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Player refinement: no vertical scrolling through a tall single file — the side hand lays out two cards abreast, and with the bottom strip holding only buttons the board viewport stretches to the freed room. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
The ward's bite gets its name, and shrink slips past the giant
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@@ -113,6 +113,173 @@ probing legality is free, so when unsure, try it and read the error.
 - Grab-turn-one openings feel great and prove nothing: deliveries are
  the only score. He banked quietly both times while I showboated.

+## Game-five scars (eliminated by a rule I implemented myself)
+
+- **THE ELIMINATION CLOCK**: the moment BOTH treasures you protect sit
+  on living opponents' home bases, you are OUT — points, life, and
+  position notwithstanding. In multiplayer this clock starts ticking
+  the instant your second chest is picked up by anyone. From then on,
+  every turn must either recover a chest or end the game first. I spent
+  three turns optimizing deliveries while two bots quietly carried my
+  death certificate.
+- **FEAR IS A SELF-CAST AURA** — read the card, not your assumptions:
+  "no player or monster will move to within 3 spaces of you," walls
+  irrelevant, and anyone already within 3 MUST flee on their turn. It
+  is armor for carriers and a hearth-denial tool: a feared wizard
+  standing 2 from your home makes delivery impossible. I invented an
+  elaborate theory about enemy goalkeeping instead of reading my own
+  engine's card text. Check `data/cards.json` when a rule surprises —
+  it is one grep away and it is verbatim.
+- In four-player, Kestrel plays the TABLE, not the duel: his SWAP
+  yanked a bot off its own doorstep mid-delivery and parked himself by
+  unclaimed treasures — one card, two tempo hits. Expect every card he
+  plays to hurt two players at once, and ask which two before deciding
+  it wasn't aimed at you.
+- CREATE WALL can sever your announced return route the turn after you
+  telegraph it. If your road home is unique, either don't stand at the
+  far end of it, or carry the picks/doors to re-open it. And CREATE
+  DOOR makes LOCKED doors — it is a key-cutter, worthless without picks.
+- Bot threat model: archmage automatons DO deliver, but their brains
+  can dither inexplicably (one toured the map for two rounds carrying
+  my elimination). Never count on bot incompetence — count turns to
+  their delivery square as if they play perfectly, and treat every
+  reprieve as a gift, not a pattern.
+
+## Game-six scars (the heist)
+
+- **THORNBUSH IS A JAIL, NOT A FORT**: entering one ends your turn,
+  costs your ENTIRE next turn, and deals 1 damage. The "cannot be
+  attacked" line is the bait; the two-turn tempo loss is the hook.
+  Eric: "Few will dive into one unless they are desperate. You were
+  confident, but not desperate." Enter a bush only when the
+  alternative is death — and READ THE WHOLE CARD before calling
+  anything a shelter. Three rules self-owns in two games (fear,
+  thornbush) — the full text is one grep away, in my own repo.
+- **MIST-BODY IS A BANK ROBBER**: 5 turns untouchable, walks through
+  doors and walls, picks up treasures, immune to every attack-typed
+  card (drop-object, card-erasure, teleport-opponent included). While
+  an enemy is misted, do not plan counterplay — plan for WHERE the
+  mist will be when it lapses, and meanwhile DISPERSE value: banking
+  everything on one home square builds the heist target. A creature
+  guard is scenery to a ghost.
+- The bait-fork fallacy: I "forked" him between my two treasures, but
+  both forks were MY assets. He ignored both and took the third thing
+  — the treasure I'd just consolidated. When your fork only threatens
+  what you own, it isn't a fork; it's a to-do list you published.
+
+## Game-nine scar: concentrate your thefts
+
+- Kestrel won in FOUR ROUNDS by stealing BOTH treasures from the SAME
+  victim (the nearest bot): two bankings = the win, and the second one
+  simultaneously eliminated the victim via the captured-treasures
+  clause. Robbing one player twice beats robbing two players once —
+  same points, one fewer opponent, and the victim's own corner becomes
+  your supply depot. When choosing the second steal, weigh "same
+  victim" heavily.
+- Also: never chain move commands blind in a script — the (6,6) nook
+  refused all three exits and my pipeline barreled into endTurn,
+  burning a full turn standing still. Verify each step's result, or at
+  minimum stop the chain on the first refusal.
+
+## Game-ten scars (the closest one)
+
+- **The champion's carrier-breaker combo**: DROP OBJECT (chest falls at
+  your feet) + ADRENALINE (second attack) + TELEPORT OPPONENT (you,
+  exiled across the maze; the chest, his). A laden wizard within his
+  cast range is a wizard about to be unpacked. Carry through his reach
+  only with a real counteraction in hand — and VERIFY a card actually
+  counters before building your defense on it (NO SPELL is a silencing
+  curse, not a counter; I learned mid-stack).
+- **He ferries his own death warrant**: when the elimination clause
+  hung on his floor chest, he simply picked his route so the chest
+  traveled with him. Deny-by-custody. Do the same: when MY vulnerable
+  treasure lies on my path, take it along.
+- Sector relocation can REWRITE the whole world mid-game — arms move,
+  warps rewire, routes invert. After any rotate/relocate event, throw
+  away every cached route and re-run the router.
+- Eric's deeper frame: on wrap boards (especially 3- and 5-sector
+  layouts) RELOCATE SECTOR is a TOPOLOGY WEAPON — one shift breaks
+  ALL the curved warps at once and "everything is just across the
+  board." Its payload is everyone else's stale mental map: the caster
+  knows the new sewing instantly. Hold it for the moment an enemy's
+  plan leans on a wrap (a warp delivery lane, a rim escape), then cut
+  the seam. Conversely, never build a plan whose ONLY road is a warp
+  while an opponent might hold this card.
+
+## The board is a torus (from Eric, after game eleven)
+
+- The warping rims mean there is NO center and NO edge: take the right
+  column and sew it onto the left — identical geography. "Central" and
+  "peripheral" seats are rendering artifacts of where the map unrolls.
+  Thinking in those terms is a trap that limits your options (his
+  words). Judge NOTHING by coordinates: distance is graph distance,
+  threat is graph threat, and the router (BFS over edges + warps) is
+  the only geometry that exists. Mentally re-unroll the map from
+  wherever you stand — every wizard is the center of their own map.
+- BUT salience is Euclidean even when geometry is not (Eric): humans
+  see "center tiles" and aim their aggression there, so the
+  center-perceived seat pays an attention tax — and a strong player
+  turns it into arbitrage: absorb the squabble, footrace out and back
+  through wraps that make you secretly equidistant from everything.
+  Play the graph for movement, the salience for predicting humans;
+  expect neither bias nor exploitability from the bots — their BFS is
+  natively non-Euclidean.
+
+## Game-thirteen scars (the goat)
+
+- **BUTT-HEAD is a cross-map physical nuke**: damage = the full walked
+  distance of the charge, and it found 8 points across half a maze.
+  ABSORB SPELL answers spells ONLY — at low life with no teleport in
+  hand, there is NO answer to big physical; your only defenses are
+  position and never being worth the charge. Audit the hand for
+  physical answers separately from spell answers.
+- He parks his OWN chest on open floor when he needs free arms —
+  custody is a dial, not a state. Watch every drop: grounded chests
+  are targets again the moment they land.
+- My game-one wall and his one dust cloud shaped the ENTIRE game:
+  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
+  turn that only draws is a LOST turn. When genuinely walled: probe.
+  Dust-stagger attempts, LOS probes, wall punches, terrain casts —
+  motion generates dice, information, and pressure; stillness
+  generates nothing and hands the opponent free repositioning. The
+  round-8 expedition that nearly won game thirteen was available in
+  round 5. If two consecutive turns end in draw-only, something is
+  wrong with the plan, not the maze.
+
+## The board is the truth (I keep paying for this one)
+
+- NEVER narrate a persistent effect without re-verifying it in the
+  CURRENT view. My stones get dispelled, my walls get melted, my
+  theories get invented. Before crediting any creation, curse, or
+  blockade in reasoning OR table talk, check the CONTENTS and
+  SUSTAINED lines and the map glyphs THIS turn. Kestrel quietly
+  removes my infrastructure and lets my own commentary reveal that I
+  haven't noticed.
+- Corollary: every "go" starts with reading the events tail for what
+  the OTHERS did to the board, not just where they stand. A dispel,
+  a stone-to-water, or a rotate-sector in that tail invalidates last
+  turn's map in my head.
+
 ## Playing well

 - Kestrel (Eric) is EXCELLENT: he baited my thief, saved anti-anti for
@@ -128,8 +295,41 @@ probing legality is free, so when unsure, try it and read the error.
  draw, and never announce plans. (Game one: I narrated my hand like a
  debug log until he asked why I was making it easy.) Trash talk freely
  — about the board, never your hand.
+- OPSEC round two (game six, violated AGAIN): analysis spoken aloud IS a
+  card shown. Quoting a card's text with delight ("moves a piece to ANY
+  square!") told him exactly what I held and what it does. Card-text
+  lookups for cards in MY hand happen silently; my visible messages may
+  discuss only what is already public on the board or in the chronicle.
+  Even asking rules questions aloud about a specific card is a tell.
+- OPSEC round three (game fourteen): METAPHORS COUNT. "A door my pick
+  answers" and "key ready for tomorrow" revealed a pick-lock as surely
+  as naming it. The rule in its final form: table prose may reference
+  ONLY public state — positions, banked counts, events already in the
+  chronicle. Nothing about my hand, capabilities, or intentions, in
+  any costume. When in doubt, describe the BOARD, never my options.
 - Send `chat` for table talk at dramatic moments; it's half the fun.

+## The turn poller (no more idling)
+
+After ending each turn (or whenever waiting on others), launch the
+watcher in the background so the harness wakes you the moment the
+game needs you — your turn or a counteraction window:
+
+```
+node <scratchpad>/my-turn-poller.mjs   # run_in_background: true
+```
+
+(Script lives in the session scratchpad; recreate from the skill's
+memory if missing: it joins with the saved seat token, watches state
+messages, and exits with "WAITING ON CLAUDE: <reason>".) Eric asked
+for this after game eight sat waiting on me — don't make him prompt
+"your turn" ever again.
+
+CRITICAL: launch it ONLY with the harness's run_in_background flag —
+that is what wakes you when it exits. A shell `&` inside a normal
+command detaches it into the void and nobody hears it fire (game
+eight, twice). One poller per wait; it exits when the game needs you.
+
 ## Cadence

 1. On "go": `view`, read HIS events since your last turn (the client
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ function pathToward(
  view: GameView,
  from: Cell,
  goals: Set<string>,
-  opts: { avoidNearEnemies?: boolean; canUnlock?: boolean; throughHazards?: boolean } = {},
+  opts: { avoidNearEnemies?: boolean; canUnlock?: boolean; throughHazards?: boolean; throughJails?: boolean } = {},
 ): PathResult | null {
  if (goals.size === 0 || goals.has(cellKey(from))) return null;
  const enemyCells = livingEnemies(view).map((p) => p.position);
@@ -611,9 +611,14 @@ function pathToward(
        cameBy.set(k, { prev: cellKey(c), dir, viaDoor });
        if (goals.has(k)) { found = k; break; }
        // Hazards end a clean path but are waded through when asked to.
+        // THORNBUSH is never a wade: entering ends the turn, eats the NEXT
+        // turn, and stings — a jail with foliage. Only a wizard with no
+        // road at all (throughJails) dives in. "Few will dive into one
+        // unless they are desperate."
        const hazard = view.squareContents[k]?.kind;
+        if (hazard === "thornbush" && !opts.throughJails) continue;
        if (!opts.throughHazards &&
-            (hazard === "pit" || hazard === "ooze" || hazard === "thornbush" ||
+            (hazard === "pit" || hazard === "ooze" ||
             hazard === "rosebush" || hazard === "slime" || hazard === "tacks")) continue;
        if (opts.avoidNearEnemies && nearEnemy(to)) continue;
        next.push(to);
@@ -770,6 +775,16 @@ function respond(view: GameView, style: AutomatonStyle, tier: TierTraits): Comma
  const atk = attackId ? ATTACKS[attackId] : null;
  const affliction = attackId ? AFFLICTIONS[attackId] != null : false;

+  // A tear at the treasure in my arms outranks its zero damage: the stake
+  // is the chest, not the bruise. The grab is PHYSICAL — shields part
+  // around it; the only real answer is to not be there when it closes.
+  if (stack.tearTreasure && me(view).carriedTreasureId != null) {
+    const tp = find("teleport");
+    const out = tp ? escapeCell(view, me(view).position) : null;
+    if (tp && out) return { type: "counteract", instanceId: tp.instanceId, params: { cell: out } };
+    return { type: "pass" };
+  }
+
  if (attackId && UTILITY_ATTACKS.has(attackId)) {
    const stopper = find("full-shield") ?? find("force-field");
    const stakes =
@@ -1055,12 +1070,19 @@ function selfCare(view: GameView, style: AutomatonStyle, tier: TierTraits): Comm
    }
  }
  if (!tier.buffs) return null; // the apprentice's book ends at the stones
-  // A curse on the clockwork gets scrubbed off.
-  const cursed = view.sustained.some(
+  // A curse on the clockwork gets scrubbed off. The engine wants the
+  // whole prescription — patient and ailment both — or it refuses the cast.
+  const myCurse = view.sustained.find(
    (e) => e.targetId === view.you && e.casterId !== view.you && AFFLICTIONS[e.cardId] != null,
  );
  const cleanse = inHand(view, "remove-curse");
-  if (cursed && cleanse) return { type: "cast", instanceId: cleanse.instanceId };
+  if (myCurse && cleanse) {
+    return {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: cleanse.instanceId,
+      target: { kind: "player", playerId: view.you },
+      params: { cardId: myCurse.cardId },
+    };
+  }
  // Three or more wizards: LIFESAVER takes elimination off the table.
  const lifesaver = inHand(view, "lifesaver");
  if (lifesaver && view.players.length > 2) return { type: "cast", instanceId: lifesaver.instanceId };
@@ -1100,6 +1122,19 @@ function selfCare(view: GameView, style: AutomatonStyle, tier: TierTraits): Comm
  // wizard hauling gold, anyone bleeding out.
  const pressed = enemyNear &&
    (style === "worrier" || self.carriedTreasureId != null || self.life <= 5);
+  // MIST-BODY turns a pressed carrier into an untouchable delivery — no
+  // attack, drop, exile, or thief finds fog. Any temperament takes this
+  // armor, and the biggest number rides it so the whole haul fits inside.
+  if (pressed && self.carriedTreasureId) {
+    const fog = inHand(view, "mist-body");
+    if (fog && !view.sustained.some((s) => s.cardId === "mist-body" && s.targetId === view.you)) {
+      const biggest = numbersInHand(view).at(-1);
+      return {
+        type: "cast", instanceId: fog.instanceId,
+        ...(biggest ? { numberInstanceIds: [biggest.instanceId] } : {}),
+      };
+    }
+  }
  if (pressed && style !== "berserker") {
    // FEAR keeps every pursuer three spaces off.
    const scare = inHand(view, "fear");
@@ -1367,6 +1402,22 @@ export function automatonCommand(
            };
          }
        }
+        // LOCK IN PLACE roots a delivery mid-stride: a carrier closing on
+        // their home loses a whole turn of legs and warp-steps.
+        {
+          const root = inHand(view, "lock-in-place");
+          const runner = root ? visible.find((p) =>
+            p.carriedTreasureId != null &&
+            Math.abs(p.position.x - p.home.x) + Math.abs(p.position.y - p.home.y) <= 7) : undefined;
+          if (root && runner) {
+            const smallest = numbersInHand(view)[0];
+            return {
+              type: "cast", instanceId: root.instanceId,
+              target: { kind: "player", playerId: runner.id },
+              ...(smallest ? { numberInstanceIds: [smallest.instanceId] } : {}),
+            };
+          }
+        }
        if (tier.buffs && !view.turn.attackUsed) {
          const smallest = numbersInHand(view)[0];
          // ADRENALINE: when no single blow finishes the target but two would.
@@ -1541,7 +1592,9 @@ export function automatonCommand(
    // ends the march); otherwise the gold has its legs for the turn.
    const strikeLive = !view.turn.attackUsed && !view.turn.attackForbidden &&
      !view.turn.actionsEnded && view.yourHand.some((c) => ATTACKS[c.cardId] != null);
-    const chasing = thief !== null && strikeLive;
+    // A carrier never chases: the delivery in hand outranks the gold in
+    // someone else's.
+    const chasing = thief !== null && strikeLive && !self.carriedTreasureId;
    // BANK GUARD: enemy gold delivered to my home is my scoreboard, and
    // anyone may snatch it off the floor. A raider nearer my bank than I
    // am, with the bank stocked, outranks the next grab — run home.
@@ -1565,11 +1618,17 @@ export function automatonCommand(
    const path =
      pathToward(view, self.position, objectives, { avoidNearEnemies: style === "worrier" && !chasing, canUnlock }) ??
      pathToward(view, self.position, objectives, { canUnlock }) ??
+      // The true objective, hazards waded, comes before any generic march
+      // on enemies: one thornbush on the road must not reroute the whole
+      // campaign toward whoever happens to have a clean corridor.
+      pathToward(view, self.position, objectives, { canUnlock, throughHazards: true }) ??
      pathToward(view, self.position, enemyCells, { canUnlock }) ??
      // No clean road to anything: grit the teeth and wade the hazards,
      // as any wizard would rather than stand in a pocket forever.
-      pathToward(view, self.position, objectives, { canUnlock, throughHazards: true }) ??
-      pathToward(view, self.position, enemyCells, { canUnlock, throughHazards: true });
+      pathToward(view, self.position, enemyCells, { canUnlock, throughHazards: true }) ??
+      // And only when even the hazard roads are severed does desperation
+      // dive through a thornbush jail.
+      pathToward(view, self.position, objectives, { canUnlock, throughHazards: true, throughJails: true });
    // A shimmering illusion on the best crossing costs nothing to doubt:
    // roll the free test before spending any card on that wall.
    const doubted = bestWallCrossing(view, self, objectives, canUnlock);
@@ -480,3 +480,34 @@ export function sightBetween(
  return hasLineOfSight(board, from, to, blockedCells) ||
         hasWarpLineOfSight(board, from, to, blockedCells);
 }
+
+/**
+ * AROUND THE CORNER's full reach: "around one corner (up to 180 degrees)".
+ * A hairpin around the end of a wall pivots IN the wall's gap, not at any
+ * cell's center — so try the midpoint of every open edge as the bend point,
+ * with a clear straight segment from caster to pivot and pivot to target.
+ */
+export function bentSightThroughGap(
+  board: AssembledBoard,
+  from: Cell,
+  to: Cell,
+  blockedCells?: Record<string, true>,
+): boolean {
+  const fx = from.x + 0.5, fy = from.y + 0.5;
+  const tx = to.x + 0.5, ty = to.y + 0.5;
+  const skip = [cellKey(from), cellKey(to)];
+  for (const key of Object.keys(board.cells)) {
+    const [x, y] = key.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+    const c = { x, y };
+    for (const side of ["E", "S"] as Side[]) {
+      if (!board.cells[cellKey(neighbor(c, side))]) continue;
+      if (edgeState(board, c, side) !== "open") continue;
+      const [px, py] = side === "E" ? [x + 1, y + 0.5] : [x + 0.5, y + 1];
+      if (segmentClear(board, fx, fy, px, py, blockedCells, skip) &&
+          segmentClear(board, px, py, tx, ty, blockedCells, skip)) {
+        return true;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
  type Warp,
  hasLineOfSight,
  sightBetween,
+  bentSightThroughGap,
  neighbor,
  stepTarget,
  opposite,
@@ -211,6 +212,12 @@ export interface CastStack {
  creatureTouch?: "wraith" | "claw";
  /** A spell freed from slime: counteractions cannot touch its caster. */
  trapped?: boolean;
+  /** STRENGTH's tear: "this would be an attack" — the grab rides the stack
+   * like a punch, and the clutch roll waits for the counteractions. */
+  tearTreasure?: true;
+  /** What a cardless stack's blow is called in the chronicle (the WARD's
+   * bite); without it the source falls back to "punch from <attacker>". */
+  sourceName?: string;
 }

 export interface CastParams {
@@ -229,7 +236,7 @@ export interface CastParams {
 }

 /** The revision new games are dealt under; GameConfig.deckRev pins it per game. */
-export const CURRENT_RULES_REV = 5;
+export const CURRENT_RULES_REV = 11;

 export interface GameConfig {
  playerIds: PlayerId[];
@@ -253,6 +260,24 @@ export interface GameConfig {
   * it; unpassed, it relocks at turn's end as before.
   * Rev 5: MENTAL FORCE refuses a destination the victim cannot walk to
   * in three spaces, instead of eating the card silently at resolution.
+   * Rev 6: STRENGTH's treasure-tear opens a counteraction window ("this
+   * would be an attack") instead of resolving instantly.
+   * Rev 7: DISEASE is a self-cast plague ("You're the carrier!") — the
+   * caster carries it, sharing a square bites both directions, no
+   * counteraction.
+   * Rev 8: the fire imp's scorch is a SPELL (FAQ) — counteractable,
+   * magical — and SOULSTONE's floor holds even at 3 life or below.
+   * Rev 9: the WARD's bite is counteractable ("COUNTERACTIONs ...
+   * otherwise work as written"), though nothing a counter does touches
+   * its caster.
+   * Rev 10: BUTT-HEAD's ram is MOVEMENT — the charge walks real
+   * corridors on the turn's legal legs (three plus numbers) and spends
+   * them.
+   * Rev 11: a REVERSE against SLOW DEATH or WALKING DEAD turns the whole
+   * curse (FAQ) — a point gained per card drawn, half a point per space
+   * walked, permanently — and a FULL REFLECTION returns a permanent
+   * curse (SLOW DEATH, WALKING DEAD, IDIOT) onto its caster instead of
+   * letting it evaporate.
   */
  deckRev?: number;
 }
@@ -388,21 +413,25 @@ function doorsAjar(state: GameState, viewerId: PlayerId | undefined, board: Asse
  return edges ? { ...board, edges } : board;
 }

-/** LOS including square-filling blockers. */
 /** Sight granted by removing any ONE closed edge — the VISIONSTONE's
- * whole power, shared by every path that honors it. */
-function sightThroughOneEdge(
-  board: AssembledBoard, from: Cell, to: Cell, blockers: Record<string, true>,
-): boolean {
+ * whole power, shared by every path that honors it. `sees` judges the
+ * board with the candidate edge gone. */
+function throughOneEdge(board: AssembledBoard, sees: (b: AssembledBoard) => boolean): boolean {
  for (const key of Object.keys(board.edges)) {
    if ((board.edges[key] ?? "open") === "open") continue;
    const edges = { ...board.edges };
    delete edges[key];
-    if (sightBetween({ ...board, edges }, from, to, blockers)) return true;
+    if (sees({ ...board, edges })) return true;
  }
  return false;
 }

+function sightThroughOneEdge(
+  board: AssembledBoard, from: Cell, to: Cell, blockers: Record<string, true>,
+): boolean {
+  return throughOneEdge(board, (b) => sightBetween(b, from, to, blockers));
+}
+
 function losWith(state: GameState, from: Cell, to: Cell, viewerId: PlayerId | undefined, stone: boolean): boolean {
  const board = doorsAjar(state, viewerId, openedDoors(state, boardView(state)));
  const blockers = losBlockers(state);
@@ -483,8 +512,10 @@ function casterLos(
  return sightThroughOneEdge(board, from, to, blockers);
 }

-/** Bent LOS for AROUND THE CORNER: caster sees a middle cell, which sees the target. */
-function bentLos(state: GameState, caster: PlayerState, from: Cell, to: Cell, events: GameEvent[]): boolean {
+/** Bent LOS for AROUND THE CORNER: the caster sees a middle cell which sees
+ * the target — or, for the full 180-degree hairpin, the sight line doubles
+ * back around a wall's end, pivoting in the open gap itself. */
+function bentLos(state: GameState, caster: PlayerState, from: Cell, to: Cell): boolean {
  if (casterLos(state, caster, from, to)) return true;
  const view = boardView(state);
  for (const key of Object.keys(view.cells)) {
@@ -494,6 +525,49 @@ function bentLos(state: GameState, caster: PlayerState, from: Cell, to: Cell, ev
      return true;
    }
  }
+  const board = doorsAjar(state, caster.id, openedDoors(state, perceivedBoard(state, caster.id)));
+  return bentSightThroughGap(board, from, to, losBlockers(state));
+}
+
+/** Sight for a square-aimed cast. "You may cast any line of sight spell
+ * around one corner (up to 180 degrees)" — the attachment bends every
+ * L.O.S. spell, creations and utilities included, not just attacks. */
+function castSight(
+  state: GameState,
+  caster: PlayerState,
+  cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>,
+  to: Cell,
+): boolean {
+  if (gameLos(state, caster.position, to, caster.id)) return true;
+  return !!cmd.aroundCornerInstanceId && bentLos(state, caster, caster.position, to);
+}
+
+/** Sight for an edge-aimed cast (walls, doors), bend-aware like castSight.
+ * VISIONSTONE is the bearer's sight here too — one wall or door, any one,
+ * falls away for the look, exactly as it does for square-aimed casts. */
+function castSightEdge(
+  state: GameState,
+  caster: PlayerState,
+  cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>,
+  board: AssembledBoard,
+  cell: Cell,
+  side: Side,
+): boolean {
+  if (losToEdge(board, caster.position, cell, side)) return true;
+  if (displays(caster, "visionstone") &&
+      throughOneEdge(board, (b) => losToEdge(b, caster.position, cell, side))) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  if (!cmd.aroundCornerInstanceId) return false;
+  // The bend pivots in a seen middle SQUARE; the gap-pivot hairpin is
+  // square-to-square geometry, so an edge target gets no 180-degree bend.
+  for (const key of Object.keys(board.cells)) {
+    const [mx, my] = key.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+    const mid = { x: mx, y: my };
+    if (casterLos(state, caster, caster.position, mid) && losToEdge(board, mid, cell, side)) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
  return false;
 }

@@ -544,11 +618,11 @@ export type GameEvent =
  | { type: "counteractionPlayed"; player: PlayerId; card: CardInstance; cardId: string; against: string }
  | { type: "counterNullified"; player: PlayerId; card: CardInstance; by: CardInstance }
  | { type: "attackAbsorbedIntoHand"; player: PlayerId; attackCard: CardInstance }
-  | { type: "attackMissed"; attacker: PlayerId; defender: PlayerId; attackCardId: string | null; because: "invisible" | "shrink" }
+  | { type: "attackMissed"; attacker: PlayerId; defender: PlayerId; attackCardId: string | null; because: "invisible" | "shrink" | "outran" }
  | { type: "attackResolved"; attacker: PlayerId; defender: PlayerId; attackCardId: string | null; damageDealt: number; reflectedDamage: number; fullyStopped: boolean; redirected: boolean }
  | { type: "damaged"; player: PlayerId; amount: number; source: string; lifeAfter: number;
      soaks?: { what: "bloodstone" | "soulstone"; amount: number }[] }
-  | { type: "damageImmune"; player: PlayerId; source: string; because: "medusa" | "bloodstone" }
+  | { type: "damageImmune"; player: PlayerId; source: string; because: "medusa" | "bloodstone" | "soulstone" }
  | { type: "lifeGained"; player: PlayerId; amount: number; source: string; lifeAfter: number }
  | { type: "stunned"; player: PlayerId; turnsLost: number }
  | { type: "knockedBack"; player: PlayerId; from: Cell; to: Cell; squares: number }
@@ -619,6 +693,7 @@ export type GameEvent =
  | { type: "stuckInSlime"; player: PlayerId; at: Cell }
  | { type: "boobytrapPlaced"; caster: PlayerId; cells: Cell[] }
  | { type: "boobytrapSprung"; player: PlayerId; at: Cell }
+  | { type: "boobytrapBlank"; player: PlayerId; at: Cell }
  | { type: "boobytrapPlacedPrivate"; visibleTo: PlayerId; realCell: Cell }
  | { type: "objectsGlued"; caster: PlayerId; at: Cell; turns: number }
  | { type: "safeCreated"; caster: PlayerId; at: Cell }
@@ -670,6 +745,8 @@ export type GameEvent =
  | { type: "treasurePickedUp"; player: PlayerId; treasureId: string; owner: PlayerId; at: Cell }
  | { type: "treasureTorn"; attacker: PlayerId; defender: PlayerId; treasureId: string; toFloor: boolean }
  | { type: "tearResisted"; attacker: PlayerId; defender: PlayerId }
+  | { type: "treasureTearAttempted"; attacker: PlayerId; defender: PlayerId }
+  | { type: "powerstoneBoost"; player: PlayerId; newAllowance: number }
  | { type: "treasureDropped"; player: PlayerId; treasureId: string; at: Cell; onHomeOf: PlayerId | null }
  | { type: "playerEliminated"; player: PlayerId; reason: "killed" | "treasuresLost" }
  | { type: "cardsDiscarded"; player: PlayerId; cards: CardInstance[] }
@@ -755,6 +832,10 @@ type AttackEffect = {
  baseDamage: (numberValue: number | null, params: CastParams | null) => number;
  /** A duration spell: attach a sustained effect on resolution. */
  sustains?: boolean;
+  /** A permanent curse attached by onResolved (SLOW DEATH, WALKING DEAD,
+   * IDIOT): it rides no damage or duration pipe, so a FULL REFLECTION
+   * must return it explicitly or the curse would evaporate. */
+  permanentCurse?: true;
  /** Card stays in hand and is displayed rather than discarded (WIZARDBLADE). */
  keepInHand?: boolean;
  validate?: (state: GameState, cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>, caster?: PlayerState, target?: PlayerState) => string | null;
@@ -795,6 +876,8 @@ interface ResolutionContext {
  defender: PlayerState;
  damageDealt: number;
  fullyStopped: boolean;
+  /** A surviving REVERSE rode the stack: the spell's effect runs backward. */
+  reversed: boolean;
  duration: number;
  stack: CastStack;
 }
@@ -1163,7 +1246,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      }
      const key = edgeKey(cell, side);
      if ((view.edges[key] ?? "open") !== "open") return "there is already something in that wall line";
-      if (!losToEdge(view, caster.position, cell, side)) return "no line of sight to the wall line";
+      if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cell, side)) return "no line of sight to the wall line";
      state.edgeOverrides[key] = "wall";
      state.createdEdges[key] = true;
      events.push({ type: "wallCreated", caster: caster.id, edge: { cell, side } });
@@ -1187,7 +1270,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      const key = edgeKey(cell, side);
      const current = view.edges[key] ?? "open";
      if (current === "open") return "there is no wall there";
-      if (!losToEdge(view, caster.position, cell, side)) return "no line of sight to the wall";
+      if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cell, side)) return "no line of sight to the wall";
      state.edgeOverrides[key] = "open";
      delete state.doorStates[key];
      delete state.createdEdges[key];
@@ -1376,7 +1459,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      if (cmd.target.playerId === caster.id) return "you are already your own buddy";
      const target = state.players.find((p) => p.id === (cmd.target as { playerId: PlayerId }).playerId);
      if (!target || !target.alive) return "no such living player";
-      if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, target.position, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, target.position)) return "no line of sight";
      // Effectively permanent: broken by the caster attacking the target.
      attachSustained(state, events, "buddy", caster.id, target.id, PERMANENT_TURNS);
      return null;
@@ -1415,8 +1498,12 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
        ctx.defender.carriedTreasureId = null;
        ctx.events.push({
          type: "treasureDropped", player: ctx.defender.id, treasureId: t.id,
-          at: ctx.defender.position, onHomeOf: null,
+          at: ctx.defender.position, onHomeOf: homeOwnerAt(ctx.state, ctx.defender.position),
        });
+        // A forced drop can land on a home square: bankings and the
+        // captured-treasures clause take effect at once, as they would
+        // for a willing drop.
+        checkVictory(ctx.state, ctx.events);
        return;
      }
      const idx = ctx.defender.hand.findIndex((c) => c.cardId === wanted);
@@ -1475,7 +1562,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      if (farKey && (view.edges[farKey] ?? "open") !== "open") {
        return "the far mouth of that warp is sealed";
      }
-      if (!losToEdge(view, caster.position, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
      const ignite = (k: string, at: { cell: Cell; side: Side }) => {
        state.edgeOverrides[k] = "firewall";
        state.createdEdges[k] = true;
@@ -1511,7 +1598,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      if (!view.cells[cellKey(cell)] || (offBoard && !warpMouth)) {
        return "the wave must span a corridor between two spaces";
      }
-      if (!losToEdge(view, caster.position, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
      events.push({ type: "waterwallCrashes", caster: caster.id, edge: { cell, side } });
      // The two sides of the edge, and the push directions away from it.
      waveFromEdge(state, events, cell, side, 2, "waterwall");
@@ -1526,13 +1613,13 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      if (cmd.target?.kind === "edge") {
        const key = edgeKey(cmd.target.cell, cmd.target.side);
        if (state.illusionWalls[key]) {
-          if (!losToEdge(boardView(state), caster.position, cmd.target.cell, cmd.target.side)) return "no line of sight";
+          if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, boardView(state), cmd.target.cell, cmd.target.side)) return "no line of sight";
          delete state.illusionWalls[key];
          events.push({ type: "creationDispelled", caster: caster.id, what: "illusion wall" });
          return null;
        }
        if (!state.createdEdges[key]) return "that is not a created thing";
-        if (!losToEdge(view, caster.position, cmd.target.cell, cmd.target.side)) return "no line of sight";
+        if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cmd.target.cell, cmd.target.side)) return "no line of sight";
        const was = view.edges[key];
        delete state.edgeOverrides[key];
        delete state.createdEdges[key];
@@ -1544,14 +1631,14 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
        const key = cellKey(cmd.target.cell);
        const creature = creatureAt(state, cmd.target.cell);
        if (creature) {
-          if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, cmd.target.cell, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+          if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, cmd.target.cell)) return "no line of sight";
          destroyCreature(state, events, creature, "dispel creation");
          events.push({ type: "creationDispelled", caster: caster.id, what: creature.kind });
          return null;
        }
        const content = state.squareContents[key];
        if (!content) return "nothing created there";
-        if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, cmd.target.cell, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+        if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, cmd.target.cell)) return "no line of sight";
        delete state.squareContents[key];
        events.push({ type: "creationDispelled", caster: caster.id, what: content.kind });
        return null;
@@ -1568,7 +1655,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
        const target = state.players.find((p) => p.id === (cmd.target as { playerId: PlayerId }).playerId);
        if (!target || !target.alive) return "no such living player";
        if (target.id === caster.id) return "you cannot drag yourself";
-        if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, target.position, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+        if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, target.position)) return "no line of sight";
        if (isLockedInPlace(state, target.id)) return "they are locked in place";
        const from = target.position;
        dragToward(state, target, caster.position);
@@ -1577,7 +1664,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      }
      if (cmd.target?.kind === "cell") {
        const key = cellKey(cmd.target.cell);
-        if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, cmd.target.cell, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+        if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, cmd.target.cell)) return "no line of sight";
        const objects = state.groundObjects[key];
        const treasure = state.treasures.find((t) => t.position && cellKey(t.position) === key);
        if (objects && objects.length > 0) {
@@ -1603,7 +1690,15 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
  },
  // --- Magic stones ---------------------------------------------------------
  bloodstone: stoneEffect(),
-  powerstone: stoneEffect(),
+  // "Add 1 to any NUMBER card played." On the table the stone and the
+  // number land together; digitally the display may come a beat late, so
+  // it blesses a number already played for movement this turn.
+  powerstone: stoneEffect((state, events, caster) => {
+    if (activePlayer(state).id === caster.id && state.turn.numberPlayedForMovement) {
+      state.turn.movementAllowance += 1;
+      events.push({ type: "powerstoneBoost", player: caster.id, newAllowance: state.turn.movementAllowance });
+    }
+  }),
  shadowstone: stoneEffect(),
  soulstone: stoneEffect(),
  speedstone: stoneEffect((state, _events, caster) => {
@@ -1635,17 +1730,23 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
    kind: "attack",
    requiresLos: true,
    baseDamage: () => 0,
+    permanentCurse: true,
    // "This is permanent. Once SLOW DEATH is on, it can't be turned off."
+    // Rev 11, per the FAQ: "If SLOW DEATH is REVERSED, the player receives
+    // a point for every card drawn" — the whole curse attaches backward,
+    // just as permanently. Older games attached it biting; they replay so.
    onResolved: (ctx) => {
      if (ctx.fullyStopped || !ctx.defender.alive) return;
-      attachSustained(ctx.state, ctx.events, "slow-death", ctx.attacker.id, ctx.defender.id, PERMANENT_TURNS);
+      const reversed = ctx.reversed && (ctx.state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 11;
+      attachSustained(ctx.state, ctx.events, "slow-death", ctx.attacker.id, ctx.defender.id,
+        PERMANENT_TURNS, reversed ? { reversed: 1 } : {});
    },
  },
  blind: { kind: "attack", requiresLos: true, baseDamage: () => 0, sustains: true },
  "around-the-corner": {
    kind: "neutral",
-    // Never cast alone — attached to an attack via aroundCornerInstanceId.
-    resolve: () => "attach Around The Corner to an attack instead of casting it alone",
+    // Never cast alone — attached to any L.O.S. cast via aroundCornerInstanceId.
+    resolve: () => "attach Around The Corner to a line-of-sight spell instead of casting it alone",
  },
  ugly: {
    kind: "neutral",
@@ -1678,7 +1779,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      const key = edgeKey(cell, side);
      if ((view.edges[key] ?? "open") !== "open") return "there is already something in that wall line";
      if (state.illusionWalls[key]) return "an illusion already shimmers there";
-      if (!losToEdge(view, caster.position, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
      state.illusionWalls[key] = { createdBy: caster.id, belief: {} };
      events.push({ type: "illusionWallCreated", caster: caster.id, edge: { cell, side } });
      return null;
@@ -1750,7 +1851,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      const creature = state.creatures.find((c) => c.id === (cmd.target as { creatureId: string }).creatureId);
      if (!creature) return "no such monster";
      if (creature.kind === "shadow" || creature.kind === "alter-ego") return "that is no monster";
-      if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, creature.position, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, creature.position)) return "no line of sight";
      const boost = cmd.params?.boost === "movement" ? "movement" : "life";
      if (boost === "movement") creature.movesPerTurn *= 2;
      else creature.maxDamage *= 2;
@@ -1841,7 +1942,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      const key = edgeKey(cell, side);
      const view = boardView(state);
      if ((view.edges[key] ?? "open") !== "wall") return "that is not a wall";
-      if (!losToEdge(view, caster.position, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
      state.tempWarpEdges.push({ key, prior: state.edgeOverrides[key] ?? null });
      state.edgeOverrides[key] = "open";
      events.push({ type: "wallWarpedOpen", player: caster.id, edge: { cell, side } });
@@ -1917,7 +2018,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      if ((view.edges[key] ?? "open") !== "open" && view.edges[key] !== "wall") {
        return "a door goes into a stone wall or an open corridor";
      }
-      if (!losToEdge(view, caster.position, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
      state.edgeOverrides[key] = "door";
      state.createdEdges[key] = true;
      events.push({ type: "wallCreated", caster: caster.id, edge: { cell, side } });
@@ -1937,8 +2038,13 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      }
      const uniq = new Set(cells.map(cellKey));
      if (uniq.size !== 4) return "the four tokens go on four different squares";
-      state.boobytraps.push({ casterId: caster.id, cells: [...cells], realKey: cellKey(cells[0]!) });
-      events.push({ type: "boobytrapPlaced", caster: caster.id, cells: [...cells] });
+      // The FIRST cell in the command is the real trap — but that truth
+      // lives only in realKey. Stored and broadcast in canonical order,
+      // the tokens carry no tell: position must never whisper which one
+      // bites.
+      const laid = [...cells].sort((a, b) => cellKey(a).localeCompare(cellKey(b)));
+      state.boobytraps.push({ casterId: caster.id, cells: laid, realKey: cellKey(cells[0]!) });
+      events.push({ type: "boobytrapPlaced", caster: caster.id, cells: laid.map((c) => ({ ...c })) });
      events.push({ type: "boobytrapPlacedPrivate", visibleTo: caster.id, realCell: cells[0]! });
      return null;
    },
@@ -1952,7 +2058,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
        (state.groundObjects[key] ?? []).length > 0 ||
        state.treasures.some((t) => t.position && cellKey(t.position) === key);
      if (!hasObject) return "there is nothing there to glue down";
-      if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, cmd.target.cell, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, cmd.target.cell)) return "no line of sight";
      state.gluedCells[key] = true;
      // "a duration equal to twice the NUMBER card played"
      const turns = magnitude.duration * 2;
@@ -1976,7 +2082,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
        (state.groundObjects[key] ?? []).length > 0 ||
        state.treasures.some((t) => t.position && cellKey(t.position) === key);
      if (!hasObject) return "there is nothing there to lock up";
-      if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, cmd.target.cell, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, cmd.target.cell)) return "no line of sight";
      state.squareContents[key] = { kind: "safe", damage: 0, createdBy: caster.id };
      events.push({ type: "safeCreated", caster: caster.id, at: cmd.target.cell });
      return null;
@@ -1994,7 +2100,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      if (ka === kb) return "pick two different squares";
      if (state.gluedCells[ka] || state.gluedCells[kb]) return "glue holds it fast";
      if (state.squareContents[ka]?.kind === "safe" || state.squareContents[kb]?.kind === "safe") return "it is locked in a safe";
-      if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, a, caster.id) || !gameLos(state, caster.position, b, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, a) || !castSight(state, caster, cmd, b)) return "no line of sight";
      const itemsA = state.groundObjects[ka] ?? [];
      const itemsB = state.groundObjects[kb] ?? [];
      const treasureA = state.treasures.find((t) => t.position && cellKey(t.position) === ka);
@@ -2026,7 +2132,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
        const current = view.edges[key];
        const meltable = current === "wall" || current === "door";
        if (!meltable) return "that is not a stone wall";
-        if (!losToEdge(view, caster.position, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
+        if (!castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cell, side)) return "no line of sight";
        state.edgeOverrides[key] = "open";
        delete state.doorStates[key];
        delete state.createdEdges[key];
@@ -2057,7 +2163,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      if (cmd.target?.kind === "cell") {
        const key = cellKey(cmd.target.cell);
        if (state.squareContents[key]?.kind !== "stone") return "that is not a solid stone block";
-        if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, cmd.target.cell, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+        if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, cmd.target.cell)) return "no line of sight";
        delete state.squareContents[key];
        events.push({ type: "stoneTurnedToWater", caster: caster.id, at: cmd.target.cell });
        // "Solid stone block turns into a WATERWALL with a range and damage of 4."
@@ -2115,13 +2221,21 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
    kind: "attack",
    requiresLos: true,
    baseDamage: () => 0,
+    permanentCurse: true,
    // "1/2 point of damage for every space moved. This spell is permanent."
+    // Rev 11: REVERSED at cast, the walk heals instead — half a point
+    // gained per space, as permanently. Older games attached it biting.
    onResolved: (ctx) => {
      if (ctx.fullyStopped || !ctx.defender.alive) return;
-      attachSustained(ctx.state, ctx.events, "walking-dead", ctx.attacker.id, ctx.defender.id, PERMANENT_TURNS);
+      const reversed = ctx.reversed && (ctx.state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 11;
+      attachSustained(ctx.state, ctx.events, "walking-dead", ctx.attacker.id, ctx.defender.id,
+        PERMANENT_TURNS, reversed ? { reversed: 1 } : {});
    },
  },
  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,
@@ -2208,8 +2322,35 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
    kind: "attack",
    physical: true,
    baseDamage: () => 0, // computed at resolution: distance rammed
+    // Rev 10, per the table: the ram IS movement — the goat charges on
+    // its legal legs (three plus numbers played), walking real corridors.
+    // Earlier revisions rammed at any range; their ledgers keep it.
+    validate: (state, _cmd, _caster, target) => {
+      if ((state.config.deckRev ?? 1) < 10 || !target) return null;
+      const caster = activePlayer(state);
+      const legs = state.turn.movementAllowance - state.turn.movementUsed;
+      const d = walkingDistance(state, caster.position, target.position);
+      if (d > legs) return "the goat charges on legs, not wings — you cannot walk that far this turn";
+      return null;
+    },
    onResolved: (ctx) => {
      if (ctx.fullyStopped || !ctx.defender.alive || !ctx.attacker.alive) return;
+      if ((ctx.state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 10) {
+        const legs = ctx.state.turn.movementAllowance - ctx.state.turn.movementUsed;
+        const d = walkingDistance(ctx.state, ctx.attacker.position, ctx.defender.position);
+        if (d === 0) return;
+        if (d > legs) {
+          // The target slipped beyond the charge (a counter-teleport, say):
+          // the goat pulls up short, winded, and the table sees it.
+          ctx.events.push({ type: "attackMissed", attacker: ctx.attacker.id, defender: ctx.defender.id, attackCardId: "butt-head", because: "outran" });
+          return;
+        }
+        ctx.state.turn.movementUsed += d;
+        ctx.attacker.position = { ...ctx.defender.position };
+        ctx.events.push({ type: "rammed", attacker: ctx.attacker.id, target: ctx.defender.id, distance: d });
+        resolvedBlow(ctx, d, "goat ram", "physical");
+        return;
+      }
      const d = Math.abs(ctx.defender.position.x - ctx.attacker.position.x) +
                Math.abs(ctx.defender.position.y - ctx.attacker.position.y);
      if (d === 0) return;
@@ -2429,6 +2570,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
    kind: "attack",
    requiresLos: true,
    baseDamage: () => 0,
+    permanentCurse: true,
    // "Opponent heads straight for the nearest of his own treasures ... This
    // lasts until opponent is on his own treasure."
    sustains: false,
@@ -2441,6 +2583,8 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      const carried = ctx.state.treasures.find((t) => t.id === ctx.defender.carriedTreasureId);
      if (carried?.owner === ctx.defender.id) return;
      attachSustained(ctx.state, ctx.events, "idiot", ctx.attacker.id, ctx.defender.id, PERMANENT_TURNS);
+      // Already standing on their own treasure: the march is over as it begins.
+      liftIdiotIfSatisfied(ctx.state, ctx.events, ctx.defender);
    },
  },
  "big-man": {
@@ -2526,7 +2670,7 @@ const CARD_EFFECTS: Record<string, AttackEffect | NeutralEffect | CounterEffect>
      const aim = cmd.target.cell;
      const view = boardView(state);
      if (!view.cells[cellKey(aim)]) return "off the board";
-      if (!casterLos(state, caster, caster.position, aim)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, aim)) return "no line of sight";
      state.turn.attackUsed = true;

      const clampToBoard = (c: Cell): Cell => {
@@ -2758,7 +2902,7 @@ function summonEffect(kind: CreatureState["kind"]): NeutralEffect {
      if (!view.cells[cellKey(at)]) return "off the board";
      if (state.squareContents[cellKey(at)]) return "that square is blocked";
      if (creatureAt(state, at)) return "a creature is already there";
-      if (!casterLos(state, caster, caster.position, at)) return "no line of sight";
+      if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, at)) return "no line of sight";
      state.turn.attackUsed = true;
      spawnCreature(state, events, kind, caster.id, at);
      return null;
@@ -2810,7 +2954,7 @@ function emptySquareTarget(
  if (state.dimWarps.some((w) => cellKey(w.a) === key || cellKey(w.b) === key)) {
    return "the warp shimmers there — nothing can form on it";
  }
-  if (!gameLos(state, caster.position, cell, caster.id)) return "no line of sight";
+  if (!castSight(state, caster, cmd, cell)) return "no line of sight";
  return cell;
 }

@@ -2937,9 +3081,22 @@ function impCheck(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[], onlyPlayer?: PlayerId):
      if (!gameLos(state, imp.position, p.position)) continue;
      imp.scorchedThisTurn.push(p.id);
      events.push({ type: "impScorches", creatureId: imp.id, player: p.id });
+      // Rev 8, per the FAQ: every imp attack is technically a spell — the
+      // scorch opens a counteraction window and burns as MAGICAL fire
+      // (soulstone's floor holds). One victim's window at a time; the
+      // sweep finds the rest on its next pass. Older games keep the
+      // instant kindless burn their ledgers recorded.
+      if ((state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 8) {
+        if (!state.stack) {
+          openCreatureStack(state, imp, p, 2, undefined, "spell");
+          break;
+        }
+        imp.scorchedThisTurn.pop(); // window busy: burn on a later sweep
+      } else {
        applyDamage(state, events, p, 2, "fire imp", null);
      }
    }
+  }
  checkVictory(state, events);
 }

@@ -3095,21 +3252,35 @@ function openCreatureStack(
  victim: PlayerState,
  damage: number,
  touch?: "wraith" | "claw",
+  kind: "physical" | "spell" = "physical",
+): void {
+  openCardlessStack(state, creature.controllerId, victim.id, {
+    params: { damage },
+    kind,
+    creatureId: creature.id,
+    ...(touch ? { creatureTouch: touch } : {}),
+  });
+}
+
+/** A counteraction stack with no attack card behind it — a creature's
+ * blow, the WARD's bite, STRENGTH's tear. Counters ride it as usual. */
+function openCardlessStack(
+  state: GameState,
+  attackerId: PlayerId,
+  defenderId: PlayerId,
+  opts: Pick<CastStack, "params" | "kind"> & Partial<CastStack>,
 ): void {
  state.stack = {
-    attackerId: creature.controllerId,
-    defenderId: victim.id,
+    attackerId,
+    defenderId,
    attackCard: null,
    numberValue: null,
    amplifyFactor: 1,
    extendFactor: 1,
    powerAttackPoints: 0,
-    params: { damage },
-    kind: "physical",
    counters: [],
-    waitingOn: victim.id,
-    creatureId: creature.id,
-    ...(touch ? { creatureTouch: touch } : {}),
+    waitingOn: defenderId,
+    ...opts,
  };
 }

@@ -3441,6 +3612,7 @@ function attachSustained(
  casterId: PlayerId,
  targetId: PlayerId,
  turns: number,
+  data: Record<string, number> = {},
 ): void {
  const effect: SustainedEffect = {
    id: `fx-${state.nextEffectId++}`,
@@ -3448,7 +3620,7 @@ function attachSustained(
    casterId,
    targetId,
    remainingTurns: Math.max(1, turns),
-    data: {},
+    data,
  };
  state.sustained.push(effect);
  events.push({
@@ -4064,7 +4236,9 @@ function doMove(prev: GameState, direction: Side, over = false): CommandResult {
  // Square contents at the destination.
  let content = state.squareContents[cellKey(p.position)];
  if (content?.kind === "stone") return err("that square is solid stone");
-  // BIG MAN: nobody enters his square.
+  // BIG MAN: nobody enters his square — except a SHRUNK wizard, small
+  // enough to slip between the giant's boots (table ruling).
+  if (sustainedOn(state, p.id, "shrink").length === 0) {
    for (const other of state.players) {
      if (other.id !== p.id && other.alive && cellKey(other.position) === cellKey(p.position) &&
          sustainedOn(state, other.id, "big-man").length > 0) {
@@ -4072,6 +4246,7 @@ function doMove(prev: GameState, direction: Side, over = false): CommandResult {
        return err("a giant fills that corridor");
      }
    }
+  }
  // BIG MAN pushes: "You can push monsters or other players (in an adjacent
  // square) down the corridor ahead of you as you move". No
  // room to shove them onward means no way forward for the giant either.
@@ -4148,14 +4323,20 @@ function doMove(prev: GameState, direction: Side, over = false): CommandResult {
  state.turn.movementUsed++;
  events.push({ type: "moved", player: p.id, from, to: p.position, direction, via });

-  // WALKING DEAD: 1/2 point per space moved (a full point every two steps).
+  // WALKING DEAD: 1/2 point per space moved (a full point every two
+  // steps) — gained instead of bled for a curse REVERSED at its casting.
  for (const fx of sustainedOn(state, p.id, "walking-dead")) {
    fx.data.halfSteps = (fx.data.halfSteps ?? 0) + 1;
    if (fx.data.halfSteps % 2 === 0) {
+      if (fx.data.reversed) {
+        p.life += 1;
+        events.push({ type: "lifeGained", player: p.id, amount: 1, source: "walking dead (reversed)", lifeAfter: p.life });
+      } else {
        applyDamage(state, events, p, 1, "walking dead", null);
        checkVictory(state, events);
      }
    }
+  }
  // DISEASE: the carrier infects every other player in a square they enter.
  if (p.alive && sustainedOn(state, p.id, "disease").length > 0) {
    for (const other of state.players) {
@@ -4165,6 +4346,18 @@ 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 });
@@ -4226,31 +4419,25 @@ function doMove(prev: GameState, direction: Side, over = false): CommandResult {
    state.turn.actionsEnded = true;
    springSlimeTrap(state, events, p);
  }
-  // IDIOT lifts when the victim reaches their own treasure.
-  if (sustainedOn(state, p.id, "idiot").length > 0) {
-    const onOwn = state.treasures.some(
-      (t) => t.owner === p.id && t.position && cellKey(t.position) === cellKey(p.position),
-    );
-    const allCarried = !state.treasures.some((t) => t.owner === p.id && t.position);
-    if (onOwn || allCarried) {
-      for (const fx of sustainedOn(state, p.id, "idiot")) {
-        events.push({ type: "spellExpired", effectId: fx.id, cardId: "idiot", target: p.id });
-      }
-      state.sustained = state.sustained.filter((fx) => !(fx.cardId === "idiot" && fx.targetId === p.id));
-    }
-  }
+  liftIdiotIfSatisfied(state, events, p);

  // Armed ambushes may spring on this step.
  checkAmbushes(state, events, p, { movedFrom: from });

-  // BOOBYTRAP: the real token detonates under anyone but its caster.
+  // BOOBYTRAP: the real token detonates under anyone but its caster; a
+  // blank token is flipped by the step that finds it and leaves the board
+  // alone — each decoy dies its own death.
  for (const trap of [...state.boobytraps]) {
    if (trap.casterId === p.id) continue;
-    if (cellKey(p.position) === trap.realKey) {
+    const here = cellKey(p.position);
+    if (here === trap.realKey) {
      state.boobytraps = state.boobytraps.filter((t) => t !== trap);
      events.push({ type: "boobytrapSprung", player: p.id, at: p.position });
      applyDamage(state, events, p, 4, "boobytrap", null, "physical");
      checkVictory(state, events);
+    } else if (trap.cells.some((c) => cellKey(c) === here)) {
+      trap.cells = trap.cells.filter((c) => cellKey(c) !== here);
+      events.push({ type: "boobytrapBlank", player: p.id, at: p.position });
    }
  }

@@ -4381,6 +4568,22 @@ function castingBlocked(
 * treasure on their own home, or drop their own treasure underfoot for an
 * instant cure.
 */
+/** IDIOT lifts when the march is done — the victim stands on their own
+ * treasure — or turns unsatisfiable: every one of their treasures is in
+ * someone's arms, leaving nothing to stand on. */
+function liftIdiotIfSatisfied(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[], p: PlayerState): void {
+  if (sustainedOn(state, p.id, "idiot").length === 0) return;
+  const onOwn = state.treasures.some(
+    (t) => t.owner === p.id && t.position && cellKey(t.position) === cellKey(p.position),
+  );
+  const allCarried = !state.treasures.some((t) => t.owner === p.id && t.position);
+  if (!onOwn && !allCarried) return;
+  for (const fx of sustainedOn(state, p.id, "idiot")) {
+    events.push({ type: "spellExpired", effectId: fx.id, cardId: "idiot", target: p.id });
+  }
+  state.sustained = state.sustained.filter((fx) => !(fx.cardId === "idiot" && fx.targetId === p.id));
+}
+
 function idiotBlocked(state: GameState, playerId: PlayerId): string | null {
  if (sustainedOn(state, playerId, "idiot").length > 0) {
    return "What am I doing here...? (you can do nothing but head for your treasure)";
@@ -4460,9 +4663,19 @@ function doWardChoice(prev: GameState, play: boolean): CommandResult {
    owner.displayed = owner.displayed.filter((id) => id !== card!.instanceId);
    state.discard.push(card!);
    events.push({ type: "wardSprung", owner: owner.id, victim: taker.id });
+    // Rev 9: "COUNTERACTIONs against WARD ... otherwise work as written" —
+    // the bite rides the stack. `trapped` carries the card's other clause:
+    // nothing a counter does can touch the Ward's caster. Older games
+    // recorded the instant bite and replay it.
+    if ((state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 9) {
+      openCardlessStack(state, owner.id, taker.id, {
+        params: { damage: 3 }, kind: "spell", trapped: true, sourceName: "warded treasure",
+      });
+    } else {
      applyDamage(state, events, taker, 3, "warded treasure", null);
      checkVictory(state, events);
    }
+  }
  return { ok: true, state, events };
 }

@@ -4579,10 +4792,31 @@ function doTearTreasure(prev: GameState, targetId: PlayerId): CommandResult {
  if (state.turn.attackUsed) state.turn.secondAttackUsed = true;
  state.turn.attackUsed = true;

+  // Rev 6: "this would be an attack" — the grab opens a counteraction
+  // window like any punch; the clutch roll waits for the counters.
+  if ((state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 6) {
+    openCardlessStack(state, attacker.id, target.id, {
+      params: null, kind: "physical", tearTreasure: true,
+    });
+    events.push({ type: "treasureTearAttempted", attacker: attacker.id, defender: target.id });
+    return { ok: true, state, events };
+  }
+
+  executeTear(state, events, attacker, target);
+  return { ok: true, state, events };
+}
+
+/** The clutch roll and the wrestling itself, once nothing stands in the way. */
+function executeTear(
+  state: GameState,
+  events: GameEvent[],
+  attacker: PlayerState,
+  target: PlayerState,
+): void {
  const roll = rollD4(state, events, target.id, "clutching the treasure — a 1 keeps it");
  if (roll === 1) {
    events.push({ type: "tearResisted", attacker: attacker.id, defender: target.id });
-    return { ok: true, state, events };
+    return;
  }

  const t = state.treasures.find((t) => t.id === target.carriedTreasureId)!;
@@ -4612,7 +4846,6 @@ function doTearTreasure(prev: GameState, targetId: PlayerId): CommandResult {
    }
  }
  checkVictory(state, events);
-  return { ok: true, state, events };
 }

 function doPunchWall(prev: GameState, cell: Cell, side: Side): CommandResult {
@@ -4896,6 +5129,22 @@ 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);
@@ -4907,7 +5156,9 @@ function doCast(prev: GameState, cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>): Comma
      if (effect.sameSquare && cellKey(creature.position) !== cellKey(caster.position)) {
        return err("you must be in the same square");
      }
-      if (effect.requiresLos && !casterLos(state, caster, caster.position, creature.position)) {
+      if (effect.requiresLos && !(mods.aroundCorner
+        ? bentLos(state, caster, caster.position, creature.position)
+        : casterLos(state, caster, caster.position, creature.position))) {
        return err("no line of sight to the creature");
      }
      const wandEvents: GameEvent[] = [];
@@ -4943,7 +5194,9 @@ function doCast(prev: GameState, cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>): Comma
    if (cmd.target?.kind === "cell" &&
        state.squareContents[cellKey(cmd.target.cell)]?.kind === "slime") {
      const cell = cmd.target.cell;
-      if (effect.requiresLos && !casterLos(state, caster, caster.position, cell)) {
+      if (effect.requiresLos && !(mods.aroundCorner
+        ? bentLos(state, caster, caster.position, cell)
+        : casterLos(state, caster, caster.position, cell))) {
        return err("no line of sight to the slime");
      }
      const wandEvents: GameEvent[] = [];
@@ -4990,7 +5243,7 @@ function doCast(prev: GameState, cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>): Comma
      if (effect.sameSquare && !touchesEdge(caster.position, cell, side)) {
        return err("you must stand beside the wall");
      }
-      if (effect.requiresLos && !losToEdge(view, caster.position, cell, side)) {
+      if (effect.requiresLos && !castSightEdge(state, caster, cmd, view, cell, side)) {
        return err("no line of sight to the wall");
      }
      const dmg =
@@ -5062,7 +5315,7 @@ function doCast(prev: GameState, cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>): Comma
    const preEvents: GameEvent[] = [];
    if (effect.requiresLos) {
      const sighted = mods.aroundCorner
-        ? bentLos(state, caster, caster.position, target.position, preEvents)
+        ? bentLos(state, caster, caster.position, target.position)
        : casterLos(state, caster, caster.position, target.position);
      if (!sighted) return err("no line of sight to the target");
    }
@@ -5183,7 +5436,9 @@ function doCast(prev: GameState, cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>): Comma
  }

  // Neutral: validate on a preview clone before consuming any cards.
-  const events: GameEvent[] = [{
+  const events: GameEvent[] = [];
+  if (mods.aroundCorner) events.push({ type: "castAroundCorner", caster: caster.id });
+  events.push({
    type: "spellCast",
    caster: caster.id,
    card: inHand,
@@ -5193,7 +5448,7 @@ function doCast(prev: GameState, cmd: Extract<Command, { type: "cast" }>): Comma
    from: caster.position,
    target: cmd.target?.kind === "player" ? cmd.target.playerId : null,
    targetCell: cmd.target?.kind === "edge" || cmd.target?.kind === "cell" ? cmd.target.cell : null,
-  }];
+  });
  const preview = clone(state);
  const problem = (effect as NeutralEffect).resolve(
    preview, [], activePlayer(preview), cmd, mods.magnitude,
@@ -5677,7 +5932,9 @@ function resolveStack(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[]): void {
    ? effect.baseDamage(stack.numberValue, stack.params)
    : stack.creatureId
      ? (stack.params?.damage ?? 1)  // a creature's blow
-      : 1;                           // a punch
+      : stack.tearTreasure
+        ? 0                          // the tear wrestles; it does not bruise
+        : (stack.params?.damage ?? 1); // a punch — or a cardless trap's bite
  // Webs burn: "Any fire damage done to player in webs causes two extra points."
  if (attackId === "fireball" && sustainedOn(state, defender.id, "sticky-web").length > 0) {
    base += 2;
@@ -5801,7 +6058,7 @@ function resolveStack(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[]): void {
        effect.onResolved({
          state, events,
          attacker: defender, defender: attacker,
-          damageDealt: 0, fullyStopped: false, duration: 0,
+          damageDealt: 0, fullyStopped: false, reversed: false, duration: 0,
          stack: { ...stack, params: { ...stack.params, cardId: chosen } },
        });
      }
@@ -5818,9 +6075,11 @@ function resolveStack(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[]): void {
      return;
    }
    // The returned spell is a fresh attack on its own caster — who gets a
-    // defender's counteraction window against it.
+    // defender's counteraction window against it. Rev 11: permanent curses
+    // ride the return too; older games let a reflected curse evaporate.
+    const returnsCurse = effect?.permanentCurse === true && (state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 11;
    if (!stack.trapped && !attackingCreature &&
-        attacker.alive && (pipe.damage > 0 || pipe.duration > 0)) {
+        attacker.alive && (pipe.damage > 0 || pipe.duration > 0 || returnsCurse)) {
      state.stack = {
        attackerId: defender.id,
        defenderId: attacker.id,
@@ -5867,7 +6126,7 @@ function resolveStack(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[]): void {
    } else if (pipe.damage > 0) {
      const source = stack.reflectedBase
        ? `${attackId} (reflected)`
-        : attackId ??
+        : attackId ?? stack.sourceName ??
          (attackingCreature ? `${attackingCreature.kind}'s blow` : `punch from ${attacker.id}`);
      applyDamage(state, events, defender, pipe.damage, source, attacker.id, pipe.kind);
      damageDealt = pipe.damage;
@@ -5907,6 +6166,15 @@ function resolveStack(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[]): void {
    }
  }

+  // The tear's wrestling waits for the counters: only an unstopped grab,
+  // still in arm's reach of a still-laden defender, gets its clutch roll.
+  if (stack.tearTreasure && !pipe.fullyStopped && !pipe.redirected &&
+      attacker.alive && defender.alive &&
+      cellKey(attacker.position) === cellKey(defender.position) &&
+      defender.carriedTreasureId != null) {
+    executeTear(state, events, attacker, defender);
+  }
+
  events.push({
    type: "attackResolved",
    attacker: attacker.id,
@@ -5926,6 +6194,7 @@ function resolveStack(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[]): void {
      defender,
      damageDealt,
      fullyStopped: pipe.fullyStopped,
+      reversed: pipe.reversed,
      duration: pipe.duration,
      stack,
    });
@@ -6058,11 +6327,25 @@ function applyDamage(
    soaks.push({ what: "bloodstone", amount: 1 });
  }
  // SOULSTONE: "Last three points ... can only be lost to physical damage."
-  if (damageKind === "spell" && displays(target, "soulstone") && target.life > 3) {
+  // Rev 8: the floor holds even from below — a bearer already at 3 or
+  // less takes NOTHING from spells. Earlier revisions clamped only from
+  // above (a bearer at 1 could be burned to death), and their ledgers
+  // replay that flaw.
+  if (damageKind === "spell" && displays(target, "soulstone")) {
+    if ((state.config.deckRev ?? 1) >= 8) {
+      const clamped = Math.max(0, Math.min(amount, target.life - 3));
+      if (clamped === 0) {
+        events.push({ type: "damageImmune", player: target.id, source, because: "soulstone" });
+        return;
+      }
+      if (clamped < amount) soaks.push({ what: "soulstone", amount: amount - clamped });
+      amount = clamped;
+    } else if (target.life > 3) {
      const clamped = Math.min(amount, target.life - 3);
      if (clamped < amount) soaks.push({ what: "soulstone", amount: amount - clamped });
      amount = clamped;
    }
+  }

  target.life -= amount;
  events.push({
@@ -6140,6 +6423,10 @@ function doPickUpTreasure(prev: GameState, treasureId?: string): CommandResult {
  const events: GameEvent[] = [
    { type: "treasurePickedUp", player: p.id, treasureId: t.id, owner: t.owner, at: p.position },
  ];
+  // This grab may have lifted the owner's IDIOT: with every one of their
+  // treasures now carried, there is nothing left to march to.
+  const cursedOwner = state.players.find((q) => q.id === t.owner);
+  if (cursedOwner) liftIdiotIfSatisfied(state, events, cursedOwner);
  // WARD: "you may play at that time (out of turn) this card on him" —
  // literally: the grab hangs while the owner decides.
  const owner = state.players.find((q) => q.id === t.owner);
@@ -6312,11 +6599,18 @@ function doDiscard(prev: GameState, playerId: PlayerId, instanceIds: string[]):
  return { ok: true, state, events: [{ type: "cardsDiscarded", player: p.id, cards }] };
 }

-/** SLOW DEATH: "Opponent takes 1 point of magical damage whenever he draws." */
+/** SLOW DEATH: "Opponent takes 1 point of magical damage whenever he draws" —
+ * or gains one, for a curse that was REVERSED at its casting. */
 function applySlowDeathOnDraw(state: GameState, events: GameEvent[], p: PlayerState, cardsDrawn: number): void {
-  const stacks = sustainedOn(state, p.id, "slow-death").length;
-  if (stacks === 0 || cardsDrawn === 0 || !p.alive) return;
-  for (let i = 0; i < cardsDrawn * stacks; i++) {
+  const curses = sustainedOn(state, p.id, "slow-death");
+  if (curses.length === 0 || cardsDrawn === 0 || !p.alive) return;
+  const blessed = curses.filter((e) => e.data.reversed).length;
+  if (blessed > 0) {
+    const amount = cardsDrawn * blessed;
+    p.life += amount;
+    events.push({ type: "lifeGained", player: p.id, amount, source: "slow death (reversed)", lifeAfter: p.life });
+  }
+  for (let i = 0; i < cardsDrawn * (curses.length - blessed); i++) {
    if (!p.alive) break;
    applyDamage(state, events, p, 1, "slow death", null);
  }
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // The server sends this after every state change; clients never see the
 // deck order or other players' hands.

-import { SIDES, edgeKey, sightBetween, traceSight, type AssembledBoard, type Cell, type SightTrace } from "./board";
+import { SIDES, edgeKey, sightBetween, bentSightThroughGap, traceSight, type AssembledBoard, type Cell, type SightTrace } from "./board";
 import { cardDef, type CardInstance } from "./cards";
 import {
  boardView,
@@ -223,6 +223,32 @@ export function sightedCellsFor(view: GameView): Set<string> {
  return out;
 }

+/**
+ * Sight with an AROUND THE CORNER attached: every square straightly sighted,
+ * plus every square visible from one of those — the caster looks to a middle
+ * cell and the spell turns there, mirroring the engine's bentLos.
+ */
+export function bentSightedCellsFor(view: GameView): Set<string> {
+  const out = sightedCellsFor(view);
+  const me = view.players.find((p) => p.id === view.you);
+  if (!me) return out;
+  const mids = [...out].map((k) => {
+    const [x, y] = k.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+    return { x, y };
+  });
+  const { board, blockers } = sightBasis(view);
+  for (const key of Object.keys(board.cells)) {
+    if (out.has(key)) continue;
+    const [x, y] = key.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+    const cell = { x, y };
+    if (mids.some((mid) => sightBetween(board, mid, cell, blockers)) ||
+        bentSightThroughGap(board, me.position, cell, blockers)) {
+      out.add(key);
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
 /** The board-as-seen and sight blockers this view's sight rules run against. */
 function sightBasis(view: GameView): { board: GameView["board"]; blockers: Record<string, true> } {
  // Held-open doors are open doorways to every eye. Beyond them, the
@@ -296,7 +322,14 @@ export function bentSightFor(view: GameView, from: Cell, to: Cell): boolean {
 */
 export function stackSightTrace(
  view: GameView,
-): { from: Cell; to: Cell; trace: SightTrace; bend?: { mid: Cell; trace: SightTrace } } | null {
+): {
+  from: Cell;
+  to: Cell;
+  trace: SightTrace;
+  bend?: { mid: Cell; trace: SightTrace };
+  /** VISIONSTONE: the one wall or door the bearer's sight dissolved (edge key). */
+  pierced?: string;
+} | null {
  const stack = view.stack;
  if (!stack || stack.creatureId) return null;
  if (!stack.attackCard || cardDef(stack.attackCard.cardId).los !== true) return null;
@@ -306,6 +339,19 @@ export function stackSightTrace(
  if (a.position.x === d.position.x && a.position.y === d.position.y) return null;
  const trace = traceSightFor(view, a.position, d.position);
  if (trace) return { from: a.position, to: d.position, trace };
+  // VISIONSTONE: the bearer sees through exactly one wall or door. When no
+  // plain line exists, find the single edge whose removal opens one and draw
+  // the ray straight through it, marking the pierced wall for the table.
+  if (a.displayed.some((c) => c.cardId === "visionstone")) {
+    const { board, blockers } = sightBasis(view);
+    for (const [key, edge] of Object.entries(board.edges)) {
+      if (edge === "open") continue;
+      const edges = { ...board.edges };
+      delete edges[key];
+      const t = traceSight({ ...board, edges }, a.position, d.position, blockers);
+      if (t) return { from: a.position, to: d.position, trace: t, pierced: key };
+    }
+  }
  // AROUND THE CORNER: no straight line exists — find a middle square both
  // ends can see and draw the sight leg by leg, so the table can audit the
  // needle instead of doubting it.
@@ -337,12 +383,12 @@ const SUMMON_CARD_IDS = new Set([
 * aid — mirroring the engine's own validation from the viewer's knowledge.
 * Null = this card's eligibility is not modeled; light everything.
 */
-export function eligibleCellsFor(view: GameView, cardId: string): Set<string> | null {
+export function eligibleCellsFor(view: GameView, cardId: string, bentCorner = false): Set<string> | null {
  const me = view.players.find((p) => p.id === view.you);
  if (!me) return null;
  const cells = Object.keys(view.board.cells);
  const key = (x: number, y: number) => `${x},${y}`;
-  const sighted = sightedCellsFor(view);
+  const sighted = bentCorner ? bentSightedCellsFor(view) : sightedCellsFor(view);

  if (CREATION_CARD_IDS.has(cardId)) {
    // emptySquareTarget: on the board, unoccupied by content, home, wizard,
@@ -979,3 +979,86 @@ describe("the denial planner offers only castable blocks", () => {
    }
  });
 });
+
+describe("interception, escape, and hazard sense", () => {
+  function toBot(state: GameState): GameState {
+    while (state.turn.round < 2 || state.players[state.turn.activeIndex]!.id !== "bot") {
+      const r = applyCommand(state, actingSeat(state), { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+      state = r.state;
+    }
+    return state;
+  }
+
+  it("roots a carrier closing on home with LOCK IN PLACE", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["foe", "bot"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"] });
+    state = toBot(state);
+    const bot = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "bot")!;
+    const foe = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "foe")!;
+    // The foe stands beside the bot, laden, a short walk from banking.
+    foe.position = { x: bot.position.x, y: bot.position.y };
+    const gold = state.treasures.find((t) => t.owner === "bot" && t.position)!;
+    gold.position = null;
+    gold.carriedBy = "foe";
+    foe.carriedTreasureId = gold.id;
+    foe.home = { ...bot.position };
+    bot.hand = [{ cardId: "lock-in-place", instanceId: "LK" }];
+    const cmd = automatonCommand(viewFor(state, "bot"), "hunter", "archmage");
+    expect(cmd).toMatchObject({ type: "cast", instanceId: "LK", target: { kind: "player", playerId: "foe" } });
+    expect(applyCommand(state, "bot", cmd!).ok).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("a pressed carrier of any temperament turns to mist", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["foe", "bot"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"] });
+    state = toBot(state);
+    const bot = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "bot")!;
+    const foe = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "foe")!;
+    // Bot hauls the foe's gold mid-journey with the foe breathing down its neck.
+    const gold = state.treasures.find((t) => t.owner === "foe" && t.position)!;
+    gold.position = null;
+    gold.carriedBy = "bot";
+    bot.carriedTreasureId = gold.id;
+    bot.position = { ...foe.home };
+    foe.position = { ...bot.position };
+    bot.hand = [
+      { cardId: "mist-body", instanceId: "MB" },
+      { cardId: "number-3", instanceId: "N3" },
+      { cardId: "number-5", instanceId: "N5" },
+    ];
+    const cmd = automatonCommand(viewFor(state, "bot"), "berserker", "archmage");
+    expect(cmd).toMatchObject({ type: "cast", instanceId: "MB", numberInstanceIds: ["N5"] });
+    const r = applyCommand(state, "bot", cmd!);
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    expect(r.state.sustained.some((s) => s.cardId === "mist-body" && s.targetId === "bot")).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("detours around a thornbush jail rather than diving in", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["bot", "foe"], seed: 7, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"] });
+    state = toBot(state);
+    const bot = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "bot")!;
+    bot.hand = [];
+    // Two exits from the bot's square: the short road east holds a
+    // thornbush, the long road stays clean. A jail is not a shortcut.
+    const sides = ["N", "S", "E", "W"] as const;
+    const open = sides.filter((s) => {
+      const n = { x: bot.position.x + (s === "E" ? 1 : s === "W" ? -1 : 0),
+                  y: bot.position.y + (s === "S" ? 1 : s === "N" ? -1 : 0) };
+      return state.board.cells[cellKey(n)] !== undefined;
+    });
+    expect(open.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
+    const bushSide = open[0]!;
+    const freeSide = open[1]!;
+    for (const s2 of sides) {
+      state.edgeOverrides[edgeKey(bot.position, s2)] =
+        s2 === bushSide || s2 === freeSide ? "open" : "wall";
+    }
+    const bushCell = { x: bot.position.x + (bushSide === "E" ? 1 : bushSide === "W" ? -1 : 0),
+                       y: bot.position.y + (bushSide === "S" ? 1 : bushSide === "N" ? -1 : 0) };
+    state.squareContents[cellKey(bushCell)] = { kind: "thornbush", damage: 0, createdBy: "foe" };
+    const cmd = automatonCommand(viewFor(state, "bot"), "hunter", "archmage");
+    // Whatever goal it picks, the first stride must not be into the bush.
+    expect(cmd).toMatchObject({ type: "move" });
+    expect((cmd as { direction: string }).direction).not.toBe(bushSide);
+    expect(applyCommand(state, "bot", cmd!).ok).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { applyCommand, activePlayer, boardView, createGame, type GameState } fro
 import { cellKey, edgeKey, hasLineOfSight, neighbor, type Cell, type Side, SIDES, stepTarget } from "../src/board";
 import type { CardInstance } from "../src/cards";
 import { sightedCellsFor, stackSightTrace, viewFor } from "../src/view";
-import { newGame, must, giveCard, toRound2, faceOff } from "./helpers";
+import { newGame, must, drain, giveCard, toRound2, faceOff } from "./helpers";

 /** Test surgery: put a specific card into a player's hand (swapping one out). */
 /** Advance past round 1 (both players just end their turns). */
@@ -398,6 +398,7 @@ describe("the ward window and chaos shields", () => {
    expect(state.wardPending).toEqual({ ownerId: owner.id, takerId: thief.id });
    // Spring it: the thief bleeds 3 and the ward is spent.
    state = must(state, owner.id, { type: "wardChoice", play: true });
+    state = drain(state);
    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === thief.id)!.life).toBe(12);
    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === owner.id)!.hand.some((c) => c.cardId === "ward")).toBe(false);
  });
@@ -1196,3 +1197,158 @@ describe("the bent sight-trace shows AROUND THE CORNER's legs", () => {
    expect(traced?.bend?.mid).toBeDefined();
  });
 });
+
+describe("the tear is an attack (rev 6)", () => {
+  function tearRig(deckRev?: number) {
+    let { state } = createGame({
+      playerIds: ["att", "def"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"],
+      ...(deckRev != null ? { deckRev } : {}),
+    });
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    while (activePlayer(state).id !== "att") {
+      state = must(state, activePlayer(state).id, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    }
+    const att = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "att")!;
+    const def = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "def")!;
+    def.position = { ...att.position };
+    const gold = state.treasures.find((t) => t.owner === "att" && t.position)!;
+    gold.position = null;
+    gold.carriedBy = "def";
+    def.carriedTreasureId = gold.id;
+    state.sustained.push({
+      id: "fx-t", cardId: "strength", casterId: "att", targetId: "att",
+      remainingTurns: 3, data: {},
+    });
+    return { state, att, def, gold };
+  }
+
+  it("opens a counteraction window; a TELEPORT escape keeps the chest", () => {
+    let { state, gold } = tearRig();
+    const r = applyCommand(state, "att", { type: "tearTreasure", targetId: "def" });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    state = r.state;
+    expect(state.stack?.tearTreasure).toBe(true);
+    expect(state.stack?.waitingOn).toBe("def");
+    const def = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "def")!;
+    const view = boardView(state);
+    const away = SIDES.map((s) => stepTarget(view, def.position, s))
+      .find((t) => t.kind === "step")!;
+    giveCard(state, "def", "teleport", "TP", 0);
+    state = must(state, "def", { type: "counteract", instanceId: "teleport#TP", params: { cell: (away as { to: Cell }).to } });
+    state = must(state, "att", { type: "pass" });
+    if (state.stack) state = must(state, state.stack.waitingOn, { type: "pass" });
+    expect(state.stack).toBeNull();
+    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === "def")!.carriedTreasureId).toBe(gold.id);
+  });
+
+  it("an uncountered tear wrestles after the window closes", () => {
+    let { state, gold } = tearRig();
+    const r = applyCommand(state, "att", { type: "tearTreasure", targetId: "def" });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    state = r.state;
+    const res = applyCommand(state, "def", { type: "pass" });
+    if (!res.ok) throw new Error(res.error);
+    state = res.state;
+    const rolled = res.events.find((e) => e.type === "dieRolled");
+    expect(rolled).toBeTruthy();
+    const kept = rolled!.type === "dieRolled" && rolled!.roll === 1;
+    const att = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "att")!;
+    const def = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "def")!;
+    if (kept) expect(def.carriedTreasureId).toBe(gold.id);
+    else expect(att.carriedTreasureId).toBe(gold.id);
+  });
+
+  it("rev 5 games keep the instant tear, no stack", () => {
+    let { state } = tearRig(5);
+    const r = applyCommand(state, "att", { type: "tearTreasure", targetId: "def" });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    expect(r.state.stack).toBeNull();
+    expect(r.events.some((e) => e.type === "treasureTorn" || e.type === "tearResisted")).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("a forced drop lands like any drop", () => {
+  it("DROP OBJECT onto a home square reports the banking and checks victory", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["att", "def"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"] });
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    while (activePlayer(state).id !== "att") {
+      state = must(state, activePlayer(state).id, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    }
+    const att = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "att")!;
+    const def = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "def")!;
+    // The defender stands on their OWN home carrying the attacker's gold —
+    // the forced drop banks it for them, cruel as that is for the caster.
+    def.position = { ...def.home };
+    att.position = { ...def.home };
+    const gold = state.treasures.find((t) => t.owner === "att" && t.position)!;
+    gold.position = null;
+    gold.carriedBy = "def";
+    def.carriedTreasureId = gold.id;
+    const dob = giveCard(state, "att", "drop-object", "D", 0);
+    let r = applyCommand(state, "att", {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: dob.instanceId,
+      target: { kind: "player", playerId: "def" }, params: { cardId: "treasure" },
+    });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    r = applyCommand(r.state, "def", { type: "pass" });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    const drop = r.events.find((e) => e.type === "treasureDropped");
+    expect(drop).toBeTruthy();
+    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");
+  });
+});
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
  type CreatureState, applyCommand, activePlayer, boardView, creatureAt, type GameState, type PlayerId, createGame } from "../src/game";
 import { cellKey, edgeKey, SIDES, stepTarget, type Cell, type Side } from "../src/board";
 import type { CardInstance } from "../src/cards";
-import { newExpansionGame as newGame, must, giveCard, toRound2, emptyNeighborCell, pushSustained } from "./helpers";
+import { newExpansionGame as newGame, must, drain, giveCard, toRound2, emptyNeighborCell, pushSustained } from "./helpers";

 /** Summon a creature next to its creator (round 2+, consumes the attack). */
 function summon(state: GameState, playerId: PlayerId, kind: string, tag = "S") {
@@ -151,24 +151,24 @@ describe("monsters", () => {
    state = toRound2(state);
    const me = activePlayer(state).id;
    const r = summon(state, me, "fire-imp");
-    state = r.state;
+    state = drain(r.state);
    const imp = state.creatures[0]!;

    // Fireball cannot destroy it...
-    state = must(state, me, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    state = drain(must(state, me, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 }));
    const enemy = state.players.find((p) => p.id !== me)!;
    // (enemy may have been scorched at turn start if in LOS — note life)
    const enemyNow = state.players.find((p) => p.id !== me)!;
    enemyNow.position = { ...imp.position }; // stand at the imp for clear sight
    const fb = giveCard(state, enemy.id, "fireball", "F", 0);
-    state = must(state, enemy.id, {
+    state = drain(must(state, enemy.id, {
      type: "cast", instanceId: fb.instanceId, target: { kind: "creature", creatureId: imp.id },
-    });
+    }));
    expect(state.creatures.length).toBe(1);

    // ...but a waterbolt douses it instantly.
-    state = must(state, enemy.id, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
-    state = must(state, me, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    state = drain(must(state, enemy.id, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 }));
+    state = drain(must(state, me, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 }));
    state.players.find((p) => p.id !== me)!.position = { ...state.creatures[0]!.position };
    const wb = giveCard(state, enemy.id, "waterbolt", "W", 0);
    state = must(state, enemy.id, {
@@ -411,6 +411,33 @@ describe("big man", () => {
    throw new Error("setup: seed offered no walled pocket beside the home");
  });

+  it("a shrunk wizard slips between the giant's boots", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["alice", "bob"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"] });
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    const mover = activePlayer(state);
+    const giant = state.players.find((p) => p.id !== mover.id)!;
+    state.sustained.push({
+      id: "fx-big", cardId: "big-man", casterId: giant.id, targetId: giant.id,
+      remainingTurns: 9, data: {},
+    });
+    const view = boardView(state);
+    const side = SIDES.find((s) => stepTarget(view, mover.position, s).kind === "step");
+    if (!side) throw new Error("setup: no open step beside the mover");
+    const t = stepTarget(view, mover.position, side);
+    if (t.kind !== "step") throw new Error("unreachable");
+    giant.position = { ...t.to };
+    // Full-size, the corridor is filled.
+    expect(applyCommand(state, mover.id, { type: "move", direction: side }).ok).toBe(false);
+    // Shrunk, the same step slips through.
+    state.sustained.push({
+      id: "fx-small", cardId: "shrink", casterId: mover.id, targetId: mover.id,
+      remainingTurns: 1, data: {},
+    });
+    const r = applyCommand(state, mover.id, { type: "move", direction: side });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    expect(cellKey(r.state.players.find((p) => p.id === mover.id)!.position)).toBe(cellKey(giant.position));
+  });
+
  it("monsters cannot enter the giant's square", () => {
    const rig = bigRig();
    let state = rig.state;
@@ -787,3 +814,59 @@ describe("creatures and the dimensional warp", () => {
    if (!r.ok) expect(r.error).toContain("stone");
  });
 });
+
+describe("the imp's fire is a spell (rev 8)", () => {
+  function impRig() {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["imp-owner", "mark"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"] });
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    while (activePlayer(state).id !== "imp-owner") {
+      state = must(state, activePlayer(state).id, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    }
+    return state;
+  }
+
+  it("scorch opens a counteraction window and FULL SHIELD stops it", () => {
+    let state = impRig();
+    const owner = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "imp-owner")!;
+    const mark = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "mark")!;
+    mark.position = { ...owner.position };
+    const impCard = giveCard(state, "imp-owner", "fire-imp", "FI", 0);
+    const spot = emptyNeighborCell(state, owner.position);
+    let r = applyCommand(state, "imp-owner", {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: impCard.instanceId, target: { kind: "cell", cell: spot.cell },
+    });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    state = r.state;
+    if (!state.stack) state = must(state, "imp-owner", { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    // The scorch rides the stack now: a counteraction window, spell-kind.
+    expect(state.stack?.creatureId).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(state.stack?.kind).toBe("spell");
+    giveCard(state, "mark", "full-shield", "FS", 0);
+    state = must(state, "mark", { type: "counteract", instanceId: "full-shield#FS" });
+    state = drain(state);
+    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === "mark")!.life).toBe(15);
+  });
+
+  it("soulstone's floor holds from below: a bearer at 2 takes nothing from the flame", () => {
+    let state = impRig();
+    const owner = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "imp-owner")!;
+    const mark = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "mark")!;
+    mark.position = { ...owner.position };
+    mark.life = 2;
+    mark.displayed.push("SS");
+    mark.hand[0] = { instanceId: "SS", cardId: "soulstone" };
+    const impCard = giveCard(state, "imp-owner", "fire-imp", "FI", 1);
+    const spot = emptyNeighborCell(state, owner.position);
+    let r = applyCommand(state, "imp-owner", {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: impCard.instanceId, target: { kind: "cell", cell: spot.cell },
+    });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    state = r.state;
+    if (!state.stack) state = must(state, "imp-owner", { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    expect(state.stack?.kind).toBe("spell");
+    state = drain(state);
+    const after = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "mark")!;
+    expect(after.life).toBe(2);
+    expect(after.alive).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { applyCommand, activePlayer, boardView, createGame, gameLos, sustainedOn } from "../src/game";
 import { cellKey, edgeKey, stepTarget } from "../src/board";
 import type { CardInstance } from "../src/cards";
-import { newExpansionGame as newGame, must, giveCard, toRound2, faceOff, castAt } from "./helpers";
+import { newExpansionGame as newGame, must, drain, giveCard, toRound2, faceOff, castAt } from "./helpers";

 describe("expansion combat cards", () => {
  it("power attack burns life for extra damage", () => {
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ describe("expansion combat cards", () => {
      .toEqual(aCards.filter((id) => id !== ms.instanceId));
  });

-  it("butt-head rams for the distance charged", () => {
-    let { state } = newGame();
+  it("butt-head rams for the distance charged (legacy rev 9 rules)", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["alice", "bob"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"], deckRev: 9 });
    state = toRound2(state);
    const attacker = activePlayer(state);
    const defender = state.players.find((p) => p.id !== attacker.id)!;
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ describe("expansion combat cards", () => {
    state = must(state, me.id, { type: "pickUpTreasure" });
    expect(state.wardPending).toEqual({ ownerId: enemy.id, takerId: me.id });
    state = must(state, enemy.id, { type: "wardChoice", play: true });
+    state = drain(state);
    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === me.id)!.life).toBe(12);
    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === enemy.id)!.hand.some((c) => c.cardId === "ward")).toBe(false);
  });
@@ -164,6 +165,34 @@ describe("expansion combat cards", () => {
    }
  });

+  it("idiot lifts the moment the victim's last floor treasure is carried off", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["alice", "bob", "carol"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic"] });
+    while (state.turn.round < 2) {
+      state = must(state, activePlayer(state).id, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    }
+    const { attacker, defender } = faceOff(state);
+    const third = state.players.find((p) => p.id !== attacker && p.id !== defender)!;
+    const id = giveCard(state, attacker, "idiot");
+    state = castAt(state, attacker, defender, id);
+    expect(sustainedOn(state, defender, "idiot").length).toBe(1);
+
+    // A third wizard hauls off one of the victim's chests: one destination
+    // remains, so the march goes on.
+    const [first, second] = state.treasures.filter((t) => t.owner === defender);
+    const hauler = state.players.find((p) => p.id === third.id)!;
+    first!.carriedBy = hauler.id;
+    first!.position = null;
+    hauler.carriedTreasureId = first!.id;
+    expect(sustainedOn(state, defender, "idiot").length).toBe(1);
+
+    // The caster takes the last one off the floor — nothing left to march
+    // to, and the curse lifts on the spot.
+    const att = state.players.find((p) => p.id === attacker)!;
+    att.position = { ...second!.position! };
+    state = must(state, attacker, { type: "pickUpTreasure", treasureId: second!.id });
+    expect(sustainedOn(state, defender, "idiot").length).toBe(0);
+  });
+
  it("idiot forbids item handling and punches but allows counteractions", () => {
    let { state } = createGame({
      playerIds: ["alice", "bob"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic", "expansion1"],
@@ -417,7 +446,11 @@ describe("strength tears treasures from wizards' arms", () => {
    let torn = 0, kept = 0;
    for (let seed = 1; seed <= 12; seed++) {
      const { state, attacker, defender, treasure } = grip(seed);
-      const r = applyCommand(state, attacker, { type: "tearTreasure", targetId: defender });
+      let r = applyCommand(state, attacker, { type: "tearTreasure", targetId: defender });
+      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+      // Rev 6: the grab waits out its counteraction window first.
+      expect(r.state.stack?.tearTreasure).toBe(true);
+      r = applyCommand(r.state, defender, { type: "pass" });
      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
      expect(r.state.turn.attackUsed).toBe(true);
      // FAQ: tearing is not picking up — the turn's actions continue.
@@ -477,7 +510,10 @@ describe("strength tears treasures from wizards' arms", () => {
      state = must(state, "alice", {
        type: "cast", instanceId: st.instanceId, numberInstanceIds: ["number-2#N"],
      });
-      const r = applyCommand(state, "alice", { type: "tearTreasure", targetId: "bob" });
+      let r = applyCommand(state, "alice", { type: "tearTreasure", targetId: "bob" });
+      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+      // Rev 6: the grab waits out its counteraction window first.
+      r = applyCommand(r.state, "bob", { type: "pass" });
      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
      const after = r.state.treasures.find((t) => t.id === caras.id)!;
      if (after.carriedBy === "bob") continue; // Bob rolled his 1 — try again
@@ -674,3 +710,36 @@ describe("go away routs around walls", () => {
    expect(after.lostTurns).toBe(1);
  });
 });
+
+describe("the goat charges on legs, not wings (rev 10)", () => {
+  it("the charge walks real corridors: in reach it spends legs, beyond them it is refused", () => {
+    let { state } = newGame();
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    const attacker = activePlayer(state);
+    const defender = state.players.find((p) => p.id !== attacker.id)!;
+    const bh = giveCard(state, attacker.id, "butt-head");
+    // The engine is the oracle: every other square is either within the
+    // turn's legal movement or beyond it, and this maze holds both kinds.
+    let refusals = 0;
+    let rams = 0;
+    for (const key of Object.keys(boardView(state).cells)) {
+      if (key === cellKey(attacker.position)) continue;
+      const [x, y] = key.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+      defender.position = { x, y };
+      const r = applyCommand(state, attacker.id, {
+        type: "cast", instanceId: bh.instanceId, target: { kind: "player", playerId: defender.id },
+      });
+      if (!r.ok) {
+        if (/legs, not wings/.test(r.error)) refusals += 1;
+        continue;
+      }
+      const st = drain(r.state);
+      const a = st.players.find((p) => p.id === attacker.id)!;
+      expect(a.position).toEqual(st.players.find((p) => p.id === defender.id)!.position);
+      expect(st.turn.movementUsed).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      rams += 1;
+    }
+    expect(refusals).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(rams).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+});
@@ -378,3 +378,80 @@ describe("a wave's force is spent as it travels", () => {
  });

 });
+
+describe("boobytrap decoys die their own deaths", () => {
+  it("a stepped-on blank token vanishes alone; the real one still waits", () => {
+    let { state } = newGame();
+    const me = activePlayer(state);
+    const enemy = state.players.find((p) => p.id !== me.id)!;
+    const view = boardView(state);
+    const open: Cell[] = [];
+    for (const key of Object.keys(view.cells)) {
+      const [x, y] = key.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+      if (state.squareContents[key]) continue;
+      open.push({ x, y });
+      if (open.length === 4) break;
+    }
+    const bt = giveCard(state, me.id, "boobytrap");
+    state = must(state, me.id, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: bt.instanceId, params: { cells: open },
+    });
+    state = must(state, me.id, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    // The enemy steps onto a BLANK (open[1] — the real trap is open[0]).
+    const e = state.players.find((p) => p.id === enemy.id)!;
+    const blank = open[1]!;
+    for (const side of SIDES) {
+      const from = { x: blank.x + (side === "E" ? -1 : side === "W" ? 1 : 0),
+                     y: blank.y + (side === "S" ? -1 : side === "N" ? 1 : 0) };
+      if (!view.cells[cellKey(from)]) continue;
+      const t = stepTarget(view, from, side);
+      if (t.kind === "step" && cellKey(t.to) === cellKey(blank)) {
+        e.position = from;
+        const before = e.life;
+        const r = applyCommand(state, enemy.id, { type: "move", direction: side });
+        if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+        state = r.state;
+        expect(r.events.some((ev) => ev.type === "boobytrapBlank")).toBe(true);
+        const after = state.players.find((p) => p.id === enemy.id)!;
+        expect(after.life).toBe(before);
+        const trap = state.boobytraps[0]!;
+        expect(trap.cells.length).toBe(3);
+        expect(trap.cells.some((c) => cellKey(c) === cellKey(blank))).toBe(false);
+        expect(trap.realKey).toBe(cellKey(open[0]!));
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+    throw new Error("setup: no approach to the blank token");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("the boobytrap keeps its secret", () => {
+  it("stored and broadcast cells are canonically ordered — position tells nothing", () => {
+    let { state } = newGame();
+    const me = activePlayer(state);
+    const view = boardView(state);
+    const open: Cell[] = [];
+    for (const key of Object.keys(view.cells)) {
+      const [x, y] = key.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+      if (state.squareContents[key]) continue;
+      open.push({ x, y });
+      if (open.length === 4) break;
+    }
+    // Cast with the REAL trap deliberately last-sorting: reverse order.
+    const reversed = [...open].reverse();
+    const bt = giveCard(state, me.id, "boobytrap");
+    const r = applyCommand(state, me.id, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: bt.instanceId, params: { cells: reversed },
+    });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    const trap = r.state.boobytraps[0]!;
+    const keys = trap.cells.map((c) => cellKey(c));
+    expect([...keys].sort()).toEqual(keys); // canonical order, not casting order
+    expect(trap.realKey).toBe(cellKey(reversed[0]!)); // the truth survives aside
+    const placed = r.events.find((e) => e.type === "boobytrapPlaced");
+    if (placed?.type === "boobytrapPlaced") {
+      const evKeys = placed.cells.map((c) => cellKey(c));
+      expect([...evKeys].sort()).toEqual(evKeys);
+    }
+  });
+});
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
-import { giveCard } from "./helpers";
+import { drain, giveCard } from "./helpers";
 import { edgeKey } from "../src/board";
 import {
  applyCommand,
@@ -290,7 +290,15 @@ describe("the Ward is played in the moment", () => {
    expect(applyCommand(state, "thief", { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 }).ok).toBe(false);
    const r = applyCommand(state, "owner", { type: "wardChoice", play: true });
    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
-    state = r.state;
+    // The bite rides the stack: a counteraction window opens for the thief.
+    expect(r.state.stack).toBeTruthy();
+    const bite = applyCommand(r.state, r.state.stack!.waitingOn, { type: "pass" });
+    if (!bite.ok) throw new Error(bite.error);
+    // The chronicle names the bite for what it is, not a punch.
+    expect(bite.events.some(
+      (e) => e.type === "damaged" && e.source === "warded treasure",
+    )).toBe(true);
+    state = drain(bite.state);
    expect(state.wardPending).toBeNull();
    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === "thief")!.life).toBe(12);
    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === "owner")!.hand.some((c) => c.cardId === "ward")).toBe(false);
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ export function must(state: GameState, player: PlayerId, command: Command): Game
  return result.state;
 }

+/** Wave every pending counteraction window through unanswered. */
+export function drain(state: GameState): GameState {
+  while (state.stack) {
+    state = must(state, state.stack.waitingOn, { type: "pass" });
+  }
+  return state;
+}
+
 export function giveCard(state: GameState, playerId: PlayerId, cardId: string, tag = "T", slot = 0): CardInstance {
  const p = state.players.find((p) => p.id === playerId)!;
  const instance = { instanceId: `${cardId}#${tag}`, cardId };
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { applyCommand, activePlayer, boardView, createGame, gameLos, sustainedOn, viewFor } from "../src";
 import { cellKey, edgeKey, hasLineOfSight, sightBetween, traceSight, type Cell } from "../src/board";
 import type { CardInstance } from "../src/cards";
-import { newGame, must, giveCard, toRound2, emptyNeighborCell } from "./helpers";
+import { newGame, newExpansionGame, must, giveCard, toRound2, emptyNeighborCell } from "./helpers";

 describe("around the corner", () => {
  it("bends line of sight past a wall that blocks a straight cast", () => {
@@ -44,6 +44,130 @@ describe("around the corner", () => {
    state = must(state, defender.id, { type: "pass" });
    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === defender.id)!.life).toBe(10);
  });
+
+  it("hairpins 180 degrees around a wall's end — the pivot sits in the gap", () => {
+    let { state } = newGame();
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    const attacker = activePlayer(state);
+    const defender = state.players.find((p) => p.id !== attacker.id)!;
+    const view0 = boardView(state);
+    // Carve a 2x2 block: attacker at A, defender at C directly north behind a
+    // wall that ends beside the B/D gap. C is sealed on every other side, so
+    // no cell-centered bend reaches it — only the pivot in the gap itself.
+    //     +---+---+          C = target   D = gap's far cell
+    //     # C   D #          A = caster   B = gap's near cell
+    //     +###+   +
+    //       A   B
+    let A: Cell | null = null;
+    for (const k of Object.keys(view0.cells)) {
+      const [x, y] = k.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+      if (view0.cells[`${x + 1},${y}`] && view0.cells[`${x},${y - 1}`] && view0.cells[`${x + 1},${y - 1}`]) {
+        A = { x, y };
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    expect(A).not.toBeNull();
+    const B = { x: A!.x + 1, y: A!.y };
+    const C = { x: A!.x, y: A!.y - 1 };
+    const D = { x: A!.x + 1, y: A!.y - 1 };
+    state.edgeOverrides[edgeKey(A!, "N")] = "wall"; // the wall to double back around
+    state.edgeOverrides[edgeKey(A!, "E")] = "open";
+    state.edgeOverrides[edgeKey(B, "N")] = "open"; // the gap past the wall's end
+    state.edgeOverrides[edgeKey(C, "E")] = "open";
+    state.edgeOverrides[edgeKey(C, "N")] = "wall";
+    state.edgeOverrides[edgeKey(C, "W")] = "wall";
+    state.edgeOverrides[edgeKey(D, "E")] = "wall";
+    attacker.position = { ...A! };
+    defender.position = { ...C };
+
+    const fb = giveCard(state, attacker.id, "fireball", "F", 0);
+    giveCard(state, attacker.id, "around-the-corner", "ATC", 1);
+    const straight = applyCommand(state, attacker.id, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: fb.instanceId, target: { kind: "player", playerId: defender.id },
+    });
+    expect(straight.ok).toBe(false);
+
+    const lifeBefore = defender.life;
+    state = must(state, attacker.id, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: fb.instanceId, aroundCornerInstanceId: "around-the-corner#ATC",
+      target: { kind: "player", playerId: defender.id },
+    });
+    state = must(state, defender.id, { type: "pass" });
+    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === defender.id)!.life).toBeLessThan(lifeBefore);
+  });
+
+  // A cell out of straight sight but reachable with one bend, clear enough
+  // to create on: no contents, home, wizard, treasure, object, or warp.
+  function hiddenEmptyCell(state: ReturnType<typeof newGame>["state"]): Cell {
+    const caster = activePlayer(state);
+    const view = boardView(state);
+    for (const key of Object.keys(view.cells)) {
+      const [x, y] = key.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+      const cell = { x, y };
+      if (gameLos(state, caster.position, cell, caster.id)) continue;
+      if (state.squareContents[key]) continue;
+      if (view.homes.some((h) => cellKey(h) === key)) continue;
+      if (state.players.some((p) => p.alive && cellKey(p.position) === key)) continue;
+      if (state.treasures.some((t) => t.position && cellKey(t.position) === key)) continue;
+      if ((state.groundObjects[key] ?? []).length > 0) continue;
+      for (const midKey of Object.keys(view.cells)) {
+        const [mx, my] = midKey.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+        const mid = { x: mx, y: my };
+        if (gameLos(state, caster.position, mid, caster.id) && gameLos(state, mid, cell, caster.id)) {
+          return cell;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    throw new Error("no hidden-but-bendable cell on this board");
+  }
+
+  it("bends a neutral spell too — SAFE locks up a treasure around the corner", () => {
+    let { state } = newExpansionGame();
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    const caster = activePlayer(state);
+    const hidden = hiddenEmptyCell(state);
+    const gold = state.treasures.find((t) => t.position)!;
+    gold.position = { ...hidden };
+
+    const safe = giveCard(state, caster.id, "safe", "S", 0);
+    giveCard(state, caster.id, "around-the-corner", "ATC", 1);
+    const straight = applyCommand(state, caster.id, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: safe.instanceId, target: { kind: "cell", cell: hidden },
+    });
+    expect(straight.ok).toBe(false);
+    if (!straight.ok) expect(straight.error).toBe("no line of sight");
+
+    const bent = applyCommand(state, caster.id, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: safe.instanceId, aroundCornerInstanceId: "around-the-corner#ATC",
+      target: { kind: "cell", cell: hidden },
+    });
+    if (!bent.ok) throw new Error(`bent SAFE refused: ${bent.error}`);
+    expect(bent.state.squareContents[cellKey(hidden)]?.kind).toBe("safe");
+    expect(bent.events.some((e) => e.type === "castAroundCorner")).toBe(true);
+    // Both cards spent: the bend is not free.
+    const after = bent.state.players.find((p) => p.id === caster.id)!;
+    expect(after.hand.some((c) => c?.cardId === "around-the-corner")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("bends a creation — THORNBUSH grows on a square out of straight sight", () => {
+    let { state } = newGame();
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    const caster = activePlayer(state);
+    const hidden = hiddenEmptyCell(state);
+
+    const bush = giveCard(state, caster.id, "thornbush", "TB", 0);
+    giveCard(state, caster.id, "around-the-corner", "ATC", 1);
+    const straight = applyCommand(state, caster.id, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: bush.instanceId, target: { kind: "cell", cell: hidden },
+    });
+    expect(straight.ok).toBe(false);
+
+    state = must(state, caster.id, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: bush.instanceId, aroundCornerInstanceId: "around-the-corner#ATC",
+      target: { kind: "cell", cell: hidden },
+    });
+    expect(state.squareContents[cellKey(hidden)]?.kind).toBe("thornbush");
+  });
 });

 describe("blind", () => {
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { applyCommand, activePlayer, displays, handLimit, sustainedOn, type GameState, type PlayerId } from "../src/game";
 import type { CardInstance } from "../src/cards";
-import { newGame, must, giveCard, toRound2, faceOff, castAt } from "./helpers";
+import { createGame } from "../src/game";
+import { newGame, must, drain, giveCard, toRound2, faceOff, castAt } from "./helpers";

 /** Display a stone for a player during their turn. */
 function displayStone(state: GameState, playerId: PlayerId, stoneId: string, slot = 0): GameState {
@@ -147,6 +148,95 @@ describe("slow death", () => {
    expect(sustainedOn(state, defender, "slow-death").length).toBe(1);
  });

+  it("a reverse at the casting turns the curse: a point gained per draw (rev 11)", () => {
+    let { state } = newGame();
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    const { attacker, defender } = faceOff(state);
+    const sd = giveCard(state, attacker, "slow-death");
+    giveCard(state, defender, "reverse", "RV", 0);
+    const r = applyCommand(state, attacker, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: sd.instanceId, target: { kind: "player", playerId: defender },
+    });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    state = must(r.state, defender, { type: "counteract", instanceId: "reverse#RV" });
+    state = drain(state);
+    expect(sustainedOn(state, defender, "slow-death").length).toBe(1);
+
+    state = must(state, attacker, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    const d = state.players.find((p) => p.id === defender)!;
+    const toDiscard = d.hand.slice(0, 2).map((c) => c.instanceId);
+    state = must(state, defender, { type: "discard", instanceIds: toDiscard });
+    state = must(state, defender, { type: "endTurn", draw: 2 });
+    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === defender)!.life).toBe(17);
+  });
+
+  it("a reversed walking dead heals half a point per space walked (rev 11)", () => {
+    let { state } = newGame();
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    const { attacker, defender } = faceOff(state);
+    const wd = giveCard(state, attacker, "walking-dead");
+    giveCard(state, defender, "reverse", "RV", 0);
+    const r = applyCommand(state, attacker, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: wd.instanceId, target: { kind: "player", playerId: defender },
+    });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    state = must(r.state, defender, { type: "counteract", instanceId: "reverse#RV" });
+    state = drain(state);
+    expect(sustainedOn(state, defender, "walking-dead").length).toBe(1);
+
+    state = must(state, attacker, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    // Two spaces walked: one point gained, not bled.
+    let steps = 0;
+    for (const dir of ["N", "S", "E", "W", "N", "S", "E", "W"] as const) {
+      if (steps >= 2) break;
+      const mv = applyCommand(state, defender, { type: "move", direction: dir });
+      if (mv.ok) { state = mv.state; steps++; }
+    }
+    expect(steps).toBe(2);
+    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === defender)!.life).toBe(16);
+  });
+
+  it("a full reflection returns the curse onto its caster (rev 11)", () => {
+    let { state } = newGame();
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    const { attacker, defender } = faceOff(state);
+    const sd = giveCard(state, attacker, "slow-death");
+    giveCard(state, defender, "full-reflection", "FR", 0);
+    const r = applyCommand(state, attacker, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: sd.instanceId, target: { kind: "player", playerId: defender },
+    });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    state = must(r.state, defender, { type: "counteract", instanceId: "full-reflection#FR" });
+    state = drain(state);
+    expect(sustainedOn(state, defender, "slow-death").length).toBe(0);
+    expect(sustainedOn(state, attacker, "slow-death").length).toBe(1);
+
+    // The caster now bleeds for their own draws.
+    state = must(state, attacker, { type: "endTurn", draw: 1 });
+    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === attacker)!.life).toBe(14);
+  });
+
+  it("older decks attach the biting curse through a reverse (rev ≤10)", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["alice", "bob"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic"], deckRev: 10 });
+    state = toRound2(state);
+    const { attacker, defender } = faceOff(state);
+    const sd = giveCard(state, attacker, "slow-death");
+    giveCard(state, defender, "reverse", "RV", 0);
+    const r = applyCommand(state, attacker, {
+      type: "cast", instanceId: sd.instanceId, target: { kind: "player", playerId: defender },
+    });
+    if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+    state = must(r.state, defender, { type: "counteract", instanceId: "reverse#RV" });
+    state = drain(state);
+
+    state = must(state, attacker, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+    const d = state.players.find((p) => p.id === defender)!;
+    const toDiscard = d.hand.slice(0, 2).map((c) => c.instanceId);
+    state = must(state, defender, { type: "discard", instanceIds: toDiscard });
+    state = must(state, defender, { type: "endTurn", draw: 2 });
+    expect(state.players.find((p) => p.id === defender)!.life).toBe(13);
+  });
+
  it("bloodstone cancels slow death's per-draw point", () => {
    let { state } = newGame();
    state = toRound2(state);
@@ -147,19 +147,26 @@ function shareData(id: string): ShareData | null {
 const escapeHtml = (t: string) =>
  t.replace(/&/g, "&amp;").replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;").replace(/"/g, "&quot;");

-/** index.html with this share's OpenGraph card folded into its head —
- * crawlers never run the app, so the unfurl must arrive pre-baked. */
-function shareHtml(id: string, data: ShareData, rawHost: string, rawProto: string): string {
-  // Host and proto arrive from request headers — attacker-writable text
-  // that must never reach an HTML attribute raw.
-  const proto = /^https?$/.test(rawProto) ? rawProto : "https";
-  const host = escapeHtml(rawHost);
-  // The stock page carries its own generic card; strip it, or crawlers
-  // (which take the FIRST tag they meet) never see this turn's.
-  const html = readFileSync(join(staticRoot!, "index.html"), "utf8")
+/** index.html with a bespoke OpenGraph card folded into its head —
+ * crawlers never run the app, so the unfurl must arrive pre-baked. The
+ * stock page carries its own generic card; strip it, or crawlers (which
+ * take the FIRST tag they meet) never see this page's. */
+function ogPage(metas: string[]): string {
+  return readFileSync(join(staticRoot!, "index.html"), "utf8")
    .replace(/<meta (?:property="og:|name="twitter:)[^>]*>\s*/g, "")
-    .replace(/<title>[^<]*<\/title>\s*/, "");
-  const base = `${proto}://${host}`;
+    .replace(/<title>[^<]*<\/title>\s*/, "")
+    .replace("</head>", `    ${metas.join("\n    ")}\n  </head>`);
+}
+
+/** Host and proto arrive from request headers — attacker-writable text
+ * that must never reach an HTML attribute raw. */
+function safeBase(rawHost: string, rawProto: string): string {
+  const proto = /^https?$/.test(rawProto) ? rawProto : "https";
+  return `${proto}://${escapeHtml(rawHost)}`;
+}
+
+function shareHtml(id: string, data: ShareData, rawHost: string, rawProto: string): string {
+  const base = safeBase(rawHost, rawProto);
  const title = data.whole
    ? "The whole tale — a game of Wiz-War, replayed"
    : `${escapeHtml(data.actor)}'s turn — a Wiz-War instant replay`;
@@ -179,8 +186,36 @@ function shareHtml(id: string, data: ShareData, rawHost: string, rawProto: strin
    `<meta property="og:image:height" content="630"/>`,
    `<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"/>`,
    `<meta name="twitter:image" content="${base}/watch/${id}/og.png"/>`,
-  ].join("\n    ");
-  return html.replace("</head>", `    ${metas}\n  </head>`);
+  ];
+  return ogPage(metas);
+}
+
+/** The recruiting card for a /join/<code> link: an invitation while the
+ * room waits to start, a summons to the gallery once it has. */
+function inviteHtml(room: Room, rawHost: string, rawProto: string): string {
+  const base = safeBase(rawHost, rawProto);
+  const seats = room.players.length;
+  const wizards = `${seats} wizard${seats === 1 ? "" : "s"}`;
+  const title = `You're summoned — Wiz-War room ${room.id}`;
+  const desc = room.state?.phase === "finished"
+    ? `The tale is told — ${wizards} fought in this labyrinth. Follow the link to see how it ended.`
+    : room.state
+      ? `The duel is underway, ${wizards} in the labyrinth. Follow the link to watch it live from the Peanut Gallery.`
+      : `${wizards} at the table, waiting to flip the boards. Follow the link, pick a name, and take a seat.`;
+  const metas = [
+    `<title>${title}</title>`,
+    `<meta property="og:type" content="website"/>`,
+    `<meta property="og:site_name" content="Wiz-War"/>`,
+    `<meta property="og:title" content="${title}"/>`,
+    `<meta property="og:description" content="${desc}"/>`,
+    `<meta property="og:url" content="${base}/join/${room.id}"/>`,
+    `<meta property="og:image" content="${base}/og.png"/>`,
+    `<meta property="og:image:width" content="1200"/>`,
+    `<meta property="og:image:height" content="630"/>`,
+    `<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"/>`,
+    `<meta name="twitter:image" content="${base}/og.png"/>`,
+  ];
+  return ogPage(metas);
 }
 const httpServer = createServer((req, res) => {
  try {
@@ -233,6 +268,19 @@ const httpServer = createServer((req, res) => {
      res.end(shareHtml(watch[1]!, data, hostname, proto));
      return;
    }
+    // Room invitations: a living room gets its recruiting card; a dead
+    // code falls through to the app, which reports it in the lobby.
+    const invite = url.match(/^\/join\/([A-Za-z0-9]{4})$/);
+    if (invite) {
+      const room = getRoom(invite[1]!);
+      if (room) {
+        const proto = String(req.headers["x-forwarded-proto"] ?? "http").split(",")[0]!.trim();
+        const hostname = String(req.headers.host ?? `localhost:${port}`);
+        res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "text/html", "cache-control": "no-cache" });
+        res.end(inviteHtml(room, hostname, proto));
+        return;
+      }
+    }
    let file = normalize(join(staticRoot, url === "/" ? "index.html" : url));
    if (file !== staticRoot && !file.startsWith(staticRoot + sep)) {
      res.writeHead(403).end();
@@ -475,6 +523,12 @@ wss.on("connection", (socket) => {

    try {
      switch (msg.type) {
+        case "ping":
+          // Liveness probe: the reply is the point. A restart can leave
+          // browsers holding half-dead sockets that never fire onclose;
+          // silence answered by silence is how the client finds out.
+          send(socket, { type: "pong" });
+          break;
        case "create": {
          const name = cleanName(msg.name);
          if (!name) return send(socket, { type: "error", message: "name required" });
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  import { prefs, savePrefs } from "./prefs.svelte";
  import { CREATURE_ART, objectArt, TERRAIN_ART, tokenArt } from "./art";
  import { local } from "./local.svelte";
-  import { allCardDefs, cardDef, dreadDistance, isNumberCard, isPermanentDuration, SIDES, stepTarget, cellKey, edgeKey, isMovableObject, sightedCellsFor, stackSightTrace, type GameView, eligibleCellsFor } from "@wizwar/engine";
+  import { allCardDefs, cardDef, dreadDistance, isNumberCard, isPermanentDuration, SIDES, stepTarget, cellKey, edgeKey, isMovableObject, sightedCellsFor, bentSightedCellsFor, stackSightTrace, type GameView, eligibleCellsFor } from "@wizwar/engine";
  import type { CardInstance, GameEvent, Side } from "@wizwar/engine";

  net.connect();
@@ -23,6 +23,33 @@
  let name = $state(prefs.wizardName);
  let joinCode = $state("");
  let claimPhrase = $state("");
+  /** A /join/<CODE> recruiting link. The visitor lands looking at the
+   * room: a held seat walks them back to it, a waiting room offers a
+   * seat or the gallery, a started game is watched from the gallery. */
+  const inviteCode = location.pathname.match(/^\/join\/([A-Za-z0-9]{4})$/)?.[1]?.toUpperCase() ?? null;
+  if (inviteCode) joinCode = inviteCode;
+  let inviteFollowed = false;
+  $effect(() => {
+    if (!inviteCode || inviteFollowed || net.status !== "connected" || net.roomId) return;
+    inviteFollowed = true;
+    const seat = net.seats.find((s) => s.roomId === inviteCode);
+    if (seat) net.resume(seat);
+    else net.watch(inviteCode);
+  });
+  /** The address bar holds the table's invite link while you sit at one,
+   * so recruiting is a copy away. */
+  $effect(() => {
+    const path = net.roomId ? `/join/${net.roomId}` : "/";
+    if (location.pathname !== path) history.replaceState(null, "", path + location.search);
+  });
+  const inviteLink = $derived(net.roomId ? `${location.origin}/join/${net.roomId}` : "");
+  let inviteCopied = $state(false);
+  function copyInvite() {
+    navigator.clipboard?.writeText(inviteLink).then(() => {
+      inviteCopied = true;
+      setTimeout(() => (inviteCopied = false), 1600);
+    });
+  }
  let showHelp = $state(false);
  /** The finished game whose victory fanfare has been dismissed. */
  let victorySeen = $state(false);
@@ -73,6 +100,45 @@
    if (!prefs.cautions || reasons.length === 0) go();
    else caution = { reasons, go };
  }
+  /** Board zoom: 1 = fitted to the viewport; higher magnifies for crowded
+   * squares, with the viewport scrolling. The svg's width is always set
+   * explicitly (fit × zoom) from measurement — auto-sizing left stale
+   * dimensions behind when the first-person pane closed. */
+  let boardViewportEl = $state<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
+  let boardZoom = $state(1);
+  function zoomBoard(dir: number) {
+    const el = boardViewportEl;
+    const prev = boardZoom;
+    const next = dir > 0 ? prev * 1.4 : prev / 1.4;
+    boardZoom = next < 1.05 ? 1 : Math.min(4, Math.round(next * 100) / 100);
+    if (el && boardZoom !== prev) {
+      const f = boardZoom / prev;
+      requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+        el.scrollLeft = (el.scrollLeft + el.clientWidth / 2) * f - el.clientWidth / 2;
+        el.scrollTop = (el.scrollTop + el.clientHeight / 2) * f - el.clientHeight / 2;
+      });
+    }
+  }
+  function fitBoard(el: HTMLDivElement) {
+    const svg = el.querySelector("svg.board") as SVGSVGElement | null;
+    const vb = svg?.viewBox.baseVal;
+    if (!vb || !vb.width || !vb.height) return;
+    const fitW = Math.min(el.clientWidth, (el.clientHeight * vb.width) / vb.height);
+    el.style.setProperty("--fit-w", `${Math.max(0, fitW)}px`);
+  }
+  $effect(() => {
+    const el = boardViewportEl;
+    if (!el) return;
+    const ro = new ResizeObserver(() => fitBoard(el));
+    ro.observe(el);
+    return () => ro.disconnect();
+  });
+  $effect(() => {
+    void view; // the board's viewBox grows with ghost slots and relocations
+    const el = boardViewportEl;
+    if (el) requestAnimationFrame(() => fitBoard(el));
+  });
+
  /** A move with its regret checks: stepping off your home still laden,
   * or stepping onto ground that bites. */
  function tryMove(direction: Side, over?: boolean) {
@@ -423,6 +489,16 @@
    }
  }

+  /** Attachment plumbing for a cast command: the chosen mods and the
+   * attached NUMBER ride along (an explicit numberInstanceIds wins). */
+  function withMods<T extends Parameters<typeof net.command>[0] & { type: "cast" }>(cmd: T): T {
+    applyMods(cmd);
+    if (attachedNumber && !cmd.numberInstanceIds) {
+      cmd.numberInstanceIds = [attachedNumber.instanceId];
+    }
+    return cmd;
+  }
+
  /** Suggest-as-you-type pool for the card-naming field, tuned per card. */
  const nameSuggestions = $derived.by(() => {
    if (!selectedCard) return [];
@@ -542,6 +618,12 @@
    "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;
@@ -622,11 +704,11 @@
    if (!yourMoment) { peekAt(cell); return; }
    if (pendingCellFor && selectedCard) {
      // Stage 2 of teleport-opponent: destination chosen.
-      dispatch({
+      dispatch(withMods({
        type: "cast", instanceId: selectedCard.instanceId,
        target: { kind: "player", playerId: pendingCellFor },
        params: { cell },
-      });
+      }));
      clearSelection();
      return;
    }
@@ -653,17 +735,17 @@
        ? trapCells.filter((_, i) => i !== already)
        : [...trapCells, cell];
      if (trapCells.length === 4) {
-        dispatch({ type: "cast", instanceId: selectedCard.instanceId, params: { cells: trapCells } });
+        dispatch(withMods({ type: "cast", instanceId: selectedCard.instanceId, params: { cells: trapCells } }));
        clearSelection();
      }
      return;
    }
    if (selectedCard && TWO_CELL_CARDS.has(selectedCard.cardId)) {
      if (!tradeFrom) { tradeFrom = cell; return; }
-      dispatch({
+      dispatch(withMods({
        type: "cast", instanceId: selectedCard.instanceId,
        target: { kind: "cell", cell }, params: { cell: tradeFrom },
-      });
+      }));
      clearSelection();
      return;
    }
@@ -676,11 +758,10 @@
      return;
    }
    if (selectedCard && CELL_CARDS.has(selectedCard.cardId)) {
-      dispatch({
+      dispatch(withMods({
        type: "cast", instanceId: selectedCard.instanceId,
        target: { kind: "cell", cell },
-        ...(attachedNumber ? { numberInstanceIds: [attachedNumber.instanceId] } : {}),
-      });
+      }));
      clearSelection();
      return;
    }
@@ -858,14 +939,13 @@
    if (!selectedCard || !edgeSelectMode) return;
    // The attached number rides along for every edge cast: wand charges,
    // wall-of-fire durations, wall attacks alike.
-    dispatch({
+    dispatch(withMods({
      type: "cast",
      instanceId: selectedCard.instanceId,
      target: { kind: "edge", cell, side },
      ...(holdDoor && (selectedCard.cardId === "pick-lock" || selectedCard.cardId === "master-key")
        ? { params: { hold: true } } : {}),
-      ...(attachedNumber ? { numberInstanceIds: [attachedNumber.instanceId] } : {}),
-    });
+    }));
    clearSelection();
  }

@@ -881,12 +961,11 @@
      return;
    }
    if (selectedCard && (CREATURE_TARGET_CARDS.has(selectedCard.cardId) || cardDef(selectedCard.cardId).cardType === "attack")) {
-      dispatch({
+      dispatch(withMods({
        type: "cast", instanceId: selectedCard.instanceId,
        target: { kind: "creature", creatureId },
        ...(selectedCard.cardId === "mega-monster" ? { params: { boost: megaBoost } } : {}),
-        ...(attachedNumber ? { numberInstanceIds: [attachedNumber.instanceId] } : {}),
-      });
+      }));
      clearSelection();
      return;
    }
@@ -942,13 +1021,12 @@
      swapMeetTarget = playerId;
      return; // next: pick your item, then theirs
    }
-    const cmd: Parameters<typeof net.command>[0] = {
+    const cmd: Parameters<typeof net.command>[0] & { type: "cast" } = {
      type: "cast",
      instanceId: selectedCard.instanceId,
      target: { kind: "player", playerId },
    };
-    if (attachedNumber) cmd.numberInstanceIds = [attachedNumber.instanceId];
-    applyMods(cmd);
+    withMods(cmd);
    if (selectedCard.cardId === "waterbolt") {
      cmd.params = { damage: wbDamage, knockback: numberTotal - wbDamage };
    }
@@ -1006,6 +1084,13 @@
          here !== cellKey(me.home)) {
        reasons.push(`a treasure lies at your feet, un-grabbed`);
      }
+      // Auto-grab about to pocket your OWN chest: carrying it does not
+      // score and bares it to capture, so that walk-off asks first.
+      if (autoWillGrab && !me.carriedTreasureId && !view.turn.actionsEnded &&
+          !weakened && !view.gluedCells[here] && !safed && here !== cellKey(me.home) &&
+          treasuresHere[0]!.owner === view.you) {
+        reasons.push("your OWN treasure lies underfoot — ending the turn grabs it and carries it along");
+      }
      // The draw picker is sticky: a 0 or 1 chosen turns ago quietly starves.
      const drawRoom = Math.min(2, room);
      if (drawCount < drawRoom) {
@@ -1172,8 +1257,9 @@
    if (!view || !selectedDef || !yourMoment) return null;
    if (ambushVia || ambushSpell || ambushTrigger) return null; // ambushes aim at the future
    if (!me) return null;
+    const bent = attachedMods.some((m) => m.cardId === "around-the-corner");
    if (CELL_CARDS.has(selectedCard!.cardId)) {
-      return eligibleCellsFor(view, selectedCard!.cardId);
+      return eligibleCellsFor(view, selectedCard!.cardId, bent);
    }
    if (selectedDef.adjacent === true) {
      const { x, y } = me.position;
@@ -1184,19 +1270,7 @@
      );
    }
    if (selectedDef.los !== true) return null;
-    const sighted = sightedCellsFor(view);
-    if (attachedMods.some((m) => m.cardId === "around-the-corner")) {
-      const widened = new Set(sighted);
-      for (const key of Object.keys(view.board.cells)) {
-        if (widened.has(key)) continue;
-        const [cx, cy] = key.split(",").map(Number);
-        if ([[1, 0], [-1, 0], [0, 1], [0, -1]].some(([dx, dy]) => sighted.has(`${cx! + dx!},${cy! + dy!}`))) {
-          widened.add(key);
-        }
-      }
-      return widened;
-    }
-    return sighted;
+    return bent ? bentSightedCellsFor(view) : sightedCellsFor(view);
  });

  /** Creatures awaiting your orders this turn (yours + any democratic monster). */
@@ -1423,6 +1497,11 @@
            onchange={(e) => setPref("instantReplay", e.currentTarget.checked)} />
          <span>Instant replay: notable chronicle lines offer a 👁 that relives the turn</span>
        </label>
+        <label class="pref-row pref-check">
+          <input type="checkbox" checked={prefs.handLeft}
+            onchange={(e) => setPref("handLeft", e.currentTarget.checked)} />
+          <span>Hand at the left: your cards stand in a column beside the board (wide screens)</span>
+        </label>
        <label class="pref-row pref-check">
          <input type="checkbox" checked={prefs.cautions}
            onchange={(e) => setPref("cautions", e.currentTarget.checked)} />
@@ -1826,7 +1905,11 @@
    <section class="boxlid">
      <div class="boxlid-inner">
        <div class="boxlid-title small">Room {net.roomId}</div>
-        <div class="boxlid-tag">Share the code. Two to six wizards enter the maze.</div>
+        <div class="boxlid-tag">Share the code — or the link. Two to six wizards enter the maze.</div>
+        <div class="invite-row">
+          <code class="invite-link">{inviteLink}</code>
+          <button class="stamp tiny" onclick={copyInvite}>{inviteCopied ? "copied!" : "copy link"}</button>
+        </div>
        <ul class="roster">
          {#each net.players as p (p)}
            {@const chosen = net.roomColors[p]}
@@ -1846,6 +1929,15 @@
        </ul>
        {#if net.spectating}
        <p class="waiting">👁 You watch from the Peanut Gallery. Waiting for the boards to flip…</p>
+        {#if net.players.length < 6}
+          <div class="gallery-join">
+            <input bind:value={name} maxlength="20" placeholder="e.g. Mordecai" aria-label="your wizard's name" />
+            <button class="stamp" disabled={!name.trim()}
+              onclick={() => { setPref("wizardName", name.trim()); net.join(net.roomId!, name.trim()); }}>
+              …or take a seat
+            </button>
+          </div>
+        {/if}
        {:else}
        <div class="standee-row" role="group" aria-label="choose your wizard">
          {#each [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] as c (c)}
@@ -1899,7 +1991,7 @@
      </div>
    </section>
  {:else if view}
-    <div class="game">
+    <div class="game" class:hand-left={prefs.handLeft}>
      <section class="board-zone">
        <div class="table-stack" class:fpv-primary={prefs.liveFp && !!view.you && !net.spectating}>
        {#if prefs.liveFp && view.you && !net.spectating}
@@ -1914,8 +2006,11 @@
            onbody={(id) => (fpvBody = id)}
            onWarpStep={(creatureId) => dispatch(creatureId
              ? { type: "creatureWarpStep", creatureId }
-              : { type: "warpStep" })} />
+              : { type: "warpStep" })}
+            edgeSelect={edgeSelectMode && yourMoment} />
        {/if}
+        <div class="board-frame">
+        <div class="board-viewport" bind:this={boardViewportEl} style:--zoom={boardZoom}>
        <Board
          {view}
          edgeSelectMode={edgeSelectMode && yourMoment}
@@ -1940,6 +2035,12 @@
          povCreatureId={prefs.liveFp && !net.spectating ? fpvBody : null}
        />
        </div>
+        <div class="zoom-controls" role="group" aria-label="board zoom">
+          <button class="zoom-btn" title="zoom in" onclick={() => zoomBoard(1)} disabled={boardZoom >= 4}>+</button>
+          <button class="zoom-btn" title="zoom out" onclick={() => zoomBoard(-1)} disabled={boardZoom <= 1}>−</button>
+        </div>
+        </div>
+        </div>
      </section>

      <aside class="paper-rail">
@@ -2153,7 +2254,6 @@
          </form>
        {/if}
      </aside>
-    </div>

    <div class="table-edge">
      {#if ambushVia}
@@ -2199,7 +2299,8 @@
                {attackingCreature ? `the ${cardDef(attackingCreature.kind).name}`
                  : view.stack.attackCard?.cardId === "illusionary-attack" && view.stack.params?.cardId
                    ? `an illusionary ${cardDef(view.stack.params.cardId).name}`
-                    : view.stack.attackCard ? cardDef(view.stack.attackCard.cardId).name : "a punch"} —
+                    : view.stack.attackCard ? cardDef(view.stack.attackCard.cardId).name
+                      : view.stack.tearTreasure ? "a grab at your treasure" : "a punch"} —
                tap a counteraction card, or
              {:else}
                {view.stack.waitingOn === view.you ? "They counter your spell — counter back, or" : ""}
@@ -2322,7 +2423,7 @@
              <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>
@@ -2461,6 +2562,7 @@
        {/each}
      </div>
    </div>
+    </div>
  {/if}
 </div>
 {/if}
@@ -2713,6 +2815,31 @@
  .roster-standee { width: 1.9rem; height: 1.9rem; border-radius: 4px; object-fit: cover; }
  .check { display: flex; gap: 0.5rem; align-items: center; justify-content: center; font-size: 0.92rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; }
  .waiting { color: #6b5a41; font-style: italic; }
+  .invite-row {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: center;
+    justify-content: center;
+    gap: 0.5rem;
+    margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
+  }
+  .invite-link {
+    font-size: 0.8rem;
+    color: #6b5a41;
+    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06);
+    border-radius: 4px;
+    padding: 0.15rem 0.45rem;
+    user-select: all;
+  }
+  .gallery-join {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: center;
+    justify-content: center;
+    gap: 0.5rem;
+    margin-top: 0.4rem;
+  }
+  .gallery-join input {
+    width: 11rem;
+  }

  .transfer-slip {
    max-width: 30rem;
@@ -2914,14 +3041,46 @@
    min-height: 0;
  }
  .board-zone { display: flex; align-items: flex-start; justify-content: center; min-width: 0; }
+  /* Hand at the left: the cards stand in their own column beside the
+   * board while the hint strips and action buttons stay beneath it —
+   * the strip dissolves into the grid so its children place themselves.
+   * Phones keep the bottom hand; the one-column flow re-orders anyway. */
+  @media (min-width: 901px) {
+    .game.hand-left {
+      grid-template-columns: minmax(17.4rem, 18.2rem) minmax(340px, 1fr) minmax(250px, 330px);
+    }
+    .game.hand-left .table-edge { display: contents; }
+    .game.hand-left .table-edge > * { grid-column: 2; min-width: 0; }
+    .game.hand-left .table-edge > .hand {
+      grid-column: 1;
+      grid-row: 1 / span 6;
+      display: grid;
+      grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 8.2rem);
+      justify-content: center;
+      align-content: start;
+      align-self: start;
+      position: sticky;
+      top: 0.5rem;
+      max-height: calc(100dvh - 5rem);
+      overflow-y: auto;
+      overflow-x: visible;
+      padding: 0.3rem 0.3rem 0.9rem;
+    }
+    .game.hand-left .board-zone { grid-column: 2; grid-row: 1; }
+    .game.hand-left .paper-rail { grid-column: 3; grid-row: 1; }
+    /* With the hand out of the bottom strip, the map claims the height. */
+    .game.hand-left .board-viewport { height: calc(100dvh - 11rem); }
+    .game.hand-left .fpv-primary .board-viewport { height: 30dvh; }
+  }
  /* The first-person pane wears exactly the board's width, right above
   * it: the stack shrink-wraps to the board, and width:0 + min-width
   * keeps the pane out of the intrinsic sizing so the BOARD alone
   * decides how wide the column is. */
  .table-stack {
-    display: inline-flex;
+    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    align-items: stretch;
+    width: 100%;
    max-width: 100%;
    min-width: 0;
  }
@@ -2930,19 +3089,46 @@
  /* FPV play: the 3D view is the primary window into the game; the
   * top-down board shrinks to a keymap beneath it. */
  .table-stack.fpv-primary {
-    display: flex;
-    width: 100%;
    max-width: 64rem;
  }
-  .board-zone .table-stack.fpv-primary :global(svg.board) {
-    max-height: 30dvh;
-    align-self: center;
+  .board-frame { position: relative; min-width: 0; }
+  /* The board's window: it owns the fitted size, the svg wears an
+   * explicit width (fit × zoom), and anything past 1× scrolls. */
+  .board-viewport {
+    height: calc(100dvh - 21.5rem);
+    width: 100%;
+    overflow: auto;
+    display: flex;
  }
-  .board-zone :global(svg.board) {
-    max-height: calc(100dvh - 21.5rem);
-    width: auto;
-    max-width: 100%;
+  .fpv-primary .board-viewport { height: 30dvh; }
+  .board-viewport :global(svg.board) {
+    width: calc(var(--fit-w, 100%) * var(--zoom, 1));
+    flex: none;
+    max-width: none;
+    max-height: none;
+    height: auto;
+    margin: auto;
  }
+  .zoom-controls {
+    position: absolute;
+    right: 0.4rem;
+    bottom: 0.4rem;
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: column;
+    gap: 0.25rem;
+  }
+  .zoom-btn {
+    width: 1.7rem;
+    height: 1.7rem;
+    border: 1px solid #8a7a5c;
+    border-radius: 4px;
+    background: rgba(233, 225, 203, 0.9);
+    color: #43331f;
+    font-size: 1.05rem;
+    line-height: 1;
+    cursor: pointer;
+  }
+  .zoom-btn:disabled { opacity: 0.35; cursor: default; }
  .paper-rail { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 0.75rem; min-width: 0; }

  .slip {
@@ -3070,6 +3256,7 @@
  .moment-eye:hover { opacity: 1; }

  .table-edge {
+    grid-column: 1 / -1;
    margin-top: 0.9rem;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
@@ -3426,8 +3613,8 @@
    .board-zone { order: 1; }
    .table-edge { order: 2; margin-top: 0.6rem; }
    .paper-rail { order: 3; margin-top: 0.9rem; }
-    .board-zone :global(svg.board) {
-      max-height: 56dvh;
+    .board-viewport {
+      height: 56dvh;
    }
    .chronicle { max-height: 30dvh; flex: initial; }
    .masthead { gap: 0.45rem; padding-top: 0.5rem; }
@@ -75,9 +75,17 @@
    effects?: BoardFx[] | null;
    /** The sight line an attack in progress traveled — proof against "how
     * can he even see me?", drawn leg by leg through any warp mouth. */
-    sightTrace?: { from: { x: number; y: number }; to: { x: number; y: number }; trace: SightTrace; bend?: { mid: { x: number; y: number }; trace: SightTrace } } | null;
+    sightTrace?: { from: { x: number; y: number }; to: { x: number; y: number }; trace: SightTrace; bend?: { mid: { x: number; y: number }; trace: SightTrace }; pierced?: string } | null;
  } = $props();

+  /** The wall segment a VISIONSTONE shot pierced, from its edge key. */
+  function piercedSegment(key: string): { x1: number; y1: number; x2: number; y2: number } {
+    const [kind, xy] = key.split(":") as [string, string];
+    const [x, y] = xy.split(",").map(Number) as [number, number];
+    return kind === "V"
+      ? { x1: (x + 1) * CELL, y1: y * CELL, x2: (x + 1) * CELL, y2: (y + 1) * CELL }
+      : { x1: x * CELL, y1: (y + 1) * CELL, x2: (x + 1) * CELL, y2: (y + 1) * CELL };
+  }

  const SECTOR = 5;
  /** Ghost slots can lie beyond the assembled maze — on any side, including
@@ -701,6 +709,11 @@
    {:else}
      <SightTraceOverlay from={sightTrace.from} to={sightTrace.to} trace={sightTrace.trace} />
    {/if}
+    {#if sightTrace.pierced}
+      <!-- the one wall VISIONSTONE dissolved for this shot -->
+      {@const seg = piercedSegment(sightTrace.pierced)}
+      <line x1={seg.x1} y1={seg.y1} x2={seg.x2} y2={seg.y2} class="sight-pierced" />
+    {/if}
  {/if}
  <!-- spell flourishes: one sprite component per effect (src/fx-sprites/) -->
  <g class="fx-layer" aria-hidden="true">
@@ -804,6 +817,13 @@
    stroke-width: 2;
    animation: sight-pulse 1.6s ease-in-out infinite;
  }
+  .sight-pierced {
+    stroke: #c9a72a;
+    stroke-width: 5;
+    stroke-linecap: round;
+    stroke-dasharray: 2 5;
+    animation: sight-pulse 1.6s ease-in-out infinite;
+  }
  @keyframes sight-pulse {
    0%, 100% { opacity: 0.9; }
    50% { opacity: 0.35; }
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@
  import { castRay, SIDE_ANGLE, OPPOSITE } from "./fpv/raycast";
  import { deepestFacing } from "./fpv/director";
  import { aimOfEvents, gatherGlides, hurledIn, shortestArc } from "./fpv/director";
-  import { untrack } from "svelte";
+  import { onDestroy, untrack } from "svelte";
  import type { GameEvent, GameView, Side } from "@wizwar/engine";

-  let { view, batch, onhide, onstride = null, canStride = false, ontarget = null, onfacing = null, litCells = null, onpickup = null, onCreatureMove = null, onCreatureAttack = null, onbody = null, onWarpStep = null }: {
+  let { view, batch, onhide, onstride = null, canStride = false, ontarget = null, onfacing = null, litCells = null, edgeSelect = false, onpickup = null, onCreatureMove = null, onCreatureAttack = null, onbody = null, onWarpStep = null }: {
    view: GameView;
    /** The latest live event batch, numbered so each plays once, with
     * the view the server sent alongside it. */
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
    onfacing?: ((side: Side) => void) | null;
    /** Cell-card eligibility, shared with the board's dimming aid. */
    litCells?: Set<string> | null;
+    /** An edge-target card is raised: wall faces offer themselves. */
+    edgeSelect?: boolean;
    /** The at-your-feet tray's grab: the pane cannot look down, so what
     * lies in your own square shows as clickable icons instead. */
    onpickup?: ((w: { kind: "treasure" | "object"; id: string }) => void) | null;
@@ -222,25 +224,33 @@
  let actorPos = $state<Record<string, { x: number; y: number }>>({});

  // --- The fx: each batch plays once, on its own beat. -----------------
+  // Track ONLY the batch: the server sends `events` then `state` back to
+  // back, so a wider dependency set re-runs this within the same frame,
+  // before a zero-delay timer can fire. No per-run cleanup for the same
+  // reason — timers die only with the component.
  let playedBatch = 0;
+  const fxTimers = new Set<ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>>();
  $effect(() => {
    const b = batch;
-    if (!b || b.n === playedBatch || !me) return;
+    if (!b) return;
+    untrack(() => {
+      if (b.n === playedBatch || !me) return;
      playedBatch = b.n;
-    const timers: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>[] = [];
-    const started: number[] = [];
      for (const { fx, delay } of fpFxForEvents(b.events, b.view, povId)) {
-      timers.push(setTimeout(() => {
-        started.push(fx.id);
+        const starter = setTimeout(() => {
+          fxTimers.delete(starter);
          fpFx = [...fpFx, { ...fx, t0: performance.now() }];
-        timers.push(setTimeout(() => (fpFx = fpFx.filter((f) => f.id !== fx.id)), fx.dur + 80));
-      }, delay));
+          const ender = setTimeout(() => {
+            fxTimers.delete(ender);
+            fpFx = fpFx.filter((f) => f.id !== fx.id);
+          }, fx.dur + 80);
+          fxTimers.add(ender);
+        }, delay);
+        fxTimers.add(starter);
      }
-    return () => {
-      timers.forEach(clearTimeout);
-      started.forEach((id) => (fpFx = fpFx.filter((f) => f.id !== id)));
-    };
    });
+  });
+  onDestroy(() => fxTimers.forEach(clearTimeout));

  // --- Other bodies glide between views. -------------------------------
  let prevView: GameView | null = null;
@@ -344,12 +354,17 @@
      // plays only for things done TO you, never for your own hands —
      // dropping a dagger must not fling your eyes out of your skull.
      return takeCutaway(m.position.x + 0.5, m.position.y + 0.5);
-    } else if (aim && !aim.self) {
+    } else if (aim && !aim.self && actor !== povId) {
+      // In the cockpit your own casts never move the camera: casting
+      // through the glass means you are ALREADY facing the target, and
+      // a keymap cast is a deliberate off-screen act. Only deeds done
+      // BY OTHERS earn an aim or a cutaway.
      const ax = aim.x + 0.5, ay = aim.y + 0.5;
+      const wantFacing = Math.atan2(ay - ty, ax - tx);
      const toAim = Math.hypot(ax - tx, ay - ty);
-      const sight = castRay(v, tx, ty, Math.atan2(ay - ty, ax - tx));
+      const sight = castRay(v, tx, ty, wantFacing);
      if (sight.warped || sight.dist < toAim - 0.4) return takeCutaway(ax, ay);
-      targetFacing = Math.atan2(ay - ty, ax - tx);
+      targetFacing = wantFacing;
      aimed = true;
    } else if (performance.now() >= manualUntil) {
      // Another wizard acting in your sight line turns your head.
@@ -455,7 +470,7 @@
      <FirstPerson {view} povId={cutawayShot ? "" : (possessedId ?? povId)}
        x={cam.x} y={cam.y} facing={cam.facing} width={960} height={400}
        fx={fpFx} posOverride={actorPos}
-        ontarget={handleTarget} {litCells} />
+        ontarget={handleTarget} {litCells} {edgeSelect} />
      <button class="drive" onclick={() => manualTurn(1)} aria-label="turn right">›</button>
    </div>
    <div class="bezel-bottom">
@@ -511,7 +526,6 @@
  }
  .bezel-top { border-bottom: 1px solid #2a2620; }
  .bezel-bottom { border-top: 1px solid #2a2620; }
-  .bezel-spacer { flex: 1; }
  .bezel-zone { flex: 1; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; }
  .bezel-center { justify-content: center; }
  .bezel-right { justify-content: flex-end; }
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
    rubble = [],
    ontarget,
    litCells = null,
+    edgeSelect = false,
  }: {
    view: GameView;
    povId: string;
@@ -45,6 +46,9 @@
    /** Squares a selected cell-target card may aim at: the pane dims the
     * ineligible ground exactly as the board dims its squares. */
    litCells?: Set<string> | null;
+    /** An edge-target card is raised: every wall and door face glows
+     * faintly, the pane's answer to the board's edge handles. */
+    edgeSelect?: boolean;
  } = $props();

  const FOV = Math.PI / 2.9;
@@ -386,6 +390,12 @@
        ctx.fillStyle = `rgba(120,70,220,${haze})`;
        ctx.fillRect(col, top, 1, wallH);
      }
+      if (edgeSelect && !hit.frame && (hit.kind === "wall" || hit.kind === "door") && hit.edge) {
+        // The raised edge-card's invitation: faces breathe gold.
+        const offer = 0.10 + 0.05 * Math.sin(time / 420 + hit.worldU * 3);
+        ctx.fillStyle = `rgba(201,167,42,${Math.max(0, offer)})`;
+        ctx.fillRect(col, top, 1, wallH);
+      }
    }

    // Sprites, far to near, sliced against the depth buffer.
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ export function humanize(e: GameEvent): string | null {
      ? `${e.attacker} TEARS the treasure from ${e.defender}'s arms — it tumbles to the floor!`
      : `${e.attacker} TEARS the treasure from ${e.defender}'s arms!`;
    case "tearResisted": return `${e.defender} clutches the treasure with white knuckles — ${e.attacker} comes away empty!`;
+    case "treasureTearAttempted": return `${e.attacker} grabs for the treasure in ${e.defender}'s arms!`;
+    case "powerstoneBoost": return `The powerstone hums over the number already played — ${e.player} gains a stride (${e.newAllowance} total).`;
    case "trapSprung": return e.cardId === "gift-from-below"
      ? `${e.player} draws GIFT FROM BELOW — it bites for 3, then deals again!`
      : `${e.player} walked into an old TRAP! Lose a turn.`;
@@ -156,6 +158,7 @@ export function humanize(e: GameEvent): string | null {
    case "stuckInSlime": return `${e.player} squelches into the slime and sticks fast.`;
    case "boobytrapPlaced": return `${e.caster} places four suspicious tokens...`;
    case "boobytrapSprung": return `SNAP! ${e.player} finds the real boobytrap!`;
+    case "boobytrapBlank": return `${e.player} flips a face-down token — a blank. The rest still wait.`;
    case "objectsGlued": return `Everything on that square is glued down (${e.turns} turns).`;
    case "safeCreated": return `A massive safe slams down around the loot.`;
    case "safeOpened": return null;
@@ -275,6 +278,11 @@ function saveSeats(seats: Seat[]): void {

 class Net {
  status = $state<"disconnected" | "connected">("disconnected");
+  /** When the socket last spoke. A server restart can leave a half-dead
+   * socket that never fires onclose; the watchdog closes it by hand so
+   * the reconnect loop (and the masthead banner) actually engage. */
+  private lastHeard = Date.now();
+  private watchdog: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | null = null;
  roomId = $state<string | null>(null);
  players = $state<string[]>([]);
  hostId = $state<string | null>(null);
@@ -337,6 +345,14 @@ class Net {
    if (this.ws) return;
    const ws = new WebSocket(SERVER_URL);
    this.ws = ws;
+    this.lastHeard = Date.now();
+    if (!this.watchdog) {
+      this.watchdog = setInterval(() => {
+        if (!this.ws || this.status !== "connected") return;
+        this.send({ type: "ping" });
+        if (Date.now() - this.lastHeard > 45_000) this.ws.close();
+      }, 15_000);
+    }
    ws.onopen = () => {
      this.watching = null; // the first state after (re)connecting may carry a gap
      this.status = "connected";
@@ -365,7 +381,10 @@ class Net {
    };
    ws.onmessage = (raw) => {
      const msg = JSON.parse(raw.data as string);
+      this.lastHeard = Date.now();
      switch (msg.type) {
+        case "pong":
+          break;
        case "seat": {
          this.token = msg.token;
          const seatRoom = (this.roomIdPending ?? this.roomId ?? "").toUpperCase();
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ export interface Prefs {
  instantReplay: boolean;
  /** The live first-person pane above the board during play. */
  liveFp: boolean;
+  /** The hand of cards stands in a column at the board's left instead of
+   * lying along the bottom (wide screens only). */
+  handLeft: boolean;
 }

 const KEY = "wizwar-prefs";
@@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ const KEY = "wizwar-prefs";
 function load(): Prefs {
  const fallback: Prefs = {
    art: "photo", autoGrab: false, flourishes: true, wizardName: "", color: null,
-    cautions: true, botTier: "adept", instantReplay: true, liveFp: false,
+    cautions: true, botTier: "adept", instantReplay: true, liveFp: false, handLeft: false,
  };
  try {
    const raw = localStorage.getItem(KEY);
@@ -45,6 +48,7 @@ function load(): Prefs {
      botTier: p.botTier === "apprentice" || p.botTier === "archmage" ? p.botTier : "adept",
      instantReplay: p.instantReplay !== false,
      liveFp: p.liveFp === true,
+      handLeft: p.handLeft === true,
    };
  } catch {
    return fallback;