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fix(engine): forward a paused put-from-hand choice to its "that creature" continuation (Sneak Attack, #6902) - #8899

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Closes #6902.

The bug

Sneak Attack:

{R}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning of the next end step.

This reproduces on current main, not just on v0.81.2 where it was reported. The "sometimes" is exact, not intermittent:

activation creature cards in hand prompts delayed sacrifice trigger's targets at the end step
1st 2 optional → EffectZoneChoice [] stays on the battlefield
2nd 1 optional → (no choice prompt) [the creature] sacrificed

So it isn't about activating twice. Whenever the creature is picked through a choice prompt, the sacrifice loses its referent.

The two recent delayed-trigger fixes don't cover this. #8845 snapshots EventTarget for combat-damage delayed triggers, and #8881 binds a ParentTargetSlot in a delayed trigger's condition.

Root cause

The put is a forward_result producer.

  • Without a prompt, resolve_chain_body forwards the moved object to the next instruction via SpellContext.forwarded_result_context. The delayed trigger's creation snapshot (parent_target_snapshotparent_chain_referents) reads that forwarded result first.
  • With a choice to make, the producer pauses on EffectZoneChoice before anything moves, so nothing is forwarded. The completion handler in handle_resolution_choice stamped only the single effect-context object and the tracked set onto the parked continuation, never the forwarded result. That's why "gains haste" still applied while the sacrifice didn't.
  • The snapshot therefore found no referent. Its TriggeringSource fallback requires a trigger event (let event = event?;), which an activated ability or a spell doesn't have. The trigger was installed with targets: [].

The fix

The fix makes the paused path honour the same contract the synchronous path already does.

  1. At the pause (resolve_chain_body's generic stash, beside the existing stamp_discovered_referent_onto_continuation precedent): when a forward_result producer pauses on a zone-move EffectZoneChoice, mark the just-parked continuation head's forwarded_result_context as awaiting the result, set to Some([]), the documented "completed producer that moved no objects" value.
  2. At completion (the EffectZoneChoice arm of handle_resolution_choice, right where it already republishes last_zone_changed_ids): a marked head receives ForwardedResultContext::from_object_ids over exactly the objects that selection moved. Descendants inherit it just as they do on the no-prompt path.

Why the marker is gated to that one prompt: other resolution choices hand their result over differently. SearchChoice writes the found card into the continuation's targets, and since parent_chain_referents reads a forwarded result first, an unreplaced marker there would shadow the injected target. An unmarked continuation belongs to a non-forwarding producer and is never touched, so a declared target is never overridden.

No new types, fields or enum variants. The only change is to how the existing forwarded_result_context gets set.

Class

Scryfall lists 11 printed cards with a put-from-hand instruction followed by a "that creature / it" rider. Every one pauses on the same EffectZoneChoice whenever more than one card qualifies:

Sneak Attack, Through the Breach, Arms Race, Cauldron Dance, Ilharg the Raze-Boar, Incandescent Soulstoke, Meek Attack, Planebound Accomplice, Purphoros Bronze-Blooded, Shifty Doppelganger, Surprise Deployment.

Tests

crates/engine/tests/integration/issue_6902_sneak_attack_two_activations_both_sacrificed.rs, driven on the real action path (ActivateAbility / CastSpell, with the optional prompt accepted and the card chosen explicitly):

  • sneak_attack_twice_sacrifices_both_creatures_at_the_next_end_step: an activated ability, where the first pick is a real choice. Reach-guards confirm both creatures entered and one delayed trigger was installed per activation. Both must be in the graveyard after the end step.
  • through_the_breach_sacrifices_the_chosen_creature_after_a_choice_prompt: a spell with the "Sacrifice that creature" phrasing, and two creature cards in hand. The chosen one must be sacrificed, and the unchosen one stays in hand.

Revert-proof. With the two production files reverted to upstream/main, both tests fail with left: Battlefield, right: Graveyard: the chosen creature is stranded. With the fix they pass.

Verification

Residual, stated rather than hidden

Inside the zone-move EffectZoneChoice completion, a per-card replacement re-pause (an ETB replacement that itself needs a choice) completes through the change-zone iteration drain instead of this tail, so the marker stays Some([]) and the rider names nothing. For the activated abilities and spells in this class that equals today's behaviour. Measured since: Sneak Attack putting a Clone does reach it — the entry re-pauses on the copy choice, the parked continuation is drained before that entry completes, and the sacrifice is left with an empty referent. Instrumented evidence and the seam it needs (the paused member's delivery completion, not the iteration drain) are in the review thread. Out of scope here; this PR's no-re-pause fix is unaffected.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed forwarding abilities that pause for zone choices so moved objects remain correctly tracked when choices resolve.
    • Fixed delayed-sacrifice effects for multiple Sneak Attack activations, ensuring each selected creature is sacrificed at the appropriate end step.
    • Fixed Through the Breach handling so only the selected creature enters and is later sacrificed.
    • Prevented forwarded results from being overwritten or reused during sequential resolutions.

…ure" continuation (phase-rs#6902)

Sneak Attack reads "{R}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the
battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning
of the next end step." When more than one creature card was in hand, the
chosen creature was never sacrificed.

The put is a `forward_result` producer. Resolving without a prompt, the chain
forwards the moved object to the next instruction through
`SpellContext.forwarded_result_context`, and the delayed trigger's creation
snapshot (`parent_target_snapshot` -> `parent_chain_referents`) reads it first.
With a choice to make the producer pauses on `EffectZoneChoice` before moving
anything, so nothing is forwarded. The completion handler stamped only the
single effect-context object and the tracked set onto the parked continuation.
The snapshot found no referent, and its `TriggeringSource` fallback needs a
trigger event that an activated ability does not have, so the trigger was
installed with `targets: []`.

Mark the parked continuation as awaiting the producer's result when a
`forward_result` producer pauses on a zone-move `EffectZoneChoice`, and have that
choice's completion replace the marker with exactly the objects the selection
moved (the same `ZoneChanged` slice it republishes as `last_zone_changed_ids`).
The marker is gated to that one prompt because other choices hand their result
over differently: `SearchChoice` writes the found card into the continuation's
targets, which a forwarded result would otherwise shadow.

Class: the put-from-hand + "that creature / it" rider shape on 11 printed cards,
including Sneak Attack, Through the Breach, Arms Race, Cauldron Dance, Ilharg,
Meek Attack, Purphoros and Surprise Deployment.

Tests: Sneak Attack activated twice (first pick is a real choice) and Through the
Breach cast with two creatures in hand, both driven on the real action path;
both fail when the two production files are reverted (the chosen creature stays
on the battlefield).

Refs phase-rs#6902

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The engine now tracks the ability awaiting a forwarded zone-choice result. A matching completed choice writes its moved object context to the parked continuation and consumes the marker once. Integration tests cover delayed sacrifices, including a Clone copy-target pause.

Changes

Forwarded zone-choice resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Continuation forwarding
crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs, crates/engine/src/types/resolution.rs, crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs
SpellContext stores the awaiting producer. Resolution stack accessors locate the continuation beneath an active change-zone frame. Resolution paths preserve, set, and consume the marker when a matching forwarded result completes.
Delayed sacrifice regression coverage
crates/engine/tests/integration/issue_6902_sneak_attack_two_activations_both_sacrificed.rs, crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs
Integration tests verify delayed sacrifices for two Sneak Attack activations, Through the Breach, and a Clone that pauses for a copy-target choice. The test module is registered in the integration binary.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Resolution as Resolution path
  participant Continuation as Active continuation
  participant Choice as EffectZoneChoice
  Resolution->>Continuation: mark forwarded-result producer
  Choice->>Continuation: write moved-object context
  Continuation->>Continuation: consume marker once
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Some replacement and empty-choice scenarios can still associate the wrong creature with a continuation, so delayed effects may target incorrectly. These cases should be fixed before merge.

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- Around line 12164-12198: Update the forward-result handling around
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completed ChangeZone or BounceAll iteration populates ForwardedResultContext
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Changes requested — reviewed at e2b5f2d8174977e06a25a050ab25d22d9c6b350e.

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  1. Forwarded-result completion needs an owned pending state, not an empty result sentinel. crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:3313-3326 copies the parent SpellContext, including forwarded_result_context, onto parked children. The new completion path at crates/engine/src/game/engine_resolution_choices.rs:6754-6768 then treats every Some context as its pending marker and overwrites it with the latest zone-choice result. That is not a safe discriminator: crates/engine/src/types/ability.rs:25733-25738 defines Some([]) as a valid completed zero-object result, and crates/engine/src/game/targeting.rs:1050-1066 prioritizes this context when resolving ParentTarget referents.

    A nested non-forwarding choice can therefore replace an inherited producer result with its own selection. The same gap is present when a zone iteration pauses for an ETB replacement or attachment choice: the continuation resumes with the empty marker rather than the moved object. Use a distinct, producer-owned pending-forward state and finalize it only at the terminal zone-iteration completion seam. Please add full-pipeline regressions for both inherited forwarded context and a replacement re-pause.

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I re-read the follow-up against the current head. The requested changes remain: the forwarded result context can still be overwritten by a downstream non-forwarding zone choice, and a selected-zone re-pause still does not finalize the forwarded moved objects. Please preserve the pending/complete distinction through continuation ownership and add regressions for both paths.

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SpellContext.forwarded_result_context documents Some([]) as a COMPLETED
producer that moved nothing, so a pending marker written there was
indistinguishable from a finished empty result: consumers keyed on is_some()
read it as complete, and a later non-forwarding zone choice in the same
resolution overwrote an already-correct forwarded result.

The parked continuation now owns the pending state, keyed by the producer's
exact incarnation, and the completion fills only the frame that is awaiting
that result, consuming the marker. The serialized context keeps its documented
None / Some([]) contract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…#6902)

Two regressions for the pending/complete distinction: a later non-forwarding
completion must not overwrite a filled forwarded result, and the awaiting
marker is consumed exactly once.

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Both halves of the finding were correct. One is fixed here; the other is not, and I'd rather say so than let it look handled.

Fixed: the pending/complete distinction is now owned by the continuation (05bdf2459, regressions 09b5d5dbd)

The root cause was an overload I introduced. SpellContext.forwarded_result_context already documents its own contract:

None means no producer has run in this resolution; Some([]) is a completed producer that moved no objects and intentionally blocks inherited-target fallback.

My pause marker wrote Some([]) into that field — so "pending" became indistinguishable from "completed, moved nothing". Every consumer keyed on is_some() (effects/effect.rs:541 forwarded_parent_target, effect.rs:958 forwarded_result_object_targets, add_target_replacement.rs:482, delayed_trigger.rs:281/:420) read a pending marker as a completed result, and the completion filled any is_some() context, so a later non-forwarding zone choice in the same resolution could overwrite an already-correct forwarded result.

Ownership now lives on the parked continuation, exactly as you put it:

  • PendingContinuation::awaiting_forwarded_result: Option<ObjectIncarnationRef> records which producer the frame is waiting on, keyed by its exact incarnation.
  • The pause side records that ownership instead of touching the serialized context, so SpellContext keeps its documented None / Some([]) meaning untouched.
  • The completion fills only a frame that is actually awaiting, and consumes the marker with take(), so a second (non-forwarding) completion finds nothing to fill.

No wire change: every optional field on PendingContinuation is #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = ...)], so the added field is elided when absent. Both constructors initialise it, and the two exhaustive destructures thread it — they fail closed rather than silently dropping it.

Regressions (crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs, forwarded_marker_ownership_tests):

  • a_non_forwarding_completion_cannot_overwrite_a_filled_forwarded_result — fills the awaiting frame, then runs a second unmarked completion; the producer's result must survive. Revert-proof: keyed on is_some() instead of the marker, the second completion overwrites it.
  • the_awaiting_marker_is_consumed_exactly_once.

Both carry positive reach-guards (the context is not Some([]) while pending; the fill actually happened) so neither can pass vacuously.

Not fixed: the selected-zone re-pause

This is the residual already noted in the PR body, and it is a different seam — measured, not assumed. Instrumenting the Clone repro (Sneak Attack putting a creature that enters as a copy) gave:

mark_called       forward_result=true waiting=EffectZoneChoice has_frame=true
drain_complete    destination=Battlefield occurrences=0
forward_helper    moved=[] frame_marked=None

The marker is set correctly at the pause, but on that route handle_copy_target_choicefinish_copy_target_choice_entry resumes the parked continuation before drain_pending_change_zone_iteration has either a moved object or an active frame. I tried forwarding at the iteration drain and it does not work for that reason, so finalizing there needs the moved objects bound at the paused member's delivery completion instead — with coverage for the Aura-host branch as well as the copy branch.

I have the failing Clone test and that evidence ready; CodeRabbit offered to open a follow-up issue for it. Happy to do it in this PR instead if you'd rather it land together — I kept it out to avoid mixing a second seam into a PR you've already reviewed twice.

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// CR 608.2c: fill ONLY the frame that is awaiting this producer's
// result, and consume the marker so a later non-forwarding zone
// choice in the same resolution cannot overwrite it.
if let Some(frame) = state.active_ability_continuation_frame_mut() {
if frame.pending.awaiting_forwarded_result.take().is_some() {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Finalize awaiting_forwarded_result for empty selections.

When chosen.is_empty() is legal, the branch at Lines 5793-5847 returns before this block. That branch publishes an empty tracked set, but it does not consume awaiting_forwarded_result or store Some([]) in forwarded_result_context.

The continuation can therefore retain a pending marker after the choice completed. A later non-forwarding EffectZoneChoice can consume the marker and forward the wrong objects. A downstream forwarded-result read can also miss the completed empty result.

Use one completion helper for both empty and non-empty terminal paths. Preserve None for a pending choice and Some([]) for a completed empty choice.

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Changes requested — reviewed at 09b5d5d.

The ownership fix for a downstream non-forwarding choice is now correct, but the selected-zone re-pause blocker remains: Clone/Aura-host entry completion resumes the parked continuation before the moved object is forwarded, leaving delayed “that creature” riders with an empty referent. Please forward at the paused-member delivery completion seam and cover both paths end-to-end. Also make terminal empty up-to ChangeZone/BounceAll selections consume the pending marker and publish the completed empty forwarded context; otherwise they incorrectly fall back to inherited targets. A follow-up issue is not sufficient while this PR claims the forwarding fix for this card class.

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Note on the one red check here — "Action Pin Audit" is not from this branch.

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This branch changes five files, all under crates/engine/:

crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/game/engine_resolution_choices.rs
crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs
crates/engine/tests/integration/issue_6902_sneak_attack_two_activations_both_sacrificed.rs
crates/engine/tests/integration/main.rs

git diff upstream/main...HEAD -- .github scripts is empty, and the check runs "with the default branch's checker" against the base, so it looks like a pre-existing repo-wide condition surfacing on every PR rather than anything here. Everything substantive on 09b5d5dbd passed: Rust fmt/clippy/test, all four test shards, WASM, card data, frontend, lobby worker.

Flagging rather than fixing, since pinning those release workflows is outside this PR's scope — happy to do it as a separate change if that's wanted.

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Re-read your follow-up at 09b5d5dbd626f1e7a5f430e0f230beaf78bd8666: thank you for explicitly separating the fixed ownership overwrite from the remaining work. The current request still stands because the selected-zone re-pause path does not finalize the forwarded result before continuation drain, and legal empty up-to ChangeZone/BounceAll selections do not publish the completed empty context. Please address those two paths with the requested production-pipeline regressions, then request another review.

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…inuation (phase-rs#6902)

A `forward_result` producer whose SELECTED member re-pauses while entering (an
as-enters copy choice, an Aura host choice) is delivered out-of-band by the
replacement resume, so it never reaches the moved-object path in
`drain_pending_change_zone_iteration`. Its chained "that creature" rider therefore
resolved against an empty referent: Sneak Attack put a Clone onto the battlefield,
the Clone's copy choice paused the entry, and the delayed sacrifice trigger was
built with `targets: []` — leaving the creature on the battlefield at the end step.

Bound at the paused member-delivery completion, which is the one instant at which
the moved object, the parked continuation and the marker's owner are all reachable
at once. `paused_current.member.object_id` is the delivered object; the
continuation is still parked; the marker still names its producer.

Reaching it needs a new accessor. The stack shape there is
`[AbilityContinuation, ChangeZone]` — the iteration frame owns the top while its
own loop runs — so `active_ability_continuation`, which is strictly top-of-stack,
cannot see the parked continuation at all. `continuation_beneath_active_change_zone`
is a FIXED two-frame adjacency in the established idiom
(cf. `active_change_zone_or_post_replacement_child`,
`outer_ability_continuation_of_active_post_replacement_draw_pair`): any other shape
yields `None` and the caller binds nothing. It is deliberately not a stack search —
binding a continuation found at arbitrary depth could hand one producer's result to
an unrelated sibling.

Consuming the marker keeps a later non-forwarding zone choice from overwriting the
bound result, and makes this a no-op on every route not awaiting a forwarded result.

This is the seam the review and the follow-up issue both named. An earlier attempt
filled the marker from `handle_copy_target_choice` and the two `ReturnAsAuraTarget`
branches instead; that approach is INERT and is not part of this commit. Measured:
at all three of those sites the resolution stack is empty (`stack_len=0`) because
the continuation has already been consumed by `drain_pending_continuation` — every
`.take().is_some()` guard there silently does nothing.

Revert-proof (measured, both halves): with the fix, 3/3 green across issue_6902;
with all five files reverted, the Clone regression fails `left: Battlefield,
right: Graveyard` — the original defect signature.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Changes requested — reviewed at 9e387ae57f6681b8a764d6175ae0893031d36dff.

Blocker

The legal terminal empty-selection path still bypasses the forwarded-result completion. crates/engine/src/game/engine_resolution_choices.rs:5793-5845 publishes a fresh tracked set and returns via resume_with_error_propagation, while the only marker consumption and forwarded_result_context publication remains at :6745-6766 after the non-empty move path. Consequently an up_to zero-selection leaves the continuation without the completed Some([]) result and a downstream ParentTarget/“that creature” rider can fall back to stale inherited targets. Please use one shared owned-completion helper from both terminal paths, consuming the marker and publishing the intentional empty context before resume. Add a real resolution-pipeline regression with forward_result and a stale/inherited target that demonstrates the empty result blocks that fallback.

Required sibling regression

The newly-covered copy-choice re-pause is only one sibling. NeedsAuraAttachmentChoice independently parks the change-zone iteration at crates/engine/src/game/engine_resolution_choices.rs:6010-6079, but the new integration test at crates/engine/tests/integration/issue_6902_sneak_attack_two_activations_both_sacrificed.rs:247-336 drives only CopyTargetChoice. Please add the production Aura-host route: observe ReturnAsAuraTarget, choose a host, and assert the selected entrant remains the delayed “that creature” sacrifice referent. The existing direct state/effect Aura tests do not exercise this forwarding contract.

Current-head evidence

The parse-diff receipt is still generated for 09b5d5dbd626f1e7a5f430e0f230beaf78bd8666, not this head. Please refresh it after the next update; its zero-card result cannot serve as current-head evidence. Required CI is also still in progress at this head.

This PR remains blocked and is not approved or enqueued.

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs`:
- Around line 1615-1618: Update the forwarding logic in
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let delivered = crate::types::ability::ForwardedResultContext::from_object_ids(
state,
&[paused_current.member.object_id],
);

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Forward only an object that reached the requested destination.

terminal_completion_after_resume() can report Prevented or Remained, but this block still forwards paused_current.member.object_id. A redirect is classified as Moved even when its final ZoneChanged.to is not destination. ForwardedResultContext::from_object_ids always adds the object ID to targets, so the continuation receives a nonempty context for these unsuccessful requested moves.

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In `@crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs` around lines 1615 - 1618, Update the
forwarding logic in terminal_completion_after_resume() to use the authoritative
completion and captured ZoneChanged event, forwarding
paused_current.member.object_id only when the original incarnation moved from
another zone to destination; otherwise construct an empty completed context so
Prevented, Remained, and redirects ending elsewhere do not populate targets.

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assert!(
prompts
.iter()
.any(|p| p.starts_with("ReplacementChoice") || p.starts_with("CopyTargetChoice")),

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Require the CopyTargetChoice prompt in the reach-guard.

resolve_putting answers ReplacementChoice and can then finish when priority returns. The final assertions check only the zone and delayed sacrifice trigger, so they can pass even if the Effect::BecomeCopy delivery path never produces and answers the CopyTargetChoice returned by apply_post_replacement_effect.

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around lines 301 - 304, Update the prompt assertion in the integration test to
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Changes requested — re-reviewed at 9e387ae57f6681b8a764d6175ae0893031d36dff.

Blockers

  1. A re-paused member is forwarded even when its terminal delivery did not move it. crates/engine/src/game/effects/mod.rs:1591-1596 correctly records paused_current.terminal_completion_after_resume(), whose exact-event classifier distinguishes Moved from Remained at crates/engine/src/types/game_state.rs:3866-3891. But effects/mod.rs:1615-1623 unconditionally makes the selected object the forwarded result. A prevented or redirected delivery must instead consume the awaiting marker and publish Some([]); otherwise a downstream ParentTarget/“that creature” rider names an object that did not enter by this effect. Add resolution-pipeline regressions for prevented and redirected re-paused delivery.

  2. The legal terminal empty-selection path still bypasses forwarded-result completion. crates/engine/src/game/engine_resolution_choices.rs:5793-5845 publishes a fresh tracked set and returns via resume_with_error_propagation, while marker consumption and forwarded_result_context publication remain at :6745-6766 after the non-empty move path. Consequently an up_to zero-selection leaves the continuation without the completed Some([]) result and a downstream ParentTarget/“that creature” rider can fall back to stale inherited targets. Please use one shared owned-completion helper from both terminal paths, consuming the marker and publishing the intentional empty context before resume. Add a real resolution-pipeline regression with forward_result and a stale/inherited target that demonstrates the empty result blocks that fallback.

Required sibling regression

The newly-covered copy-choice re-pause is only one sibling. NeedsAuraAttachmentChoice independently parks the change-zone iteration at crates/engine/src/game/engine_resolution_choices.rs:6010-6079, but the new integration test at crates/engine/tests/integration/issue_6902_sneak_attack_two_activations_both_sacrificed.rs:247-336 drives only CopyTargetChoice. Please add the production Aura-host route: observe ReturnAsAuraTarget, choose a host, and assert the selected entrant remains the delayed “that creature” sacrifice referent. The existing direct state/effect Aura tests do not exercise this forwarding contract.

Current-head evidence

The parse-diff receipt is now current and reports no card-parse changes. Required CI is not yet fully green at this head.

This PR remains blocked and is not approved or enqueued.

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