diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/ScenarioShowPage.test.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/ScenarioShowPage.test.tsx
index 2be3109..a73d6cd 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/ScenarioShowPage.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/ScenarioShowPage.test.tsx
@@ -99,6 +99,59 @@ describe('ScenarioShowPage', () => {
     expect(diningPriorityMarker).toBeInTheDocument()
   })
 
+  it('shows the empty-buckets copy and renders no bucket cards when the scenario has none', async () => {
+    server.use(
+      http.get('http://localhost/api/me', () =>
+        HttpResponse.json({ id: 'u1', email: 'a@b.com' }),
+      ),
+      http.get(`http://localhost/api/scenarios/${SCENARIO_ID}`, () =>
+        HttpResponse.json({
+          '@context': '/api/contexts/Scenario',
+          '@id': `/api/scenarios/${SCENARIO_ID}`,
+          '@type': 'Scenario',
+          name: 'Emergency Fund',
+          description: 'Rainy day savings',
+          buckets: [],
+        }),
+      ),
+    )
+
+    renderPage()
+
+    expect(
+      await screen.findByText(/this scenario has no buckets yet/i),
+    ).toBeInTheDocument()
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Priority', { exact: false })).not.toBeInTheDocument()
+  })
+
+  it('renders the scenario name without a description paragraph when description is null', async () => {
+    server.use(
+      http.get('http://localhost/api/me', () =>
+        HttpResponse.json({ id: 'u1', email: 'a@b.com' }),
+      ),
+      http.get(`http://localhost/api/scenarios/${SCENARIO_ID}`, () =>
+        HttpResponse.json({
+          '@context': '/api/contexts/Scenario',
+          '@id': `/api/scenarios/${SCENARIO_ID}`,
+          '@type': 'Scenario',
+          name: 'Vacation',
+          description: null,
+          buckets: [],
+        }),
+      ),
+    )
+
+    renderPage()
+
+    expect(await screen.findByText('Vacation')).toBeInTheDocument()
+    // No description was supplied, so no description paragraph should render
+    // anywhere on the page — assert on the heading's sibling instead of a
+    // page-wide text search that could false-positive against other copy.
+    const heading = screen.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Vacation' })
+    expect(heading.parentElement).not.toBeNull()
+    expect(heading.parentElement!.querySelectorAll('p')).toHaveLength(0)
+  })
+
   it('renders a distinct not-found state when the scenario 404s (e.g. not owned)', async () => {
     server.use(
       http.get('http://localhost/api/me', () =>
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/ScenariosPage.test.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/ScenariosPage.test.tsx
index 41318e6..bc5ab06 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/ScenariosPage.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/ScenariosPage.test.tsx
@@ -67,6 +67,18 @@ describe('ScenariosPage', () => {
       'href',
       '/scenarios/22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222',
     )
+
+    // Emergency Fund has a description — its row renders it. Vacation's
+    // description is null — scope the assertion to Vacation's own row (not
+    // the whole page) so it can't pass by coincidentally finding Emergency
+    // Fund's description text elsewhere.
+    const emergencyFundRow = screen.getByRole('link', {
+      name: /emergency fund/i,
+    })
+    expect(emergencyFundRow).toHaveTextContent('Rainy day savings')
+
+    const vacationRow = screen.getByRole('link', { name: /vacation/i })
+    expect(vacationRow.querySelectorAll('p')).toHaveLength(0)
   })
 
   it('shows an empty state when the user has no scenarios', async () => {