer lends the face-down cast zone authority; a
  `PayNormalCost` static (The Matrix of Time class) keeps doing so
  (CR 118.9a + CR 601.2b).

Serde: the marker is default-off and skipped when false — the wire form of
every pre-existing grant is unchanged; pinned by a round-trip test.

Not independently observable today: the companion filter inside
`selected_object_cast_permission_index` (companions carry no cost riders);
it keeps the elected provenance consistent with the authority gate. The
coexistence case is pinned at the prepare admission gate
(`face_down_cast_is_permitted`), not through the full payment loop.

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

* refactor(engine): type the PlayFromExile provenance as an enum

Review follow-up for phase-rs#7948: replace the raw `land_look_companion: bool`
with `PlayFromExileProvenance { Impulse, LandLookCompanion }` — the
project's typed-enum rule for case distinctions, self-documenting and
open for further provenance without another boolean.

No bool-compat shim: the bool form never shipped (it existed only on the
previous head of this branch); pre-marker grants deserialize to the
`Impulse` default, and the default stays off the wire (round-trip test
updated).

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

* docs(engine): annotate why the search-found play grant is Impulse provenance

Review follow-up for phase-rs#7948: the search-found replacement grants a plain
"you may play it" permission at normal costs (the any-color concession
changes only how they are paid, CR 609.4b) — no alternative cost, so the
grant is full cast authority (`Impulse`), preserving the
one-alternative-cost invariant (CR 118.9a) at cast election.

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

* fix(engine): search for an eligible normal-cost static, not the first source

Review round-2 blocker on phase-rs#7948: the face-down admission filtered the
RESULT of `exile_cast_permission_source`'s first-match scan, so an
eligible free source ordered before an eligible `PayNormalCost` source
hid the valid normal-cost authority and denied a legal face-down cast
(CR 118.9a: the {3} face-down route is the sole alternative there).

`exile_cast_permission_source_matching` applies a cost predicate INSIDE
the scan, behind the same source gates (frequency slot, your-turn timing,
pool membership, affected filter); the public first-match scan delegates
with an always-true predicate. The face-down admission now searches for a
`PayNormalCost` source.

Regression `a_free_static_ordered_first_does_not_hide_a_normal_cost_static`
(both statics active, free source ordered first, pinned down to
`face_down_cast_is_permitted`); counter-probe (old filtered first-match
restored) fails exactly that test — which also proves the free source
really is scanned first in the fixture.

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

* fix(engine): let a normal-cost CastFromZone grant authorize disguise

Round-3 blocker on phase-rs#7948: a "you may play/cast that card" grant with
ordinary payment (Nashi-class) is encoded as `ExileWithAltCost`, so the
face-down gates treated it as an alternative-cost grant and a legal
disguise cast through it was unreachable (CR 702.168a/b: disguise
functions in any zone from which you could play the card).

`ExileGrantCostProvenance { Alternative, NormalCost }` now types what the
grant's cost IS: `NormalCost` marks the card's own printed cost restated
(cast_from_zone `without_paying: false`, the SelfManaCost re-home, the
prepared back face, resolution FullCost); everything else stays
`Alternative` (the serde default — every pre-provenance grant reads as
the CR-safe conservative form, pinned by a both-forms serde test). The
face-down admission (permission arm + unowned/graveyard zone branches)
accepts `NormalCost` grants as normal-cost routes; the face-down cast
still never ELECTS an `ExileWithAltCost` slot, since cost preparation
would substitute the grant's restated cost for the {3} — named limit: a
`single_use` normal-cost grant is not consumed by a face-down cast.

GameAction regressions (both through `GameRunner::cast`, printed {5}
unaffordable, {3} floating): `a_normal_cost_cast_grant_lets_disguise_
cast_face_down` (CardPlayMode::Cast shape) and `a_normal_cost_play_
grant_with_companion_lets_disguise_cast_face_down` (Play shape with the
land/look companion present). Counter-probe (provenance exception
removed) fails exactly those two; the Dauthi regression stays green.

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

* test(engine): resolve the fixture's mana pool by player id, not index 0

Review follow-up for phase-rs#7948: `exiled_disguiser_with_three_floating` takes
`player` but wrote the floating {3} to `state.players[0]` — a future
caller passing another player would fail for a reason unrelated to the
behavior under test.

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

* fix(engine): exclude alternative-rider statics from face-down authority

Round-4 blocker on phase-rs#7948: a `PayNormalCost` static carrying a
`CastCostMode::Alternative` extra-cost rider (Valgavoth, Terror Eater —
pay life equal to mana value RATHER than paying the mana cost) is an
alternative-cost authority; admitting it by base cost mode alone let it
authorize the face-down alternative (CR 118.9a).

`exile_cast_permission_source_matching` now hands its predicate the whole
source, and the face-down predicate requires `PayNormalCost` AND no
`Alternative` rider; an `Additional` rider (Dawnhand class) preserves
ordinary payment and stays legal.

GameAction regressions: `an_alternative_rider_static_cannot_authorize_
disguise` (admission denied; the cast still resolves through the static's
own route — face up, pool untouched, life 5 paid) and
`an_additional_rider_static_still_authorizes_disguise` (face down, {3}
charged). Counter-probe (rider exclusion removed) fails exactly the
Valgavoth test while the Additional test stays green.

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

* fix(engine): one face-down static authority for admission, election, and cost

Round-5 blocker on phase-rs#7948: admission searched for an eligible normal-cost
static, but the rider/cost reads fell back to the ordinary first-match
scan (`elected_exile_permission_source`), so an earlier Valgavoth-class
alternative-rider source could zero the face-down {3} and charge its
pay-life rider while a later eligible source had granted admission.

`static_source_eligible_for_face_down` is now THE shared predicate
(`PayNormalCost`, no `CastCostMode::Alternative` rider): the admission
uses it, and `elected_exile_permission_source` reselects with it for the
`FaceDown` variant — every rider/cost read flows through that one
function, so the admitted and the paying authority can never diverge.

The face-down cast is also a first-class exile CANDIDATE now (parity
gates with the hand branch): a payable exile-permission variant no longer
short-circuits the cast as the single candidate, so the legal face-down
election is surfaced beside it. The existing raise-pricing regression
moved to the new `CastingVariantChoice` surface, which shows the same
{3}+{2}={5} on its FaceDown option.

Mixed-order GameAction regression
`an_earlier_alternative_rider_source_never_pays_for_the_face_down_cast`:
Valgavoth source created first, eligible source after it — electing
FaceDown charges exactly the {3}, life untouched. Counter-probe (election
back to first-match) fails exactly that test.

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: matthewevans <matthewevans@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: cuinhellcat <cuinhellcat@users.noreply.github.com>
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Engine: a morph/disguise card is not offered when only its {3} face-down cast is affordable

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