Ruling — Summoner Wars (Second Edition)

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Summoner Wars (Second Edition)bg-332800-en-1e

To set up a game of Summoner Wars, follow these steps: 1. Place the battlefield between the players [1]. 2. Create a supply of damage and boost tokens within reach of both players [1]. 3. Each player chooses a faction deck or builds a custom deck [1]. 4. Each player places their summoner, 2 starting units, and starting gate on the battlefield as shown on the back of their summoner’s card [1]. 5. Each player shuffles their remaining cards, places them face down into their draw pile, and then draws 5 cards [1]. 6. Randomly determine which player will go first [1]. 7. That player places their magic token on the 2 space and the other player places their magic token on the 3 space of their magic tracks [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook · p.5 ·

🔧 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 220 ms · ask 8016 ms · total 17988 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 9743 ms · generation 8245 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 440}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 440 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 440 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 05:08

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 Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 440)	Phase 5: Magic · End of Turn: Draw · Empty Draw Pile · Event Cards · Active Event Effects · Winning the Game	p.9	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 Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 440)	Adjacency · Turn Sequence · 1: Summon 2: Move 3: Build 4: Attack 5: Magic · Phase 1: Summon · Example: Summoning a Unit · Spending/Gaining Magic	p.6	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 Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 440)		p.9	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 Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 440)		p.9	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 Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 440)	Phase 2: Move · Phase 3: Build · Your Side	p.7	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 Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 440)	Glossary	p.17	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 Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 440)	Deck Construction · Deck Restrictions · Example: Deck Construction · 2 Starting Units · 2 Epic Events · 6 Standard Events · …	p.11	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 Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 440)	Game Setup	p.5	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 Summoner Wars (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 440)		p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 220 ms · first delta 6889 ms · total 17988 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 9743 ms · retrieval 220 ms · ask 8016 ms · gateway work 8245 ms · total 17988 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4098
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 176
tok/sec: 136.8 tok/sec — 176 output tokens in 1.287 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 15s 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 371), 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.