# A04 — The Aegis

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

## Specification

```json
{
  "id": "A04",
  "name": "The Aegis",
  "mana_cost": "{1}{W}",
  "colors": [
    "W"
  ],
  "type_line": "Legendary Artifact — Equipment",
  "rules_text": "Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance.\nWhenever equipped creature attacks, another target attacking creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.\nEquip {1}",
  "power": null,
  "toughness": null,
  "rarity": "rare",
  "replaces": "Clever Concealment",
  "primary_role": "answer",
  "signature": false,
  "myth_source": "https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerIliad5.html",
  "myth_connection": "Iliad 5.733–747 describes Athena putting on the aegis with its terrifying Gorgon image before entering battle. Here a bearer advances under its protection and shelters a companion. The effect is a combat interpretation of the armor, not an invented property claimed for the ancient object.",
  "narrative_beat": "An ally must survive the advance.",
  "design_note": "Strong offensive protection and a credible creature bonus, exchanging broad phasing for a specific companion's safe attack. It cannot protect its own bearer or shelter an army during opponents' turns.",
  "signature_demo": null,
  "counterplay": "Remove the Equipment or its bearer before attacks, answer the companion in response to the trigger, or use a sweeper on a later turn. The protected attacker can still be blocked and does not automatically gain evasion.",
  "art_brief": "Athena's dark aegis with a single severe Gorgon face over one advancing warrior's shield arm; quiet smoky backdrop.",
  "tokens": []
}
```

## References

1. `/Users/dthurn/clash/output/cards/custom/athena/refs/maul.png`: frame and layout; actual printing metadata and source image URL saved in refs/maul.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.
3. `/Users/dthurn/clash/output/cards/custom/athena/refs/danitha.png`: legendary crown geometry 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.
Input image 3: legendary crown geometry only; use its integrated crown on the white Equipment frame.
Frame for this card: monowhite colored Artifact Equipment with integrated legendary crown; no Vehicle rivets, 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's dark aegis with a single severe Gorgon face over one advancing warrior's shield arm; quiet smoky backdrop. 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: The Aegis
Mana cost: {1}{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: Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Rules, with paragraph breaks:
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, another target attacking creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Equip {1}
Statistics: none; no power/toughness box.
Rarity: rare; small gold lightning-bolt set mark at right of type bar.
Footer: A04   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 image inspection: The Aegis, 1/W cost glyphs, full Legendary Artifact — Equipment, +2/+2 and vigilance, another target attacking creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn, and Equip with generic 1 glyph are intact. Correct white legendary colored Equipment treatment and no stat badge or Nyx stars. Gold lightning symbol, oval and A04 custom footer present. Art clearly centers one severe Gorgon face on a dark shield held by an advancing armored bearer against quiet smoke. All lettering remains legible.


## Selected output metadata

- Selected image: `A04-the-aegis.png`
- Dimensions: 1060 × 1484 pixels.
- SHA-256: `4d4dc9936b6748614632bfaf76336f164ef4b2ee253f321a95d8dec1f1f7c915`
- Source image: `/Users/dthurn/.codex/generated_images/01a0d729-5041-79e3-b170-7403eaa7fcdc/exec-3cf81191-fc06-412a-bce7-299f8095f268.png`
- Inspected printing: Danitha, Benalia's Hope, Dominaria United (DMU) #15. Source image: https://cards.scryfall.io/png/front/8/4/845e5663-2959-44ae-b4c6-d6ea41f01d6e.png?1783921367
- Inspected printing: Maul of the Skyclaves, Zendikar Rising (ZNR) #27. Source image: https://cards.scryfall.io/png/front/f/1/f18f2608-0d44-442c-97a1-12ac94b7abac.png?1783929411