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Summary

A leading duration ("Until end of turn, X and Y") was stamped onto only the first
parsed clause and discarded for the rest, so trailing ", and" conjuncts and
arbitrary trailing text silently lost the window that governs them. This
distributes the stated duration across every conjunct it governs, at the two seams
that peel a leading duration, and makes the unset-vs-printed distinction
unambiguous at the carriers those seams consult.

Files changed

  • crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs — D2 seam: leading-duration peel now routes through the chain-distributing authority; third stamp site documented as deliberately ungated
  • crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/sequence.rssevered_prefix_end + the three recovery guards
  • crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/imperative.rs — emit the parsed duration verbatim so None is a true unset sentinel
  • crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rsapply_duration_to_effect extracted from with_clause_duration; duration_governs completed; guarded GainActivatedAbilitiesOfTarget arm
  • crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/effect_chain.rsClauseDraft::push distributes the governing window; textual printed-window gate
  • crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_trigger.rs — D1 trigger-side leading-duration path
  • crates/engine/tests/integration/leading_duration_distribution_7923.rs — new test file (the U1/U2 matrix)
  • crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs — register the new test module
  • crates/engine/tests/integration/memory_vessel_std_s25.rs — update for the SubAbilityLink change

Track

Developer

LLM

Model: claude-opus-5
Tier: Frontier
Thinking: high

Implementation method (required)

Method: /engine-implementer

CR references

  • CR 611.2a — a continuous effect lasts as long as stated by the spell or ability creating it; the rule the whole change implements
  • CR 608.2c — read the whole text; why a severed conjunct's own printed window outranks the sentence's prefix, and why a head-printed prefix governs its own sentence body
  • CR 613.1d / CR 613.4b — comma-list continuous modifiers (existing annotations touched in sequence.rs)
  • CR 700.2 / CR 700.2c — modes are not walked by the chain distribution
  • CR 602.1 — activated-ability grant scope (touched in the GainActivatedAbilitiesOfTarget path)

Every number above was grep-verified against docs/MagicCompRules.txt.

Verification

  • Required checks ran clean, or the exact CI-owned alternative is stated below.

  • Gate A output below is for the current committed head.

  • Final review-impl below is clean for the current committed head.

  • Both anchors cite existing analogous code at the same seam.

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check — PASS

  • cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings — exit 0

  • cargo test -p phase-engine — exit 0; 19708 + 21 + 9 + 5512 = 25,250 passed, 0 failed, 8 ignored. Doc-tests: 0 passed; 0 failed; 7 ignored (they ran; all 7 are #[ignore]d, so none executed — not "7 doctests passed")

  • ./scripts/check-parser-combinators.sh — Gate G PASS, Gate A PASS

  • Parse impact — computed locally with the same pipeline CI's <!-- coverage-parse-diff --> comment uses: ./scripts/engine-source-hash.sh (BASE d6f7e278d73a2874 / HEAD ec589d91f3d03512), the published BASE baseline coverage-data-d6f7e278d73a2874.json, then coverage-parse-diff over the pair

Gate A

Gate A PASS head=d1ceb70572d34b50ecdb0c0ed1c230b62eef4230 base=39a12c5f9eb638bc1e76a9f4731f65fc93c58025

Important

This Gate A line is HISTORICAL. It was run at d1ceb705, which is no longer
the branch head. Three commits have landed since: the maintainer's main-port
(4609cb8), the maintainer's cast-pipeline test fix (3efec52), and the
PlayFromExile provenance fix (a2edd27). Gate A has NOT been re-run at
a2edd27e. Hosted CI is green on that head; the parser gate is not part of it.

Anchored on

  • crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs:1934with_clause_duration, the pre-existing single authority for writing a stated duration onto both the clause carrier and the effect's embedded duration field. This PR does not re-implement that write: it extracts apply_duration_to_effect out of it and has the new with_clause_chain_duration call the same authority per node, so the clause path and the chain path cannot drift.
  • crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs:7726 — the trailing-duration peel's clause.duration.is_none() || matches!(.., Some(Permanent)) gate: the repo's existing "a stripped window applies only where the body stated none" precedence idiom. ClauseDraft::push's gate is the leading-duration mirror of exactly this rule, and the GainActivatedAbilitiesOfTarget guard is the same rule one level down on the embedded field.

Final review-impl

Warning

Superseded — do not read the line below as covering the current head.

Final review-impl PASS head=d1ceb70572d34b50ecdb0c0ed1c230b62eef4230

Pipeline-reviewed head: d1ceb70572d34b50ecdb0c0ed1c230b62eef4230
Current branch head:    a2edd27e3641b42d17fc3b823601165c447b14c3
Pipeline status:        historical — three commits landed after acceptance
                        (maintainer main-port 4609cb8; maintainer test fix 3efec52;
                        PlayFromExile provenance fix a2edd27)
Current-head review:    none

The seven-round pipeline result stands for d1ceb705 and is not being restated for
a2edd27e. Of the three later commits, two are the maintainer's own and one is a
one-line #[cfg(test)] fixture fix for the merge-queue conflict with #7948; all
four required checks were re-run locally at a2edd27e and hosted CI is green
there, but that is check evidence, not a review.

Review history: 7 rounds, finding counts 6 → 4 → 3 → 4 → 1 → 1 → 0.
Every finding was fixed or explicitly deferred with a stated reason; none was
silently dropped. Rounds 5-7 found no defect in shipped code — each concerned
the accuracy of a comment describing deferred work, and the disclosure below is
the settled result of that iteration.

The final round independently re-ran all four completion checks against this
committed head and separately verified: byte-offset arithmetic in
expand_leading_duration_chunks is bounds- and char-boundary-safe (fail-closed in
both debug and release); ClauseChunk::leading_duration is threaded at all three
construction sites; every non-parser reader of
GainActivatedAbilitiesOfTarget.duration (ability_scan.rs:942,
ability_rw.rs:3029) handles Option explicitly; probe parses clone ctx, so
severed_prefix_end cannot leak anaphor state; and all eight CR citations resolve
by line in docs/MagicCompRules.txt and describe the annotated code.

Claimed parse impact

8 cards.

Added (2)

  • Revenge of the Hunted — MustBeBlockedByAll (affects=parent target, duration=until end of turn, target=parent target)
  • Opportunistic Dragon — remove all abilities (affects=parent target, duration=while on battlefield, target=parent target)

Modified (6)

  • Dovin, Hand of Control — PreventDamage.duration ∅ → until next turn (you)
  • Kiora, the Crashing Wave — PreventDamage.duration ∅ → until next turn (you)
  • Abeyance — AddRestriction.duration ∅ → until end of turn
  • Xanathar, Guild Kingpin — CastFromZone.duration ∅ → until end of turn; SpendManaAsAnyColor.duration ∅ → until end of turn
  • Navigator's Compass — add chosen subtype duration permanentuntil end of turn
  • Mondo Gecko — set chosen color, grant HexproofFrom duration permanentuntil end of turn

All eight are corrections consistent with printed Oracle text, verified per card,
and all eight are named in this PR's own tests. No unexplained blast radius.

Scope Expansion

Two changes reach beyond the seam named in the issue. Both are stated rather than
folded in silently:

  1. oracle_effect/imperative.rstry_parse_gain_all_activated_abilities_of_target
    now emits the parsed duration verbatim instead of injecting
    Some(Duration::UntilEndOfTurn). Required for correctness of this PR's own
    guard: the injected default is byte-identical to a printed window, so the
    guard could not distinguish them and silently dropped a governing outer
    duration. Measured corpus-neutral — all three cards reaching that site
    (Quicksilver Elemental, Havengul Lich, Grell Philosopher) print a trailing
    window, so the .or was already a no-op.
  2. oracle_trigger.rs — the D1 trigger-side leading-duration path, part of the
    same defect class as D2 and named in the issue's own reproduction.

Validation Failures

None.

Known limitation (not a regression)

Four corpus cards remain wrong in a related-but-distinct way, measured at this
head. All four are byte-identical at BASE, so this PR neither causes nor
worsens them, and none reaches the severed-conjunct seam this PR adds
(starts_clause_text_or_conjugated excludes "its"/"their", so those sentences
never split). They are disclosed here because this PR's U1 section would
otherwise read as claiming them:

  • Dovin Baan, Edifice of Authority, Mythos of Vadrok — the
    "and its/their activated abilities can't be activated" link is injected
    UntilEndOfTurn by oracle_effect/subject.rs's prohibition recognizer, so the
    link's carrier is indistinguishable from a printed window and
    with_clause_chain_duration's sub-link walk declines. Head is
    UntilNextTurnOf{Controller}; the prohibition ends a full turn early.
  • Teferi's Protection — different recognizer and a different cause: carrier
    def.duration: None with the injected UntilEndOfTurn on the embedded
    GenericEffect.duration. Protection from everything expires a turn early.
    Note a None carrier passes the sub-link walk's gate (Abeyance and Kiora
    both have None carriers and both are stamped), so the gate is not what fails
    here — the head window never reaches this link. The precise mechanism is not
    diagnosed in this PR
    ; only the parse state and symptom above are measured.

Scoping note, both halves load-bearing for whoever sizes this:

  1. The verbatim-emit remedy this PR applied to
    try_parse_gain_all_activated_abilities_of_target closes shape 1 only.
  2. Applying that remedy across the injected-default class (exactly 16 .or(Some(Duration::UntilEndOfTurn)) / unwrap_or(...) sites —
    7 in subject.rs, 5 in imperative.rs, 4 in oracle_effect/mod.rs) is not sufficient
    for shape 2: leaving the embedded field None just moves the default
    downstream, where game/effects/effect.rs resolves
    ability.duration.or(duration).unwrap_or(UntilEndOfTurn) to end-of-turn
    anyway. Shape 2 needs the printed head window to actually reach the link.

game/effects/effect.rs:56-58 already tracks this as tasks #138/#144.

The three prohibition cards additionally never reach the severed-conjunct seam
this PR adds (starts_clause_text_or_conjugated excludes "its" explicitly and
"their" via its ends_with('s') pre-filter). That reasoning does not extend
to Teferi's Protection: tag("you ") is a clause-start token, so its sentence
does split.

Follow-ups (filed)

CI Failures

None known at time of opening — CI is running for the first time on this push.
All four required checks were run locally against the exact committed head
(d1ceb705) and passed; see Verification above. If CI surfaces a failure this
section will be updated rather than left stale.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed leading durations such as “until” and “for as long as” so they apply consistently across governed effects and conjuncts.
    • Preserved unset durations so applicable outer duration rules resolve correctly.
    • Improved parsing of phase-triggered abilities and turn-owner conditions.
    • Corrected continuation handling in complex effect chains.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for duration propagation, effect expiry, optional continuations, target binding, and parsed ability behavior.

zach-s2 and others added 7 commits August 26, 2026 11:53
…overns

A leading duration phrase ("Until end of turn, ...") governs the whole
instruction it prefixes (CR 611.2a, CR 608.2c), but two seams dropped it.

D1: a stated duration never reached the sub_ability chain a clause's own
recognizer built, so Xanathar, Guild Kingpin emitted a CastFromZone play
permission with no duration at all, and Abeyance's second prohibition was
unbounded.

D2: conjuncts after the first were never chunked, so they never existed.
Opportunistic Dragon lost both riders; the printed text says the stolen
permanent loses its abilities and can't attack or block, and neither
happened.

A leading CONDITIONAL is re-chunked by the chunk-loop splitter; a leading
DURATION had no such splitter and fell through to a single-clause parse
that discarded the remainder. The fix adds that missing splitter at the
same layer, behind three guards, each measured to fire:

  * a recovered conjunct that is a bare conjugated continuation is not
    re-parented (CR 608.2c) -- without it Aurelia herself gains trample
    when the TARGET is red;
  * a head ending in a dangling delayed-trigger head is not a conjunct
    boundary (CR 603.1, CR 603.7) -- without it Giant Oyster emits a
    one-shot counter the card never authorizes;
  * a recovered conjunct the parser did not understand is not recovered
    -- the same rule severed_prefix_end already applies to the whole body.

duration_governs was also completed from the enumeration command rather
than by eye, which surfaced a seventh duration-bearing variant
(PreventDamage). Its membership alone repairs Dovin, Hand of Control and
Kiora, the Crashing Wave, whose "dealt to and dealt by" prevention lost
its printed window on the second half.

Deletes two now-subsumed special cases: the Memory Vessel one-off, and
leading_host_lifetime_split (measured dead, zero hits across 35,798 cards).

Measured: 10 cards change, zero key-set drift, ZERO coverage flips
(31816 -> 31816). Deterministic across runs; 25,248 tests green.

Closes phase-rs#7923

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… sites

Review round 1 on the leading-duration distribution candidate. Three defects,
two of which share one root cause: an unconditional duration write where the
codebase's established gate is `is_none() || Some(Permanent)`.

* `apply_duration_to_effect`'s `GainActivatedAbilitiesOfTarget` arm (new in this
  PR) wrote unconditionally. Two parser sites construct that variant and they
  differ: `imperative.rs`'s Symbiote Spider-Man arm sets `Some(Permanent)` to
  MEAN "no duration stated" (CR 611.2a), which an outer duration must replace,
  but the "gain all activated abilities of" arm sets
  `duration.or(Some(UntilEndOfTurn))` — a genuinely printed window an outer
  duration must NOT clobber. Now a match guard on the unset sentinels.
  The sibling arms (GenericEffect/CastFromZone/BecomeCopy) are moved code
  preserving BASE behavior and are deliberately left alone.

* `ClauseDraft::push` stamped the sentence's leading duration onto a recovered
  conjunct unconditionally. A recovered conjunct is arbitrary printed text and
  may state its own window. Gated exactly as the trailing-duration peel in
  `oracle_effect/mod.rs` gates its own `with_clause_duration` call.

Both are latent: no corpus card today pairs a leading-duration sentence with a
differing inner duration. Each ships with a directly-constructed two-sided unit
test (printed window survives + positive reach guard that the stamp still fires).

* `leading_duration_merge_cards_unchanged` claimed in its doc that every row
  asserted a positive shape, but the loop asserted only `!links.is_empty()` plus
  an Unimplemented count — five of eight rows would have passed unchanged through
  the over-splitting regression they exist to catch. Each row now carries an exact
  chain-link count and an exact ContinuousModification count, both measured, not
  assumed. The doc is corrected to describe what the loop actually does.

Verified: fmt --check PASS; clippy -D warnings exit 0; cargo test -p phase-engine
exit 0 (25,249 passed, 0 failed, doctests included).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review round 2. The round-1 guard on `apply_duration_to_effect`'s
`GainActivatedAbilitiesOfTarget` arm recognized two unset sentinels (`None`,
`Some(Permanent)`), but the site-1 constructor emitted a THIRD:
`duration.or(Some(Duration::UntilEndOfTurn))` injected a default byte-identical
to a PRINTED "until end of turn", which the guard cannot distinguish. It
therefore declined to distribute a governing outer duration onto that node, and
"Until your next turn, target creature gains all activated abilities of X"
granted until end of turn — a full turn early.

Fixed at the source rather than by widening the guard: the site now emits the
parsed `Option<Duration>` verbatim, so `None` is a true unset sentinel. The
default is supplied downstream, where it already was —
`gain_activated_abilities.rs` resolves
`duration.or(ability.duration).unwrap_or(UntilEndOfTurn)`.

Measured corpus-neutral: all three cards reaching that site (Quicksilver
Elemental, Havengul Lich, Grell Philosopher) print a trailing window, so the
`.or` was already a no-op. The guarded variant has exactly two parser
construction sites; the other sets `Some(Permanent)`, which the guard correctly
treats as unset. The three sibling `.or(Some(UntilEndOfTurn))` sites in this file
belong to `try_parse_gain_quoted_ability`, `coalesce_pump_with_modifications` and
`try_parse_gain_keyword` and construct other variants, none of which has a
guarded arm.

Also from round 2:

* `ClauseDraft::push` skipped the chain walk entirely when the conjunct carried
  its own window, leaving its governed sub-links unstamped. It now distributes
  the conjunct's OWN window down them.

* Two doc blocks stating "this function's arms overwrite UNCONDITIONALLY" — the
  stated reason `PreventDamage` gets no arm — were falsified by round 1's guard.
  Both now say arms overwrite unconditionally UNLESS they carry an unset-sentinel
  guard, and restate the `PreventDamage` exclusion on its real basis: it has no
  distinguishable sentinel to guard on.

* The third leading-duration stamp site (`oracle_effect/mod.rs`) is deliberately
  ungated; it now says so and why. CR 608.2c: a duration printed at the head of a
  sentence governs that sentence's body, whereas a severed conjunct is
  separately-printed text whose own window outranks the prefix. (The round-1
  commit message's "at both stamp sites" undercounted: there are three.)

Both behavioural changes are revert-proven, not merely green:
  imperative.rs   revert -> UntilEndOfTurn vs UntilNextTurnOf{Controller}
  push sub-links  revert -> None vs Some(UntilEndOfCombat)

Verified: fmt --check PASS; clippy -D warnings exit 0; cargo test -p phase-engine
exit 0 (25,250 passed, 0 failed, doctests included).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…arrier

Review round 3. Round 2 removed the ambiguous duration sentinel from the
`Effect`-embedded field, but `ClauseDraft::push`'s guard reads a DIFFERENT
carrier — `ParsedEffectClause.duration` — and that field has its own injector
population: `oracle_effect/subject.rs` writes
`duration.or(Some(Duration::UntilEndOfTurn))` into it at seven sites. The guard
was therefore defeated by the same class of default it was strengthened to
resist, one level up.

The carrier is provably ambiguous, not merely theoretically so: subject.rs's
tapped-bound prohibition recognizer emits a genuinely PRINTED
`ForAsLongAs{SourceIsTapped}` (Braided Net) or an injected `UntilEndOfTurn`
(Dovin Baan, Xathrid Gorgon) from the same code path, distinguished only by a
suffix. No inspection of the parsed value can tell those apart.

Whether a conjunct printed its own window is a TEXTUAL fact, so `push` now asks
the text — `strip_trailing_duration(&self.source_text)` — instead of the parsed
value. Chosen over applying the verbatim-emit remedy to the seven clause-level
injectors, which would have touched many effect classes and required corpus-wide
re-measurement well outside this PR.

The existing unit test had to change, and the reason is itself the finding: its
fixture used "a"/"b" as source text, which prints no duration, so under a textual
gate it took the unprinted branch and never exercised the preserve case at all —
textbook fixture path-divergence. It now uses production-shaped text and adds a
third row that is the actual discriminating case: a conjunct that prints NOTHING
while carrying an injected `Some(UntilEndOfTurn)`. The leading window is
deliberately `UntilNextTurnOf{Controller}` so no row can pass by coincidence.

  revert -> Some(UntilEndOfTurn) vs Some(UntilNextTurnOf { player: Controller })

Also from round 3:

* Two comments still cited the `duration.or(Some(Duration::UntilEndOfTurn))` that
  round 2 deleted, so the guard's stated justification pointed at code that no
  longer exists. Both now name `strip_trailing_duration`. (The one surviving
  mention is in a REVERT-FAILING note and describes the hypothetical revert, not
  current code.)

* The round-2 commit inserted a new test between V-U2e's doc block and the test
  it documents, detaching the block — the same defect round 1 raised and this PR
  had already fixed once. The 17 doc lines are back on
  `leading_duration_merge_cards_unchanged`.

Verified: fmt --check PASS; clippy -D warnings exit 0; cargo test -p phase-engine
exit 0 (25,250 passed, 0 failed, doctests included).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…te case

Review round 4. One HIGH finding, deferred by decision; three LOW, all fixed.

DEFERRED (measured, and now documented rather than papered over): the U1 section
claimed "a stated duration reaches every governed link of a recognizer-built
chain". That is FALSE as written. `with_clause_chain_duration`'s sub-link walk
gates on the link's CARRIER, so a link whose recognizer INJECTED a duration
default is indistinguishable from one that printed a window and the walk
declines. Two corpus cards sit in that gap — Dovin Baan and Edifice of
Authority, whose "and its activated abilities can't be activated" link is
injected `UntilEndOfTurn` by `oracle_effect/subject.rs` and keeps end-of-turn
under an `UntilNextTurnOf{Controller}` head, so the prohibition ends a full turn
early (CR 611.2a).

Neither is a regression — both behave identically at BASE_SHA — and neither
reaches the severed-conjunct seam this PR adds, because
`starts_clause_text_or_conjugated` excludes "its" and that sentence never splits.
Closing it needs the verbatim-emit remedy applied to subject.rs's prohibition
recognizer, the same fix `try_parse_gain_all_activated_abilities_of_target`
received in the previous commit, plus validation of the runtime
`Permanent`-promotion path. That is a different recognizer and a different
surface; it is left to tasks phase-rs#138/phase-rs#144, which `game/effects/effect.rs` already
names as tracking exactly this distribution work. The section header now states
the narrow claim and documents the exception in full.

Fixed:

* The `printed_own_window && carrier.is_none()` arm fell back to the sentence's
  window. If a recognizer routes a printed window into an embedded effect field
  rather than onto the clause carrier, that fallback has
  `apply_duration_to_effect` overwrite it — the exact clobber the gate exists to
  prevent. The clause is now left untouched, and the fourth of the four
  (printed, carrier) combinations has a test row; previously three of four were
  covered.

* The round-4 comment cited Dovin Baan as the concrete case the textual gate
  protects against. It is not: that card never splits, so it never reaches
  `ClauseDraft::push`. The citation is now scoped to the RECOGNIZER's behaviour,
  with the card's actual path named.

* Documented the gate's coupling to the chunk splitter: `strip_trailing_duration`
  finds only TRAILING windows, so a conjunct printing a leading one would read as
  unprinted. Unreachable today only because no duration phrase is a member of
  `starts_clause_text_lower` — an invariant nothing tested and neither side
  recorded.

* The comment above the gate still described the sentinel-based mechanism round 4
  replaced, telling the next maintainer the gate is carrier-based when it is
  textual.

Verified: fmt --check PASS; clippy -D warnings exit 0; cargo test -p phase-engine
exit 0 (25,250 passed, 0 failed, doctests included).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…hapes

Review round 5. The round-4 disclosure undercounted the deferred sub-link gap by
half and pointed the remedy at one recognizer when the gap spans at least two.
Measured at this head with the repo's own `coverage-parse-diff` over a
regenerated card-data, four corpus cards sit in the gap, in two distinct shapes:

* Dovin Baan, Edifice of Authority, Mythos of Vadrok — the "and its/their
  activated abilities can't be activated" link is injected `UntilEndOfTurn` by
  `oracle_effect/subject.rs`'s prohibition recognizer, so the link CARRIER holds
  a value indistinguishable from a printed window and the sub-link walk declines.
  Mythos of Vadrok differs from the first two only in the pronoun.

* Teferi's Protection — a different recognizer AND a different shape, verified by
  probe rather than taken from the review that raised it: the "you gain
  protection from everything" link carries `def.duration: None` with the injected
  `UntilEndOfTurn` on the EMBEDDED `GenericEffect.duration`. Protection from
  everything therefore expires a turn early on that card.

None is a regression — all four are byte-identical at BASE_SHA — and none reaches
the severed-conjunct seam this PR adds.

The scoping consequence is the point: the `subject.rs` verbatim-emit remedy this
PR applied to `try_parse_gain_all_activated_abilities_of_target` closes the FIRST
shape only. Teferi's Protection is not a `subject.rs` prohibition, so the
remaining work is against the injected-default CLASS — ~16
`.or(Some(Duration::UntilEndOfTurn))` sites across `subject.rs`, `imperative.rs`
and `oracle_effect/mod.rs` — not against one recognizer. Both disclosure sites
now say so, because that comment is what tasks phase-rs#138/phase-rs#144 will be sized from.

Comments only; no behaviour change.

Verified: fmt --check PASS; clippy -D warnings exit 0; cargo test -p phase-engine
exit 0 (25,250 passed, 0 failed, doctests included).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… cause

Review round 6. The previous commit fixed a wrong card COUNT and introduced a
wrong CAUSE. Both of round 6's checkable points were verified directly before
being accepted:

* A `None` carrier PASSES `with_clause_chain_duration`'s sub-link gate
  (`is_none() || Some(Permanent)`), so filing Teferi's Protection under "the
  carrier gate declines" was wrong. Probed: Abeyance's `AddRestriction` link and
  Kiora's second `PreventDamage` link both carry `None` and both ARE stamped by
  that walk. Something else prevents the head window reaching Teferi's link.

* `tag("you ")` IS a clause-start token (`oracle_effect/sequence.rs:2306`), so
  the "those sentences never split" justification is FALSE for Teferi's
  Protection — its conjunct is "you gain protection from everything". That
  reasoning covers the three prohibition cards only, where "its" is excluded by
  the explicit list and "their" by the `ends_with('s')` pre-filter.

The disclosure now states only what is measured — the parse state (carrier
`None`, embedded `UntilEndOfTurn`, head `UntilNextTurnOf{Controller}`) and the
symptom (protection from everything expires a turn early) — and says explicitly
that the mechanism is NOT diagnosed in this PR, rather than asserting a cause
that was not established.

It also records the consequence for sizing the follow-up: applying the
injected-default class remedy across all ~16 sites is NOT sufficient for this
shape, because leaving the embedded field `None` moves the default downstream
where `game/effects/effect.rs` resolves
`ability.duration.or(duration).unwrap_or(UntilEndOfTurn)` to end-of-turn anyway.
That shape needs the printed head window to actually reach the link — which is
what tasks phase-rs#138/phase-rs#144 track.

Comments only: every changed line under `crates/engine/src` in this commit is a
`//` comment, verified mechanically, so codegen and parse output are identical to
the parent. (Note `scripts/engine-source-hash.sh` still changes, as it is
content-keyed over `crates/engine/src` blobs rather than over codegen.)

Verified: fmt --check PASS; clippy -D warnings exit 0; cargo test -p phase-engine
exit 0 (25,250 passed, 0 failed, doctests included).

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The parser preserves unset durations, expands safe leading-duration conjuncts into sibling chunks, and distributes governing durations through eligible effect chains. Parser, IR, trigger, and integration tests cover propagation, expiry, continuation links, and Memory Vessel behavior.

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Leading-duration distribution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Duration contract and chain stamping
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/imperative.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/effect_chain.rs
Unset durations remain unset during parsing. Governed effects and sub_ability links receive applicable durations through with_clause_chain_duration. Explicit narrower durations remain unchanged.
Chunk expansion and parser wiring
crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/sequence.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs, crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_trigger.rs
The parser expands safe leading-duration conjuncts into typed sibling chunks. Guard logic prevents unsafe splits. Dangling phase-trigger parsing uses reusable prefix combinators.
Parser and runtime validation
crates/engine/tests/integration/leading_duration_distribution_7923.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/memory_vessel_std_s25.rs
Tests cover parser shape, duration expiry, conjunct recovery, optional continuation behavior, prevention effects, activated-ability grants, and Memory Vessel sub-link and runtime behavior.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a2edd

The parser now distributes leading durations across governed conjuncts, but current code still has bounded cases where enclosing durations can be overwritten, ignored, or fail to reach nested effects, and the required accepted label is not present. Merge should wait until these issues are fixed or explicitly accepted and the eligibility requirement is satisfied.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant OracleText
  participant expand_leading_duration_chunks
  participant ClauseIrBuilder
  participant with_clause_chain_duration
  participant RuntimeEffects
  OracleText->>expand_leading_duration_chunks: provide leading-duration clause chunks
  expand_leading_duration_chunks->>ClauseIrBuilder: emit recovered sibling chunks
  ClauseIrBuilder->>with_clause_chain_duration: apply governing duration
  with_clause_chain_duration->>RuntimeEffects: attach durations to governed effects
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Preserve the contributor parser/IR duration-distribution work while incorporating maintainer-side parser, protocol, and integration-test churn from origin/main.

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crates/engine/tests/integration/memory_vessel_std_s25.rs (1)

534-534: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use the new constant in memory_vessel_oracle_text_lowers_fully too.

MEMORY_VESSEL_ORACLE repeats the exact Oracle text already inlined at line 400. The shape test and the runtime test then claim to cover the same card through two independent copies of the text. If one copy is edited, the two tests silently diverge. Pass MEMORY_VESSEL_ORACLE to parse_oracle_text at line 400 and keep one definition. Move the constant above both tests.

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In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/memory_vessel_std_s25.rs` at line 534, Move
MEMORY_VESSEL_ORACLE above both tests and update
memory_vessel_oracle_text_lowers_fully to pass this constant to
parse_oracle_text instead of duplicating the Oracle text inline; retain a single
shared definition for both tests.
crates/engine/tests/integration/leading_duration_distribution_7923.rs (1)

1046-1119: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse the rows entries instead of re-pasting the Oracle text.

Lines 1046, 1069, 1086, and 1112 duplicate Oracle strings that already exist in rows. If one copy is edited later, the per-card shape check silently asserts against a different card than the table row of the same name. Look the row up by name and pass row.text.

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    rows.iter().find(|r| r.name == name).expect("row exists")
}

let js_row = row_of(&rows, "Jump Scare");
let jump_scare = parse_oracle_text(
    js_row.text,
    js_row.name,
    &[],
    &js_row.types.iter().map(|s| s.to_string()).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
    &[],
);

rows is consumed by value in the for row in rows loop at line 996, so iterate by reference (for row in &rows) to keep it available.

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In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/leading_duration_distribution_7923.rs` around
lines 1046 - 1119, Update the per-card checks for Jump Scare, Dominaria’s
Judgment, Stolen Strategy, and Arm the Cathars to obtain each matching Row from
rows and pass its text, name, and types to parse_oracle_text instead of
duplicating Oracle strings. Change the rows iteration to borrow rows, such as
through row references, so the lookup remains available; use a row lookup helper
or equivalent keyed by card name.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/sequence.rs`:
- Around line 3702-3712: Update same_consumption to exhaustively destructure
both ParsedEffectClause values, matching the discipline used by
static_same_consumption, and compare the destructured fields without a remainder
pattern so future fields trigger a compile error instead of being ignored.

In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs`:
- Line 2081: Replace the wildcard and matches!-based duration classifications
near the affected logic with exhaustive match expressions over Effect,
explicitly deciding duration handling for every variant. Update both
classification sites, including the later range, so newly added variants cause a
compile-time review instead of bypassing expiry printing.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/leading_duration_distribution_7923.rs`:
- Around line 1276-1281: Update the host-departure test around Dragon and the
three host-lifetime effects to remove the direct zones::move_to_zone call and
manual layers_dirty.mark_full/evaluate_layers pass. Drive Dragon’s departure
through the production GameAction or scenario-step destroy/sacrifice path, let
the runner settle normally, then assert that the effects revert.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/leading_duration_distribution_7923.rs`:
- Around line 1046-1119: Update the per-card checks for Jump Scare, Dominaria’s
Judgment, Stolen Strategy, and Arm the Cathars to obtain each matching Row from
rows and pass its text, name, and types to parse_oracle_text instead of
duplicating Oracle strings. Change the rows iteration to borrow rows, such as
through row references, so the lookup remains available; use a row lookup helper
or equivalent keyed by card name.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/memory_vessel_std_s25.rs`:
- Line 534: Move MEMORY_VESSEL_ORACLE above both tests and update
memory_vessel_oracle_text_lowers_fully to pass this constant to
parse_oracle_text instead of duplicating the Oracle text inline; retain a single
shared definition for both tests.
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Comment thread crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/sequence.rs
@@ -1976,10 +2076,98 @@ pub(crate) fn with_clause_duration(
{
*recipient = TargetFilter::AttachedTo;
}
*effect_duration = Some(duration);
*effect_duration = Some(duration.clone());
}
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make duration classification exhaustive.

The wildcard arm and the matches! allowlist let a new Effect variant bypass duration classification. If that variant carries a duration, the parser can omit its printed expiry.

Replace the paired partial classifications with exhaustive match expressions. Require an explicit decision for every Effect variant.

As per coding guidelines, “prefer … exhaustive matches over wildcard defaults”; as per path instructions, wildcard match arms for known enums are findings.

Also applies to: 2110-2125

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs` at line 2081, Replace the wildcard
and matches!-based duration classifications near the affected logic with
exhaustive match expressions over Effect, explicitly deciding duration handling
for every variant. Update both classification sites, including the later range,
so newly added variants cause a compile-time review instead of bypassing expiry
printing.

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Generated for head a2edd27e3641b42d17fc3b823601165c447b14c3.

Parse changes introduced by this PR · 8 card(s), 8 signature(s) (baseline: main d71c4461dfc7)

🟢 Added (2 signatures)

  • 1 card · ➕ ability/MustBeBlockedByAll · added: MustBeBlockedByAll (affects=parent target, duration=until end of turn, grants=MustBeBlockedByAll, target=parent target)
    • Affected (first 3): Revenge of the Hunted
  • 1 card · ➕ ability/remove all abilities · added: remove all abilities (affects=parent target, duration=while on battlefield, grants=remove all abilities, target=parent target)
    • Affected (first 3): Opportunistic Dragon

🟡 Modified fields (6 signatures)

  • 2 cards · 🔄 ability/PreventDamage · changed field duration: until next turn (you)
    • Affected (first 3): Dovin, Hand of Control, Kiora, the Crashing Wave
  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/AddRestriction · changed field duration: until end of turn
    • Affected (first 3): Abeyance
  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/CastFromZone · changed field duration: until end of turn
    • Affected (first 3): Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/SpendManaAsAnyColor · changed field duration: until end of turn
    • Affected (first 3): Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/add chosen subtype · changed field duration: permanentuntil end of turn
    • Affected (first 3): Navigator's Compass
  • 1 card · 🔄 ability/set chosen color, grant HexproofFrom · changed field duration: permanentuntil end of turn
    • Affected (first 3): Mondo Gecko

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Maintainer port complete; approval is held on current-head evidence.

This branch was textually and semantically stale due to maintainer-side parser/IR and integration-test churn. I merged origin/main (7f52cfed6f36f2186f5e39a28da8fe6b34c57bf0) and pushed the dedicated maintainer port commit 4609cb88b464a26bfe909f448f825f8f44232165 while preserving the contributor commits.

This PR is triaged and labeled enhancement, but it has not been approved or enqueued. The current parse-diff CI artifact is baseline-pending for the ported base, and the required Rust/card-data checks plus external review are still in progress for 4609cb88b464a26bfe909f448f825f8f44232165.

Next step: after those checks settle and CI publishes a parse-diff explicitly bound to this head, re-review the port delta and full parser/IR change before considering approval or merge-queue enrollment.

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Address the current test-discrimination finding by destroying Opportunistic Dragon with a parsed zero-cost removal spell through GameRunner, then letting the engine settle normally.\n\nVerification: cargo fmt --all; git diff --check. Direct cargo/pnpm builds intentionally not run per Tilt guidance.
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Maintainer follow-up for current head 3efec528575222b23561a8300ace890d33cbea52:

  • The host-lifetime regression now destroys Opportunistic Dragon through a parsed Destroy target creature cast and normal runner settlement, rather than mutating zones/layers directly.
  • Required CI for this head is still running.
  • The parse-diff receipt remains Baseline pending (last updated for the previous head), so there is no current-head card-level parse evidence yet.

This PR is held for those current-head receipts only; it has not been approved or enqueued. Once they settle, maintainer review will resume.

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Approved — current head 3efec528575222b23561a8300ace890d33cbea52 clears the maintainer review.

The host-lifetime regression now destroys Opportunistic Dragon through GameRunner::cast(...).target_object(...).resolve() and lets normal settlement run, so the assertion covers the production cast and zone-change path.

I also rechecked the earlier duration-classification concern: apply_duration_to_effect deliberately writes only the explicit duration_governs set. duration_arms_match_governed_set covers all nine current governed members plus a non-member control; making this a catch-all Effect classification would conflate one-shot effects with duration-bearing runtime carriers.

The branch has already received its one maintainer merge-main port for the baseline-pending receipt. Required checks are still running; merge queue will wait for them.

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…ation fixture

The merge queue dequeued this PR on a semantic conflict, not a defect in either
branch: phase-rs#7948 (`d71c4461d`) landed immediately ahead of it in the queue and added
a `provenance` field to `CastingPermission::PlayFromExile`. This branch's
`play_from_exile_permission` duration fixture constructs that struct with a
literal initializer, so both branches compiled independently and the merged tree
did not:

    error[E0063]: missing field `provenance` in initializer of `CastingPermission`
      --> crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs:2360:9

All four Rust test shards plus clippy failed together, which is the compile-error
signature rather than a test-logic failure, and none of it surfaced on the PR's
own checks — the queue tests a temporary merge with main.

`Impulse` is named explicitly rather than taking `::default()`. They are the same
value today, but the fixture models a self-standing play permission with full
cast authority — deliberately NOT the `LandLookCompanion` half of an
alternative-cost grant, which phase-rs#7948 introduced and which is skipped by cast
elections. Naming it keeps the fixture's meaning stable if the default variant
ever changes.

`cargo check -p phase-engine --all-targets` confirms this was the only
construction site needing the field; the other `PlayFromExile` mentions in the
touched files are pattern matches with `..`, or main's own sites already updated
by the merge.

Verified against the MERGED tree (the tree that actually failed), not the
pre-merge branch: fmt --check PASS; clippy -D warnings exit 0; cargo test
-p phase-engine exit 0 (25,467 passed, 0 failed, doctests included — up from
25,250, main's new tests included); Gate G + Gate A PASS.

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crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs (3)

2165-2170: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve explicit embedded durations when stamping linked definitions.

When a governed linked AbilityDefinition has duration == None but its Effect::GenericEffect or Effect::CastFromZone carries an explicit duration, this guard enters the branch and apply_duration_to_effect overwrites that embedded duration. Check the embedded duration before stamping and preserve the narrower window.

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs` around lines 2165 - 2170, Update
the linked-definition duration stamping logic around duration_governs and
apply_duration_to_effect to inspect embedded durations in Effect::GenericEffect
and Effect::CastFromZone before applying the linked duration. Only stamp when no
explicit embedded duration exists, preserving the narrower embedded window while
retaining current handling for definitions without one.

Source: Path instructions


2112-2127: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make ForceBlock honor the enclosing duration. with_clause_duration stores the leading duration on AbilityDefinition, but force_block::resolve reads only Effect::ForceBlock.duration. A leading UntilEndOfCombat can therefore install an UntilEndOfTurn requirement. Use the enclosing duration with the same precedence as force_attack::resolve, while preserving explicitly stated inner windows, and add a regression test for the full pipeline. CR 611.2a requires the stated duration.

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs` around lines 2112 - 2127, Update
force_block::resolve to use the enclosing AbilityDefinition duration from
with_clause_duration when ForceBlock has no explicit inner duration, matching
force_attack::resolve precedence while preserving explicitly stated
ForceBlock.duration values. Ensure the resulting requirement uses the stated
duration per CR 611.2a, and add a full-pipeline regression test covering a
leading UntilEndOfCombat clause.

Sources: Path instructions, MCP tools


1936-1944: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Route peeled durations through with_clause_chain_duration

parse_effect_clause can peel a trailing duration before try_parse_choose_player_to_verb stores its recursively parsed GenericEffect verb in sub_ability. At line 7737, with_clause_duration updates only the head Choose clause, so a form such as choose a player to get +2/+0 and gain haste until your next turn can leave the nested effect at UntilEndOfTurn.

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs` around lines 1936 - 1944, Update
with_clause_duration to route peeled durations through
with_clause_chain_duration so the duration propagates through nested
GenericEffect clauses, including Choose clauses whose verb is stored in
sub_ability. Preserve the existing head-clause duration assignment and effect
update while ensuring nested effects receive the same authoritative duration.

Source: Path instructions

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crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs (1)

31573-31597: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Defensive check accepted; note its limited coverage.

The new pending_stamp + debug_assert! pair only verifies that a chunk carrying a leading duration produced some pushed clause (any ClauseDisposition, including ModifyPrior/Continue placeholders). It does not verify that the duration was actually attached to a real effect clause by the time assembly finishes. This is fine as a debug-only guardrail for the documented "chunk pushes no clause at all" residual, but it will not catch a chunk that pushes a placeholder or absorbed clause while still losing the duration semantically. No code change is required here; this is a note for anyone extending this mechanism later.

Also applies to: 35065-35076, 35098-35098

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In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs` around lines 31573 - 31597,
Make no code changes; the existing pending_stamp debug assertion is
intentionally limited to detecting chunks with distributed leading durations
that push no clause, and does not need to validate semantic attachment to a real
effect clause.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs`:
- Around line 2165-2170: Update the linked-definition duration stamping logic
around duration_governs and apply_duration_to_effect to inspect embedded
durations in Effect::GenericEffect and Effect::CastFromZone before applying the
linked duration. Only stamp when no explicit embedded duration exists,
preserving the narrower embedded window while retaining current handling for
definitions without one.
- Around line 2112-2127: Update force_block::resolve to use the enclosing
AbilityDefinition duration from with_clause_duration when ForceBlock has no
explicit inner duration, matching force_attack::resolve precedence while
preserving explicitly stated ForceBlock.duration values. Ensure the resulting
requirement uses the stated duration per CR 611.2a, and add a full-pipeline
regression test covering a leading UntilEndOfCombat clause.
- Around line 1936-1944: Update with_clause_duration to route peeled durations
through with_clause_chain_duration so the duration propagates through nested
GenericEffect clauses, including Choose clauses whose verb is stored in
sub_ability. Preserve the existing head-clause duration assignment and effect
update while ensuring nested effects receive the same authoritative duration.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/mod.rs`:
- Around line 31573-31597: Make no code changes; the existing pending_stamp
debug assertion is intentionally limited to detecting chunks with distributed
leading durations that push no clause, and does not need to validate semantic
attachment to a real effect clause.

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Thanks for the careful review on this one — and in particular for 3efec52. Routing the host-expiry assertion through GameRunner::cast(...).resolve() instead of mutating zones and layers directly was the right call, and it's a better test than the one I wrote.

A quick note on the two merge-queue dequeues, since the second one looks worse than it was — they were the same failure, and we were racing each other rather than hitting two separate problems:

05:26  enqueued
05:40  dequeued — missing field `provenance`, ast.rs:2360
06:01  re-enqueued
06:10  dequeued — same error, same line
06:10  fix pushed
06:11  CI on a2edd27e → all green

The cause was a semantic conflict rather than anything wrong on either side: #7948 landed immediately ahead of this PR in the queue and added provenance to CastingPermission::PlayFromExile. This branch's play_from_exile_permission duration fixture builds that struct with a literal initializer, so both branches compiled independently and only the merged tree failed — which is exactly the case the queue exists to catch, and why nothing showed on the PR's own checks. The 06:01 re-enqueue went in about nine minutes before my fix existed, so it hit the identical error.

The fix is one line in that #[cfg(test)] fixture. I used PlayFromExileProvenance::Impulse explicitly rather than ::default() — same value today, but the fixture models a self-standing play permission with full cast authority, deliberately not the LandLookCompanion half that #7948 introduced, so naming it keeps the fixture's meaning stable if the default ever moves. cargo check -p phase-engine --all-targets confirms it was the only construction site needing the field.

Verified against the merged tree rather than the pre-merge branch, since that's the tree that actually failed: fmt --check PASS, clippy -D warnings exit 0, cargo test -p phase-engine exit 0 (25,467 passed / 0 failed, doctests included — up from 25,250 with main's new tests), Gate G + Gate A PASS at head=a2edd27e base=d71c4461.

On the receipt you were waiting for: the parse-diff sticky is now generated for the current head a2edd27e and is no longer baseline-pending. It reports 8 cards / 8 signatures, matching the Claimed parse impact in the PR description exactly.

No rush at all on re-enqueueing — entirely at your convenience, and happy to pick up anything else you'd like changed first. I can't enable auto-merge from a fork, so that last step is yours whenever it suits.

Also worth flagging: the known limitation in the description got more precise during review. It's four cards in two distinct shapes, not two, and #7962 records why fixing all sixteen injected-default sites would still not close Teferi's Protection — the mechanism there is undiagnosed and the naive class fix just relocates the default downstream. Filed alongside #7960 and #7961 so none of it rides along silently here.

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Changes requested — current head a2edd27e3641b42d17fc3b823601165c447b14c3 still has two duration-provenance defects.

🔴 Blocker

[MED] Preserve an explicitly parsed embedded duration on a linked definition. Evidence: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs:2165-2170 admits a link solely from def.duration, then calls apply_duration_to_effect; its GenericEffect and CastFromZone arms overwrite their embedded durations unconditionally at :2017-2037. crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_effect/subject.rs:5431-5443 is a reachable shape that carries the parser's inner duration on GenericEffect while AbilityDefinition::new leaves the enclosing link duration unset. Why it matters: an outer leading duration can erase a narrower printed inner lifetime, despite CR 611.2a: “A continuous effect generated by the resolution of a spell or ability lasts as long as stated by the spell or ability creating it.” Suggested fix: make chain stamping use one explicit embedded-duration precedence rule shared with the top-level path, so only known parser-default/unset sentinels yield to the governing prefix; preserve an explicitly parsed GenericEffect or CastFromZone lifetime. Add discriminating mixed-duration tests for both nested carriers.

[MED] Make ForceBlock consume the enclosing duration that this PR stamps. Evidence: crates/engine/src/parser/oracle_ir/ast.rs:2123-2127 classifies ForceBlock as duration-governed, and :2165-2169 writes the outer duration to AbilityDefinition.duration; however crates/engine/src/game/effects/force_block.rs:27-46,79-85 reads and installs only Effect::ForceBlock.duration. The analogous force_attack resolver explicitly gives the enclosing duration precedence at crates/engine/src/game/effects/force_attack.rs:204-212. Why it matters: a leading “until end of combat” ForceBlock clause resolves with the embedded default instead of the printed window, violating the same CR 611.2a duration rule. Suggested fix: use the same explicit-outer-duration precedence at the ForceBlock resolver, retaining the embedded duration when no enclosing duration exists, and add a full cast/resolve regression that observes the installed transient effect's UntilEndOfCombat duration.

✅ Clean

The current parse-diff receipt is bound to this head and reports the claimed eight card/signature changes. The hosted Rust/card-data checks are green, but they do not exercise either mixed-duration runtime shape above.

Recommendation: request changes for the two duration-authority fixes and their discriminating tests; do not enqueue this head.

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Thanks for the detailed review — both findings were real, and the second one turned out to be more interesting than I expected. Blocker 1 is planned and unaffected; I'm ready to implement it. On Blocker 2 I'd like to check a rules question with you before building, because the measurements point somewhere I didn't anticipate.

The short version

force_attack's idiom appears to be licensed by a property ForceBlock doesn't have, and transplanting it looks rules-wrong in one direction. I may well be missing something — hence asking rather than either implementing or silently deviating.

What I measured

ForceAttack has a windowless production; ForceBlock does not.

try_parse_attack_if_able contains value(None, tag("if able")) (imperative.rs:14245), lowered through duration.unwrap_or(Duration::UntilEndOfTurn) — so ForceAttack's embedded field genuinely can hold an injected default. Gideon Jura is a printed card in exactly that shape: AbilityDefinition.duration = UntilEndOfNextTurnOf{Target} over Effect::ForceAttack.duration = UntilEndOfTurn. Preferring the carrier there recovers a stated window that was otherwise lost. That's what makes force_attack.rs:211 correct.

parse_force_block_ast has no such arm. Every production — including both nom_primitives::scan_contains fallbacks — requires this turn if able or this combat if able. Measured: Target creature blocks if able. doesn't parse at all; it lands in Effect::Unimplemented { name: "block" }. And the only other producer, database::synthesis::build_provoke_trigger, writes UntilEndOfCombat straight from CR 702.39a. So ForceBlock's embedded window is always explicitly determined, and preferring the carrier could only displace it.

The displacement is observable in the rules. Through the production parser:

"Until end of turn, target creature blocks this combat if able."
  -> carrier = UntilEndOfTurn,  embedded = UntilEndOfCombat

The requested precedence installs UntilEndOfTurn, widening a printed this combat requirement into a this turn one. CR 509.1c (docs/MagicCompRules.txt:2353) makes that a behavioural difference, not a cosmetic one:

"If a requirement that says a creature blocks if able during a certain turn refers to a turn with multiple combat phases, the creature blocks if able during each declare blockers step in that turn."

So in a multi-combat turn the creature would be forced to block again — more forced blocks than the card grants.

On printed cards it's a no-op. Freshly generated export at this PR's head: 53 ForceBlock nodes across 52 cards, zero with a non-null AbilityDefinition.duration. The six sitting under an ancestor carrier are all UntilEndOfTurn-under-UntilEndOfTurn. So the change buys nothing today and is only observable on constructed text.

And it would contradict Blocker 1 in the same PR. Blocker 1's rule is "only a known parser-default/unset sentinel yields to a governing prefix; anything else was deliberately written and is preserved." ForceBlock's embedded field is never a sentinel, so the two fixes would encode opposite rules, with ForceBlock as the unexplained exception.

I also checked whether CR settles it directly and don't think it does: CR 611.2a (:2908) is written for one stated window and gives no tie-break for two. CR 608.2c's "read the whole text" reading arguably gives narrower-wins rather than outer-wins — but Duration has no total order and no printed card states two windows for one block requirement, so building that machinery would serve zero cards.

Three questions

  1. Do you agree the carrier must not win for ForceBlock — i.e. the asymmetry with force_attack is correct rather than a defect?

  2. If so, is this the deliverable you want? Record the measured provenance contract at force_block::resolve; correct the two docs that currently promise the opposite (apply_duration_to_effect's "teach it force_attack's precedence" advice, and gideon_jura_force_attack_uses_ability_duration's "nothing covers ForceBlock" note); add the full cast/resolve regression you asked for, observing Avalanche Tusker's installed UntilEndOfCombat on a printed card driven through GameRunner; and add a resolver unit test that turns red if someone later adds the precedence line. That gives you the coverage and the UntilEndOfCombat observation without installing the rule.

  3. Or would you rather I land the real unification — widen Effect::ForceAttack.duration and Effect::ForceBlock.duration to Option<Duration> so both get a genuine unset sentinel and both join Blocker 1's single rule? That's the second option apply_duration_to_effect's own doc already names, and it's the answer that actually makes the two resolvers symmetric. It's a serialized-Effect shape change touching card-data and every construction site, so I wouldn't land it inside a review-blocked PR without you saying so.

Happy to go whichever way you prefer — including implementing your original request as written if you're satisfied the widening is acceptable. I just didn't want to build it silently while the measurements said what they say.

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Correction to my previous comment — one of its load-bearing claims is wrong, and I'd rather flag it than let you find it.

I wrote that force_attack's carrier-precedence is "licensed by a property ForceBlock doesn't have," namely that ForceAttack's embedded field can hold an injected default. A subsequent review round measured the corpus properly and falsified that framing.

What I got wrong

Effect::ForceAttack has 9 nodes across 9 cards, and 3 carry a stated carrier — not the 3 nodes / 2 carriers I implied. The third is Silver Surfer, Galactus's Herald:

Whenever Silver Surfer deals combat damage to a player, until the end of your next turn, target creature attacks that player each combat if able.

which parses to carrier = UntilEndOfNextTurnOf{Controller} over emb = UntilEndOfCombat. That UntilEndOfCombat comes from the printed "each combat if able"not from an injected default. So force_attack::resolve already displaces a printed embedded window on a printed card today, which is precisely the harm I claimed was unique to ForceBlock and disqualifying.

Worse, the codebase already says so. apply_duration_to_effect's doc at ast.rs:1966 names Silver Surfer for exactly this reason — in the doc block this PR is editing. It was one grep away and I didn't run it before writing to you.

What survives, and what doesn't

Withdrawn: the "licensed by a property ForceBlock lacks" argument. ForceAttack's idiom applies uniformly, printed window or not.

Still measured and still true:

  • parse_force_block_ast has no windowless production — Target creature blocks if able. lands in Effect::Unimplemented.
  • 0 of 53 ForceBlock nodes carry a non-null AbilityDefinition.duration, so the requested change is a corpus-wide runtime no-op today.
  • Until end of turn, target creature blocks this combat if able. parses to carrier UntilEndOfTurn over embedded UntilEndOfCombat, and CR 509.1c makes turn-vs-combat observable in multi-combat turns.

Weakened: my "this widening is rules-wrong" claim now has to reckon with Silver Surfer, where the same widening is the sanctioned outcome. I no longer think I can assert the widening is wrong without explaining why it's right there.

A hypothesis, offered as such

The real distinction may not be default-vs-printed at all, but frequency versus window: "each combat if able" is a recurrence qualifier that the AST happens to model as a Duration, whereas "this combat if able" genuinely is a window. On that reading Silver Surfer's outer phrase is the only real lifetime and carrier-wins is correct, while ForceBlock's inner phrase is a genuine window and carrier-wins would displace it.

I have not verified that, and I'm not going to assert it as I did the last one. It's the shape of an argument, not an argument.

Where that leaves your three questions

Question 3 — widening both Effect::ForceAttack.duration and Effect::ForceBlock.duration to Option<Duration> — looks stronger to me now than when I wrote it. It gives both variants a real unset sentinel, lets both join Blocker 1's single rule, and would settle Silver Surfer and Avalanche Tusker by the same rule rather than by two hand-waved exceptions. It remains a serialized-Effect shape change I wouldn't land here without your say-so.

If you'd prefer I just implement Blocker 2 as originally specified, I'm happy to — my objection is now materially weaker than I presented it, and you may well have had the frequency-versus-window distinction (or a better one) in mind already.

Blocker 1 is unaffected by any of this and is progressing normally; I'll have it up shortly.

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Follow-up: the hypothesis in my last comment is now settled from the grammar, so you have a real answer rather than a shrug.

I said the distinction might be frequency versus window and that I hadn't verified it and wouldn't assert it. It's verified now — it's visible in the parser, and I checked it myself rather than taking a planning agent's word for it.

try_parse_attack_if_able (imperative.rs:14234-14247) collapses three grammatically distinct phrases onto one value:

value(Some(Duration::UntilEndOfTurn),   tag("this turn if able")),
value(Some(Duration::UntilEndOfCombat), alt((
    tag("this combat if able"),
    tag("that combat if able"),
    tag("each combat if able"),      // <- a RECURRENCE qualifier, not a window
))),
value(None, tag("if able")),          // <- the windowless production

"this combat" / "that combat" bound the requirement to one combat phase — genuine windows. "each combat" says how often the requirement applies within whatever lifetime the effect has; it bounds nothing. The AST has no axis for that, so all three land on Duration::UntilEndOfCombat.

parse_force_block_ast has no each combat production at all — not in parse_duration, not in the ~/this creature/it/demonstrative-attacker arms, not in either scan_contains fallback. Every phrase it accepts is a genuine window, and because parse_duration is all_consuming there's no windowless production either.

So:

  1. Silver Surfer's carrier-wins outcome is correct — and for a reason that isn't the one I originally gave. The embedded value there isn't a window at all; "until the end of your next turn" is the only lifetime the card states, and "each combat" is frequency. There's nothing to preserve.
  2. That reason doesn't transfer to ForceBlock, which has no recurrence production. Every ForceBlock embedded value is a printed window, so a carrier preference could only displace one, with no offsetting case where it recovers one.

This also surfaces a second candidate repair I hadn't seen. Your apply_duration_to_effect doc names one (widen both fields to Option<Duration>). The frequency/window finding names another, independent one: Effect::ForceAttack.duration conflates two axes — for six of its nine nodes it's a window, for the "each combat" nodes it's a mis-modelled frequency. The clean fix separates the recurrence qualifier from the window rather than picking a precedence between two carriers. Both are serialized-Effect shape changes; neither belongs in this PR without your say-so.

My three questions are unchanged, with question 3 now offering both candidates. And my earlier offer stands: if you'd rather I just implement Blocker 2 as originally specified, say so and I will.

Blocker 1 is progressing independently — its plan is through three rounds and in review now.

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Narrowing my earlier withdrawal — I over-corrected, and the net position is stronger than I've been representing it. This is my last word on the point; the questions are unchanged.

Three comments ago I claimed ForceAttack's carrier-precedence was licensed by a property ForceBlock lacks. Two comments ago I withdrew that wholesale, saying the idiom "applies uniformly, printed window or not." The withdrawal was too broad. The property is real and the codebase documents it; what was wrong was the universal I wrapped around it.

Verified at source just now:

  • The windowless production exists. imperative.rs:14245value(None, tag("if able")), sitting directly below the three-phrase alt I quoted last time. I included that line in my own code block and then failed to notice it contradicted the sentence above it.
  • Both lowering sites inject the default. subject.rs:1929 is duration.clone().unwrap_or(Duration::UntilEndOfTurn), commented "CR 611.2a: a windowless predicate states no span of its own; the enclosing clause's duration is applied by with_clause_duration." imperative.rs:13288 does the same on the targeted path.
  • Two of the three carrier-bearing nodes are exactly that case. Gideon Jura: "creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able". Taunt: "creatures that player controls attack you if able". Neither prints a window, so their embedded UntilEndOfTurn is the injected default and the carrier preference recovers a genuinely stated window. Only Silver Surfer carries a printed embedded value.

The accurate statement, finally. There are two independent asymmetries, not one, and they point the same way:

  1. Windowless production. try_parse_attack_if_able has one; parse_force_block_ast has none (parse_duration is all_consuming over this turn if able / this combat if able). So ForceAttack's embedded field can be a default that the carrier rightly overrides — Gideon Jura, Taunt — while ForceBlock's never can.
  2. Frequency conflation. "each combat if able" lands on Duration::UntilEndOfCombat alongside two genuine windows; ForceBlock has no such production. So Silver Surfer's embedded value isn't a window either — for a different reason.

Both hold. Silver Surfer refutes the universal I stated ("the carrier only ever recovers a lost window"); it does not refute the property. I gave away the stronger, source-documented half of the argument in an effort to correct myself quickly, which is its own kind of inaccuracy.

Net: ForceAttack's embedded field is a default in two cases and a mis-modelled frequency in the third — in none of the three is it a window the carrier destroys. ForceBlock's is always a printed window. That is the asymmetry, now on two independent legs.

Everything else stands unchanged: 0 of 53 ForceBlock nodes carry a carrier, so the requested line is a corpus-wide runtime no-op; and on Until end of turn, target creature blocks this combat if able. it widens a printed this combat requirement into a this turn one, which CR 509.1c makes observable in multi-combat turns.

My three questions stand, and so does the offer: if you're satisfied the widening is acceptable, say so and I'll implement Blocker 2 exactly as you originally specified. I've now corrected myself twice on this seam, so please weight my confidence accordingly — the measurements are solid, my framing of them has been the unreliable part.

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