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The Cartarch Chronicle.

A journal of releases — what we shipped, what we refined, what we resolved, and a short note from the Archivist on each.

Folio IV · Issue 1 · Entry 19
v4.1.19 · 7 July 2026 · published

Chronicle of Changes.

Resolved1 entry

  • Fixed Switch Printing to perform a quantity-conserving swap instead of silently rewriting the card's identity. Switching a deck card's printing now consumes a copy you own from your collection and returns the old printing, with full audit logging. Unowned printings are no longer selectable.
Notes from the Archivist

The original Switch Printing was a cosmetic control that accidentally became an inventory mutation. It rewrote `card_id` in place because the earliest version treated the printing as a display attribute, not an ownership identity. By the time the collection grew real accounting (TransactionLog, pull/return, finish correction), this path was already live and nobody noticed it bypassed all of them. The fix reframes the operation as what it always should have been: a two-leg swap (return the old, consume the new) with the same merge-and-log discipline the pull/return paths have had since v3.x. The Scryfall upsert (`get_or_create_card`) is removed from the route entirely, since an owned card is by definition already in the local catalog. Intent B (representing a printing you don't own) stays deferred to #51's proxy/Brew model, where it belongs.