A.7.5 Game Kit carousel image-mode + universal stat-block top-left chip + EMANATION/REVERSAL --secUser convention — TDD. Mid-session 2026-05-25 PM (Sprint A.7.5 of [[project-image-based-deck-face-rendering]] — slotted between A.7 polish + tomorrow's A.8 room.html). Three threads bundled: (1) Game Kit _tarot_fan.html carousel modal gets the image-mode branch + per-card FLIP-to-back for non-polarized image-equipped decks (Minchiate today; brings the carousel into parity w. the other 5 image-mode surfaces shipped in A.3-A.7); (2) the A.3 Q3-spec top-left rank+suit chip lands across all 4 stat-block surfaces (my_sign main / _applet-my-sign / _sea_stage modal / new game_kit fan stage), retrofitting work that A.3 explicitly deferred per the "Lower-priority follow-ups" list in the project memory; (3) chip + EMANATION/REVERSAL label adopt --secUser as the new universal color convention so the title (--quaUser/--terUser per arcana) stays the focal text + the chip-and-label header recedes visually.

(1) _tarot_fan.html image-mode branch — server-side `{% if card.deck_variant.has_card_images %}` gate: image-mode renders `<img class="sig-stage-card-img">` + (for non-polarized decks) a sibling `<img class="sig-stage-card-back-img">` for the FLIP-to-back affordance; text-mode keeps the existing `.fan-card-corner --tl/--br` + `.fan-card-face` scaffold unchanged (Earthman + RWS today; will be removed once both decks get artwork — user's plan: scrape RWS art tonight + Earthman public-domain paintings to follow; "shabby cardstock" non-equippable Earthman variant retains text rendering as legacy preservation). New `.fan-card.fan-card--image` marker class added to the shared image-mode comma-list selector (`_card-deck.scss:705-765`) so the carousel cards pick up the contour-stroke + depth-shadow filter chain + `.is-flipped-to-back` toggle for free — single SCSS source of truth across all 5 image-mode surfaces. Also added `data-arcana-key="{{ card.arcana }}"` + `data-image-url="{{ card.image_url|default:'' }}"` data-attrs to every fan-card so `StageCard.fromDataset` + `_setImageMode` flow w. no extra plumbing.

(2) Game Kit carousel JS rewiring (`game-kit.js`): `_populateStage` now also calls `StageCard.populateStatExtras(stageBlock, card)` so the carousel stat block gets title + arcana + chip populated on every card focus (previously the stage block had only the keyword list; the call site simply wasn't wired). SPIN handler gates the 180° card rotation behind `!active.classList.contains('fan-card--image')` — for image-mode cards SPIN now just toggles `.is-reversed` on the stat block to swap EMANATION ↔ REVERSAL content w/o rotating the artwork (user-spec 2026-05-25 PM: "monodecks shouldn't have gravity and levity polarity"; image artwork is symmetric + shouldn't be inverted by a UI cycle). New `_flipToBack` helper mirrors the my_sign.html A.5-polish-2 FLIP-to-back animation (rotateY 0→90→0 over 500ms, `.is-flipped-to-back` toggle at 250ms midpoint, `data-flipping` cleared at 500ms); the existing `_flipActive` dispatches to it via `active.querySelector('.sig-stage-card-back-img')` presence check (the back-img element is only server-rendered for non-polarized image-equipped decks, so its presence is the gate). Polarized text-mode (Earthman) keeps the existing polarity-cycle FLIP. Per-card-change cleanup also clears `.is-flipped-to-back` on every card so a back-flipped card returns to front when it leaves focus (mirrors the SPIN reset semantics).

(3) Top-left rank+suit chip retrofit (4 stat-block surfaces): the A.3 Q3 spec called for a chip but explicitly deferred to "Lower-priority follow-ups" in the project memory; user pulled it in this sprint as part of the carousel rewrite. New `.stat-face-header` flex wrapper holds the chip + EMANATION/REVERSAL label inline (chip is 2 rows tall, label is 1 — flex `align-items: flex-start` keeps them "vaguely inline" per spec). Chip mirrors the existing `.fan-card-corner` pattern: vertically stacked rank + suit-icon, no chrome (initial draft had a bordered pill — corrected per user clarification 2026-05-25 PM "vertically stacked, --secUser, in the top-left corner"). All 4 stat-block templates (my_sign.html / _applet-my-sign.html / _sea_stage.html / game_kit.html's `#id_fan_stage_block`) get the new header wrapper around their existing `.stat-face-label`. Applet renders the chip server-side from `card.corner_rank` + `card.suit_icon`; the other 3 surfaces leave the chip elements empty + populated by `StageCard.populateStatExtras` on each card focus (the helper now also walks `.stat-chip-rank` + `.stat-chip-icon` w. the same find-all + textContent / className pattern it already uses for title + arcana). Chip color is --secUser by default; polarity-aware overrides for surfaces whose gravity bg flips to --secUser (sig-stat-block / sea-stat-block / fan-stage-block) flip the chip to --priUser for visibility — same logical inversion the keyword list rules already use.

(4) Trump fa-hand-dots fallback in `TarotCard.suit_icon` — was reading the per-card `icon` field then returning `''` for any major arcana w/o an explicit override. Earthman's seed migration 0007 set `icon="fa-hand-dots"` on trumps 2+ as the universal trump symbol, but trumps 0/1 + every Minchiate trump fell through to empty + rendered the chip as just a number/numeral w. no icon below. Promoted the fallback into the model property (per-card override still wins via the `self.icon` branch), so every trump everywhere — chip, text-mode corner, future surfaces — gets a hand-with-dots glyph for free. Updated `TarotCardSuitIconTest.test_major_without_icon_returns_empty` → `test_major_without_icon_defaults_to_hand_dots`.

(5) EMANATION/REVERSAL → --secUser (user-spec 2026-05-25 PM, mid-sprint): label color was --terUser (gold) across all 4 surfaces; flipped to --secUser everywhere so the label recedes against the title (gold/--quaUser per arcana stays the focal text). Default in the shared `stat-block-shared` mixin + applet bespoke `.stat-face-label` rule both updated. Per-polarity overrides: levity (bg --priUser) → label --secUser everywhere; gravity overrides preserved at --quiUser on the 3 surfaces whose gravity bg flips to --secUser (sig-stat-block / sea-stat-block / fan-stage-block — --secUser label would be invisible against --secUser bg, so --quiUser stays for contrast); applet gravity bg is --priUser (just full alpha vs. the default 0.8 — different from the other surfaces) so its gravity override removed entirely, label uses the shared --secUser default in both polarities. User-confirmed visually 2026-05-25 PM: applet EMANATION now in --secUser (`rgb(162, 170, 173)`) matching the chip color — chip + label read as a coordinated header pair rather than competing w. the title.

Tests: 1314/1314 IT+UT total green (76s; +8 new in this sprint — 4 chip-presence ITs across the 4 stat-block surfaces, 3 _tarot_fan image-mode-branch ITs covering image-equipped + text-mode + polarized-image-equipped permutations, 1 UT-rename for the trump fa-hand-dots default). Surfaces NOT covered by ITs: SCSS layout (visual-only — verified live via Claudezilla on /gameboard/game-kit/ Minchiate carousel, /billboard/my-sign/ stage card, /billboard/ applet preview); JS-side chip-fill via populateStatExtras (covered transitively by the populateStatExtras existing call sites — no new test for the chip-specific code path since the test surface for stage-card.js is currently Jasmine-only via FanStageSpec.js, deferred). No new FT runs per [[feedback-ft-run-discipline]] — all changes are template / SCSS / JS / model property; IT coverage is comprehensive for the server-rendered surfaces + the visual verify covered the JS-populated surfaces.

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

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

@@ -906,6 +906,26 @@ class MySignViewTest(TestCase):
         self.user.refresh_from_db()
         self.assertIsNone(self.user.significator_id)
 
+    def test_stat_block_renders_rank_suit_chip_per_face(self):
+        """Sprint A.7.5 — `.stat-face-header` wraps the new top-left rank+suit
+        chip inline w. the EMANATION/REVERSAL label per [[project-image-based-
+        deck-face-rendering]]'s A.3 Q3 spec. Empty by default (JS-populated by
+        stage-card.js populateStatExtras on focus); both upright + reversed
+        faces carry their own chip slot so post-SPIN the chip stays visible."""
+        import lxml.html
+        response = self.client.get(reverse("billboard:my_sign"))
+        parsed = lxml.html.fromstring(response.content)
+        for face_cls in ("stat-face--upright", "stat-face--reversed"):
+            face = parsed.cssselect(f".sig-stat-block .{face_cls}")
+            self.assertEqual(len(face), 1, f"expected one {face_cls}")
+            [header] = face[0].cssselect(".stat-face-header")
+            [chip] = header.cssselect(".stat-face-chip")
+            [_rank] = chip.cssselect(".stat-chip-rank")
+            [_icon] = chip.cssselect("i.stat-chip-icon")
+            # The label still lives inside the header (now flex-laid-out
+            # inline w. the chip rather than as a bare child of the face).
+            [_label] = header.cssselect(".stat-face-label")
+
     def test_save_sign_get_redirects_back_to_picker(self):
         response = self.client.get(reverse("billboard:save_sign"))
         self.assertRedirects(response, reverse("billboard:my_sign"))
@@ -1093,3 +1113,28 @@ class BillboardAppletMySignTest(TestCase):
             len(card_el.cssselect(".fan-card-corner")), 0,
             "Non-image deck keeps the text scaffold",
         )
+
+    def test_applet_stat_block_renders_server_side_chip(self):
+        """Sprint A.7.5 — applet is read-only so the rank+suit chip is server-
+        rendered (not JS-populated as on stage / sea_stage / fan stage). Chip
+        carries the card's corner_rank + suit_icon FA class inline w. the
+        EMANATION label inside `.stat-face-header`."""
+        from apps.epic.models import personal_sig_cards
+        target = personal_sig_cards(self.user)[0]
+        self.user.significator = target
+        self.user.save(update_fields=["significator"])
+        import lxml.html
+        response = self.client.get("/billboard/")
+        parsed = lxml.html.fromstring(response.content)
+        [block] = parsed.cssselect(".my-sign-applet-stat-block")
+        [header] = block.cssselect(".stat-face-header")
+        [chip] = header.cssselect(".stat-face-chip")
+        [rank] = chip.cssselect(".stat-chip-rank")
+        # Court middle cards have single-letter corner ranks (M/J/Q/K) per
+        # TarotCard.corner_rank — pin presence, not the exact value (which
+        # depends on which middle court personal_sig_cards returns first).
+        self.assertTrue(rank.text and rank.text.strip())
+        # Middle court has a suit, so the suit-icon `<i>` is present + carries
+        # the canonical FA class for the suit (fa-wand-sparkles for BRANDS etc).
+        [icon] = chip.cssselect("i.stat-chip-icon")
+        self.assertTrue(any(cls.startswith("fa-") for cls in (icon.get("class") or "").split()))