diff --git a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt/MqttSubscriptionManager.cs b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt/MqttSubscriptionManager.cs
index 14dc9d1d..320a6a04 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt/MqttSubscriptionManager.cs
+++ b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt/MqttSubscriptionManager.cs
@@ -397,6 +397,15 @@ public sealed class MqttSubscriptionManager
     ///         rest keep flowing. That is the plan's "SUBACK failure → per-ref Bad, not hang", scoped
     ///         to the case where it does not cost the whole driver.
     ///     </para>
+    ///     <para>
+    ///         <b>Live topics resolving to zero filters is a total failure too</b> — it re-establishes
+    ///         nothing, so it throws by the same rule rather than warning and returning. It costs no
+    ///         other tag (every live topic is in the set that resolved to nothing) and it is not
+    ///         permanent, because the retry runs against whatever <see cref="Register"/> has published
+    ///         by then. It is reachable only when a deploy lands inside a subscribe round-trip:
+    ///         <see cref="Register"/> prunes <c>_subscribedTopics</c> of the topics its new table no
+    ///         longer carries, but an in-flight SUBSCRIBE records its own topic after that prune ran.
+    ///     </para>
     /// </remarks>
     /// <param name="cancellationToken">The connection's lifetime token; cancelled by its dispose.</param>
     /// <returns>A task that completes when the re-subscribe has been answered.</returns>
@@ -421,24 +430,21 @@ public sealed class MqttSubscriptionManager
         var filters = BuildFilters(live, _defaultQos);
         if (filters.Count == 0)
         {
-            // Silence here is how the wildcard defect hid: no exception, no log, no SUBSCRIBE. If any
-            // topic was live, resolving zero filters for it is an anomaly and must be loud.
+            // Silence here is how the wildcard defect hid: no exception, no log, no SUBSCRIBE. Live
+            // topics resolving to zero filters re-establishes nothing, which is the total-failure case
+            // by a different route, so it gets the total-failure answer — see the remarks.
             if (subscribed.Count > 0)
             {
-                _logger?.LogWarning(
-                    "MQTT driver '{DriverId}': reconnect resolved NO filters for {TopicCount} live topic(s) "
-                    + "({Topics}); those subscriptions are not being re-established.",
-                    _driverId,
-                    subscribed.Count,
-                    string.Join(", ", subscribed));
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                _logger?.LogDebug(
-                    "MQTT driver '{DriverId}': reconnect had no live subscriptions to re-establish.",
-                    _driverId);
+                throw new InvalidOperationException(
+                    $"MQTT driver '{_driverId}': reconnect resolved NO filters for {subscribed.Count} live "
+                    + $"topic(s) ({string.Join(", ", subscribed)}); tearing the session down rather than "
+                    + "serving a connection that receives nothing.");
             }
 
+            _logger?.LogDebug(
+                "MQTT driver '{DriverId}': reconnect had no live subscriptions to re-establish.",
+                _driverId);
+
             return;
         }
 
diff --git a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttSubscriptionManagerTests.cs b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttSubscriptionManagerTests.cs
index 354caf4c..743c70bf 100644
--- a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttSubscriptionManagerTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttSubscriptionManagerTests.cs
@@ -583,6 +583,51 @@ public sealed class MqttSubscriptionManagerTests
         mgr.Values.Read(OvenTempPath).StatusCode.ShouldBe(Good);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     <b>Driver.Mqtt-007.</b> Live subscribed topics that resolve to ZERO filters re-establish
+    ///     nothing, which is the same outcome as a total SUBACK failure and must get the same answer:
+    ///     throw, so <see cref="MqttConnection"/> tears the fresh session down and retries rather than
+    ///     serving a connected-but-deaf driver. A warning was not enough — the whole point of the type's
+    ///     split contract is that "no subscription was re-established" is fatal to the session.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    ///     The state is reached the only way production can reach it: <see cref="MqttSubscriptionManager.Register"/>
+    ///     prunes <c>_subscribedTopics</c> of the topics its new table no longer carries, but a SUBSCRIBE
+    ///     already in flight records its topic <i>after</i> that prune has run — so a redeploy landing
+    ///     inside the subscribe round-trip leaves a live topic no authored tag resolves to.
+    /// </remarks>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task OnReconnectedAsync_LiveTopicResolvingNoFilter_Throws_RatherThanServingADeafSession()
+    {
+        var transport = new FakeTransport();
+        var mgr = NewManager(transport);
+        mgr.Register([Tag(OvenTempPath, $$"""{"topic":"{{OvenTopic}}","payloadFormat":"Scalar","dataType":"Float64"}""")]);
+
+        transport.DuringSubscribe = () => mgr.Register([]);   // the redeploy lands mid-round-trip
+        await mgr.SubscribeAsync([OvenTempPath], TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+        transport.DuringSubscribe = null;
+
+        await Should.ThrowAsync<InvalidOperationException>(
+            () => mgr.OnReconnectedAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     The falsifying control: a reconnect with no live subscriptions at all re-establishes nothing
+    ///     because there is nothing to establish, and must stay a no-op. Throwing here would tear down
+    ///     the session of every driver whose tags have not been subscribed yet.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task OnReconnectedAsync_NoLiveSubscriptions_IsANoOp()
+    {
+        var transport = new FakeTransport();
+        var mgr = NewManager(transport);
+        mgr.Register([Tag(OvenTempPath, $$"""{"topic":"{{OvenTopic}}","payloadFormat":"Scalar","dataType":"Float64"}""")]);
+
+        await Should.NotThrowAsync(() => mgr.OnReconnectedAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+
+        transport.Calls.Count.ShouldBe(0);
+    }
+
     // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     // C1 — wildcard-authored tags on the paths that reconstruct state from a FILTER string.
     // Delivery matches an incoming topic (concrete); reconnect + degrade key off the subscribed
@@ -898,10 +943,18 @@ public sealed class MqttSubscriptionManagerTests
         /// <summary>When set, the whole subscribe call throws instead of answering.</summary>
         public Exception? Throw { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Runs inside the subscribe round-trip, so a test can land a concurrent
+        ///     <see cref="MqttSubscriptionManager.Register"/> in the window between its prune and this
+        ///     call recording its topic as live.
+        /// </summary>
+        public Action? DuringSubscribe { get; set; }
+
         public Task<IReadOnlyList<MqttSubscribeOutcome>> SubscribeAsync(
             IReadOnlyList<MqttTopicSubscription> filters, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
         {
             Calls.Add(filters);
+            DuringSubscribe?.Invoke();
             if (Throw is not null) throw Throw;
             IReadOnlyList<MqttSubscribeOutcome> outcomes =
                 [.. filters.Select(f => new MqttSubscribeOutcome(f.Topic, !Reject(f.Topic), Reject(f.Topic) ? "NotAuthorized" : "GrantedQoS1"))];