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Rule decision index
Updated 2 October 2026. This is the authoritative navigation index for existing decisions, not a replacement rulebook or a new ruling. Detailed linked contracts retain their source citations and exact supported boundaries. Runtime follow-ups supersede historical absence claims; passing tests establish software behavior, not publisher authority.
Authorized source amendment — 1 October 2026
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checkout root and authorized it as a source of truth going forward.
Use this supplied revision for Advanced rules and clarifications, including
its explicitly identified unofficial rulings; the former publisher-only
restriction does not exclude this document. Preserve specific recorded user
decisions unless changed, and use printed components and GF9 material for
details the supplied revision does not cover. Record material differences
and their implementation cutovers explicitly rather than silently blending
editions or describing unofficial rulings as publisher rulings.
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The current Guild Betrayal wave was compared with shipment/payment rules (physical page 10), separate Guild Karama targets (19), Homeworld transport and occupation (22), Nexus lifecycle/modes (23), and native Guild tariffs and special stop (37). Those passages do not replace the specific printed Guild Nexus full-payment/own-payment/Junction override or supply a new response order; its bounded prepayment contract remains source-consistent. This is a source comparison, not runtime verification.
Advanced core cutover — 1 October 2026
The supplied revision now resolves two normal Advanced defaults, not a new opt-in profile or a publisher ruling:
- Storm Movement, physical PDF page 6: after the first turn, draw a random Storm Deck card and return the last revealed card before the next determination, expressly even without native Fremen. The first Storm still uses the two nearby players' secret 0–20 dials. The implementation reuses the six canonical faces 1–6 and its structured Storm source; native Fremen keeps its private next-card forecast and separate peek cancellation. Without Fremen, nobody gains a forecast or a borrowed Fremen advantage.
- Alliance Constraint, physical PDF page 15 and rationale on 40: at each player's Shipment and Movement end, that ending player's own forces in territories shared with its ally go to Tanks. Advanced does not wait for the ally's later turn or exempt an alliance formed this turn. Bene Gesserit advisors do not trigger this constraint in either direction; fighters remain ordinary forces. Polar Sink and native Ecaz peaceful coexistence remain exceptions. Homeworlds are not Dune territories, and their native allied-entry prohibitions are unchanged.
The supplied revision's Leaders, physical PDF page 11 also requires a player unable to use a leader and not playing Cheap Hero to announce that fact before revealing plans; no Treachery Cards can be part of that plan. Existing leader/card legality remains unchanged. Advanced now publishes the legal leaderless declaration when the original plan is sealed, before any reveal or special full-plan read continuation, without exposing dial/support or other private choices. The current battle status and chronicle preserve it across refresh; no extra reaction, confirmation or plan submission is added. Basic announcement behavior remains intentionally unchanged by this Advanced source cutover.
The page 15 footnote explicitly identifies the changed timing and advisor coexistence as departures from the original rules and November 2020 FAQ. Page 40 explains that choice; it is the supplied revision's unofficial authority, not a later GF9 clarification. See the allied separation source comparison and readiness follow-up.
Basic retains its existing dials and later-player/formation-turn separation
policy. A saved current Storm completes its already recorded dial/card
protocol without resetting, rerolling or redealing; the next new Advanced
Storm opening uses the Deck. Completed movement consequences are not
reevaluated. The own-turn warning exposes only affected public territory
names through GameView.advancedAllySeparation; the ordinary endMovement
action stays unchanged, with no confirmation for mandatory losses.
Verification of this cutover is Partial development verified: genuine
native, authenticated SQLite, private/control/bot and phone evidence is
recorded in the checkpoint log.
Code e1056a4 has exact-source successful isolated container verification
and publication; that does not update the last observed live revision.
Public, faction, optional-module and full-mode readiness gates are unchanged.
Secrecy (physical page 16), Duke Vidal's ghola exception (30), Kull and other
independent decisions are not reconciled by this cutover.
Basic Ecaz Occupy even-force boundary — 4 October 2026
Fresh bounded ecaz-occupy now admits Basic with the exact ecaz deck and
classic or optional Moritani opponents, no optional modules. For an even Ecaz
force count the publisher page-8 paragraph and the page-15 example agree:
contribution and ordinary-win Ecaz losses are E/2. Their odd-count examples
still contradict each other, so an uncanceled odd Basic count is rejected at
the original battle choice before any lead frame is saved; it is not rounded,
canceled or replaced. Advanced keeps its separately authorized ceiling
arithmetic. Basic has no Emperor/Fremen elite inventory and a supplied Basic
support amount normalizes to zero, so the shared editor blocks nonzero support
rather than creating a Basic payment rule. This is a source-bound composition,
not a publisher correction. See the
Basic even-force contract.
Authorized Advanced Ecaz Occupy cutover — 2 October 2026
The authorized supplied revision resolves the Advanced combined army:
Occupy B, physical PDF page 32 selects Ecaz or its current ally as lead.
The lead uses its own leaders, cards and spice. The total dial includes
ceil(Ecaz fighters / 2) mandatory, full-strength, free Ecaz contribution
plus the chosen allied army strength. An ordinary win leaves
floor(Ecaz fighters / 2) Ecaz survivors and separately settles the variable
allied army's native dial losses.
The Ecaz Karama row, physical PDF page 19 preserves that selected lead but substitutes the lead's own army; the other ally contributes zero. This supersedes the historical Advanced rounding/cancellation source gap, not Basic and not a newly located GF9/designer erratum. The specific user decision that only Ecaz revives Duke Vidal, including by Ghola, remains above the supplied sheet's contrary exception.
The fresh, bounded ecaz-occupy rule/control implementation is Partial /
Development Verified. Whole participating armies must be clear and connected
under physical pages6/11; canonical co-side membership preserves voluntary BG
advisor conversion. Basic is unchanged. The existing profile now additionally
composes native Ixian typed casualties/Suboid substitution, actual CHOAM payer/
donor income and whole Ecaz co-side FaceDance return with original lead rewards.
Exact selected E3/E1/E2 decks retain33/47/35 cards; Richese mixed planning,
other overlays and full Ecaz acceptance remain open. See the
source comparison and exact cutover.
Explicit --ecaz-treachery selects the independent three-card variant before
the original setup, adding3 to each family deck. The printed own-only Harass
FAQ composes with original fixed Ecaz commitment or selected ally variable
forces; returned reserves are outside later loss/FaceDance. Reinforcements
keeps its existing provisional own-reserve cost/+2-score policy rather than
claiming a new outcome ruling. Basic/unprofiled co-side card use remains guarded.
See combined-card boundaries.
Comprehensive recovery/privacy/custody review follows all rules rather than
becoming another prototype assurance wave.
Advanced Moritani normal-reveal duration cutover — 2 October 2026
The authorized supplied revision resolves the previously open duration: Assassinate Leaders D, physical PDF page 35, requires that Moritani has not yet revealed its Traitor Card normally this game. A normal own-card reveal therefore forfeits Assassinate Leaders for the rest of the game, across later turns and every opposing faction, whether that battle was won or lost.
This supersedes the historical “normal call, unresolved duration” guard as source resolution, not a newly located GF9 erratum or a Basic ruling. The persisted normal-call flag already enforced game scope; owner guidance, public reveal history and the log now name the sourced forfeiture. Exceptional leader custody and the independent private-step UX/public-preview gates are unchanged. See the cutover and Advanced sequence.
Recorded contracts and implementation boundaries
| Topic | Decision to preserve | Detailed authority and evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Harkonnen special-Karama forced return | Return automatically only when the combined hand equals the count owed. Keep actual drawn-card observations owner-private after settlement; legacy forced saves describe held-card history without inventing draw provenance. Existing provisional auction-payment recovery and mode gates remain. | Contract and limits |
| Basic Moritani / Leader Skills | Ordinary Terror death returns the assigned skill once; own revival offers the existing private optional replacement. Sabotage does not take skills, alliances do not transfer assignments, and mandatory Planetologist/Diplomat disposal excludes those cards from ally retention. This is composition of existing contracts, not a new ruling or resolution of unfinished skill effects. Advanced and other roster/module combinations remain gated. | Integration contract |
| Ecaz Loyalty | Before initial Traitor dealing, randomly set aside one native Ecaz card face up permanently. No Karama effect; no change to its leader disc. Resolving after existing pre-Traitor setup is an explicit sequencing composition; native ordinary-disc Skills now precede this draw through public assignment. Older dealt saves are not retrofitted; wider Skills/assassination combinations remain gated. | Official sources and runtime, native skill composition |
| Sapho battle order | First/last reorders remaining Battle-phase choosers at clean boundaries. Phase priority persists through aftermath; actual legal pairs determine eligibility. Separating the chooser from physical attacker/tie advantage is an explicit implementation interpretation of the card's distinct alternatives, not a dedicated FAQ ruling. Last does not prevent others from choosing the holder as an opponent. | Runtime scope and source interpretation |
| Harass & Withdraw | Either slot but neither category; private Prescience answers null. Return uniquely determined own undialed physical forces before weapon losses, canceled by an opposing successful Traitor. Mandatory after-use discard overrides winner retention. Explosion ordering and own-Traitor disposal are explicit timing/specificity inferences, consistent with the recorded Planetologist precedent. | Runtime and sources |
| Expansion-faction setup | Selecting Ecaz/Moritani factions does not select their independent three-card variant. Ordinary decks contain 33/35/47 cards; Richese's ten-card cache stays separate. Ecaz allocates six total forces within Imperial Basin sectors 9–11, retaining fourteen reserves. Flexible sector allocation is the literal printed territory constraint; Fremen→Ecaz→Advanced BG order is an implementation inference, while Moritani-last is printed. | Source and profile contract |
| Ixian Technology on Richese lots | Replacement-card ownership, income and unsold disposition remain unresolved. A saved explicit per-lot decline permits an unchanged offer to proceed and leaves Technology available later. This development continuation does not implement the exchange or settle its custody. | Auction source boundary |
| Spice Banker battle spending | Secret own-spice commitment is separate from support; only the surviving selected disc gains strength. Core Battle Plan payment rules spend it on death/loss and waive it for a sole traitor-call winner. This payment composition is explicit; upper deferred-income custody remains pending. | Source contract and prototype |
| Smuggler shipping | Optional free companion is included in the actual total; apply Guild rounding to the reduced priced count. Ordinary Fremen reserves are on planet. The officially permitted owned No-Field plus a separate free force is now prototyped at the unchanged one-marker price. Legacy unstamped ordinary declarations keep their quoted full price. | Ordinary contract, No-Field combination |
| Sandmaster movement | One optional board spice per distinct entered territory on an explicit legal route; source-only repositioning earns none. Per-movement Hajr reset is a documented grammatical inference. Canceled moves earn nothing. Native Fremen worm rides collect optionally at the destination before faction arrival reactions, with no intermediate route. Multiple-pile collection remains guarded. | Ground routes, worm rides |
| Diplomat defense | With no actual defense, one physical Worthless card in either Battle Plan slot may copy the opponent's canonical base Shield or Snooper. The same native trained disc may protect itself. The public after-reveal/before-traitor choice and mandatory discard after traitor preemption are documented implementation inferences. Lower retreat and modified or multirole defenses remain guarded. | Source and connected prototype |
| Bureaucrat payments | Once per phase, optionally divert two from an actual third-party payment of at least five; payer cost is unchanged. Bribes trigger at transfer to the recipient's shield, not later collection. Native income is offered after Karama allowance as an explicit outcome-based inference; split contributions, split recipients and remaining payment families need further integration. | Source and connected boundary |
| Mentat question preview | The physical card says to show the card to the questioner, privately; it stays in hand and does not bind a plan. Ask before posture/faction powers. A uniform target response protects held/absent privacy but awaits approval as an exception to skipping forced confirmations; standard activation stays disabled. Empty hands skip with no fabricated answer. | Source and preview |
| Leader battle effects | Rihani normal peek and reshuffle precede a separate committed optional draw; ordering is an explicit printed-order inference. Unused excludes actual calls, not mere disclosure. Mentat/Bureaucrat change scores; Sandmaster adds board spice. Multiple piles and Face Dancer composition stay guarded. | Source contract and prototype |
| Source and readiness | Separate published rules, explicit implementation choices and unfinished interpretations; Advanced/expansion gates stay closed. | Base/Advanced audit, checklist |
| Setup and Fremen movement | Preserve source-ordered setup and the distinct declared-movement cancellation; do not recreate fixed historical gaps. | Setup contract, Fremen Karama |
| Guild payment | Rate, transport permission and income are distinct; power owner, shipper, contributors and independent rate-card beneficiary remain distinct. | Rate/cancellation sources, implemented payment routing |
| Guild native rate Karama | In bounded classic-faction Basic/Advanced tables, a separate prepayment response can cancel Guild’s or its ally’s half rate on an ordinary reserve shipment or eligible cross-planet transport, and Guild’s own return. The original physical cohort and approved contributor split must cover full destination price; otherwise the Karama is spent, the declaration returns unused, and a replacement this turn uses full price. One spice per returned force is the conservative doubled-tariff interpretation without a return-specific FAQ example. Independent Karama-purchased rates, Guild income, transport permission and optional modules remain separate. | Publisher distinctions and selected reserve/transport policy |
| Deferred shipment arrival | Quote unsupported ordinary arrivals before saving Guild interception. A validated legacy ordinary declaration may return unspent on the typed arrival error; corrupted declarations and special parent/card receipts are not silently cleared. This repairs continuation without deciding simultaneous reaction priority. | Reproduction and bounded recovery |
| Truthtrance | Current facts are boolean disclosures, not promises to preserve resources. Structured Basic and base Advanced active-opportunity shipment promises bind within their documented scope (Advanced excludes Guild and optional modules); prose is not automatically enforced. | Spice facts, card facts, shipment promises, remaining audit |
| Truthtrance hand categories | Count current physical hand custody by explicitly named primary role; alternate battle slots and faction powers do not reclassify cards. Only an aggregate answer is disclosed. | Hand inventory |
| Moritani Advanced assassination preview | After an eligible battle loss, a different opposing-faction Traitor Card may be revealed even if its leader is already dead (zero bounty). Face-up set-aside and one private replacement occur during Mentat; one use per faction. Normal-call duration, uniform hidden-eligibility UX and exceptional combinations remain explicit. | Runtime/source contract |
| Moritani Extortion at Mentat | The user selected normal Terror placement/relocation first, including any Karama response; only then collect the reserved five bank spice and approach other players in storm order for a possible three-spice payment. Payment removes the token; all declines recover it with rotated hidden supply IDs. The relative placement timing is a user-selected interpretation, not a publisher ruling. | Publisher sequence and selected timing |
| Ecaz Ambassador / Moritani Terror shared entry | In bounded classic plus Ecaz/Moritani Basic/Advanced games, both originally eligible owners resolve their optional reactions in current storm order; the committed entry, payment and counters are not replayed. Later alliance changes do not erase the original trigger, while physical effect prerequisites are rechecked. This is an explicit provisional table interpretation because no publisher priority ruling was found. BG Intrusion, child arrivals, Atomics and optional modules remain guarded. | Primary-source gap and selected policy, movement recovery |
| Fremen/Ecaz final-turn victory | Reciprocal allied Ecaz and Fremen with fighters in Sietch Tabr do not block the Fremen special victory. Ecaz alone/non-allied or a third faction still blocks. The Habbanya extension remains unsupported; ordinary winner/prediction and fallback order are preserved. | Explicit FAQ and runtime |
| Truthtrance recorded knowledge | Questions compare an already recorded BG prediction, active submitted storm dial or actually known native Fremen forecast. Missing knowledge is unknown; only the aggregate answer is published. No future promise or unknown deck peek is created. | Connected predicates and evidence |
| Nexus lifecycle | Twelve physical cards, phase draw/replacement and alliance forfeiture; native Cunning, absent-faction Secret Ally and Betrayal have separate effects. No blanket Karama immunity. | Common source contract, lifecycle runtime |
| Nexus faction effects | Preserve physical custody, original faction identity and durable effect receipts; use each printed family instead of borrowing another faction's rules by analogy. | Atreides, Harkonnen, BG, Emperor, Fremen, Guild |
| Expansion Nexus families | Source audit coverage does not imply every panel is playable; consult later runtime records in the status log. | Ixian Cunning, Ixian replacement, Tleilaxu, CHOAM, Richese, Ecaz, Moritani |
| Advanced Richese ally contribution | The authorized supplied Advanced Richese Bidding clause routes Richese's contribution to its ally's cache/Black Market purchase to Emperor or bank, even when Emperor buys. Preserve the original donor leg separately from buyer-to-Richese credit; cancellation redirects only the Emperor leg without paying twice. Basic retains R2's earlier receipt. Native Banker counts only final bank legs; exhausted-cache counts, positive Black Market self-bidding and Technology custody remain unresolved. | Source distinction and recipient contract |
| Richese Nexus Betrayal auctions | Pause at a valid original prepayment quote. Public self-cache veto discards the exact card without debit/acquisition; another buyer's positive cache/Black Market invoice keeps price/contributions/delivery and earned Harkonnen bonus while overriding the recipient to bank. All publicly possible unallied other-faction held-Nexus seats acknowledge uniformly; private identity controls only own Use. This neutral protocol is an application choice, not publisher timing. Normal hidden-family self-purchases, special-Karama veto and unsupported overlays remain excluded; no native Karama exception certifies them. Bounded engine/SQL/bot/phone scenarios are verified locally; broader verification remains Partial and public starts/full Nexus gates stay closed. | Printed face, profile, API and saved continuation, common privacy protocol, auction source boundaries |
| Guild Nexus Betrayal shipment payment | Replace one original funded positive fee in full, including own pre-funded payment and the printed full occupied-Junction override; preserve original payer/contributions, consume already-debited donor escrow once and deliver the original physical shipment once. Native applicable stop/rate responses precede the bounded gate; zero/stopped shipments supply no award or Nexus cost. Public possible held-Nexus seats acknowledge uniformly; private Use changes no public price/source disclosure. Fresh classic/native-Guild/Nexus with optional genuinely seeded Homeworlds only; unsupported native Cunning/Richese shipment overlays block before card/parent commitment, and restored transport independently requires the native Guild grant. Bounded engine/SQL/bot/CLI/phone custody and refresh are locally verified; no new priority/immunity, ordinary occupation/rounding ruling or extra shipment. Broad/public/live gates remain closed. | Printed source and bounded contract, common protocol, internal checklist |
| Ixian Nexus Secret Ally replacement | Fresh classic/base33 Basic/Advanced or Basic Tleilaxu/classic Ix47, Ixians absent and Nexus alone. Spend the singleton Nexus to discard exactly the normal paid/printed-Karama purchased card before drawing the actual deck top; preserve original payment, income and auction suffix once. Full-hand and exhausted-deck same-card redraw remain legal. Uniform buyer Use/Pass is the existing development privacy policy, not publisher timing. Harkonnen buyers, special origins, other overlays and unresolved cache/bonus priority stay guarded; no public start or retrofit. Optional Sandtrout is omitted only in the fresh native branch. | Printed operation and base contract, native integration |
| Ixian Nexus Betrayal: Bidding or Technology | Fresh native-Ixian/classic-or-Tleilaxu Basic/Advanced local ixian-betrayal uses Ix47 Treachery and Nexus alone, with no initial Nexus deal or old-save retrofit. Resolve actual native Karama/BG counters first; a native denial opens no Nexus gate or cost. After all native passes, uniform publicly possible unallied non-Ixian held-Nexus seats acknowledge before the native effect; concealed face governs only private Use. These are bounded privacy/ordering inferences, not publisher universal priority. One physical Ixian Nexus denies one current Bidding attempt (normal count, no Ixian inspection/return) or one Advanced Technology declaration (both card locations preserved, attempt remains used); all-pass allows the original effect and suffix once. No whole-phase ban, completed undo, invented direct-Nexus Karama counter or blanket immunity. Richese special-lot exchange, wider priority/modules, complete games, strategy and public/live release remain open; verification is Planned pending frozen direct evidence. |
Photographed face and native source protocol, fresh local runtime and acceptance, five-facet internal topic |
| Harkonnen Nexus Betrayal local preview | Fresh classic/base33/Nexus-only harkonnen-betrayal admits genuine personal/allied native matching calls. Native allied Karama/BG allowance comes first; a provisional uniform acknowledgement precedes the original outcome. Use returns the exact physical traitor immediately and preserves one automatic private actual Mentat replacement. The local ordering/privacy convention is not publisher/user priority and does not answer the previously asked universal reaction policy; public starts, old-game retrofit, arbitrary stacks and combined modules remain gated. Bounded native/private/recovery/CLI/phone verification is Partial development verified, not complete modes or deployment. |
Bounded source contract, runtime limits |
| CHOAM Secret Ally | Absent-faction Collection trade spends one actual Worthless card and the Nexus for two bank spice. It is separate from native Cunning and Auditor; the battle inspection alternative remains missing. | Prototype contract |
| Sapho movement | At a clean boundary, first reorders only remaining unstarted turns; completed turns stay completed. Advanced Guild must have finished or be absent. Last retains existing protection after Guild. | Existing source contract, runtime |
| Basic CHOAM / Leader Skills | Compose existing ordinary skills with native sales and own-leader Ghola revival. Finish the private optional replacement before the exact suspended sale resumes. The free revival remains completed if the resumed sale is canceled. Basic uses five ordinary leaders and 35 Treachery Cards; Auditor remains Advanced and ineligible for skills. | Integration and source contracts |
| Basic Ixians / Leader Skills | Per-origin cyborg range, room-local HMS force routes, rescue before actual cyborg Tank substitution, Rihani before faction substitution and mandatory cleanup compose existing contracts. Ambiguous rescued cyborg reserve origins are explicit player choices. Exact green Ix Specials are Thumper, Harvester and Amal. | Integration and physical sources |
| Basic Tleilaxu / Leader Skills | Compose settled native Rihani Face Dancer eligibility, own revival offers and Face Dance death return through the full deck. Zoal copies opposing printed disc value for unmodified Smuggler collection. Advanced foreign gholas and existing skill questions remain gated. | Integration and sources |
| Native Ecaz / Leader Skills | Basic/Advanced Ecaz plus classic opponents retains the exact ecaz deck, five native assignment discs, public skills before Loyalty/Traitors and original placement. Ordinary rescue/death/own revival and Ambassador handlers compose. A separately acquired Duke6 may receive the normal Warmaster1, never trained-disc3; surviving release or printed6 death leaves the native trainer intact. Existing-skilled Ecaz paid5 Duke revival preserves the earlier living set-aside result, without authorizing Duke assignment. Advanced Harkonnen and combined Occupy skills remain bounded. | Native scope and source contracts, original Duke lifecycle |
| Leader Skills | Fourteen physical cards, variant setup order, public/hidden assignment, death return, own-leader revival and captured lower-band effects are sourced. Five battle disciplines, Planetologist movement/Special substitution, Suk Graduate rescues and common lifecycle are prototyped; Rihani, lower Mentat/Bureaucrat/Sandmaster, normal Smuggler and normal Diplomat now have connected follow-ups. Remaining bands and combinations stay missing. Known skilled capture identifies the leader through its unique public card. | Source contract, capture inference, runtime, Diplomat, Planetologist, Suk Graduate |
| Classic Leader Skills / Tech Tokens | Fresh classic3..6 Basic/Advanced, base33/all14, canonical unused three tokens and original setup/first-Storm owners. Existing leader-skills/banker-income entry preserves selected Tech; native/other overlays stay separate. Tech collects at phase end, independent Banker waits for actual Mentat; neither currency store is a recursive payment producer. Smuggler changes actual priced count; original Suk/Sandmaster precede card cleanup and mandatory token transfer. One token auto-transfers, several require choice, none skips. Mentat/Bureaucrat original bounds remain. This composes existing rules, not a new ruling or public activation. | Scope and evidence |
| Native E1/E2 Leader Skills / Tech Tokens | Fresh supported Ixian/Tleilaxu/CHOAM/Richese3..6 Basic/Advanced keeps original native deck/roster limits, all14 skills, cache and printed Tech setup. Original typed payments/rescue/card cleanup precede mandatory winner token reward; Tleilaxu A.1–3 expressly preserves that reward before Face Dance. Actual Charity affects Production, not Axlotl; native CHOAM initial income is not poverty Charity. Separate Banker/Mentat bounds and unrelated guards remain. E3/other overlays, public starts and save conversion are excluded. This composes sourced rules, not a new interpretation. | Scope, supplied physical21/38 and evidence |
| Advanced Leader Skills / Stronghold Cards | Fresh classic or supported E1/E2 native2..6 Advanced preserves all14 skills, six unused cards, original decks/cache/wallets and actual end-Mentat claims; optional Tech requires3..6. Arrakeen bank subsidy is separate from actual payer debit/Banker threshold and original CHOAM income. Physical defense/normal discipline, holder tie and Tabr/Tuek income compose original skill outcomes. Suk/native cleanup and mandatory Tech precede Face Dance, retaining original rewards and one killed-skill return. Copied-Diplomat/active skill-Stone and unrelated guards remain. Basic Strongholds, E3/other overlays, public starts and save conversion are excluded. | Authorized physical21/38, existing effects and evidence |
| Standalone E3 Skills / Tech / Stronghold Cards | Original Ecaz OR Moritani ecaz33/all14 rosters preserve Tech Basic/Advanced3..6 and Stronghold Advanced2..6, optionally both. Native Ecaz five-disc/temporary Duke/Advanced-Hark exclusion and Moritani skill-first assassination/normal-call forfeiture remain. Real claimed effects, original support/rescue, printed Duke6 or unused-disc bounty and one Mentat replacement compose native rewards without new ownership or income rules. E3 pairs, mixed families, allied Occupy skills, other overlays, public starts and save conversion remain excluded. | Source contracts and bounded evidence |
| Native Mentat preview | Explicit fresh leader-skills --mentat-question reuses the existing private uniform question for already-supported Basic Ixian/Tleilaxu/CHOAM/Moritani profiles. Exact/default card roles, held fallback and skill-before-faction timing are unchanged. Ordinary/public activation, empty-hand handling, Advanced native skills and other modules stay gated; this is integration, not a new answer to the pending UX question. |
Native integration and existing authority |
| Normal Spice Banker local preview | Fresh classic/base33 Basic/Advanced or supported Basic native skill profiles, all14 skills alone. One additional deferred bank spice per physical card/turn/phase for another payer's one actual bank payment ≥4; no payer pooling or advance spending. Tleilaxu self-revival pays Bank; other-player revival pays Tleilaxu unless canceled. The separate free-revival award never contributes to payer debit. Actual initialized Mentat collects once; original earned-faction retention and separate-payer threshold remain provisional local policies, not answers to pending custody/split questions. No public start, retrofit or other overlays. | Normal-band contract, native integration, skill authority |
| Advanced Stronghold faction integration | Fresh stronghold-factions admits selected E1/E2 native families and standalone Ecaz OR Moritani with classic2..6-seat Advanced, canonical selected decks and six Stronghold Cards; optional unused Tech Tokens requires3..6, without Leader Skills. Standalone E3 uses ecaz33; Moritani excludes Harkonnen. Ecaz co-control holds the card at Ecaz, but only the selected actual holder-plan receives its effect; fixed Ecaz strength is free, and Arrakeen funds only actual variable support. Losing Moritani retains printed Tuek income before original assassination, printed bounty and one actual Mentat replacement; winner cleanup finishes once and normal Traitor reveal forfeits assassination for the game. Existing E1/E2 No-Field/Stone/FaceDance and retained winner rewards remain. E3 pairs/mixed families, mixed No-Field/full-plan, Stone/Poison Tooth and other overlays stay guarded. This composes existing contracts, not a new ruling. Save/privacy/custody assurance follows all rules. |
E1/E2 scope, standalone E3 scope and evidence, native Tech composition |
| Native Tech without Leader Skills | Fresh3..6 Basic/Advanced selected E1/E2 native families or standalone Ecaz OR Moritani plus classics preserve original unused three Tech Tokens through factions; Advanced Strongholds use the existing native entry. Physical setup, printed/first-Storm owners, phase-end income and single-player complete-set victory are unchanged. Actual Ecaz selected lead receives the original opposing token, never a joint allied holding; Basic odd Occupy remains guarded. Moritani original forfeiture/assassination and winner Tech before Face Dance reuse existing handlers. No new ruling, wallet grant, public start or save conversion. |
Original composition/source and evidence, Stronghold contract |
| Classic Nexus / Tech / Strongholds | Fresh classic/base33/all12 Nexus may preserve original Tech3..6 Basic/Advanced and/or Strongholds2..6 Advanced, without Skills/HW/expansion decks or unrelated previews. Original closing deals, first-Storm Tech and actual end-Mentat card claims remain. Actual Nexus free-three returns invoke Axlotl without merging their extra/ordinary ledgers; industry collects once at native phase end. Borrowed tariffs never relocate Fremen on-planet reserves or native faction identity. Held Arrakeen pays actual support; temporary Sardaukar remain ordinary counters. Losing Moritani retention precedes original winner Tech, then CHOAM excludes every used opposing card. Bank purchase retains actual wallet/card without an industry trigger. Pending borrowed Voice, worm protection and Tleilaxu revival remain guarded; no public starts/save conversion or new ruling. | Composition/source and bounded evidence |
| Paired E1/E2 Nexus / Tech / Strongholds | Fresh both Ixians+Tleilaxu OR CHOAM+Richese plus classics with one original family deck/all12 Nexus preserves Tech3..6 Basic/Advanced and/or Strongholds2..6 Advanced, without Skills or other overlays. Original Cunning, typed Suboid/Cyborg loss and equal substitution, Face Dancer reward-before-replacement and draw-before-retirement, two physical No-Fields/one tariff, native industry at phase end and actual held/copy effects reuse original handlers. No mixed families, E3, new interpretations, public starts or played-game conversion. | Scope, sources and bounded evidence, Richese composition |
| Discoveries | Preserve seven sourced Spice Cards and eight physical tokens, private faction peeks and Collection choices. Revealed locations are separate territories; only Jacurutu counts toward stronghold victory. Next-turn free entry, sole-occupant Cistern income, bounded sole-occupant Orgiz transfer and later-turn Ornithopter spending are prototyped; Jacurutu income, Testing Station and Shrine also have bounded paths. Contested and mixed cases remain pending. | Component authority, prototype boundary |
| Guild Secret Ally | One explicit Guild-priced ordinary shipment; borrowed prices/routes preserve native identity. Free Fremen reinforcement remains a separate choice. | Route contract, verified runtime |
| Homeworld custody and mobility | Physical home/visitor groups, population thresholds, tariffs and transport permissions retain distinct sources; Homeworld immunity is not universal immunity. | Homeworld rules, benefits, mobility, invasion, Guild transport |
| Homeworld effects | Keep original payment/revival/placement identities and qualification observations; observations alone do not choose an occupied-benefit owner. | Payments, card economy, Collection, revival deployment, victory reinforcement, replacement, Tupile |
| Duke Vidal revival custody | The user selected set-aside custody after Ecaz revives the shared disc: revival clears the Tanks but does not itself grant battle control. Ecaz still needs a separate Ambassador or Nexus acquisition; only Ecaz may revive Duke, including by Ghola. This resolves one post-revival product interpretation, not the separate six-disc repeated-cycle, exceptional capture or battle-used Ghola questions. No publisher clarification assigning a post-revival controller was located. | Publisher Ecaz/Moritani pp. 7–9, revival readiness |
| Mirror Weapon copied-card cleanup | The user selected ordinary winner retention for the physical Mirror even if its effective copy activates Tooth or Artillery. The original Tooth/Artillery cards retain their named mandatory-discard exceptions. This is a product interpretation, not a located publisher ruling. Independent copy-first Tooth/Stone choices and physical cleanup now have a bounded CHOAM/Richese-deck battle runtime; combined modules and full Richese games remain gated. | Printed Mirror face and source audit |
| Kull Wahad preview timing | User selected a distinct eligible counter while the interrupted physical card stays reserved, and BG Worthless interception before conversion/discard. Pending declaration is not a ban; only success stamps turn/phase and retains original/special once-use. Decline or prevention resumes the original once. Old kull stays printed-only; fresh nexus-kull admits native CHOAM plus classic Basic/Advanced seats, CHOAM/Ix Treachery and Nexus alone, without physical Sandtrout. Nexus Use needs actual unallied CHOAM Nexus and canonical eligible own fuel: accepted declaration spends Nexus even if prevented, fuel stays held until success. Use requires source/event/card, with no old-source action shim or proactive Kull. Verified prior printed counter saves migrate only their selection binding; no new-choice retrofit. Reservations, promises and remaining winning-payment coverage constrain fuel/counters; ordinary retained Karama payment is not a canceled Cunning effect. Priority/custody/overbid are user policy; neutral timing/spend conventions are application policy. Bounded checks/CLI/runtime/phone cases pass; broader verification is Partial and no full/public/deployed gate opens. |
Selected preview policy, source/cost boundary, runtime and remaining limits, new evidence |
| Semuta full-hand exchange | User selected Allow exchange: acquisition followed by Semuta disposal is an atomic net-zero hand exchange at the faction limit. Existing incoming reservations still consume capacity; this does not permit an already overfull hand or settle Box/Richese purchase timing. | Selected capacity policy |
Shipment and mixed current-fact/shipment AND/OR follow the FAQ's whole-question truth: Yes to AND requires all, Yes to OR requires one, and No negates the whole. Current facts freeze privately at definite answer; later legal holdings changes do not rewrite them or add a retention obligation. One eventual shipment or skip must honor all separate promises. Unknown is not false. See mixed compounds; earlier timing, other future actions and existing module gates remain unfinished.
Current Truthtrance force facts count physical counters in reserves, the Tanks or one exact live board location. Totals include elites; normal counts subtract them. Advisors remain counters, and concealed No-Field markers/values are excluded. These are current observations, not future obligations; no typed distribution is invented when Basic lacks separate starred-counter tracking. See the force-fact source composition.
For future interactions with no publisher ruling discoverable after targeted research, use the conservative recommended interpretation and document it as an implementation choice rather than soliciting another preference. Earlier pending questions below remain recorded until their relevant work is revisited.
Pending interpretations: preserve existing questions
These are unresolved in the cited records. Do not infer an answer from elapsed time, a fixture, a related card or this index. Check subsequent recorded user/source decisions before proceeding; do not send duplicate questions.
| Boundary | Still unresolved | Existing record |
|---|---|---|
| Bureaucrat / Emperor gifts | Whether an allied gift is a qualifying payment and whether its threshold may be revealed. Existing gift amounts are private to payer/recipient; the card and retrieved primary sources do not explicitly settle this combination. The user question is pending; no answer or exact-amount disclosure is assumed. | Gift classification review |
| Reinforcements cost | The user question still asks whether to keep the card disabled, always transfer three reserve forces on every outcome, or waive only a sole traitor-call winner's cost; no answer is assumed. The bounded classic and Ecaz/Moritani prototype provisionally charges on all revealed outcomes, chooses normal reserves before elite and counts the transfer as battle losses. Those are product interpretations, not a ruling. Same-plan Harass/Stone Burner remain gated; opposing Harass is supported. Eligibility never depends on concealed matching Traitors. | Source cost review · Bounded runtime |
| Harass / Stone Burner | A user question has been sent: keep the combination gated or compare forces remaining after withdrawal. No answer is assumed. The Richese card-family configuration is guarded publicly; hidden Stone Burner custody never controls eligibility. Ambiguous physical allocations and other optional modules remain unfinished. | Current boundaries |
| Recruits late accounting and rates | A user question has been sent for two free plus one paid Atreides return before Recruits: keep the disputed case gated, or one/two further free returns without refund. No answer is assumed. Late-changing free rates, pending repricing and same-turn recovered-card replay also stay gated. The connected clean-case preview retains the independent seven-force cap after faction-advantage cancellation as an explicit inference, not a direct combined FAQ. | Source audit, runtime scope |
| Sandmaster / native HMS relocation | No official source located establishes that passengers remaining inside the HMS enter outside territories for this skill. Extra collection eligibility is pending a user ruling; native sector collection and ordinary force entry/exit remain available. | Source comparison and question |
| Sapho remaining timing | First versus unspent Advanced Guild priority, partly completed combined turns, cyclic auction duration and later battle timing stay guarded. The existing pre-plan opportunity supports early aggressor. Prior questions remain unanswered. | Source audit, battle review |
| Semuta Drug | Full-hand exchange is user-approved; neutral all-seat acknowledgements remain the explicit application policy. Other discard producers, nested continuation coverage and full-game acceptance remain unfinished. | Source update and selected exchange, privacy review |
| Leader Skills edge cases | Capture/replacement eligibility, Banker escrow custody, Smuggler modifier/allocation boundaries, Mentat empty-hand fallback, modified Diplomat defenses and simultaneous optional timing remain source gaps. After an online publisher/designer/tournament check found no explicit priority ruling, the bounded standalone Diplomat retreat prototype explicitly chooses printed/copied disc strength and a surviving-loser retreat before ordinary casualties; other combinations remain guarded. This is an implementation interpretation, not an official clarification. | Material boundaries and selected retreat interpretation, Diplomat defense boundary |
| Smuggler collection strength | A fresh primary-source check found no modifier ruling. The user was asked whether to keep affected combinations gated, use printed/copied disc value, or include leader bonuses with Stunner zero. No answer is assumed. The reveal-bound deferred receipt is supported as an explicit timing inference; unmodified lower collection is now prototyped; modified strength, multiple positive piles and combined modules remain gated. | Smuggler follow-up |
| Suk Graduate / Atreides | Whether rescued dialed casualties count toward the seven-loss Kwisatz Haderach threshold remains unresolved. The user question has been sent; Advanced Atreides rescue stays guarded. | Source and runtime boundary |
| Ordinary Guild cancellation | Unaffordable repricing, replacement/retry/decline, consumed opportunity, contributor adjustment and ordering with special shipment-stop. The affordability question was already sent. | Material timing |
| Base special Karama | Unfunded auction recovery, stopped-shipment settlement and Atreides full-plan commitment order remain provisional. Native full-plan/Voice/Prescience/Truthtrance/Ghola interactions now have genuine-setup focused evidence, but the source audit does not settle the special offer/deadline or target-first interpretation. | Explicit base interpretations, full-plan interaction audit |
| Guild Secret Ally/Homeworlds | Whether the reserve-return grant overrides the Homeworld return restriction. The question was already sent; that route stays guarded. | Homeworld return, checkpoint |
| Occupied Homeworlds | Entitlement/expiry after departure, replacement or contest; unique powers and shared income. The first-occupier/current-occupier question was already sent. | Occupation questions, lifecycle audit |
| Nexus responses and composition | Betrayal private-response timing, partial revival/payment choices, Emperor fewer-than-five, fresh advisor/storm cases, Duke restoration and remaining faction-specific combinations. Tleilaxu Secret Ally force accounting, leader slot/eligibility and force-only use remain unresolved after requested publisher/designer source searches; do not infer answers from native Tleilaxu revival or Ghola. | Common boundaries, Tleilaxu source search and individual faction source/runtime documents |
| Moritani Atomics after alliance change | The publisher's persistent −1 hand-limit text names Moritani and “your ally,” but not whether the penalty follows a later ally, remains on the original ally or affects both. Requested online source searches found no clarification; the alliance-change case remains gated. | Terror source boundary |
| Orgiz collection | The publisher rulebook, page 13 says an occupant steals one spice of each collected blow, but its Q&A and searched designer/community sources do not define stacked board piles. Choose one transfer per positive collected board deposit as the observable first version, from its unique rival collector; this is an inference, not a publisher ruling. Contested Orgiz occupancy and Ecaz shared lots withhold only the uncertain transfer while ordinary collection continues. | Discovery interpretation |
| Jacurutu physical dial | The user question asks whether the losing player should choose the physical normal/elite forces represented by its dial. When legal Advanced allocations produce different rewards, income remains explicitly unpaid; numeric wheel subtraction is not a ruling. | Discovery interpretations |
| Testing Station contest/timing | Only sole non-advisor occupation is prototyped. Two-occupant priority/stacking remains unresolved; opening after the ordinary storm-card window is an explicit source-timing inference. Weather Control is excluded by the printed text. | Discovery interpretations |
| CHOAM Secret Ally battle timing | The printed after-victory inspection is optional and the Nexus identity stays secret. The connected prototype chooses a uniform use-or-continue window for every winner when Nexus is enabled and CHOAM absent; nonholders pass, while a holder may decide after the result. This privacy-preserving prompt is a product inference, not publisher text. A holder-only pause would reveal custody and a precommitment would remove the printed choice. Ordinary Karama cancellation remains unestablished by retrieved sources; no response is invented. | After-victory inspection boundary |
| Moritani Secret Ally battle timing | The printed after-loss retention is optional and the Nexus card remains secret. The connected prototype offers the same choice to every loser when Moritani is absent and at least one publicly revealed played card is retainable; a loser with no eligible public card has no useful choice, independent of hidden custody. Only an unallied holder may spend the physical card. This prompt is a privacy-preserving product inference, not publisher timing text. Native Moritani alliance retention and its Karama response remain separate; no generic Secret Ally counter is invented. | Nexus retention boundary |
| Ecaz Secret Ally traitor inquiry | The printed panel asks one selected player whether they hold any of the holder's leaders as Traitors, without identifying a leader; it specifies neither native-versus-controlled scope nor answer audience. The connected prototype chooses native printed faction leaders (including dead/captured), ordinary Traitor Cards rather than Face Dancers, and a holder-only historical yes/no. This is a privacy-preserving product interpretation, not a publisher ruling. Foreign Ghola/captive scope and table-wide disclosure remain release boundaries. | Ecaz inquiry source and bounded runtime |
| Ecaz native Nexus Cunning timing | The printed Cunning takes Duke Vidal for this turn even from capture, Tanks or Ghola custody, but names no phase. The connected first version chooses the quiet Battle phase boundary and a living, uncaptured, non-Ghola shared disc, including a Moritani-controlled Duke. This is a bounded product timing and custody decision, not a publisher restriction. Advanced Harkonnen is gated because its existing battle path cannot select Duke. Exceptional return destinations, response priority and combined modules remain gated; ordinary Ecaz Ambassador custody is unaffected. | Source and bounded runtime |
| Emperor Secret Ally purchase timing | The bounded normal bank-auction prototype chooses a uniform winner payment confirmation in classic-faction Nexus-only games with Emperor absent, including otherwise sole spice payments. This prevents a holder-only pause from exposing hidden card eligibility. It is a provisional product privacy choice, not a user or publisher ruling; the previously asked confirmation-versus-gate question remains open. Seller-paid/allied purchases and other sources stay gated. | Source contract and bounded prototype, runtime |
| Discovery prototype inferences | Free entry uses storm order and ordinary source-storm restrictions; these are general-rule inferences. Great Maker currently follows ordinary first-turn worm skipping and Sandtrout suppression; an exhausted token type creates no replacement token. These preserve current source interpretation and physical inventory but are not separately confirmed rulings or complete combined-module certification. | Interpretations for refinement |
| Other Homeworld combinations | Population/force splitting, removal custody, replacement shortages, income accounting and placement ordering remain local to their detailed contracts. | Homeworld rules, occupation and the effect documents above |
When a decision changes, record the exact source or user ruling in its detailed feature document, update affected implementation guidance/tests, and adjust this index and current status. Retain historical evidence without presenting a superseded proposal as current behavior.