Ruling — Hero Realms

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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To prepare for the game, follow these steps: 1. Shuffle the Market Deck and place it facedown on the table [1]. 2. Deal the top five cards of the Market Deck face-up in a row next to the Market Deck to create the Market [1]. 3. Place the 16 Fire Gem cards in a single stack, face-up, next to the last card in the Market [1]. 4. Leave a space next to the Market Deck for a Sacrifice Pile [1]. 5. Each player shuffles their personal deck and places it facedown in front of them [1]. 6. Leave room next to each personal deck for a discard pile [1]. 7. Randomly determine which player goes first [1]. 8. The player going first draws three cards from their personal deck [1]. 9. The player going second draws five cards from their personal deck [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook · p.1 · SETUP · Ally Abilities · Sacrifice Abilities

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 197 ms · ask 5363 ms · total 18959 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 13388 ms · generation 5571 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "SETUP · Ally Abilities · Sacrifice Abilities", "sharpsignalDocId": 398}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 398 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 398 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 7, 2026 05:03

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook (corpus doc 398)	HOW TO PLAY · Main Phase · Playing Cards · Actions and Items · OVERVIEW	p.1	0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook (corpus doc 398)	Personal Deck and Keeping Score · Using Abilities	p.1	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook (corpus doc 398)	Acquiring Cards · Attacking · Hunter - First Blood (3+ players)	p.2	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook (corpus doc 398)	SETUP · Ally Abilities · Sacrifice Abilities	p.1	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook (corpus doc 398)	Hunter - Last One Standing (3+ players) · Hydra (4 players, 2 players per team) · Discard Phase · Draw Phase	p.2	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook (corpus doc 398)	Expend Abilities · The Basics · Name, Card Type, & Subtype ↓ · Primary → Ability · Champions	p.1	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook (corpus doc 398)	MULTIPLAYER RULES · Free-For-All (2+ players) · Basic Cards · Imperial Faction · Guild Faction · Necros Faction	p.2	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook (corpus doc 398)	Health · Combat · CREDITS · Gold · Expend · Guard · …	p.2	0.029412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Hero Realms — Rulebook (corpus doc 398)	SETUP · Ally Abilities · Sacrifice Abilities	p.1	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 197 ms · first delta 3047 ms · total 18959 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 13388 ms · retrieval 197 ms · ask 5363 ms · gateway work 5571 ms · total 18959 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4621
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 194
tok/sec: 78.3 tok/sec — 194 output tokens in 2.477 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 30s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 327), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.