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I recently played a game with inn and possession, game #7011124. I possessed my opponent, and during the possession turn, I gained an inn. The game then told me I could shuffle action cards back into my deck like expected, but I could not choose any cards to shuffle back in, the only thing I could choose is done selecting. Afterwards, I played a bot game and was able to reproduce the result each time I gained an inn while possessing my opponent.

I meant Rouge. I decided to test with Rouge because it is able to gain a card from the trash just like Lurker and Graverobber can, the only difference between Rouge and Graverobber/Lurker is that Rouge forces you to gain from the trash if there is a card in there that you can gain where as with Graverobber/Lurker you always have that choice to gain or trash, so I wanted to see if it was the ability to gain a card from the trash that was messing with the AI or if it was something unique to Graverobber/Lurker.

With my Rouge test I had a Rouge and a Gold in the trash and managed to get the AI to play a Rouge. It was able to gain the Gold from the trash without problem even though there were two cards (not an automatic gain) suggesting that it does have the ability to pick a card from the trash, so it appears that the bug has something to do with Lurker's/Graverobber's choose one ability.

I ran a few test with Lurker/Graverobber in the Kingdom. I have only seen it get stuck after playing Lurker when there is a card in the trash it can gain. I have managed to get it to play Lurker when there is nothing it can gain in which case it doesn't trash anything and just continues on with its turn.

I have seen it play Graverobber and continue on with its turn normally, I assume this only happens when it cannot trash anything and it cannot gain a card from the trash. It seems to get stuck when it can trash and/or gain a card.

I also decided to see what happens when there are two cards in the trash that it could gain with a Rouge. It gained a card without getting stuck.

This suggest that it is something about the choice of being able to trash a card or gain a card from the trash that causes it to get stuck in an infinite loop. I hope this helps to fix the problem.

Thanks for looking into it.

Today In game #6288168, my opponent, SamE, played a contraband after playing Black Market. I was surprised to see that I could not name a card in the Black Market Deck. Either I am blind and couldn't see the text entry box that normally pops up with cards that allow you to name a card, or that box never appeared. If I had to take a guess as to what is causing it, it would be that the code treats contraband differently than cards such as mystic and doctor because it is your opponent that names the card and not you.

Also during this same game, I was unable to name cards from the black market deck when SamE played contraband.