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Split out of #8812 review, where both reviewers flagged it. Pre-existing bug; independent of that PR.

The defect

A card that died under an opponent's control is silently refused by its own owner's graveyard permission. Measured, with a printed Ramunap-Excavator-shaped source and the land's owner querying:

land owner=P0   live_controller=P0   lki_controller=Some(P1)

before:  graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission(state, P0) -> []
after:                                                     -> [(land, source)]

So Muldrotha, Karador, Lurrus and Ramunap Excavator all declined a card their controller owns, whenever an opponent happened to control it when it died.

The rule is unambiguous

  • CR 109.4"Only objects on the stack or on the battlefield have a controller. Objects that are neither on the stack nor on the battlefield aren't controlled by any player." None of its six exceptions covers a card in a graveyard.
  • CR 108.4a — anything asking for such a card's controller must "use its owner instead."
  • CR 109.5"'you' and 'your'… refer to… its owner (if it has no controller)."

What actually diverged — not the live field

This is the part worth reading, because the obvious diagnosis is wrong.

zones.rs's reset_for_battlefield_exit forces base_controller = Some(owner), and the destination-keyed reset then writes the owner back — citing these exact rules. A graveyard card's live controller is already correct.

The divergence is the LKI cache. filter::effective_controller reads state.lki_cache[id].controller for any object off the battlefield/stack under ControllerLookup::LiveOrLki, and the LKI snapshot is taken before that reset — so it holds the thief. matches_target_filter_in_owner_zone passes LiveOnly, which is what cures it.

Consequences of that being the real mechanism:

  • Exposure is one step, not permanent — turns.rs clears the LKI cache on step transition (CR 400.7).
  • Failure direction is mis-exclusion only — the owner's own card is refused, never another player's admitted. So nothing depended on the old behaviour.

The fix

Route all four graveyard-permission consumers in game::casting through filter::matches_target_filter_for_zone, the documented single authority for the substitution (filter::is_owner_scoped_zone is already Hand | Library | Graveyard):

Consumer Role
graveyard_object_castable_by_permission_sources cast enumeration
graveyard_permission_source elected cast-time authority
has_graveyard_cast_permission_without_keyword_constraint keyword-constraint query
graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission land play

All four together, deliberately. Enumeration and election are separate consumers; converting a subset would let the list of offers disagree with what a cast is actually allowed to do — a worse failure than today's uniform one.

Exile is deliberately NOT converted. is_owner_scoped_zone excludes it, and its doc names the class that depends on the exclusion: "creatures they controlled that were exiled this way" is keyed on who controlled the object when it left, so the at-exile LKI controller is load-bearing there. exile_land_playable_by_static_permission keeps matches_target_filter.

Tests

graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs — three rows, all built on a printed permission rather than any one card's parsed text, because the defect is class-wide:

  • a_land_that_died_under_an_opponents_control_is_still_its_owners_to_play
  • a_spell_that_died_under_an_opponents_control_is_still_its_owners_to_cast
  • the_owner_substitution_does_not_widen_to_another_players_card

The land and cast halves are separate rows because they are served by different consumers, so one row cannot cover both. The third pins that the fix substitutes the owner axis rather than dropping it.

Every row goes through the production zone-change path (zones::move_to_zone) rather than hand-setting fields, and asserts the fixture really is in the divergent state (live controller == owner, LKI == thief) before asserting anything about permissions — without that staging guard the rows would pass vacuously the moment a step boundary cleared the LKI cache.

Mutation-verified: reverting the four call sites turns all three red, each reporting the exact got [] it guards.

Verification

  • cargo test -p phase-engine --lib21230 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo test -p phase-engine --test integration6936 passed
  • cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -D warnings — clean
  • cargo fmt --all — clean

One integration failure, flamewar_mtmte_export::production_export_has_canonical_pack_tactics_conditions_for_all_eight_cards, is pre-existing and unrelated — it fails identically on clean upstream main with this change reverted ("Battle Cry Goblin must export a canonical trigger condition"). Not touched here.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected “your graveyard” permissions to use card ownership when a permanent changes zones after being controlled by an opponent.
    • Ensured eligible cards remain playable or castable from their owner’s graveyard without incorrectly granting access to another player’s cards.
    • Fixed filtering for land plays, spell casts, and related graveyard abilities when a card’s last-known controller differs from its owner.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for graveyard permissions, casting interactions, zone-change scenarios, and protection against overly broad access.

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Graveyard permission checks now match “your graveyard” filters against card ownership. Integration tests cover stolen permanents, enumeration, land play, spell casting, bestow filtering, and cross-owner exclusion.

Graveyard owner permissions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Owner-scoped graveyard matching
crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs
Four graveyard filter checks now use matches_target_filter_for_zone(..., Zone::Graveyard, ...).
Permission integration coverage
crates/engine/tests/integration/graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs
The tests cover controller and LKI divergence, permission enumeration, PlayLand, CastSpell, bestow-specific filtering, and exclusion of another player's card. The module is registered in the integration test binary.

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Change: Bug fix

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The owner-scoped cast and land-play paths are covered, but the bestow regression test can pass for an unrelated failure. Assert the rider-specific rejection before merging so this permission behavior remains protected.

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs`:
- Around line 5301-5306: Add an owner/LKI-divergence test scenario that
exercises the graveyard bestow preparation or cast path and reaches the
bestow-only graveyard permission check near matches_target_filter_for_zone. Use
an owner’s card that was stolen, then moved to the graveyard, and assert the
expected permission outcome so controller-based or incorrect LKI matching would
fail.

In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs`:
- Around line 34-35: Update the comment around the lki_cache lifetime claim to
remove the incorrect CR 400.7 attribution; cite CR 400.7 only for the
zone-change new-object identity rule, and retain a verified Comprehensive Rules
annotation with a description for the cache-lifetime behavior.
- Around line 86-91: Update the steal_then_bury test to use the corresponding
cast and land-play actions instead of directly assigning controller fields or
only calling move_to_zone, then process their production events through the
replacement-aware ZoneChange pipeline and assert both actions complete
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Comment on lines +34 to +35
//! control it when it died, for the remainder of that step (CR 400.7 —
//! `turns.rs` clears the LKI cache on step transition).

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the CR 400.7 attribution.

CR 400.7 defines the new-object behavior of a zone change. It does not define when this engine clears lki_cache. Remove that citation from the cache-lifetime claim, or cite it only for the zone-change identity rule. (media.wizards.com)

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In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs` around
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Comment on lines +86 to +91
engine::game::zones::move_to_zone(
runner.state_mut(),
object_id,
Zone::Battlefield,
&mut events,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Exercise the failure path through production events.

steal_then_bury directly assigns base_controller and controller, so it does not exercise the control-change path. move_to_zone is a production helper, but these rows do not process its emitted GameEvent::ZoneChanged through the replacement-aware ProposedEvent::ZoneChange pipeline. The availability-only assertions can therefore pass without testing replacement or control-change behavior. Execute the corresponding cast and land-play actions, and assert that they complete.

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lines 86 - 91, Update the steal_then_bury test to use the corresponding cast and
land-play actions instead of directly assigning controller fields or only
calling move_to_zone, then process their production events through the
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Changes requested — exercise the graveyard-permission fix through the casting pipeline and correct the CR attribution.

🟠 Runtime coverage gap

crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:3571-3574 changes the normal graveyard cast authority, and :13397-13399 plus :13480-13490 use that authority for Bestow. The new rows at crates/engine/tests/integration/graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs:167-173 and :213-218 only enumerate available actions; they do not submit a normal GameAction::CastSpell, nor do they drive Bestow's cast/choice route. A reversion or incorrect owner/LKI lookup in those downstream paths can therefore pass this suite.

Please add owner-vs-controller/LKI-divergent regressions that execute both a normal GameAction::CastSpell and a Bestow cast/choice from the graveyard, asserting the action completes and the permission is rejected for a non-owner.

🟠 CR attribution

The comments at graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs:34-35 and :109-110 attribute turns.rs's LKI-cache clearing to CR 400.7. The verified rule establishes that a zone-changing object becomes a new object; it does not prescribe this engine's cache lifetime. Please remove that cache-clearing attribution (while retaining a narrowly accurate zone-identity reference if useful).

The branch is also BEHIND and three required Rust test shards remain in progress. The available SHA-bound artifact reports zero parse changes, but the required <!-- coverage-parse-diff --> sticky is not present. Those are evidence gates to recheck after a corrected head; the missing runtime coverage and inaccurate CR attribution are the merge blockers.

Recommendation: request changes; do not enqueue until the production cast paths and CR comment are corrected.

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Generated for head f17b9b68446c0fd4f30de65b42410d8c0cc60dc8.

Parse changes introduced by this PR

✓ No card-parse changes detected.

JacobWoodson added a commit to JacobWoodson/phase that referenced this pull request Sep 14, 2026
…tions

Addresses review on phase-rs#8860.

Runtime coverage gap: the original three rows queried the enumeration
helpers directly, so a regression confined to an elected-authority call
site would have left them green while the action itself was refused.
Adds three rows that submit the real actions and assert they complete:

- `playing_a_stolen_then_buried_land_from_its_owners_graveyard_is_accepted`
  drives `GameAction::PlayLand`, which re-derives the permission through
  `graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission`.
- `casting_a_stolen_then_buried_creature_from_its_owners_graveyard_is_accepted`
  drives `GameAction::CastSpell`, reaching `graveyard_permission_source` --
  the elected authority, a distinct consumer from the enumeration helper.
- `playing_another_players_graveyard_land_is_still_refused` proves the
  non-owner action is REFUSED (not merely absent from an offer list), with
  a paired reach-guard so the negative cannot pass vacuously.

The fourth call site, `has_graveyard_cast_permission_without_keyword_constraint`,
is reached only from the bestow lane. `the_bestow_rider_refusal_resolves_its_permission_against_the_owner`
stages the Detective's-Phoenix-shaped rider-only permission (a
`HasKeywordKind { Bestow }` constraint on the permission filter) on a card
that died under an opponent's control, and asserts via a reach-guard that
the permission resolves against the card's OWNER before asserting CR 702.103a's
refusal of the normal-cast fall-through.

A bestow cast from the graveyard under an unconstrained permission is
refused by this engine for reasons unrelated to owner scoping -- verified by
isolation (identical fixture minus the `Bestow` keyword is accepted; with it,
refused, whichever controller the card died under). That is a separate
pre-existing gap in the bestow lane and is documented in the test rather
than addressed here.

CR attribution: drops the incorrect CR 400.7 citation for `turns.rs`'s
LKI-cache clearing. CR 400.7 establishes that a zone-changing object becomes
a new object; it does not prescribe this engine's cache lifetime, which is an
implementation detail and is now described as such.

Mutation-verified: reverting the four call sites in `game::casting` turns all
seven rows red, each on its own guard.

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Both blockers addressed in 1e4565e, and the branch is rebased onto current main (f91a828).

🟠 Runtime coverage gap — fixed

Four new rows submit the real actions and assert they complete, rather than only enumerating:

Row Action Consumer reached
playing_a_stolen_then_buried_land_from_its_owners_graveyard_is_accepted GameAction::PlayLand graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission (re-derived in handle_play_land)
casting_a_stolen_then_buried_creature_from_its_owners_graveyard_is_accepted GameAction::CastSpell graveyard_permission_source — the elected authority
the_bestow_rider_refusal_resolves_its_permission_against_the_owner GameAction::CastSpell on a bestow card has_graveyard_cast_permission_without_keyword_constraint
playing_another_players_graveyard_land_is_still_refused GameAction::PlayLand negative direction, with a paired reach-guard

Mutation-verified: reverting the four call sites turns all seven rows red, each on its own guard. The new rows fail on the actions themselves — InvalidAction("Card not found in hand, graveyard, exile, or library with play permission") and InvalidAction("Card is not in a castable zone") — which is the runtime evidence that was missing.

On the bestow row specifically

I could not drive a bestow cast to completion from the graveyard, and the reason is not owner scoping. Isolated it: the identical fixture with the Bestow keyword removed is accepted; with it present it is refused — and that holds whichever controller the card died under. Under a plain Muldrotha-shaped permission the bestow lane falls through (no legal AlternativeCastChoice, and :13480 does not fire because an unconstrained permission carries no Bestow keyword constraint), and the normal path then refuses at casting.rs:7329. That is a separate pre-existing gap in the bestow lane, orthogonal to this PR; I've documented it in the test rather than widen scope to fix it here. Happy to split it out as its own issue if you'd like.

So the row instead targets the call site you named through the path that is reachable: the Detective's-Phoenix-shaped rider-only permission (HasKeywordKind { Bestow } on the permission filter). It asserts via a reach-guard that the permission resolves against the card's owner (pre-fix this list is empty — the stale LKI controller kept the owner's own card out of their own permission), then asserts CR 702.103a's refusal of the normal-cast fall-through. That binds the row to the fix while testing a real, reachable behaviour.

🟠 CR attribution — fixed

Dropped the CR 400.7 citation from both comments. You're right: CR 400.7 establishes that a zone-changing object becomes a new object with no memory of its previous existence — it says nothing about this engine's cache lifetime. Both sites now describe the LKI-cache clearing as an implementation detail of turns.rs and make that explicit, with no rule number attached.

Note the original CR 400.7 on turns.rs:1124 is pre-existing and outside this diff, so I left it alone rather than touch another agent's code in an unrelated commit.

Verification

  • cargo test -p phase-engine --lib21237 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo test -p phase-engine --test integration6946 passed, 1 failed
  • cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -D warnings — clean
  • cargo fmt --all — clean

The one integration failure is flamewar_mtmte_export::production_export_has_canonical_pack_tactics_conditions_for_all_eight_cards, unchanged from before and causally independent of this PR: it reads the card-data export JSON and asserts on parser-produced trigger conditions for the Pack Tactics grammar class, while this PR touches only graveyard cast-permission filtering in game::casting — no parser, trigger, or export code. It's a stale local card-data artifact; CI's own "Card data (generate, validate, coverage)" job is green on this branch.

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- Around line 559-563: Replace the broad result.is_err() assertion in the
CastSpell test with a match against Err(EngineError::InvalidAction(...))
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Comment on lines +559 to +563
assert!(
result.is_err(),
"CR 702.103a: a bestow-rider permission must not authorize a normal creature cast \
from the graveyard, got {result:?}"
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the specific bestow-rider rejection.

result.is_err() accepts every cast failure. An unrelated cast validation (such as missing targets for the Aura host) can satisfy this assertion.

The reach guard castable.contains(&bestowed) proves the permission matched during enumeration. It does not prove that the has_graveyard_cast_permission_without_keyword_constraint check at crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:13481–13491 caused the refusal.

The rider-only rejection produces EngineError::InvalidAction("No legal bestow cast from graveyard".to_string()) — a specific, stable error message. Assert this error variant or message to prove the input reached the keyword-constraint consumer and the refusal came from that path, not from a preceding check.

Repository conventions require: "For every negative assertion, require a paired positive reach-guard proving the input actually reached the code under test." The existing reach guard proves the permission matched. Add an assertion that proves the CastSpell action failed with the rider-specific error message.

Suggested assertion
let result = runner.act(GameAction::CastSpell {
    object_id: bestowed,
    card_id,
    targets: vec![],
    payment_mode: CastPaymentMode::Auto,
});

assert!(
    matches!(result, Err(EngineError::InvalidAction(msg)) if msg.contains("No legal bestow cast from graveyard")),
    "CR 702.103a: a bestow-rider permission must not authorize a normal creature cast \
     from the graveyard, got {result:?}"
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In `@crates/engine/tests/integration/graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs` around
lines 559 - 563, Replace the broad result.is_err() assertion in the CastSpell
test with a match against Err(EngineError::InvalidAction(...)) containing “No
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Changes requested — the Bestow regression still does not cover the changed matcher.

Runtime regression coverage

crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:5296-5312 only evaluates
matches_target_filter_for_zone after proving that the permission filter has
no Bestow keyword constraint. The new test instead installs
FilterProp::HasKeywordKind { Bestow } at
crates/engine/tests/integration/graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs:520-529.
That makes the first condition at casting.rs:5299 false, so the changed
owner/LKI matcher at :5303 is short-circuited and is not witnessed by this
fixture. Its spell_objects_available_to_cast reach guard (:537-546) covers
the separate enumeration consumer, while result.is_err() (:548-563) can
pass for an unrelated cast failure. CodeRabbit's current-head review identifies
the same broad-error issue.

Please add a production Bestow fixture with an unconstrained graveyard
permission and an assertion that distinguishes the actual keyword-constraint
consumer from a controller/LKI reversion. If the existing plain-permission
Bestow path prevents a completing cast, make the expected downstream outcome
specific enough to prove this matcher was evaluated, or address that blocking
path rather than treating the rider-only refusal as coverage for it.

Current-head evidence gate

The only <!-- coverage-parse-diff --> receipt is bound to
9e89833c6838172ba02572ed0fac87dd0a3de95a, not this head
1e4565e36b90607cc3da4a904f5a72b0dfa1f7e1; publish and reconcile a
current-SHA receipt, even if it again reports no parse changes. Required Rust
lint/tests/card-data checks are also still in progress.

The shared matcher is the appropriate seam, and the earlier CR 400.7
attribution has been corrected; the remaining blocker is discriminating
current-head evidence. Do not enqueue until the regression and evidence gates
are complete.

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A card that died under an OPPONENT'S control was silently refused by its own
owner's graveyard permission. MEASURED, with a printed Ramunap-Excavator-shaped
source and the land's owner querying:

    land owner=P0  live_controller=P0  lki_controller=Some(P1)
    before:  graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission(state, P0) -> []
    after:                                                     -> [(land, source)]

So Muldrotha, Karador, Lurrus and Ramunap Excavator all declined a card their
controller owns, whenever an opponent happened to control it when it died.

THE RULE IS UNAMBIGUOUS. CR 109.4: "Only objects on the stack or on the
battlefield have a controller. Objects that are neither on the stack nor on the
battlefield aren't controlled by any player." None of its six exceptions covers
a card in a graveyard. CR 108.4a then says anything asking for such a card's
controller must "use its owner instead", and CR 109.5 says the same of the word
itself -- "you"/"your" refer to "its owner (if it has no controller)".

WHAT ACTUALLY DIVERGED -- not the live `controller` field. `zones.rs`'s
`reset_for_battlefield_exit` forces `base_controller = Some(owner)` and the
destination-keyed reset then writes the owner back (citing these same rules), so
a graveyard card's live controller is already correct. The divergence is the LKI
CACHE: `filter::effective_controller` reads `state.lki_cache[id].controller` for
any object off the battlefield/stack under `ControllerLookup::LiveOrLki`, and the
LKI snapshot is taken BEFORE that reset -- so it holds the THIEF.
`matches_target_filter_in_owner_zone` passes `LiveOnly`, which is what cures it.

Exposure was one step, not permanent: `turns.rs` clears the LKI cache on step
transition (CR 400.7). The failure direction is MIS-EXCLUSION only -- the owner's
own card is refused, never another player's admitted -- so nothing depended on
the old behaviour.

THE FIX. Route all four graveyard-permission consumers in `game::casting`
through `filter::matches_target_filter_for_zone`, the documented single authority
for the zone-ownership substitution (`filter::is_owner_scoped_zone` is already
`Hand | Library | Graveyard`):

    graveyard_object_castable_by_permission_sources      (cast enumeration)
    graveyard_permission_source                          (elected cast authority)
    has_graveyard_cast_permission_without_keyword_constraint
    graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission               (land play)

ALL FOUR TOGETHER, deliberately. Enumeration and election are separate consumers;
converting a subset would let the list of offers disagree with what a cast is
actually allowed to do -- a worse failure than today's uniform one.

EXILE IS DELIBERATELY NOT CONVERTED. `is_owner_scoped_zone` excludes it, and its
doc names the class that depends on the exclusion: "creatures they controlled
that were exiled this way" is keyed on who controlled the object when it left,
so the at-exile LKI controller is load-bearing there. In particular
`exile_land_playable_by_static_permission` keeps `matches_target_filter`.

TESTS. `graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs` -- three rows, all built on a
PRINTED permission rather than any one card's parsed text, because the defect is
class-wide.

    a_land_that_died_under_an_opponents_control_is_still_its_owners_to_play
    a_spell_that_died_under_an_opponents_control_is_still_its_owners_to_cast
    the_owner_substitution_does_not_widen_to_another_players_card

The land and cast halves are separate rows because they are served by DIFFERENT
consumers, so one row cannot cover both. The third pins that the fix substitutes
the owner axis rather than dropping it.

Every row goes through the production zone-change path (`zones::move_to_zone`)
rather than hand-setting fields, and asserts the fixture really is in the
divergent state (live controller == owner, LKI == thief) BEFORE asserting
anything about permissions -- without that staging guard the rows would pass
vacuously the moment a step boundary cleared the LKI cache.

Mutation-verified: reverting the four call sites turns all three red, each
reporting the exact `got []` it guards.

Verified: 21230 lib tests pass, 0 failed; 6936 integration pass; clippy
--all-targets -D warnings clean; fmt clean. One integration failure,
`flamewar_mtmte_export::production_export_has_canonical_pack_tactics_conditions_for_all_eight_cards`,
is PRE-EXISTING and unrelated -- it fails identically on clean upstream main with
this change reverted ("Battle Cry Goblin must export a canonical trigger
condition"). Not touched here.

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

Addresses review on phase-rs#8860.

Runtime coverage gap: the original three rows queried the enumeration
helpers directly, so a regression confined to an elected-authority call
site would have left them green while the action itself was refused.
Adds three rows that submit the real actions and assert they complete:

- `playing_a_stolen_then_buried_land_from_its_owners_graveyard_is_accepted`
  drives `GameAction::PlayLand`, which re-derives the permission through
  `graveyard_lands_playable_by_permission`.
- `casting_a_stolen_then_buried_creature_from_its_owners_graveyard_is_accepted`
  drives `GameAction::CastSpell`, reaching `graveyard_permission_source` --
  the elected authority, a distinct consumer from the enumeration helper.
- `playing_another_players_graveyard_land_is_still_refused` proves the
  non-owner action is REFUSED (not merely absent from an offer list), with
  a paired reach-guard so the negative cannot pass vacuously.

The fourth call site, `has_graveyard_cast_permission_without_keyword_constraint`,
is reached only from the bestow lane. `the_bestow_rider_refusal_resolves_its_permission_against_the_owner`
stages the Detective's-Phoenix-shaped rider-only permission (a
`HasKeywordKind { Bestow }` constraint on the permission filter) on a card
that died under an opponent's control, and asserts via a reach-guard that
the permission resolves against the card's OWNER before asserting CR 702.103a's
refusal of the normal-cast fall-through.

A bestow cast from the graveyard under an unconstrained permission is
refused by this engine for reasons unrelated to owner scoping -- verified by
isolation (identical fixture minus the `Bestow` keyword is accepted; with it,
refused, whichever controller the card died under). That is a separate
pre-existing gap in the bestow lane and is documented in the test rather
than addressed here.

CR attribution: drops the incorrect CR 400.7 citation for `turns.rs`'s
LKI-cache clearing. CR 400.7 establishes that a zone-changing object becomes
a new object; it does not prescribe this engine's cache lifetime, which is an
implementation detail and is now described as such.

Mutation-verified: reverting the four call sites in `game::casting` turns all
seven rows red, each on its own guard.

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

Addresses @matthewevans' second review on phase-rs#8860.

The previous bestow row could not witness the changed matcher, exactly as
reported. `has_graveyard_cast_permission_without_keyword_constraint`
short-circuits on its FIRST conjunct,
`!filter_has_keyword_kind_constraint(source.filter, kind)`, so installing
`FilterProp::HasKeywordKind { Bestow }` made that conjunct false and the
owner/LKI matcher on the third conjunct was never reached. The row also leaned
on a bare `result.is_err()`, which CodeRabbit correctly flagged as satisfiable
by an unrelated failure.

Replaced with two rows:

`the_bestow_keyword_constraint_consumer_resolves_against_the_owner` installs an
UNCONSTRAINED permission (the plain Muldrotha shape), so the first conjunct
passes and execution reaches the matcher, then asserts the consumer's own
verdict POSITIVELY for a card whose LKI controller is the thief -- plus a
paired negative proving the owner axis is substituted, not dropped. Reaching
the consumer from an integration test needs a `#[doc(hidden)]` accessor, since
it is `fn`-private and production-reachable only from the bestow lane.

`bestow_cast_from_graveyard_is_blocked_by_the_aura_form_type_seam` pins the
blocking path rather than leaving it as an unexplained gap.

ROOT CAUSE of that blocker, measured rather than assumed:
`handle_bestow_cost_choice_with_payment_mode` calls `apply_bestow_aura_form`
-- which strips the Creature core type per CR 702.103b -- BEFORE calling
`prepare_spell_cast_with_variant_override`. That re-derives the graveyard
permission, whose filter is `creature cards`, against a card that is no longer
a creature, so the cast is refused with "Card is not in a castable zone".
CR 702.103b places the form change "as a spell cast bestowed is put onto the
stack", i.e. at CR 601.2a and AFTER the permission has authorized the cast, so
re-deriving the permission from post-change types is the defect.

Independent of this PR: the diff touches neither `apply_bestow_aura_form` nor
any type filter, and the refusal reproduces with no control change at all. The
row asserts that specific message, so if the seam is fixed the row fails loudly
and the consumer row can be promoted to full cast-path coverage.

Mutation-verified: reverting the four call sites turns all seven owner-scoping
rows red, including the new consumer row, while the blocker row correctly stays
green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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You were right, and the short-circuit analysis was exact. Fixed in f17b9b68 (rebased onto current main).

The short-circuit

has_graveyard_cast_permission_without_keyword_constraint evaluates
!filter_has_keyword_kind_constraint(source.filter, kind) first, so installing
FilterProp::HasKeywordKind { Bestow } made that conjunct false and the owner/LKI matcher on the
third conjunct was never reached. My rider fixture could not witness the changed code. CodeRabbit's
result.is_err() point was the same defect from the other side — and worth noting, its suggested
assertion would not have compiled a passing test either: it predicted
"No legal bestow cast from graveyard", but the actual error is "Card is not in a castable zone",
which is what put me onto the real cause below.

What replaced it

the_bestow_keyword_constraint_consumer_resolves_against_the_owner — installs an
unconstrained permission (plain Muldrotha shape) so the first conjunct passes and execution
reaches the matcher, then asserts the consumer's own verdict positively for a card whose LKI
controller is the thief, with a paired negative for a card owned by another player. Not an
is_err() — the consumer's boolean. Pre-fix it answers false.

Reaching it from an integration test needed a #[doc(hidden)] accessor, since it is fn-private
and production-reachable only through the bestow lane.

The blocking path — root-caused, not worked around

You asked me to make the outcome specific or address the blocker. It's the latter, and it is a real
bug:

handle_bestow_cost_choice_with_payment_mode calls apply_bestow_aura_form — which strips the
Creature core type per CR 702.103b — before calling prepare_spell_cast_with_variant_override.
That re-derives the graveyard permission, whose filter is creature cards, against a card that is
no longer a creature. Hence "Card is not in a castable zone".

CR 702.103b places the form change "as a spell cast bestowed is put onto the stack" — i.e. at
CR 601.2a, after the permission has authorized the cast. Re-deriving the permission from
post-change types is the defect.

Measured, not inferred. With an unconstrained permission, a legal host and mana:

bestow=false -> cast Ok(...)
bestow=true  -> Err(InvalidAction("Card is not in a castable zone"))
   ...while castable_zone=true, gy_perm=true, no_kw_constraint=true

Independent of this PR: the diff touches neither apply_bestow_aura_form nor any type filter, and
the refusal reproduces with no control change at all. So it is not an owner-scoping symptom.

bestow_cast_from_graveyard_is_blocked_by_the_aura_form_type_seam pins that exact message with a
reach-guard proving the permission does offer the card first. If the seam gets fixed, that row
fails loudly and the consumer row can be promoted to full cast-path coverage. Happy to open a
separate issue for it, or fix it here if you'd rather it not ship as a known gap — your call.

Mutation evidence

Reverting the four call sites (test hook retained) turns all seven owner-scoping rows red,
including the new consumer row — and leaves the blocker row green, which is the correct
signature: it pins something this PR does not change.

the_bestow_keyword_constraint_consumer_resolves_against_the_owner ... FAILED
a_land_that_died_under_an_opponents_control_is_still_its_owners_to_play ... FAILED
a_spell_that_died_under_an_opponents_control_is_still_its_owners_to_cast ... FAILED
casting_a_stolen_then_buried_creature_from_its_owners_graveyard_is_accepted ... FAILED
playing_a_stolen_then_buried_land_from_its_owners_graveyard_is_accepted ... FAILED
playing_another_players_graveyard_land_is_still_refused ... FAILED
the_owner_substitution_does_not_widen_to_another_players_card ... FAILED
bestow_cast_from_graveyard_is_blocked_by_the_aura_form_type_seam ... ok

Evidence gate

All checks passed on the prior head 1e4565e3 — including Card data (generate, validate, coverage), Rust lint, all four Rust tests shards, and Rust (fmt, clippy, test, coverage-gate).
CI is now running against f17b9b68; I'll reconcile the current-SHA coverage-parse-diff receipt
when it publishes.

Local on this head: 8/8 module rows green, cargo clippy -p phase-engine --all-targets -D warnings
clean, cargo fmt --all clean.

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Changes requested — the Bestow regression still bypasses the production consumer.

🟡 Runtime coverage gap

crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:13413-13511 has a reachable production route for the fourth matcher: a graveyard card is first admitted by graveyard_permission_source (:13413-13415), and when no creature is a legal Bestow target, :13426-13434 skips the Aura-form route and :13496-13511 queries has_graveyard_cast_permission_without_keyword_constraint before falling through to the normal graveyard cast.

The new fixture instead creates a legal host at crates/engine/tests/integration/graveyard_permission_owner_zone.rs:458-461 and directly calls the new #[doc(hidden)] pub accessor at crates/engine/src/game/casting.rs:5296-5305. That proves the helper's boolean, but it does not prove that the production cast path reaches the helper; reverting only the changed owner-zone matcher can leave this direct-call test green while the no-target fallback rejects the owner's stolen-then-buried card. The exported test-only API is unnecessary once the behavior is exercised through the action pipeline.

Please replace this direct accessor test with a stolen-then-buried Bestow creature under an unconstrained creature-cast permission, no legal creature target, and sufficient normal mana. Submit GameAction::CastSpell and assert the normal cast completes; retain the owner-negative. This exercises the changed consumer without entering the separately documented Aura-form failure path.

The normal cast/land rows and the correction to the earlier cache-lifetime CR attribution are clean. The current parse-diff sticky receipt is still not visible for this SHA, and required Rust test shards are pending; recheck those after the discriminating regression lands.

Recommendation: request changes; do not enqueue until the production fallback is covered and current-head evidence is complete.

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