# A06 — Sthenelus, Son of Capaneus

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

## Specification

```json
{
  "id": "A06",
  "name": "Sthenelus, Son of Capaneus",
  "mana_cost": "{1}{W}",
  "colors": [
    "W"
  ],
  "type_line": "Legendary Creature — Human Soldier",
  "rules_text": "Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, draw a card. Then return up to one target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand. This ability triggers only once each turn.",
  "power": "2",
  "toughness": "3",
  "rarity": "rare",
  "replaces": "Skullclamp",
  "primary_role": "resource",
  "signature": false,
  "myth_source": "https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerIliad5.html",
  "myth_connection": "Iliad 5.105–121: Sthenelus leaps down and draws the arrow out of Diomedes's shoulder. He represents mortal aid preceding divine intervention. Losing members of the formation earns information and can restore a small companion to hand for another paid deployment.",
  "narrative_beat": "A companion draws out the arrow.",
  "design_note": "A strong once-per-turn recovery engine that works with tokens dying, including when Athena is removed midcombat. It returns cards to hand, does not recur spells, and does not return tokens. The small-creature limit excludes Eternal Witness.",
  "signature_demo": null,
  "counterplay": "Exile Sthenelus before killing other creatures or use bounce/exile sweepers. If its controller chooses a graveyard target and that sole target becomes illegal, the entire ability fails to resolve, including the card draw; its once-per-turn trigger is still used. Choosing zero targets initially preserves the draw against graveyard removal. Returned bodies cost mana to redeploy; the list has no self-sustaining sacrifice loop.",
  "art_brief": "Sthenelus kneels beside the chariot and pulls a broken arrow from Diomedes's shoulder; two figures and one bloodied shaft, intimate rather than panoramic.",
  "tokens": []
}
```

## References

1. `/Users/dthurn/clash/output/cards/custom/athena/refs/danitha.png`: frame and layout; actual printing metadata and source image URL saved in refs/danitha.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: monowhite conventional legendary Creature with integrated legendary crown and 2/3 badge; no Nyx. 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: Sthenelus kneels beside the chariot and pulls a broken arrow from Diomedes's shoulder; two figures and one bloodied shaft, intimate rather than panoramic. 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: Sthenelus, Son of Capaneus
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 Creature — Human Soldier
Rules, with paragraph breaks:
Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, draw a card. Then return up to one target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Power/toughness: 2/3
Rarity: rare; small gold lightning-bolt set mark at right of type bar.
Footer: A06   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 inspection. Long title and complete Legendary Creature — Human Soldier type line fit. Cost is 1/W; badge 2/3. Read every line: one or more other creatures, draw, up to one target creature card, mana value 2 or less, your graveyard to your hand, only once each turn all match. White legendary frame, rare gold lightning, oval and A06 footer correct. Two mortal figures beside chariot with one arrow removed from Diomedes's shoulder; clear close narrative composition. No unresolved data or layout defect.


## Selected output metadata

- Selected image: `A06-sthenelus-son-of-capaneus.png`
- Dimensions: 1060 × 1484 pixels.
- SHA-256: `d3b9da16b87deb0dcfe50d6e51b89b723f17e2315c1720d551554db480b06bcb`
- Source image: `/Users/dthurn/.codex/generated_images/01a0d729-5041-79e3-b170-7403eaa7fcdc/exec-bf3550d5-670e-433f-aedf-689c61d81cf0.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