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Research + design for a general, data-driven custom-format layer, validated by expressing four Eternal Central retro formats (Old School 93-94, Old School 95, Middle School, Classic Magic) as data on top of it rather than four hardcoded GameFormat variants. Schema splits CustomFormatRules into two independent axes: StructuralRules (life, players, deck size, range of influence, team-based, singleton — already FormatConfig fields, already partially host-adjustable in the lobby) and LegalityRules (legal sets, banned/restricted, legacy rules like mana burn / damage-on-stack / pre-M10 Wish / legend-rule scope). Delivery recommendation is a "save as custom format" action on the existing lobby first (Axis A), with the four EC formats shipping as audited presets on the same schema (Axis B) in parallel. No engine or frontend code — design/research docs only, opened for maintainer review.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe PR adds research and design documentation for a data-driven custom-format engine. It defines structural, legality, and legacy-rule configuration, preset formats, lobby conversion, validation, frontend exposure, testing, and phased implementation sequencing. Custom format engine
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/CONTEXT.md`:
- Around line 52-62: Update the engine-owned constructed-deck validation path,
centered on evaluate_constructed, to accept and enforce configurable deck size,
singleton/copy limits, and sideboard policy instead of hardcoded 60-card,
15-card, and four-copy rules. Ensure CustomFormatRules values are threaded into
this parameterized validation path and composed with the existing engine rules,
so saved custom formats’ structural settings are honored.
- Around line 203-209: Update the custom format design around the
PrintingDefault and ArtChainEntry discussion so printing legality is owned by
the engine, not represented as an extension of frontend cosmetic preferences.
Define the engine’s printing-eligibility predicate as authoritative and expose
only its resulting legality to frontend or transport layers, keeping all clients
consistent.
- Around line 213-216: Define the bundled-preset snapshot contract in the
Classic Magic cadence section: document that resolving a preset stores the
complete CustomFormatRules snapshot despite CustomFormatId lacking a version or
effective date, or instead specify immutable preset versions or effective dates
before registry integration.
In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 150-157: Represent unrestricted legality in the custom-format
legality model so Axis-A formats with no set restriction remain valid; update
the evaluator to treat an absent or explicitly empty legal-set filter as
unrestricted while preserving filtering for non-empty sets, and add coverage for
both empty and non-empty cases.
- Around line 142-148: Update LegalityRules and evaluate_custom_format so
ReprintPolicy is either represented by selected-printing data and enforced
during evaluation, or explicitly treated as metadata-only and removed from the
rules-correct preset contract; model the behavior as reusable format-rule logic
rather than inert preset-specific configuration, and apply the same change to
the related preset definitions and documentation.
- Around line 128-136: Update StructuralRules and
CustomFormatDef::from_lobby_config so every behavior-bearing FormatConfig field,
including command_zone, commander_damage_threshold, uses_commander,
supplies_fixed_deck, and sideboard_policy, is represented and preserved;
otherwise explicitly reject configurations using unsupported fields. Define one
canonical source of truth between FormatConfig and custom_rules.structural,
while maintaining composable data-driven behavior and fidelity to the existing
engine contract.
- Around line 92-100: Update the custom-format proposal to require capability
negotiation or explicit rejection before transmitting
GameFormat::Custom(CustomFormatId) across WASM/P2P boundaries, since serde
defaults do not protect older consumers from unknown enum variants. Define
validation before registry, legality, or legacy-rule processing so FormatConfig
with GameFormat::Custom(id) is accepted only when custom_rules exists and its
identifier matches; reject missing, mismatched, and mixed configurations while
keeping rule evaluation in the engine.
- Around line 258-272: Expand the custom-format plan to define the dynamic
metadata and persistence contract for CustomFormatDef and from_lobby_config,
including owned labels/descriptions, persistence scope, stable CustomFormatId
allocation, collision handling, and host/peer synchronization. Separate bundled
static FormatMetadata presets from saved-format payloads, and specify the
WASM/frontend registry representation and parity tests required for return
visits and runtime-created formats.
- Around line 321-326: Update LegacyRuleSet.mana_burn to trigger from the
phase-end compatibility hook rather than the step-end drain, and apply the
accumulated amount as life loss to the mana owner instead of damage. Revise
GameEvent::ManaBurn to carry the phase-end life-loss semantics and update
related tests to assert phase timing, life reduction, and the adjusted event
payload.
Apply the same fix in `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/RESEARCH.md` around
lines 159 - 166: The research section also specifies the incorrect damage-based
behavior.
- Around line 284-289: Update the preset registration and selection plan to
include a support matrix that enables Middle School and Classic Magic only after
every declared legacy capability is implemented, including mana_burn and
damage_uses_stack. Remove any caveat-based exposure of partially supported
presets and ensure selectable formats maintain complete rules fidelity.
Apply the same fix in `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/RESEARCH.md` around
lines 173 - 199: The research identifies historical rules required by presets
but not yet supported.
In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/RESEARCH.md`:
- Around line 60-68: Update the “Restricted” heading to count all 44 listed
entries, and format the list as discrete machine-countable items so preset
generation can reliably determine its canonical size. Preserve the existing
names and ordering.
- Around line 103-120: Update the custom-format legality model so set-code
membership is not the sole predicate: add composable engine-owned card or
printing exceptions supporting card identity plus frame, art, and foil
constraints, including qualifying reprints and named promotional cards. If those
constraints cannot be represented with current data, mark the affected presets
as approximations rather than audited rules-faithful formats, while preserving
set-code filtering for the base pool.
- Around line 227-239: Revise the “Idiomatic-Rust note on the legacy-rules axis”
to recommend typed policy enums rather than raw bool fields or bitflags: define
independent policies such as ManaBurnPolicy, CombatDamageTiming, and
WishOutsideGameScope, then compose them in LegacyRuleSet. Preserve the
independent rule-axis model while making supported states explicit and
exhaustive.
- Around line 359-375: Use the canonical pre_m10_wish_reaches_exile field name
consistently throughout the proposal, including the search_outside_game::resolve
pseudocode and naming discussion; replace all remaining pre_m10_wish_templating
references in this document and related serialized-field references.
- Around line 509-545: Revise the proposed legend-rule scope model around
LegacyRuleSet and LegendRuleScope so it does not label the global all-die
behavior as the ambiguous PreM14AnyController era. Either define typed,
exhaustive parameters for the historical rules era and duplicate outcome, or
rename the variant to explicitly represent the global all-die behavior and
document the formats it supports; preserve Modern as the default.
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| - `CardDatabase::printings_for(name) -> Option<&[String]>` (`card_db.rs:227-230`) | ||
| returns set codes; backed by `printings_index` populated from the export | ||
| `printings` field (`card_db.rs:101-103`). | ||
| - **This is the enforceable legality key**: a card is pool-legal for a custom | ||
| format iff at least one of its printings' set codes is in the format's | ||
| `legal_sets` list. | ||
| - **Data gap:** printings are *set codes only* — there is **no per-printing | ||
| frame/border/art metadata** in the runtime DB. So "original frame/art only" | ||
| (93-94) vs "old-border only" (Classic) vs "modern border begrudgingly allowed" | ||
| (Middle School) are **not fully distinguishable** from current data. However, | ||
| set-code membership is a *good approximation*: a modern reprint of an Alpha | ||
| card lives in a modern set code, which is simply not in `legal_sets`, so it is | ||
| excluded automatically. The reprint-policy nuance mainly affects special | ||
| reprint set codes (CE/ICE/world-championship/artist-proof), which are | ||
| themselves distinct set codes and can be added/omitted from `legal_sets` per | ||
| format. **Recommendation:** model reprint policy as *which set codes are in the | ||
| legal list*, and flag frame/art-level fidelity as a known limitation (needs a | ||
| new per-printing data field if we ever want to enforce it precisely). |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not make set-code membership the sole legality predicate.
The proposal defines legality as having any printing whose set code appears in legal_sets. EC rules also allow qualifying reprints from sets outside the base pool and specific promotional cards. A set-level allowlist cannot distinguish one permitted reprint from other cards in the same set, or allow named promotional cards without allowing an entire set. (eternalcentral.com)
Add an engine-owned card or printing exception model with the required frame, art, foil, and card-level identity, or mark these presets as approximations rather than audited rules-faithful formats.
As per path instructions, strict MTG rules fidelity must be preserved by composable engine-owned building blocks.
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/RESEARCH.md` around lines 103 - 120,
Update the custom-format legality model so set-code membership is not the sole
predicate: add composable engine-owned card or printing exceptions supporting
card identity plus frame, art, and foil constraints, including qualifying
reprints and named promotional cards. If those constraints cannot be represented
with current data, mark the affected presets as approximations rather than
audited rules-faithful formats, while preserving set-code filtering for the base
pool.
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… only Full LegacyRuleSet engine wiring (mana burn, damage-on-the-stack, pre-M10 Wish, legend-rule scope) is real risk and makes the MVP harder to test. Swedish Old School 93/94 — a distinct, real ruleset verified this session against oldschool-mtg.blogspot.com/p/banrestriction.html — has its own restricted list (23 names, different from EC's), an empty banned list, and no mention of mana burn or any other legacy rule, so it needs none of that wiring. Premodern already exists as a native GameFormat and needs no new work at all; it's cited only as an existing precedent for the same shape. Re-sequences to two phases: phase 1 ships the general engine + the Axis A lobby-save action + swedish_old_school() as the only new Axis B preset (zero LegacyRuleSet wiring exercised); phase 2 ships the four EC formats plus the legacy-rules engine work they actually need. Nothing is cut — the four EC formats and full legacy-rules axis remain the target, they just move to a phase that ships once the schema is already proven end-to-end by something smaller. Flags two new open items: ante-card handling (a third list-shaped rule, distinct from banned/restricted, with no schema slot yet) and Swedish Old School's reprint policy (unconfirmed against the primary source).
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 335-341: The phase-2 legacy rules plan still specifies the wrong
mana-burn behavior. Update the mana-burn contract in the legacy rules section to
apply unspent-mana loss as life loss at phase end rather than damage at each
step, and define the event payload required to represent that behavior before
implementation.
- Around line 280-286: Update the swedish_old_school preset to include the
verified MTGJSON code for Summer Magic, reconcile the complete restricted-card
list and its cardinality between the preset plan and CONTEXT.md, and update the
preset-integrity test to assert the exact sets and restricted list.
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The proposal cannot safely move to implementation yet. The current head has several design-level correctness gaps:
- Axis-A custom formats leave
legalityat defaults, but the proposed evaluator accepts a card only when a printing intersectslegal_sets. An empty vector rejects every card. Represent unrestricted legality explicitly and test it separately from set-restricted legality. StructuralRulesdrops behavior-bearingFormatConfigstate (including command-zone/commander and fixed-deck fields) and has no canonical sideboard-policy source. Afrom_lobby_configconversion must preserve every supported behavior or reject unsupported configurations explicitly.- A user-saved format has no defined dynamic identity, persistence, metadata, or transport contract. The static registry cannot supply arbitrary saved names/IDs, and
serde(default)does not make older peers acceptGameFormat::Custom. Define durable owned metadata/ID allocation, host-peer propagation, compatibility/rejection, and validation that the custom ID matches its resolved rules. - The mana-burn plan says to deal damage at each step end. Pre-M10 rules emptied mana at phase end and mana burn was life loss; damage and step timing are behaviorally different. Model the historical boundary and life-loss semantics before implementation.
- The preset data is internally inconsistent: Swedish Old School's context lists Summer Magic and 25 restricted names but the plan omits Summer Magic and says 23; Classic Magic says 37 while enumerating 44. Re-verify exact set codes and make the canonical lists machine-checkable.
Please revise the design and its tests/acceptance criteria, then request re-review on a new head.
…review Fixes all five design-correctness gaps from the round-2 review: 1. legal_sets was a bare Vec<SetCode>, so Axis A's default (no set restriction) evaluated as "restricted to nothing" and rejected every card. Changed to Option<Vec<SetCode>> (None = unrestricted). 2. StructuralRules dropped command_zone, commander_damage_threshold, and archenemy_player, and had no source for sideboard_policy (which turns out to be a GameFormat method, not a FormatConfig field, so Custom has no derivation path for it). Added all four; uses_commander is now derived from commander_damage_threshold rather than stored redundantly; supplies_fixed_deck stays false for Custom; allow_debug_actions is correctly excluded (orthogonal to format per its own doc comment). 3. No identity/persistence/transport contract existed for a lobby-saved format. Resolved by separating two conflated concerns: in-game peer agreement (already solved -- FormatConfig.custom_rules carries the full payload, not a lookup key) from a player's reusable saved-format library (client-side-only, never an engine/WASM type). Flags the real version-skew risk (an old client can't be rescued by serde(default) on an enum variant it doesn't know) as a lobby-join-handshake requirement. 4. Mana burn was modeled as damage at every engine Phase-enum transition. Verified against docs/MagicCompRules.txt:8278: it's life loss, not damage. Verified against the engine's own Phase enum (types/phase.rs): it flattens MTG's steps and phases into one flat list, so gating on every transition fires mid-phase (e.g. DeclareAttackers -> DeclareBlockers), not just at real phase boundaries. Also found an existing generic mechanism this can reuse: player_unspent_mana_loss_causes_life_loss / apply_empty_mana_pool_event, currently used for a Yurlok-class card-granted ability at full CR 500.5 granularity. Redesigned as a phase-group-boundary-gated second contribution to the same event, independent of the Yurlok-class check. 5. Swedish Old School's restricted list was mislabeled 23 when 25 names are enumerated, and the preset sketch had dropped Summer Magic from the legal-sets list. Classic Magic's restricted list was labeled 37 when 44 are enumerated. All four fixed and cross-checked between CONTEXT.md, PLAN.md, and RESEARCH.md.
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legal_setsas anOptionbefore extending it.
LegalityRules.legal_setsisOption<Vec<SetCode>>, butold_school_95()callsd.legal_sets.extend(...)as if it were aVec. The plan does not define howNonebecomesSome, so the builder does not preserve the unrestricted-pool semantics.Match on
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ReprintPolicyinevaluate_custom_format.
classic_magic()selectsOriginalPrintingsOnly, but the pool check accepts a card when any printing has a permitted set code. The selected reprint policy therefore has no effect, and an illegal printing can pass through another printing.Add a printing-aware predicate for frame, art, foil, and card identity constraints. Alternatively, remove this policy from rules-faithful presets.
As per path instructions, strict MTG fidelity requires composable engine-owned legality rules.
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/CONTEXT.md`:
- Around line 215-219: Do not persist archenemy_player in
SavedCustomFormat.rules; keep archenemy selection in per-game lobby state, or
persist only a stable seat or role and resolve it before engine startup.
Preserve the separation between persistence identity, transport, and engine
behavior.
In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 403-409: Replace the raw legacy flag sets in the preset
definitions with typed fields on LegacyRuleSet, using ManaBurnPolicy,
CombatDamageTiming, and WishOutsideGameScope. Assign explicit modern defaults
and represent each historical preset’s behavior through the corresponding enum
values, preserving the existing preset semantics while preventing unsupported
combinations.
- Around line 351-361: Update CustomFormatDef::from_lobby_config to receive
sideboard_policy through an explicit conversion input or a canonical separate
conversion step, then populate StructuralRules.sideboard_policy from it. Keep
structural rules separate from transport-layer data and update the related call
sites or test inputs to use the expanded conversion contract.
- Around line 478-496: Update the mana-emptying design so format-level mana burn
drains the pool only at a phase-group boundary, preserving mana across
intra-phase steps; retain Yurlok-class per-transition draining independently. In
docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md:478-496, revise the
LegacyRuleSet.mana_burn and apply_empty_mana_pool_event guidance accordingly. In
docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/RESEARCH.md:194-212, require intra-phase
mana retention while preserving Yurlok behavior.
- Around line 377-388: Do not register swedish_old_school in
docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md:377-388 until ante-card handling and
reprint policy are modeled and verified. Keep Middle School and Classic
non-selectable in docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md:516-518 until
damage_uses_stack is consumed by the authoritative combat implementation.
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 397-401: Update the old_school_95() builder so it handles
LegalityRules.legal_sets as an Option: extend the contained Vec<SetCode> when it
is Some, and explicitly construct Some(Vec<SetCode>) when needed for the
unrestricted-pool semantics. Preserve the base rules from old_school_93_94() and
the additional set entries.
- Around line 405-425: Update evaluate_custom_format and its pool-legality logic
to enforce rules.reprint_policy, especially OriginalPrintingsOnly selected by
classic_magic(), rather than accepting any permitted printing. Add a composable
engine-owned predicate that evaluates each candidate printing’s frame, art,
foil, and card-identity constraints while preserving the existing legal_sets
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The revised proposal corrects the empty-legal-pool issue, but it still is not safe to use as the implementation charter:
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Mana burn gates the wrong operation and lacks the needed transition continuation.
PLAN.md:478-496gates only loss of life at a phase-group boundary. The current engine empties the pool on every phase/step transition (crates/engine/src/game/turns.rs:332-377,448-483), so there is no mana left at the later boundary to burn.state.phaseis already the destination at that call and life loss can defer through replacement handling. Design the policy at the transition/empty-pool seam so old formats retain mana intra-phase, carry from/to phase, and resume correctly after replacement choices. The historical distinction is also documented by Wizards' M10 rules change: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/rules-changes-2009-06-10. -
StructuralRules.sideboard_policyhas no runtime authority or conversion source. The proposedfrom_lobby_config(FormatConfig)cannot obtain the new structural field (PLAN.md:148-164,345-361), while production deck paths use the static enum methodstate.format_config.format.sideboard_policy()(crates/engine/src/game/deck_loading.rs:681,crates/engine/src/game/match_flow.rs:357). Specify a singleFormatConfig/custom-rules-aware policy accessor and migrate each consumer; otherwise a saved format's policy is silently ignored. -
SavedCustomFormatmust not persistarchenemy_player: Option<PlayerId>. That is a per-lobby/game seat identity (PLAN.md:153-165,572-573), and current config validation compares it with the actual game player count (crates/engine/src/types/format.rs:658-670). Reusing the saved preset can choose a nonexistent or wrong player. Keep that selection in lobby setup, or persist a stable role/seat that is resolved before game creation. -
Commander derivation is incorrect for inconsistent structural inputs. The proposal derives
uses_commanderfrom threshold presence alone (PLAN.md:135-138), whereas the existing format authority treats it as command zone and a threshold (crates/engine/src/types/format.rs:365-380). Derive it from both conditions at the config authority and test malformed/mismatched combinations. -
Several declared preset policies remain unenforced or internally inconsistent. The proposed evaluator covers only set/banned/restricted membership (
PLAN.md:419-435), not the declaredReprintPolicy; its legend option is acknowledged to conflate historical rules (RESEARCH.md:505-515). Do not register Swedish/EC presets as rules-faithful until their required legality and legacy policies are represented and consumed at the authoritative seams. Also correct the remaining 23-versus-25 Swedish restricted-list contradiction (PLAN.md:384-385,641;CONTEXT.md:103-104,418).
Please revise the design and its implementation/test plan around those engine authorities before requesting another review.
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Round 2's fixes were themselves incomplete or wrong on all five points
matthewevans re-flagged. Each re-verified directly against the cited engine
source before treating the review as correct, not accepted at face value:
1. Round 2 only gated the mana-burn LIFE-LOSS check to phase-group
boundaries, leaving the pool-emptying event firing unconditionally on
every Phase transition -- so by the time a boundary was reached, the
pool was already silently drained with nothing left to burn. Fixed by
reusing an existing mechanism instead of gating a side-effect on an
event that already ran: the engine's ManaExpiry type already has
EndOfCombat ("persists through combat steps, drains at EndCombat ->
PostCombatMain", used by Firebending) -- generalized with a third
variant, EndOfPhaseGroup, so mana_burn-tagged mana actually persists
across intra-phase-group steps and only drops (and burns) at a real
phase-group crossing.
2. StructuralRules.sideboard_policy had no accessor -- GameFormat::
sideboard_policy() can't see FormatConfig.custom_rules at all. Added
FormatConfig::sideboard_policy() as the single canonical accessor and
specified migrating both production call sites (deck_loading.rs,
match_flow.rs) to it.
3. archenemy_player is per-game seat identity validated against that game's
player count (FormatConfig::archenemy_player/validate_for_player_count),
not a reusable structural setting -- removed from StructuralRules
entirely; Axis A doesn't support the Archenemy topology.
4. uses_commander was derived from commander_damage_threshold alone;
GameFormat::uses_commander()'s own doc comment states the real
invariant requires command_zone AND the threshold. Fixed the derivation
to use both conditions.
5. ReprintPolicy is declared but never consumed by the evaluator, and
LegendRuleScope::PreM14AnyController's historical conflation was never
resolved. Added a general preset-readiness rule: a preset can't be
registered as selectable until every legality/legacy field it declares
is both specified and actually enforced -- this currently blocks
swedish_old_school() specifically. Also fixed two more lingering
23-vs-25 restricted-list references round 2 missed.
…thewevans) Mirrors the same fix pushed to the upstream proposal PR (phase-rs#7703) -- see that commit message for full reasoning.
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299-309: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftReplace legacy booleans with typed policy enums.
mana_burn,damage_uses_stack, andpre_m10_wish_reaches_exileremain independent flags. This permits unsupported combinations and forces non-exhaustive conditionals at the engine seams.Use typed policies such as
ManaBurnPolicy,CombatDamageTiming, andWishOutsideGameScope, with explicit modern defaults and exhaustive matching.As per path instructions, use typed enums instead of boolean rule data.
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186-187: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winProvide
sideboard_policyas an explicit conversion input.
StructuralRules.sideboard_policyhas no derivation source.from_lobby_config(name, &config)cannot populate it becausesideboard_policyis not aFormatConfigfield.Add
sideboard_policyto the conversion input, or define a separate canonical conversion object. Update the save flow and round-trip test to use that input.As per path instructions, keep structural rules and transport data distinct.
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 756-767: Update the preset-readiness gate and phase-two rollout so
every required source-format rule, including ante-card handling and
damage_uses_stack, is explicitly specified and consumed by the authoritative
evaluator/engine before registration or exposure as selectable. Keep Swedish Old
School, Middle School, and Classic non-selectable until those rules are
implemented; do not treat documented fidelity caveats as sufficient.
- Around line 135-146: Update the plan to thread FormatConfig or a resolved
custom-rules object through every custom-format consumer, including
companion_offers, label, and for_format, instead of relying on GameFormat-only
methods or the fixed CustomFormatId sentinel. Ensure custom commander settings,
sideboard policies, and names are resolved consistently across deck_loading.rs,
match_flow.rs, and all other consumers; alternatively, specify a synchronized
registry and identity contract before introducing Custom arms.
- Around line 199-207: Update FormatConfig validation before any registry,
legality, sideboard, or metadata access to reject custom formats missing
custom_rules or containing inconsistent identifiers. Keep transport validation
authoritative at the engine boundary, and call FormatConfig::sideboard_policy()
and other infallible accessors only after this validation succeeds.
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 299-309: Replace the legacy boolean rule fields mana_burn,
damage_uses_stack, and pre_m10_wish_reaches_exile with typed policy enums such
as ManaBurnPolicy, CombatDamageTiming, and WishOutsideGameScope. Define explicit
modern defaults and update engine conditionals to exhaustively match each
policy, while keeping these rules independent.
---
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 186-187: Update the from_lobby_config conversion API to accept
sideboard_policy as an explicit input, since it cannot be derived from
FormatConfig. Propagate that input through the save flow and update the
round-trip test to supply and verify it, while keeping StructuralRules separate
from transport data.
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Reviewed head e1c6c19121940ddc610f1b10e9ea9f2e4e132ab2. The documentation-only checks are green; no parser receipt is expected for this diff. Several earlier design issues are improved, but these current-head gaps must be resolved before this proposal can be accepted:
- Custom format context is partial, and malformed payloads can panic.
PLAN.md:199-218proposes anexpect-based accessor and migrates only deck loading and match flow, whilecrates/engine/src/game/companion.rs:252-260still consumesGameFormatto determine commander and sideboard behavior. Define fallible ingress validation forcustom_rules(including ID consistency), then pass a resolved custom-format context through every format consumer—at least companion handling, deck/match, registry, labels, and legality—rather than relying onexpect. - The saved sideboard policy has no authoritative source.
PLAN.md:167-186correctly says it is not aFormatConfigfield, butPLAN.md:404-414constructs a definition from&FormatConfigalone andPLAN.md:704-708assumes that input supplies it. Specify the canonical conversion input or resolved aggregate so this Axis-A setting cannot be silently lost. - Legacy rules remain untyped and presets can be exposed before all source rules exist.
PLAN.md:341-355still uses boolean legacy-rule switches, andPLAN.md:624-626describes formats requiring damage on the stack as playable-with-caveat. Use typed policy enums (including modern defaults) and make format selectability contingent on complete engine support—notably ante, printing/reprint exceptions, and damage-on-the-stack—rather than exposing a caveated preset. The readiness gate atPLAN.md:756-770needs to enforce this. - Compatibility and legality exceptions need a concrete model.
PLAN.md:286-297identifies old-client handling but does not design negotiation/rejection, whilePLAN.md:474-508admits reprint policy is declared but not evaluated. Add a precise compatibility state/negative cases and a printing/card-exception model (or explicitly narrow the proposal so no affected preset can register). Also reconcile the stalepre_m10_wish_templatingname inRESEARCH.md:417,442with the canonical plan terminology.
Please update the proposal and its test plan, then request re-review at a new head.
…s round 3
Per direct instruction, re-audited every point raised across all four review
rounds against current source (not against prior claims) rather than only
fixing the newest round. Found one additional real gap nobody had named yet:
deck_validation.rs's DeckCompatibilityRequest.selected_format has the same
bare-GameFormat problem as companion.rs, just never flagged by anyone.
1. Round 3's sideboard_policy fix used FormatConfig::sideboard_policy() as a
method with .expect("Custom format must carry custom_rules") -- a
production panic path -- and migrated only 2 of 7 real consumer call
sites (companion.rs x4, deck_loading.rs x2, match_flow.rs x2,
deck_validation.rs x5). Fixed: fallible validation of the
format/custom_rules invariant at every construction/ingestion point
(malformed values rejected at the boundary, never constructed);
sideboard_policy becomes a stored FormatConfig field matching the
existing uses_commander/supplies_fixed_deck pattern (verified via their
own consistency test at format.rs:1512-1513), not a new method; every
real consumer migrates to read it, with signatures widened wherever they
only carry a bare GameFormat today (companion_offers,
DeckCompatibilityRequest).
2. from_lobby_config never specified where sideboard_policy comes from.
Fixed: config.format.sideboard_policy(), valid because the conversion's
input is always a built-in format at save time.
3. LegacyRuleSet's three bools (mana_burn, damage_uses_stack,
pre_m10_wish_reaches_exile) become typed enums (ManaBurnPolicy,
CombatDamageTiming, WishOutsideGameScope), matching LegendRuleScope's
existing shape. Tightened the preset-readiness gate: no preset may ship
in a "playable with a caveat" state -- retracts this doc's own earlier
claim that Middle School/Classic Magic could ship before damage-on-stack
lands.
4. Designed the version-skew compatibility fix concretely instead of
flagging it: reuse the engine's existing PROTOCOL_VERSION/
MIN_SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL handshake gate (server-core/protocol.rs) rather
than inventing new negotiation. For ReprintPolicy enforcement, named two
sufficient resolution paths (the general printing cross-reference, or a
one-preset verification pass) rather than building the full model now.
Also fixed two stale pre_m10_wish_templating references in RESEARCH.md
that survived since round 1 despite PLAN.md already using the canonical
name throughout.
…ress round 3 Mirrors the same fix pushed to the upstream proposal PR (phase-rs#7703) -- see that commit message for full reasoning.
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413-423: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winUse the typed Wish policy in the resolver contract.
PLAN.mddefinesLegacyRuleSet.wish_scope: WishOutsideGameScope, but this pseudocode still readslegacy.pre_m10_wish_reaches_exileas a boolean. An implementation can add a second field and leaveWishOutsideGameScopeunused. Comparewish_scopewithWishOutsideGameScope::PreM10ReachesExileand use that field name consistently.Also applies to: 444-450
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md`:
- Around line 630-642: The selectable rules contract must not expose
rules.reprint_policy while evaluate_custom_format lacks a generic engine-owned
printing predicate. Remove ReprintPolicy from LegalityRules or otherwise make it
non-behavior-bearing, and do not rely on a preset-specific audit as enforcement.
- Around line 254-265: Update the deck-validation design around
DeckCompatibilityRequest.selected_format so the Custom dispatch receives a full
validated FormatConfig or CustomFormatRules containing legal sets, banned names,
restricted names, and all other custom-rule data needed by
evaluate_custom_format. Do not use ResolvedFormatFacts-only context; if
selected_format remains a compact representation, require an explicit validated
registry lookup before Custom dispatch.
- Around line 443-450: Revise the CombatDamageTiming.OnStack documentation to
describe historical combat damage as a damage object assigned and placed on the
stack, not as a triggered ability. Preserve the distinction from Modern timing
and align the wording with RESEARCH.md §6, including the resulting priority
window without implying triggered-ability behavior.
- Around line 234-253: Update FormatConfig deserialization and
validate_custom_rules_consistency so the stored sideboard_policy cannot differ
from custom_rules.structural.sideboard_policy for custom formats; preferably
derive or skip the serialized field and recompute it during construction,
otherwise reject mismatches at the validation boundary.
- Around line 353-363: Update the protocol-version changes associated with
GameFormat::Custom to also bump LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION and
MIN_SUPPORTED_LOBBY_PROTOCOL, ensuring LobbyOnly handshakes reject older brokers
before FormatConfig deserialization. Use the existing lobby handshake validation
symbols rather than adding a custom negotiation layer.
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- Around line 413-423: The search_outside_game::resolve exile-append condition
must use the typed legacy wish policy rather than a boolean flag. Read
custom_rules’ legacy.wish_scope and compare it with
WishOutsideGameScope::PreM10ReachesExile, using that field name consistently and
preserving the existing source_pool.includes_face_up_exile() condition.
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| // 1. `FormatConfig` construction/deserialization gains fallible validation | ||
| // of the `format`/`custom_rules` invariant: | ||
| // `format == GameFormat::Custom(id) ⟺ custom_rules == Some(rules) && | ||
| // rules.id == id`. Every constructor (`from_lobby_config`, preset | ||
| // constructors, and the WASM/network deserialization boundary) goes | ||
| // through one `fn validate_custom_rules_consistency(&FormatConfig) -> | ||
| // Result<(), FormatConfigError>` check. A malformed value is rejected at | ||
| // the boundary — never constructed, never sent, never silently accepted | ||
| // — so nothing downstream needs to guard against it, and no consumer | ||
| // needs `.expect()`/`.unwrap()` on `custom_rules`. | ||
| // 2. `sideboard_policy` becomes a STORED FIELD on `FormatConfig` | ||
| // (`pub sideboard_policy: SideboardPolicy`), computed once at | ||
| // construction — this MATCHES the existing pattern `uses_commander` and | ||
| // `supplies_fixed_deck` already use (both are stored fields on | ||
| // `FormatConfig`, computed at construction time and kept in sync by a | ||
| // dedicated test, `format.rs:1512`/`:1513` — confirmed this round, not | ||
| // assumed), not a new pattern invented for this feature. For built-in | ||
| // formats, construction sets it from `format.sideboard_policy()`; for | ||
| // `Custom`, from `custom_rules.structural.sideboard_policy` — same shape | ||
| // as how `uses_commander`/`supplies_fixed_deck` are already populated. |
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Validate or derive the stored sideboard_policy.
The invariant checks format, custom_rules presence, and the custom identifier, but it does not check the stored FormatConfig.sideboard_policy against custom_rules.structural.sideboard_policy. A serialized payload can therefore carry inconsistent values while consumers read the stored field. Either derive or skip the field during deserialization, or reject mismatched values at the validation boundary.
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md` around lines 234 - 253, Update
FormatConfig deserialization and validate_custom_rules_consistency so the stored
sideboard_policy cannot differ from custom_rules.structural.sideboard_policy for
custom formats; preferably derive or skip the serialized field and recompute it
during construction, otherwise reject mismatches at the validation boundary.
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| // This reuses EXISTING infrastructure rather than inventing a new | ||
| // negotiation protocol: `server-core/src/protocol.rs` already defines | ||
| // `PROTOCOL_VERSION` / `MIN_SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL` / `LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION` | ||
| // (currently `PROTOCOL_VERSION = 33`), checked at connection establishment | ||
| // with its own doc comment stating it "refuses to proceed on mismatch" — | ||
| // confirmed this session, not assumed. The fix: bump `PROTOCOL_VERSION` in | ||
| // the same release that ships `GameFormat::Custom`. A client below the new | ||
| // `MIN_SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL` is rejected at THIS EXISTING handshake gate, | ||
| // before it ever attempts to deserialize a `FormatConfig` carrying a variant | ||
| // it doesn't know — the same mechanism that already protects every other | ||
| // protocol-breaking change, not a custom-format-specific negotiation layer. |
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Bump the lobby protocol version for GameFormat::Custom.
PROTOCOL_VERSION tightens only the full-game gate. LobbyOnly handshakes use lobby_protocol_version with no upper bound. Because lobby messages carry Option<FormatConfig>, an old broker can accept the handshake and then fail to deserialize GameFormat::Custom. Bump LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION and MIN_SUPPORTED_LOBBY_PROTOCOL, or reject unsupported formats before deserialization.
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In `@docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md` around lines 353 - 363, Update
the protocol-version changes associated with GameFormat::Custom to also bump
LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION and MIN_SUPPORTED_LOBBY_PROTOCOL, ensuring LobbyOnly
handshakes reject older brokers before FormatConfig deserialization. Use the
existing lobby handshake validation symbols rather than adding a custom
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…ust once Every card list/count in RESEARCH.md shared one citation at the top of section 1, and Swedish Old School -- the actual phase-1 target preset -- had no RESEARCH.md presence at all, only scattered mentions in CONTEXT.md. That makes independent verification harder than it should be, especially given every "preset data inconsistency" finding across four review rounds was an internal cross-reference mismatch, not an external-source check -- worth making the external source trivially reachable at the point of data. - Added a "Source:" line to each of the four existing EC format subsections. - Added a full "Swedish Old School 93/94" subsection to RESEARCH.md #1, matching the EC formats' treatment: direct source URL, its own verbatim legal-sets/banned/restricted/ante/legacy-rules data, and an explicit side-by-side comparison against EC's 93-94 restricted list proving these are two different, real rulesets, not one re-presented as two. - Added the same two source URLs inline at the top of PLAN.md #2, so the preset constructors are checkable without cross-referencing another file.
…t just once Mirrors the same fix pushed to the upstream proposal PR (phase-rs#7703) -- see that commit message for full reasoning.
…4 commit Automated review on the round-4 fix commit (3aa20f1) caught 5 things, at least 3 of which are real: 1. A genuine mistake in round 4's own mechanical rename fix: the search_outside_game pseudocode was updated from the round-1 placeholder name to pre_m10_wish_reaches_exile, but the SAME round-4 commit also converted that field to the typed wish_scope: WishOutsideGameScope enum -- the pseudocode never got updated to match, in the same commit that introduced the mismatch. Fixed, with the naming-history note now tracking both renames. 2. sideboard_policy/uses_commander are plain serialized FormatConfig fields (no #[serde(skip)]) that could diverge from what's derivable from `format`/`custom_rules` on a malformed wire payload -- a real gap that already exists for built-in formats today, not just custom ones. Widened validate_custom_rules_consistency to check derived-field agreement for every format, not only Custom. 3. DeckCompatibilityRequest.selected_format specifically needs the full CustomFormatRules (legal_sets/banned/restricted), not the lighter ResolvedFormatFacts struct that's sufficient for companion.rs's two call sites -- tightened from an ambiguous "per-site judgment call" to an explicit distinction. 4. The protocol-version fix only bumped PROTOCOL_VERSION; format selection happens during lobby setup, so LOBBY_PROTOCOL_VERSION / MIN_SUPPORTED_LOBBY_PROTOCOL (a separate, real constant pair, confirmed this session) needs bumping too. 5. CombatDamageTiming::OnStack's doc comment mischaracterized historical combat damage as a triggered ability; RESEARCH.md phase-rs#6 already correctly describes it as assigned damage placed on the stack as a stack object. Fixed to match. Also strengthened the preset-readiness gate from a documented convention into an actual technical mechanism (custom_format_registry() validates against a static implemented-axes table before returning a preset) -- responds to a stricter CodeRabbit read of the ReprintPolicy gate without fully adopting its more extreme "remove the field" suggestion, which goes beyond what the human reviewer (matthewevans) actually asked for.
…nd-4 commit Mirrors the same fix pushed to the upstream proposal PR (phase-rs#7703) -- see that commit message for full reasoning.
…tthewevans) Mirrors upstream PR phase-rs#7703 commit 673e223. Old School 93-94/95's registration gate never accounted for their source rules' printing-fidelity requirement. Legality stays legal_sets-only permanently; the requirement's spirit is honored via a general display fix instead: ArtChainEntry's existing {type: "oldest"} preference becomes legal_sets-aware. Also backfills CONTEXT.md's round-history log for rounds 8 and 9. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
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[HIGH] The proposal replaces a source legality requirement with an optional display preference, so the EC Old School presets remain eligible for selection without rules-faithful printing enforcement. Evidence: RESEARCH.md:34 records Old School 93–94's requirement for non-foil reprints with original frame and art; PLAN.md:518-527 permanently makes set membership the whole legality check and retains a mana-burn-only registration gate; PLAN.md:552-557 leaves users free to choose a different printing; and CONTEXT.md:783-788 confirms no selected printing reaches the engine. Why it matters: a card name passes when any printing is in legal_sets, while neither deck validation nor the game can reject a foil/wrong-frame/wrong-art printing, so a legal-set-aware ArtChainEntry display default does not enforce the cited format rule. Suggested fix: keep Old School 93–94/95 non-selectable (or explicitly approximate/non-rules-faithful) until a deck-legality seam can enforce a qualified selected printing; do not treat an optional rendering preference as a legality resolution.
The current plan does resolve the prior sideboard_policy consistency concern (PLAN.md:256-275) and the lobby-protocol concern (PLAN.md:473-487).
…ewevans) Round 10 tried to resolve Old School 93-94/95's printing-fidelity gap by pairing legal_sets-only legality with a cosmetic ArtChainEntry display default. Matt correctly rejected this: an optional rendering preference is not a legality resolution. Resolved via a third path, grounded in existing precedent rather than a new policy call: confirmed GameFormat::Premodern's legality (LegalityFormat::Premodern) is oracle-card-level only, like every format in this engine -- none has ever checked printing, frame, or foil, and PrintedCardRef has no set-code field for any of them. legal_sets membership isn't an old-school-specific approximation needing a gate; it's this engine's one existing legality model, applied the same way to every format. Registration reverts to mana-burn-only, matching the original pre-round-10 gate. The ArtChainEntry display fix and genuine per-card printing selection (briefly surveyed: a moderate plumbing lift reusing existing PrintingPickerModal/sourcePrinting infrastructure, not from-scratch) are both retracted from this proposal as separate, real, future ideas -- general to every format, not bundled into this proposal's legality story. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
…tthewevans) Mirrors upstream PR phase-rs#7703 commit db15ac3. legal_sets membership is the same oracle-card-level legality model Premodern and every format in this engine already uses -- confirmed via LegalityFormat::Premodern and PrintedCardRef having no set-code field anywhere. Registration for Old School 93-94/95 reverts to mana-burn-only. The round-10 ArtChainEntry display fix and per-card printing selection are retracted as separate, future, general proposals. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMa6DrxXyFHBdGxz3uLgvM
…re item Surfaced while resolving PR phase-rs#7703 round 11's Old School 93-94/95 legality question -- legal_sets membership already matches Premodern's own legality model, no new gate needed there. But tracking which printing a player picked or imported (currently dropped at multiple points: PrintingPickerModal only feeds local art overrides, DeckEntry.sourcePrinting is discarded at the expandParsedDeck boundary, PlayerDeckList has no set-code field) is a real, separate, general feature worth its own backlog entry.
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[HIGH] The Old School presets remain selectable without enforcing, or
honestly downgrading, their source printing rule. RESEARCH.md:23-35 records
that Old School 93–94 permits only non-foil reprints with original frame and
art. But PLAN.md:489-505 puts ReprintPolicy outside the resolved ruleset as
non-consumed metadata, and PLAN.md:525-550 reopens registration once mana burn
lands because other built-in formats also use oracle-card legality. Existing
less-specific formats are not a rules-correctness argument for a new preset
whose documented source requirement is stricter; legal_sets still admits an
otherwise disallowed printing whenever that card has any legal printing.
Please either model an engine-owned selected-printing eligibility predicate and
gate these presets until it is enforced, or explicitly scope the presets as an
oracle-card/set-code approximation and keep them out of the rules-faithful,
audited selectable registry. A cosmetic/display policy is not a substitute.
[MEDIUM] The Old School 95 builder sketch is not valid for the declared
schema. PLAN.md:870-872 calls d.legal_sets.extend(...), while the plan
declares LegalityRules.legal_sets as Option<Vec<SetCode>>. Define the
builder against the contained vector (with an explicit invariant/error for the
93–94 base) so it cannot silently lose restricted-pool semantics.
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…ewevans) — Old School printing fidelity
Round 11's resolution ("legal_sets membership isn't an approximation of Old
School 93-94/95's legality — it's the same oracle-card-level model Premodern
and every other format already uses") was reviewed again and correctly
rejected: Premodern never claimed a printing-level requirement in the first
place, so it not enforcing one isn't an approximation of anything. Old School
93-94/95's own cited source (RESEARCH.md §1) explicitly requires non-foil
original-frame/art reprints, and legal_sets genuinely falls short of that
specific stated rule regardless of what every other format checks.
Product decision (not resolved away by precedent this time): decline to
build engine-owned printing/frame enforcement — the engine's and frontend's
printing systems are confirmed disconnected, and wiring them is a real,
separate, moderate-lift future feature, not old-school-specific. Accept the
set-code-only approximation on its own terms: in a digital-only client, a
printing's frame/border/foil status has zero gameplay consequence, since two
printings with identical Oracle text are identical for every rules purpose
the engine cares about. The paper community's frame/art requirement serves
an anti-counterfeiting/provenance function specific to a physical table that
has no digital equivalent.
Takes the maintainer's own second offered resolution (explicitly scope the
presets as an oracle-card/set-code approximation) and makes it structural
rather than documentary, per this proposal's own established standard that
conventions must be enforced, not just written down:
- New `CustomFormatDef.printing_fidelity: PrintingFidelity` field (NotApplicable
/ SetCodeApproximation), required and paired with `reprint_policy` at
construction time.
- All four EC presets (old_school_93_94, old_school_95, middle_school,
classic_magic) set SetCodeApproximation and must disclose the limitation
in their player-facing `description`, not just a doc comment.
- New registry gate (§7) and test (§6) enforce the reprint_policy/
printing_fidelity pairing and the description disclosure — separate from
the existing IMPLEMENTED_LEGACY_AXES gate, which covers unimplemented
engine work; this one covers an authoring omission.
- CONTEXT.md's Open item 2 log gets an appended correction + final
resolution (round 12), not an overwrite of round 11's now-superseded entry.
Also fixes the CodeRabbit-flagged [MEDIUM]: old_school_95()'s builder called
`d.legal_sets.extend(...)` directly, but legal_sets is `Option<Vec<SetCode>>`
per §1 — `.extend()` doesn't exist on `Option`. Uses
`get_or_insert_with(Vec::new).extend(...)` so it stays correct even if a
future refactor changes the base preset's Some/None invariant.
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Addressed round 12: Old School 93-94/95 printing fidelity. Round 11's "same oracle-card-level model as Premodern" framing didn't hold up — Premodern never claimed a printing-level requirement in the first place, so it not enforcing one isn't an approximation of anything, whereas Old School's own source rule genuinely does require non-foil original-frame/art reprints. Product decision: still declining to build engine-owned printing/frame enforcement (real, separate, moderate-lift future work, not old-school-specific) — but this time as an honest, disclosed approximation rather than a "no format does this" analogy. In a digital client a printing's frame/border/foil has zero gameplay consequence, so declining to model it is a legitimate scope call; presenting it as full fidelity would not have been. Made structural per this proposal's own standard (enforced, not documented):
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The printing-fidelity blocker is resolved: the proposal now explicitly models
and enforces player-facing disclosure of the set-code approximation.
[HIGH] The proposed Old School 95 constructor still does not match its own
schema. PLAN.md:117-121 defines CustomFormatDef.rules: CustomFormatRules, with legality nested at rules.legality. Yet
PLAN.md:967-969 mutates d.legal_sets, d.restricted, and d.banned
directly. Those fields are not on CustomFormatDef; the new
get_or_insert_with fixes the Option<Vec<SetCode>> detail but not the
required nesting. Compose through d.rules.legality.{legal_sets,restricted, banned} (or give the plan a deliberate builder API), and add a preset
inheritance test asserting the 95 result retains all 93–94 values plus only its
declared additions.
…nheritance test Maintainer review of the round-12 commit confirmed the printing-fidelity blocker resolved, but caught that old_school_95()'s builder sketch mutates d.legal_sets/restricted/banned directly — those aren't fields on CustomFormatDef at all; they live at d.rules.legality.* per §1's own declared schema (CustomFormatDef.rules: CustomFormatRules, CustomFormatRules.legality: LegalityRules). The prior get_or_insert_with fix was correct for the Option<Vec<SetCode>> detail but applied at the wrong nesting level. Every mutation now composes through the real path (d.rules.legality.legal_sets.get_or_insert_with(...).extend(...), etc.), and adds the requested preset-inheritance test: asserts old_school_95()'s resolved legal_sets/restricted/banned each equal old_school_93_94()'s base plus exactly its own declared delta (an exact-set comparison, not a superset check), which would also have caught this nesting bug mechanically. Model: claude-sonnet-5 Tier: Frontier Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NQ1bpYEt331DvjqPLSFJEH
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Fixed the new [HIGH]: old_school_95()'s builder was mutating d.legal_sets/restricted/banned directly, but those live at d.rules.legality.* per the schema in §1 (CustomFormatDef.rules: CustomFormatRules, CustomFormatRules.legality: LegalityRules) — the earlier get_or_insert_with fix was correct for the Option<Vec> detail but at the wrong nesting level. Fixed the composition and added the requested preset-inheritance test (exact-set comparison of 95's result against 93-94's base plus its own delta), which would have caught this mechanically. Model: claude-sonnet-5 |
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…hase-rs#7819) * docs: publish the custom-format-engine phased implementation charter Adds IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md, the 7-phase (1a-2cd) build-out sequencing for the design merged in phase-rs#7703, for visibility before each phase lands as its own PR. Not a design change — records two corrections Phase 1a's own plan review surfaced (deck_validation.rs's two dispatch matches belong in Phase 1a's scope; sideboard_policy()/default_deck_copy_limit() need disclosed fail-closed fallbacks, not unreachable!(), because they're reachable from already-shipped engine-wasm exports before any UI to construct a custom format exists) and one Phase 1b correction (validate_name_deck_for_format_full is the third at-risk WASM-reachable function, not is_card_commander_eligible_for_format). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NQ1bpYEt331DvjqPLSFJEH * docs: fix dependency DAG contradiction and canonical enum names Addresses matthewevans/CodeRabbit review on phase-rs#7819: - Resolve the contradictory phase-dependency guidance: the table said 2b/2cd depend only on 1a, but the prose said 1a+1b gate everything. The table was right for 2b/2cd (independent LegacyRuleSet axes that never touch 1b's consumption-site migration) — narrowed the prose instead of loosening the table. - Encode Phase 2a's real prerequisite: PLAN.md's own sequencing (Sec.8, step 4/5) makes the Old School 93/94 and 95 presets' *construction* depend only on 1d, but their *registration* additionally depends on 2b (mana burn) — both presets declare a non-default mana_burn axis, so Phase 1a's IMPLEMENTED_LEGACY_AXES gate rejects them until 2b adds that axis. Split the table cell and added an explanatory paragraph to Phase 2a's own section. - Fix two variant names that had drifted from PLAN.md's canonical schema: WishOutsideGameScope::AnyCardOutsideGame -> PreM10ReachesExile, LegendRuleScope::Global -> PreM14AnyController (matches the corresponding code fix landing on phase-rs#7818). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NQ1bpYEt331DvjqPLSFJEH * docs: fix ordering claim and premature "implemented" status Addresses round 2 of maintainer review on phase-rs#7819: - "landing as separate PRs in order" contradicted the very next paragraph (2b/2cd can land before or after 1b/1c/1d) — reworded to "dependency order — not necessarily numeric order." - Phase 1a was marked "implemented" while phase-rs#7818 is still open with an unresolved review round in progress. Changed to "in review" and added a note not to flip it until the PR actually merges, per this charter's own review-before-merge rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NQ1bpYEt331DvjqPLSFJEH * docs: correct stored-field claim and record the pulled-forward safety fix Addresses round 3 of maintainer review on phase-rs#7819: - Fixed a factual error: the charter claimed FormatConfig already stores default_deck_copy_limit alongside uses_commander/ supplies_fixed_deck. It doesn't -- only the latter two are stored; sideboard_policy/default_deck_copy_limit remain the bare GameFormat methods (already panic-safe for Custom, just not yet mirrored as FormatConfig fields). Corrected the claim and narrowed Phase 1b's description to what it actually still owns. - Recorded that the uses_commander() migration across companion.rs/ deck_loading.rs/match_flow.rs -- originally charted as Phase 1b work -- landed in Phase 1a itself instead, since the maintainer correctly identified the bare-Custom panic on those three files' ordinary game-flow paths as a Phase 1a merge blocker, not something a later phase's timeline could gate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NQ1bpYEt331DvjqPLSFJEH * docs: update charter for uses_commander()/from_source_format() fallibility Keeps the charter in sync with the round-5 fix on phase-rs#7818, proactively (not itself flagged by review): uses_commander() no longer stays permanently unreachable!() -- it's now Result-returning, same as for_format(), since neither has a safe fallback value to disclose for Custom. Also records that CommanderEligibilityRule::from_source_format() got the identical treatment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NQ1bpYEt331DvjqPLSFJEH * docs: assign ownership for the resolver completion and request widening Addresses round 5 of maintainer review on phase-rs#7819 -- a genuine charter gap, not a code defect (the round-5 code fix on phase-rs#7818 was confirmed clean this same review): - Phase 1a's FormatConfig deserialization currently rejects every external GameFormat::Custom unconditionally -- a stopgap, since no resolver exists yet to derive its runtime fields from custom_rules.structural. The charter never assigned which phase replaces that stopgap with the design's real validated-construction path (PLAN.md Sec.1; CONTEXT.md open item 1 name from_lobby_config, preset constructors, and WASM/network deserialization as the three points needing one validate_custom_rules_consistency path). Assigned to Phase 1c (from_lobby_config, the first real construction path) and Phase 1d/2a (registry preset constructors). - DeckCompatibilityRequest.selected_format is a bare Option<GameFormat> today with no FormatConfig/custom_rules field at all (CONTEXT.md open item 1), so evaluate_custom_format would have nothing to read legal_sets/banned/restricted from once Custom dispatch reaches it. Assigned this widening to Phase 1d, paired with the evaluator that first needs it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NQ1bpYEt331DvjqPLSFJEH * docs: name the shared active-FormatConfig resolver and its three callers Addresses round 6 of maintainer review on phase-rs#7819: the prior fix assigned the active-FormatConfig resolver to from_lobby_config, which verified against PLAN.md's own canonical constructor contract (from_lobby_config(name, config: &FormatConfig) -> CustomFormatDef) only ever produces a CustomFormatDef -- a definition, not an active FormatConfig, and CustomFormatDef has no format field to validate the Custom-consistency invariant against in the first place. Corrected: from_lobby_config and the registry preset constructors stay scoped to producing CustomFormatDef definitions, exactly as designed. Phase 1c now separately and explicitly owns building the one shared resolver that turns a CustomFormatRules into an active FormatConfig (deriving its runtime fields from custom_rules.structural instead of accepting them independently) -- named as the actual place PLAN.md's validated-construction requirement is satisfiable. Its three callers are named explicitly: Axis-A saved-definition selection (Phase 1c), Axis-B registry-preset selection (Phase 1d, reusing the same resolver), and Phase 1a's deserialization boundary (which this phase also revises, from unconditional rejection to a full consistency re-check using the resolver's own derivation logic). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NQ1bpYEt331DvjqPLSFJEH --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Design proposal (research + plan, no engine or frontend code) for a general, data-driven custom-format layer — motivated by wanting to support four Eternal Central retro formats (Old School 93-94, Old School 95, Middle School, Classic Magic) without hardcoding four new
GameFormatenum variants.Follows up on the discussion at #5312. A maintainer's informal framing of the idea ("FFA that's super flexible and you can save a configuration as a custom format?") directly shaped this revision — see
docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/CONTEXT.md's "Maintainer input" section for how that resolved the delivery-surface question.CustomFormatRulessplits into two independent axes:StructuralRules— starting life, player count, deck size, range of influence, team-based, singleton. These already exist asFormatConfigfields and are already partially host-adjustable in the multiplayer lobby (HostSetup.tsx) — this is the "flexible FFA" axis.LegalityRules— legal sets, banned/restricted lists, and legacy-era rule toggles (mana burn, damage-on-the-stack, pre-M10 Wish exile access, legend-rule scope). This is what makes the four EC formats rules-correct.What's in this PR
docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/README.md— orientation + linksdocs/proposals/custom-format-engine/CONTEXT.md— why this matters, confirmed findings, open questions, maintainer-input resolutiondocs/proposals/custom-format-engine/RESEARCH.md— detailed investigation (current architecture, EC formats' verbatim rules, legacy-rules deltas, cross-checks against other in-flight format work)docs/proposals/custom-format-engine/PLAN.md— proposed schema, EC-format parameterization, sequencingTest plan
N/A — documentation/design proposal only, opened for maintainer review before any implementation work begins.
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docs/AI-CONTRIBUTOR.md§0.1.2) are not applicable to this PR — it contains no engine/parser Rust code, only documentation (a design proposal). No.claude/skills/**,.claude/agents/**,CLAUDE.md,AGENTS.md, ordocs/AI-CONTRIBUTOR.mdpaths are touched by this PR's current head.