Game.findByID cannot find components of merged or melded permanents, causing crashes when one is a commander

[Jetz72]

Describe the bug Game.findById relies on forEachCardInGame to locate cards. This checks all the ordinary game zones, but does not check the ZoneType.Merged, which contains components of merged permanents beyond the original one in the battlefield. It also does not check PlayerZoneBattlefield.meldedCards (and in fact, nothing does), which is where secondary components of melded permanents are kept.

To Reproduce

• Experimental Undo/Restore enabled.
• Illuna, Apex of Wishes as your commander, any nonhuman creature in the battlefield.
• Mutate Illuna onto a creature. Placement at top or bottom does not matter.
• Resolve the stack.

Or:

• Experimental Undo/Restore enabled.
• Bruna, the Fading Light as your commander, Gisela, the Broken Blade in the battlefield.
• Cast Bruna, the Fading Light.
• Proceed to End Step.
• Resolve the Meld trigger.

In either case, the engine crashes in GameSnapshot.assignGameState with this stack trace:

Game-0 > java.lang.NullPointerException
    at forge.game.player.PlayerView.updateCommanderCast(PlayerView.java:399)
    at forge.game.player.Player.incCommanderCast(Player.java:2810)
    at forge.game.GameSnapshot.assignGameState(GameSnapshot.java:93)
    at forge.game.GameSnapshot.makeCopy(GameSnapshot.java:52)
    at forge.game.GameSnapshot.makeCopy(GameSnapshot.java:38)
    at forge.game.Game.stashGameState(Game.java:188)
    at forge.game.phase.PhaseHandler.startFirstTurn(PhaseHandler.java:1029)
    at forge.game.GameAction.startGame(GameAction.java:2150)
    at forge.game.Match.startGame(Match.java:90)
    at forge.gamemodes.match.HostedMatch.lambda$startGame$1(HostedMatch.java:269)

Version

• Tested on Master in Adventure UI as of e93b130a3631c5f4642330a65f31efa9f3a0e1ca. Few days old, but should still be there unless I overlooked a relevant commit in the last couple days.

Remarks Might make sense to have the secondary melded cards share the Merged zone as well. Also realized that forEachCardInGame is also missing the extra deck zones.

[Hanmac]

@Jetz72 should be fixed by this: https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge/pull/5921 merged yesterday

[tehdiplomat]

No. I didn't fix the merged/melded part yet

[tehdiplomat]

One important thing to note, this is only relevant for the experimental undo restore feature. So shouldn't really be blocking.

[Jetz72]

Ah, that'd explain why this hasn't come up more. Could have sworn I turned that feature off but I guess not.

Tangential note, it might be worthwhile to add an issue tag for the snapshot/restore system.

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