'ANY CARD MAY BE PLAYED WITHOUT A NUMBER CARD, but its power is only 1.' The wand first-use gate was the engine's one remaining missing-number refusal — everything else already defaults its power to 1. A wand cast bare now charges to one, fires once, and crumbles; the client hint says so. Ungated: the refused casts never reached a ledger. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc