Duel skill: game-fourteen scars (soft terrain, grab-time interception, warp-landing traps)

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  single-square terrain on a junction outlives every spell cast near
  it. Place terrain at junctions, not corridors.
 ## Game-fourteen scars (the five-player raid race)
 - **Terrain is SOFT in tempo math.** I counted a thornbush and an ooze
  square as two turns of delay on his banking route; DISPEL CREATION
  removed the bush for one card and zero steps, and he banked that
  same turn. Any creation (bush, ooze, wall of stone, stones) is one
  card from gone — count it as HALF a turn of delay, never a wall.
 - On wide boards (5-6p cross), a raider in my quadrant carrying my
  chest is usually UNREACHABLE by anything in hand — the interception
  had to happen a turn earlier, at the grab, not the haul. Defend the
  chest square, not the exit route.
 - My real boobytrap finally fired (4 damage to a warping bot) — traps
  on WARP LANDING squares hit players who never see the token coming.
  That placement doctrine is proven; repeat it.
 ## The passivity audit (Eric, after game thirteen)
 - "You did nothing but draw for several turns" — true, and fatal. A