# A09 — Diomedes, Son of Tydeus

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

## Specification

```json
{
  "id": "A09",
  "name": "Diomedes, Son of Tydeus",
  "mana_cost": "{1}{R}{W}",
  "colors": [
    "R",
    "W"
  ],
  "type_line": "Legendary Creature — Human Soldier",
  "rules_text": "First strike\nWhenever Diomedes attacks, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens that are tapped and attacking. If you control a God, Diomedes gains double strike until end of turn.",
  "power": "3",
  "toughness": "3",
  "rarity": "rare",
  "replaces": "Rabble Rousing",
  "primary_role": "threat",
  "signature": false,
  "myth_source": "https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerIliad5.html",
  "myth_connection": "Iliad 5.121–132 and 825–863: Athena gives Diomedes his father's courage and later aids the blow against Ares. He is already a capable mortal leader; a god beside him gives his attack a second, extraordinary impact.",
  "narrative_beat": "A mortal wounds Ares.",
  "design_note": "A finite attack engine and commander-independent combat threat. The new Soldiers enter combat immediately, but only Diomedes receives double strike; the deck has no global extra-combat or double-strike package. Any God, including a stolen one, can provide aid.",
  "signature_demo": null,
  "counterplay": "Kill or bounce Diomedes before attackers; remove the God before the attack trigger resolves to deny double strike; remove Athena later to shrink the attacking tokens. Blocking Diomedes still works, and his new tokens do not trigger Athena's player-attack draw by themselves.",
  "art_brief": "Diomedes advances with a lowered spear, two ordinary spearmen following; a narrow reflection of Athena in his bronze shield suggests divine aid.",
  "tokens": [
    {
      "name": "Soldier",
      "colors": [
        "W"
      ],
      "type_line": "Token Creature — Soldier",
      "power": "1",
      "toughness": "1",
      "abilities": []
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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: red-white gold multicolor legendary Creature with integrated legendary crown and 3/3 badge; red and ivory accents, 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: Diomedes advances with a lowered spear, two ordinary spearmen following; a narrow reflection of Athena in his bronze shield suggests divine aid. 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: Diomedes, Son of Tydeus
Mana cost: {1}{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: Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Rules, with paragraph breaks:
First strike

Whenever Diomedes attacks, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens that are tapped and attacking. If you control a God, Diomedes gains double strike until end of turn.
Power/toughness: 3/3
Rarity: rare; small gold lightning-bolt set mark at right of type bar.
Footer: A09   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: exact Diomedes, Son of Tydeus title, 1/R/W glyphs, full Legendary Creature — Human Soldier type and 3/3 badge. First strike and attack rule match completely, including two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens, tapped and attacking, control a God, Diomedes gains double strike until end of turn. Red-white legendary gold frame has crown without Nyx. Gold lightning, oval and A09 footer intact. Art shows Diomedes advancing with two followers and Athena's reflection in bronze shield. Text fully legible.


## Selected output metadata

- Selected image: `A09-diomedes-son-of-tydeus.png`
- Dimensions: 1060 × 1484 pixels.
- SHA-256: `2d34e2288b36ec99bc02155ddb5cb148a48cfa48c7c8f9a7edf83fddd2d41d7c`
- Source image: `/Users/dthurn/.codex/generated_images/01a0d729-5041-79e3-b170-7403eaa7fcdc/exec-be88af95-5f83-4067-9820-2cf8c253ca2d.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