diff --git a/Kanban/UI/Board/NewCardTarget.swift b/Kanban/UI/Board/NewCardTarget.swift
index 13060e7..55db848 100644
--- a/Kanban/UI/Board/NewCardTarget.swift
+++ b/Kanban/UI/Board/NewCardTarget.swift
@@ -5,15 +5,18 @@
 ///
 /// > with a card selected, the new card is created in that card's lane, immediately after it
 /// > (paste-anchor consistency); with a lane selected, appended at its bottom (Return consistency);
-/// > … with nothing selected — or a **tombstoned** selection, which never anchors creation — the
-/// > **last-active lane** — the lane that most recently held selection or a creation in this window
-/// > session — falling back to the first lane. … **Zero-lane board**: card creation … disable[s] via
-/// > menu validation until a lane exists.
+/// > a multi-selection anchors at its last member in flatten order (lane `order`, then card
+/// > `order`, the multi-drag order; the same anchor serves paste): creation follows the last
+/// > selected card, or appends to the last selected lane; … with nothing selected — or a
+/// > **tombstoned** selection, which never anchors creation — the **last-active lane** — the lane
+/// > that most recently held selection or a creation in this window session — falling back to the
+/// > first lane. … **Zero-lane board**: card creation … disable[s] via menu validation until a
+/// > lane exists.
 ///
 /// **A pure function rather than a method on the store** for the reason every rule in this codebase
-/// that can be one is: the five branches are five lines of test rather than five UI states to drive,
-/// and the menu item's `disabled` and its action then read the *same* answer instead of two
-/// hand-kept-in-sync conditions.
+/// that can be one is: the branches are lines of test rather than UI states to drive, and the menu
+/// item's `disabled` and its action then read the *same* answer instead of two hand-kept-in-sync
+/// conditions.
 ///
 /// ### What it deliberately does not decide
 ///
@@ -22,10 +25,6 @@
 ///   call site passes its own lane and never comes here.
 /// - **Return on a selected lane** is the same target as this rule's lane branch, but it is reached
 ///   by grammar rather than by the menu; it also passes its lane directly.
-/// - **Multi-selections.** The rule speaks of "a card"/"a lane", singular, and a multi-selection has
-///   no "it" to be immediately after. Anything but a sole selection falls through to the
-///   last-active lane, which is the same answer an empty selection gets — the honest reading, and
-///   the one m5's selection-model card can refine if the design ever grows a plural case.
 enum NewCardTarget {
 
     /// Where a new card goes: which lane, and which card it lands immediately after (`nil` = the
@@ -57,23 +56,33 @@ enum NewCardTarget {
         let lanes = snapshot.lanes.filter { !$0.isDeleted }
         guard !lanes.isEmpty else { return nil }
 
-        if selection.liveness == .live, selection.ids.count == 1, let id = selection.ids.first {
+        if selection.liveness == .live, !selection.ids.isEmpty {
+            // The last selected member in flatten order — lane `order`, then card `order`, the
+            // multi-drag order (04, settled; the same anchor serves paste). The snapshot's lanes
+            // and cards are already in display order, so the flatten order is one walk, and the
+            // *last* hit is the anchor. Selection is homogeneous (cards XOR lanes), so only one of
+            // the two branches ever fires within a walk; a sole selection is simply the degenerate
+            // one-member case of the same rule.
+            var anchor: Resolution?
             for lane in lanes {
-                // A lane selected: appended at its bottom, Return consistency.
-                if lane.id == id { return Resolution(laneID: lane.id, anchorCardID: nil) }
-                // A card selected: its lane, immediately after it — paste-anchor consistency.
-                if lane.cards.contains(where: { $0.id == id && !$0.isDeleted }) {
-                    return Resolution(laneID: lane.id, anchorCardID: id)
+                // A selected lane: creation appends at its bottom, Return consistency.
+                if selection.ids.contains(lane.id) {
+                    anchor = Resolution(laneID: lane.id, anchorCardID: nil)
+                }
+                // A selected card: its lane, immediately after it — paste-anchor consistency.
+                for card in lane.cards where !card.isDeleted && selection.ids.contains(card.id) {
+                    anchor = Resolution(laneID: lane.id, anchorCardID: card.id)
                 }
             }
-            // The id names nothing the board renders — a selection the next reload will drop.
+            if let anchor { return anchor }
+            // The ids name nothing the board renders — a selection the next reload will drop.
             // Falls through to the last-active lane rather than refusing: the user pressed ⌘N and
             // the board has lanes.
         }
 
-        // Nothing selected, a tombstoned selection, a multi-selection, or a stale one: the lane that
-        // most recently held selection or a creation, and the first lane when there is no such lane
-        // (or it has since gone).
+        // Nothing selected, a tombstoned selection, or a stale one: the lane that most recently
+        // held selection or a creation, and the first lane when there is no such lane (or it has
+        // since gone).
         if let lastActiveLaneID, let lane = lanes.first(where: { $0.id == lastActiveLaneID }) {
             return Resolution(laneID: lane.id, anchorCardID: nil)
         }
diff --git a/KanbanTests/NewCardTargetTests.swift b/KanbanTests/NewCardTargetTests.swift
index da48989..212ea90 100644
--- a/KanbanTests/NewCardTargetTests.swift
+++ b/KanbanTests/NewCardTargetTests.swift
@@ -158,16 +158,32 @@ struct NewCardTargetTests {
         #expect(resolve(snapshot) == nil)
     }
 
-    @Test("A multi-selection and a stale one both fall through rather than guessing")
-    func pluralAndStaleSelectionsFallThrough() throws {
+    @Test("A multi-selection anchors at its last member in flatten order")
+    func pluralSelectionsAnchorAtTheirLastMember() throws {
         let fixture = try makeBoard()
         defer { fixture.tearDown() }
         let snapshot = try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: fixture.root).model
 
-        // The rule speaks of "a card"/"a lane", singular; a multi-selection has no "it" to be
-        // immediately after, so it gets the same answer as no selection at all.
+        // "A multi-selection anchors at its last member in flatten order (lane `order`, then card
+        // `order`, the multi-drag order)": card3 lives in lane2, which sorts after lane1's pair, so
+        // creation follows card3 — the last-active lane never enters into it.
+        #expect(resolve(snapshot, selection: ItemReferenceSet(ids: [card1, card3], liveness: .live), lastActive: lane1)
+            == NewCardTarget.Resolution(laneID: lane2, anchorCardID: card3))
+
+        // Within one lane the flatten order is card order: card2 sorts after card1.
         #expect(resolve(snapshot, selection: ItemReferenceSet(ids: [card1, card2], liveness: .live), lastActive: lane2)
+            == NewCardTarget.Resolution(laneID: lane1, anchorCardID: card2))
+
+        // A multi-LANE selection appends to the last selected lane's bottom.
+        #expect(resolve(snapshot, selection: ItemReferenceSet(ids: [lane1, lane2], liveness: .live))
             == NewCardTarget.Resolution(laneID: lane2, anchorCardID: nil))
+    }
+
+    @Test("A stale selection falls through rather than guessing or refusing")
+    func staleSelectionsFallThrough() throws {
+        let fixture = try makeBoard()
+        defer { fixture.tearDown() }
+        let snapshot = try BoardLoader.load(boardRoot: fixture.root).model
 
         // A selection naming something the board does not render — the reload that drops it has not
         // landed yet — must not refuse the creation the user just asked for.