A.4 cont.: card-deck icon placeholder mode (no-deck-equipped) styled like empty dice slot — TDD. User polish 2026-05-25 PM after browser-verifying the kit-bag dialog: when no deck is equipped (kit-bag-placeholder branch fires) the new card-stack icon should not animate + should render w. the same dimmed rgba(--quaUser, 0.x) palette as the existing fa-dice empty slot next to it, not the bright --terUser stroke / --priUser fill of an equipped-deck icon. Two SCSS changes: (1) Removed .deck-stack-icon:hover + .deck-stack-icon:active from the splay-trigger selector list — only wrapper-based selectors (.token.deck-variant, .kit-bag-deck) fire the fan-out now. Placeholder icons land inside .kit-bag-placeholder (or game_kit applet's .kit-item empty-state) which aren't in the trigger list, so they stay static no matter where the user hovers. (2) New .kit-bag-placeholder .deck-stack-icon + .kit-item .deck-stack-icon descendant-selector rule: drops color (= stroke via currentColor) to rgba(--quaUser, 0.3) matching the existing .kit-bag-placeholder color (_game-kit.scss:143); drops .deck-stack-icon__card fill to rgba(--quaUser, 0.15) (lower than the stroke alpha — user-dialed 2026-05-25 PM for a subtler look, the cards read as faintly-present "absence" rather than bright-but-grey). 1 new IT in KitBagViewTest (clears equipped_deck → asserts .kit-bag-deck absent, .kit-bag-placeholder present + carries svg.deck-stack-icon + lacks fa-id-badge). Tests: 1 new green; 1298/1298 IT+UT total green (71s; +1 from d26c45b's 1297). Visual verify pending: refresh /gameboard/ + clear equipped deck → kit-bag dialog Deck slot should show a dimmed static card-stack icon matching the dice slot's washed-out look

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/apps/dashboard/tests/integrated/test_views.py

@@ -517,6 +517,34 @@ class KitBagViewTest(TestCase):
             "fa-regular fa-id-badge must be gone from kit-bag-deck",
         )
 
+    def test_no_deck_equipped_renders_placeholder_card_stack_icon(self):
+        """Sprint A.4 follow-up — when the user has no equipped_deck, the
+        kit-bag Deck section renders the same .deck-stack-icon SVG inside a
+        .kit-bag-placeholder wrapper (no fan-out trigger; CSS dims it to
+        --quaUser at 0.3 alpha to match the empty dice slot)."""
+        import lxml.html
+        # Clear the auto-equipped Earthman to land in the placeholder branch.
+        self.user.equipped_deck = None
+        self.user.save(update_fields=["equipped_deck"])
+        response = self.client.get(self.url)
+        parsed = lxml.html.fromstring(response.content)
+        # equipped-deck branch is skipped → placeholder branch fires.
+        self.assertEqual(
+            len(parsed.cssselect(".kit-bag-deck")), 0,
+            "No equipped deck → no .kit-bag-deck wrapper",
+        )
+        placeholders = parsed.cssselect(".kit-bag-section .kit-bag-placeholder")
+        # First placeholder is the Deck slot (Dice + Trinket slots also use
+        # .kit-bag-placeholder when empty); assert at least one carries the
+        # card-stack SVG.
+        deck_placeholder = placeholders[0]
+        [_] = deck_placeholder.cssselect("svg.deck-stack-icon")
+        # Old fa-id-badge must be gone.
+        self.assertEqual(
+            len(deck_placeholder.cssselect("i.fa-id-badge")), 0,
+            "fa-regular fa-id-badge must be gone from kit-bag-placeholder",
+        )
+
     def test_polarized_equipped_deck_tooltip_has_x2_decoration(self):
         """Same (x2) decoration as the gameboard applet — polarized decks
         signal segment-doubling in the tooltip card-count line via --terUser