Disease makes its caster the carrier (rules rev 7)

The card says it plainly — "You're the carrier! Disease caused by
spell does not affect you, only others" — but the engine cast it AT an
adjacent victim, making them the plague rat. At rev 7 it is a
self-cast on fear's pattern: no target, no counteraction window
("REFLECTIONs have no effect against this"), duration equals the
number, and sharing a square bites in both directions — the carrier
walking in, or anyone walking onto the carrier. Older ledgers hold
targeted disease casts with full stack exchanges, so the legacy attack
path survives for rev ≤6 games and all 33 ledgers replay clean. The
client offers the plain Cast button for it in rev-7 games.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF

packages/engine/src/game.ts

@@ -234,8 +234,10 @@ export interface CastParams {
 
 /** The revision new games are dealt under; GameConfig.deckRev pins it per game.
  * Rev 6: STRENGTH's treasure-tear opens a counteraction window ("this would
- * be an attack") instead of resolving instantly. */
+ * be an attack") instead of resolving instantly.
-export const CURRENT_RULES_REV = 6;
+ * Rev 7: DISEASE is a self-cast plague ("You're the carrier!") — the caster
+ * carries it, sharing a square bites both directions, no counteraction. */
+export const CURRENT_RULES_REV = 7;
 
 export interface GameConfig {
   playerIds: PlayerId[];
@@ -2180,6 +2182,9 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
     },
   },
   disease: {
+    // Legacy (rev ≤6): cast AT an adjacent victim through the attack
+    // stack; ledgers from those games replay this path. Rev 7 games
+    // never reach it — doCast intercepts disease as a self-cast plague.
     kind: "attack",
     baseDamage: () => 0,
     sameSquare: false,
@@ -4223,6 +4228,18 @@ function doMove(prev: GameState, direction: Side, over = false): CommandResult {
     }
     checkVictory(state, events);
   }
+  // Rev 7: sharing a plague square cuts both ways — walking INTO a
+  // carrier's square catches the disease's bite just the same.
+  if ((state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 7 && p.alive) {
+    for (const other of state.players) {
+      if (!other.alive || other.id === p.id) continue;
+      if (cellKey(other.position) !== cellKey(p.position)) continue;
+      if (sustainedOn(state, other.id, "disease").length === 0) continue;
+      applyDamage(state, events, p, 3, "disease", null, "physical");
+      checkVictory(state, events);
+      break;
+    }
+  }
 
   if (crossedFirewall) {
     events.push({ type: "firewallBurned", player: p.id });
@@ -4991,6 +5008,22 @@ function doCast(prev: GameState, cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>): Comma
     return null;
   };
 
+  // DISEASE (rev 7): "You're the carrier!" — a self-cast plague on fear's
+  // pattern, no target and no counteraction window ("REFLECTIONs have no
+  // effect against this"). Older games cast it at a victim through the
+  // stack; their ledgers replay the legacy attack path below.
+  if (inHand.cardId === "disease" && (state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 7) {
+    consumeCast(state, caster, inHand, mods, false);
+    state.lastSpellUsed[caster.id] = inHand.cardId;
+    const events: GameEvent[] = [{
+      type: "spellCast", caster: caster.id, card: inHand, cardId: inHand.cardId,
+      numberCards: mods.numbers, numberValue: mods.magnitude.numberValue,
+      from: caster.position, target: null, targetCell: null,
+    }];
+    attachSustained(state, events, "disease", caster.id, caster.id, mods.magnitude.duration);
+    return { ok: true, state, events };
+  }
+
   if (effect.kind === "attack") {
     const pre = attackPreconditions(state);
     if (pre) return err(pre);

packages/engine/test/casting.test.ts

@@ -1296,3 +1296,58 @@ describe("a forced drop lands like any drop", () => {
     if (drop?.type === "treasureDropped") expect(drop.onHomeOf).toBe("def");
   });
 });
+
+describe("disease makes the caster the carrier (rev 7)", () => {
+  it("self-casts with no target; sharing a square bites both directions", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["carrier", "mark"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"] });
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    while (activePlayer(state).id !== "carrier") {
+      state = must(state, activePlayer(state).id, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    }
+    const carrier = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "carrier")!;
+    const mark = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "mark")!;
+    const dz = giveCard(state, "carrier", "disease", "D", 0);
+    giveCard(state, "carrier", "number-3", "N", 1);
+    let r = applyCommand(state, "carrier", {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: dz.instanceId, numberInstanceIds: ["number-3#N"],
+    });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    state = r.state;
+    expect(state.stack).toBeNull();
+    expect(state.sustained.some((s) => s.cardId === "disease" && s.targetId === "carrier")).toBe(true);
+
+    // The carrier walks INTO the mark's square: the mark takes 3.
+    const view = boardView(state);
+    const carrierNow = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "carrier")!;
+    const markNow = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "mark")!;
+    for (const side of SIDES) {
+      const t = stepTarget(view, carrierNow.position, side);
+      if (t.kind !== "step") continue;
+      markNow.position = { ...t.to };
+      const before = markNow.life;
+      r = applyCommand(state, "carrier", { type: "move", direction: side });
+      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+      state = r.state;
+      expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === "mark")!.life).toBe(before - 3);
+      break;
+    }
+    state = must(state, "carrier", { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+
+    // The mark walks INTO the carrier's square: the mark takes 3 again.
+    const m2 = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "mark")!;
+    const c2 = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "carrier")!;
+    const view2 = boardView(state);
+    for (const side of SIDES) {
+      const t = stepTarget(view2, c2.position, side);
+      if (t.kind !== "step") continue;
+      m2.position = { ...t.to };
+      const back = side === "N" ? "S" : side === "S" ? "N" : side === "E" ? "W" : "E";
+      const before = m2.life;
+      r = applyCommand(state, "mark", { type: "move", direction: back as "N" });
+      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+      expect(r.state.players.find((p) => p.id === "mark")!.life).toBe(before - 3);
+      return;
+    }
+    throw new Error("no adjacent step for the return walk");
+  });
+});

packages/web/src/App.svelte

@@ -552,6 +552,12 @@
     "shieldstone", "soulstone", "speedstone", "visionstone",
     "invisible", "shrink", "mist-body", "strength", "empathy", "big-man", "fear", "adrenaline",
   ]);
+  /** Cards cast on yourself via the Cast button. DISEASE joined at rev 7
+   * ("You're the carrier!"); older games still aim it at a victim. */
+  function confirmCastable(cardId: string): boolean {
+    return CONFIRM_CAST.has(cardId) ||
+      (cardId === "disease" && (view?.deckRev ?? 1) >= 7);
+  }
 
   function playNumberForMovement() {
     if (!selectedCard || !view) return;
@@ -2323,7 +2329,7 @@
               <label class="inline">life to trade <input class="num-input" type="number" min="1" max="10" bind:value={runPoints} /></label>
               <button class="stamp tiny" onclick={castPowerRun}>Run!</button>
             {/if}
-            {#if selectedCard && CONFIRM_CAST.has(selectedCard.cardId)}
+            {#if selectedCard && confirmCastable(selectedCard.cardId)}
               <button class="stamp tiny" onclick={castSelfWithNumber}>
                 Cast{attachedNumber ? ` with the ${numberTotal}` : ""}
               </button>