# A05 — Counsel Before the Charge

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

## Specification

```json
{
  "id": "A05",
  "name": "Counsel Before the Charge",
  "mana_cost": "{1}{G}{W}",
  "colors": [
    "G",
    "W"
  ],
  "type_line": "Enchantment",
  "rules_text": "Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.",
  "power": null,
  "toughness": null,
  "rarity": "rare",
  "replaces": "Sylvan Library",
  "primary_role": "resource",
  "signature": false,
  "myth_source": "https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerIliad5.html",
  "myth_connection": "Iliad 5.121–132 and 814–834: Athena's instructions determine which divine enemies Diomedes may confront, and he remembers them when Ares appears. Choosing two of four cards while committing an attack makes information a tactical resource that requires action.",
  "narrative_beat": "The mist lifts, and courage becomes informed.",
  "design_note": "An intentionally excellent selection engine replacing a generic library staple. It requires a creature that can attack and supplies no mana, protection, or board by itself; it functions without Athena.",
  "signature_demo": null,
  "counterplay": "Remove the enchantment, deny profitable attacks, or sweep its creatures. It cannot draw on the turn it is cast into an empty battlefield. Existing enchantment answers all interact cleanly.",
  "art_brief": "Athena leaning beside Diomedes to point toward one distant opponent, with the chariot rail and a pale sky as the only supporting details.",
  "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: green-white gold multicolor ordinary Enchantment; 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 leaning beside Diomedes to point toward one distant opponent, with the chariot rail and a pale sky as the only supporting details. 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: Counsel Before the Charge
Mana cost: {1}{G}{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: Enchantment
Rules, with paragraph breaks:
Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Statistics: none; no power/toughness box.
Rarity: rare; small gold lightning-bolt set mark at right of type bar.
Footer: A05   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 image inspection: full title fits; 1/G/W glyphs ordered correctly; Enchantment type; exact complete rule includes one or more creatures, top four, two into your hand, rest on bottom in a random order. Ordinary green-white/gold enchantment frame with no crown, Nyx or stat badge. Lightning mark is warm amber-gold; A05 custom footer and oval present. Athena points from beside Diomedes at the chariot rail against open sky. Clear typography at ordinary card-viewing size.


## Selected output metadata

- Selected image: `A05-counsel-before-the-charge.png`
- Dimensions: 1060 × 1484 pixels.
- SHA-256: `b420ca9ef46c85e682c1327fcb273f13f7935b773c780b9562f4e098670eba69`
- Source image: `/Users/dthurn/.codex/generated_images/01a0d729-5041-79e3-b170-7403eaa7fcdc/exec-5db34034-cc6b-4768-aaae-46be36a051c8.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