# H02 — The Helm of Darkness

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": "H02",
  "name": "The Helm of Darkness",
  "mana_cost": "{1}{W}{B}",
  "colors": [
    "W",
    "B"
  ],
  "type_line": "Legendary Artifact — Equipment",
  "rules_text": "Flash\nWhen The Helm of Darkness enters, up to one target creature you control phases out.\nEquipped creature has menace and ward {2}.\nEquip {2}",
  "power": null,
  "toughness": null,
  "rarity": "rare",
  "replaces": "Teferi's Protection",
  "primary_role": "answer",
  "signature": false,
  "myth_source": "https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/HaidesTreasures.html",
  "myth_connection": "Apollodorus describes the Cyclopes giving Hades a helmet, and the collected ancient accounts describe its invisibility. Phasing briefly conceals a creature without resetting its identity or finality counter; menace and ward represent the difficult-to-perceive wearer.",
  "narrative_beat": "Conceal a vulnerable returned guest for one dangerous passage.",
  "design_note": "Exchanges one-shot whole-board protection for a single immediate rescue and a reusable combat tool. Phasing retains finality. White supplies phasing and black supplies menace.",
  "signature_demo": null,
  "counterplay": "Counter the Equipment or its enter trigger, remove its target in response, remove the Equipment before an attack, or pay ward. Phasing a creature also removes it from our current battle and from Hades's immediate presence if he is the target.",
  "art_brief": "A dark Greek helmet held just above a warrior's head, with the face beneath fading from sight. Close framing, empty smoky background.",
  "tokens": []
}
```

## Input references

- Image 1, frame/layout only: `/Users/dthurn/clash/output/cards/custom/hades/references/shadowspear.png`. Shadowspear, THB 236, normal printing. Source: https://scryfall.com/card/thb/236/shadowspear?utm_source=api. Image URL: https://cards.scryfall.io/png/front/9/3/939c6e19-4b27-4023-bb9c-ae440f91e21c.png?1783931515. 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: modern legendary artifact Equipment with integrated legendary crown; adapt neutral Shadowspear frame to white-black multicolor gold bars and white/black metallic accents. 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: A dark Greek helmet held just above a warrior's head, with the face beneath fading from sight. Close framing, empty smoky background.
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 Helm of Darkness
Mana cost: {1}{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: Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Rules, preserving paragraphs and exact wording:
Flash

When The Helm of Darkness enters, up to one target creature you control phases out.

Equipped creature has menace and ward {2}.

Equip {2}
No power/toughness.
Rarity: rare; small gold lightning-bolt mark at right end of type bar.
Footer: CLASH • CUSTOM • PLAYTEST
Collector identifier: H02
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

Rules passed: 1WB; Flash; up to one target creature you control phases out; menace and ward 2; Equip 2. Correct legendary artifact Equipment type, crown and no P/T. Helmet and fading face read clearly. Frame has conspicuous gold metallic sparkle; root review requested to distinguish from unwanted Nyx. Lightning is warm gold/orange. Root independently accepted: sparkle reads as reflective metal, rarity acceptably warm rare gold.

Output dimensions: 1062 × 1482 pixels.

Image SHA-256: `50680c727d517c84a819d0a6896c5c081442a850d8843f825fb1505347a26d79`