# H01 — The Host's Welcome

Frozen revision: `clash-support-v1.0-20260925`

Source: `cards/clash-custom.yaml`

Source SHA-256: `2a0e41680f30b86833a435734dab09c93efd17954294d7c3579389ac25753744`

Generation: built-in imagegen; one initial call per card.

## Immutable card specification

```json
{
  "id": "H01",
  "name": "The Host's Welcome",
  "mana_cost": "{4}{W}{B}",
  "colors": [
    "W",
    "B"
  ],
  "type_line": "Sorcery",
  "rules_text": "Each opponent chooses a creature they control, then sacrifices the rest.\nFor each opponent, choose up to one creature card in that player's graveyard. Return the chosen cards to the battlefield under your control with a finality counter on each of them.\nExile The Host's Welcome.",
  "power": null,
  "toughness": null,
  "rarity": "mythic",
  "replaces": "Toxic Deluge",
  "primary_role": "answer",
  "signature": true,
  "myth_source": "https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/HaidesPersephone1.html",
  "myth_connection": "The Hymn to Demeter's Host of Many receives the dead from every earthly allegiance. The mass arrival and exceptional release of chosen guests are a game adaptation of that jurisdiction, not a claim that Hades commanded this battle in the source.",
  "narrative_beat": "The host receives the casualties of the other gods' wars, then permits selected guests a conditional return.",
  "design_note": "A six-mana reversal keeps our established army, reduces each opposing army to its chosen survivor, and adds up to three creatures. Sacrifice gets through indestructibility; finality and self-exile prevent routine recycling. This is deliberately stronger than an ordinary six-mana sweeper.",
  "signature_demo": "On turn six, three opponents have five, four, and seven creatures. They preserve one each and sacrifice thirteen. Choose the best eligible corpse in each opposing graveyard and return those three with finality. Hades draws one card and makes one Treasure for the simultaneous nontoken deaths, not thirteen. The new army normally waits to attack. Recruiting Surrak and Goreclaw can grant the other nontoken recruits haste, and a recruited Puppeteer Clique can give its own borrowed creature haste; these are earned exceptions with response windows before combat.",
  "counterplay": "Counter the sorcery, phase out a threatened army, remove valuable old graveyard targets before resolution, or keep the best blocker or engine as the survivor. Graveyard removal before resolution does not stop recruitment of creatures newly sacrificed during this spell; there is no priority window between its sacrifice and return instructions. A sacrificed commander selected during this resolution stays under our control; it is already on the battlefield when state-based actions are next checked, so its owner has no automatic command-zone escape. A later eligible zone change can give its owner the normal command-zone choice. Exile and bounce answer the returned creatures.",
  "art_brief": "Hades receives a single fallen warrior at the foot of his throne; two distant silhouettes imply the larger procession. Quiet black stone and one seam of gold, no crowded underworld panorama.",
  "tokens": []
}
```

## Input references

- Image 1, frame/layout only: `/Users/dthurn/clash/output/cards/custom/hades/references/anguished-unmaking.png`. Anguished Unmaking, SOI 242, normal printing. Source: https://scryfall.com/card/soi/242/anguished-unmaking?utm_source=api. Image URL: https://cards.scryfall.io/png/front/9/0/90ced4fa-6509-4f7a-9da7-efc70de6f90c.png?1783937714. Visually inspected before submission.
- Image 2, art style/set mark only: `/Users/dthurn/clash/output/cards/hades-host-of-many-v1.png`. Existing approved Clash Hades commander; art style and set mark only. Visually inspected before submission.

## Exact actual generation prompt

```text
Use case: product-mockup
Asset type: one complete custom Magic: The Gathering card face for Clash.
Create a high-resolution flat upright 5:7 card, full black outside border visible, no photographic perspective.
Image 1 is FRAME/LAYOUT reference ONLY. Match its modern conventional proportions, title at top left, mana top right, landscape art window, type bar below art, pale lower rules panel, rare oval and compact black footer. Replace all reference words and illustration.
Last image is ART STYLE/SET MARK reference ONLY: approved Clash Hades commander, its painterly fantasy realism and small lightning mark. Do not copy its Nyx or creature frame unless explicitly required below. Never copy its card data.
Frame: ordinary modern white-black multicolor sorcery, gold bars, no crown, no Nyx. No P/T badge.
Typography: crisp Beleren-style name/type and Plantin-style rules serif. Keep name on one line and clear the mana; full type line clear of the small set mark. Generous readable rules, natural paragraph breaks.
Art: Hades receives a single fallen warrior at the foot of his throne; two distant silhouettes imply the larger procession. Quiet black stone and one seam of gold, no crowded underworld panorama.
One focal narrative moment. Restrained charcoal, pale stone, muted gold and natural light. Keep only the scene's useful supporting details, with quiet background. Painting contained inside the landscape art window. No letters in painting.

EXACT CARD DATA. Do not print these labels or quotation marks.
Name: The Host's Welcome
Mana cost: {4}{W}{B}
Render every mana token as its correct circular glyph in EXACT order: numerals neutral circles, W white sun, B black skull. Inline {T} must be proper curved-arrow TAP symbol, not letter T. No literal braces or W/B letters.
Type: Sorcery
Rules, preserving paragraphs and exact wording:
Each opponent chooses a creature they control, then sacrifices the rest.

For each opponent, choose up to one creature card in that player's graveyard. Return the chosen cards to the battlefield under your control with a finality counter on each of them.

Exile The Host's Welcome.
No power/toughness.
Rarity: mythic; small orange-red lightning-bolt mark at right end of type bar.
Footer: CLASH • CUSTOM • PLAYTEST
Collector identifier: H01
Standard small centered bottom rare oval.
No flavor, no finality reminder, no invented reminder or other text, no artist or official release identity. Do not omit restrictions or invent mechanics; exact supplied card data must all be present. 
No ornate alternative UI, no oversized frame decorations, no text over busy artwork, no title/cost overlap, no missing bottom border.
```

## Observed visual QA

Passed: exact 4WB title/cost and three rules paragraphs including each opponent, chosen graveyard cards, finality on each, and self-exile. Ordinary sorcery without crown or Nyx. Mythic orange-red lightning and footer clear. Hades greets one kneeling warrior with two distant silhouettes.

Output dimensions: 1060 × 1484 pixels.

Image SHA-256: `04b4efb58f0baff7f5d787d6659d82eb754e23fb6ca3a3796802c6a8df9ec3cb`