# A03 — Athena Turns the Spear

Frozen revision: `clash-support-v1.0-20260925`
Manifest SHA-256: `2a0e41680f30b86833a435734dab09c93efd17954294d7c3579389ac25753744`
Generation: built-in imagegen, one card per call.

## Specification

```json
{
  "id": "A03",
  "name": "Athena Turns the Spear",
  "mana_cost": "{3}{R}{W}",
  "colors": [
    "R",
    "W"
  ],
  "type_line": "Instant",
  "rules_text": "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control this turn.\nAthena Turns the Spear deals damage equal to the total power of creatures you control to each creature your opponents control.",
  "power": null,
  "toughness": null,
  "rarity": "mythic",
  "replaces": "Austere Command",
  "primary_role": "answer",
  "signature": true,
  "myth_source": "https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerIliad5.html",
  "myth_connection": "Iliad 5.846–863: Athena deflects Ares's spear and immediately guides Diomedes's answering blow. The spell reverses the direction of battle: the defending formation survives damage, and its combined strength strikes the enemy host. Extending the one duel across an army is the set's deliberate adaptation.",
  "narrative_beat": "The chariot becomes the turning point.",
  "design_note": "A realistically castable, one-sided creature catastrophe whose scale comes from creatures already on the battlefield. The spell itself deals the damage, avoiding multiplicative lifelink or deathtouch from individual creatures. It neither damages players nor clears lands or noncreature engines.",
  "signature_demo": "With Athena and four Soldier tokens, five mana prevents damage to your creatures and deals 20 damage to every opposing creature. An enemy attack can become the destruction of three developed armies while yours survives. Without Athena, four 1/1s still clear small creatures but do not flatten monsters.",
  "counterplay": "Counter the spell; remove or shrink the army in response to reduce its total power; use protection, indestructible, or damage prevention on threatened creatures. Noncreature engines and lands survive to rebuild. Exile, bounce, and toughness reduction still answer your protected creatures.",
  "art_brief": "Athena catches a descending spear above a chariot, her calm hand stopping the impact; a single bright counterstroke across the lower frame, minimal background.",
  "tokens": []
}
```

## References

1. `/Users/dthurn/clash/output/cards/custom/athena/refs/miraris-wake.png`: frame and layout; actual printing metadata and source image URL saved in refs/miraris-wake.json. Inspected before use.
2. `/Users/dthurn/clash/output/cards/athena-the-unwearied-v1.png`: character/art style and lightning mark only. Inspected before use.

## Exact actual prompt

```text
Use case: product-mockup
Asset type: one complete custom Magic: The Gathering card face
Primary request: Render the exact specified card as a flat upright high-resolution digital card face, approximately 5:7 portrait, with the full narrow black outside border and rounded corners visible.
Input image 1: actual modern Magic FRAME/GEOMETRY reference only. Preserve conventional M15 layout, proportions, rails and typography hierarchy. Replace all its card data, painting and metadata.
Input image 2: CHARACTER/ART STYLE and lightning-bolt SET MARK reference only. Follow its painterly fantasy realism and Athena's bronze helmet, dark wavy hair, pale drapery and armor when she is depicted. Do not copy this commander's game text, panoramic battlefield or Nyx frame.
Frame for this card: red-white gold multicolor ordinary Instant; change green accents to red; no legendary crown, no Nyx, no stat badge. Art remains in bounded landscape window. Quiet pale rules panel. Small centered bottom oval for this rare/mythic printing.
Typography: Beleren-style single-line name and full type line; Plantin-style dark upright rules serif, readable natural line wrapping with space between supplied paragraphs. Title must clear cost; type must clear set mark.
Art: Athena catches a descending spear above a chariot, her calm hand stopping the impact; a single bright counterstroke across the lower frame, minimal background. Use one clear focal narrative moment, painterly fantasy realism, restrained supporting detail and quiet background. No gratuitous ruins, crowds, stars or particles. The illustration is new and inside the art window, no text in painting.

CARD DATA — render verbatim without field labels:
Name: Athena Turns the Spear
Mana cost: {3}{R}{W}. Render each ordered token as a proper Magic circular glyph: generic numeral, W white sun, R red flame, G green tree as applicable. Preserve order and count; no literal braces or letters.
Type: Instant
Rules, with paragraph breaks:
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control this turn.

Athena Turns the Spear deals damage equal to the total power of creatures you control to each creature your opponents control.
Statistics: none; no power/toughness box.
Rarity: mythic; small orange-red lightning-bolt set mark at right of type bar.
Footer: A03   CLASH • CUSTOM • PLAYTEST
Flavor: none. No additional reminder text, artist attribution or official release credits.

Constraints: Exact full name, mana cost, type, rules and statistics. Preserve every word, number, target, zone, qualifier and timing restriction. Inline mana tokens such as Equip {1} become normal mana glyphs at rules-text scale. No added rules, no rephrasing, missing or duplicate text. No ornate UI, perspective, tabletop, shadows or cropped borders.
```

## Observed QA

Passed actual full-card visual inspection. Exact title and 3/R/W glyph order; Instant type; both paragraphs intact, including prevention to creatures you control this turn, total power of creatures you control, and each creature your opponents control. Clear ordinary red-white/gold frame without crown, Nyx or stats. Orange-red lightning mark, oval and A03 footer present. Athena stops the spear calmly above the chariot; uncluttered sky and clear silhouette. No unresolved rules or frame defect.


## Selected output metadata

- Selected image: `A03-athena-turns-the-spear.png`
- Dimensions: 1060 × 1484 pixels.
- SHA-256: `796fbcb32810bbd7348417c4576f7550185a3ae4cbd6015bfbd8e63b47949b46`
- Source image: `/Users/dthurn/.codex/generated_images/01a0d729-5041-79e3-b170-7403eaa7fcdc/exec-3b6887d2-09a8-46bd-ad98-e85daa8b9f77.png`
- Inspected printing: Mirari's Wake, Commander Masters (CMM) #928. Source image: https://cards.scryfall.io/png/front/e/f/ef4fa4e8-39e8-47a6-b975-ff5d46e59edd.png?1783915415