# H05 — Charon

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": "H05",
  "name": "Charon",
  "mana_cost": "{W}{B}",
  "colors": [
    "W",
    "B"
  ],
  "type_line": "Legendary Creature — Spirit Pilot",
  "rules_text": "Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create two Treasure tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn.\n{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a Treasure: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.",
  "power": "2",
  "toughness": "3",
  "rarity": "rare",
  "replaces": "Smothering Tithe",
  "primary_role": "resource",
  "signature": false,
  "myth_source": "https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Kharon.html",
  "myth_connection": "Ancient accounts identify Charon as the ferryman and Aristophanes' Frogs explicitly discusses the fare. Deaths produce passage money, then paying a coin recovers access to one named dead creature. Return to hand is an abstraction of passage, not a claim that Charon habitually resurrects his passengers.",
  "narrative_beat": "Each arrival pays; a later crossing requires a deliberate payment.",
  "design_note": "Replaces a generic tax with powerful event-driven Treasure production. Recovering a creature also spends mana, a Treasure, and a tap; it cannot sacrifice creatures or create a self-funding resurrection loop. Hades and Charon together can earn three Treasures on the first nontoken death each turn.",
  "signature_demo": null,
  "counterplay": "Remove this fragile two-mana creature, exile creatures instead of destroying them, or exile the selected card in response to the paid return. No death means no automatic income. Returned finality creatures that are exiled do not trigger Charon.",
  "art_brief": "Charon extends an open hand for a single coin beside the dark edge of his narrow boat. No queue of souls or elaborate river landscape.",
  "tokens": [
    {
      "name": "Treasure",
      "colors": [],
      "type_line": "Token Artifact — Treasure",
      "power": null,
      "toughness": null,
      "abilities": "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color."
    }
  ]
}
```

## Input references

- Image 1, frame/layout only: `/Users/dthurn/clash/output/cards/custom/hades/references/shadrix-silverquill.png`. Shadrix Silverquill, STX 230, normal printing. Source: https://scryfall.com/card/stx/230/shadrix-silverquill?utm_source=api. Image URL: https://cards.scryfall.io/png/front/a/b/ab701909-83d6-4d39-9a84-e6a9b2cb38d6.png?1783927294. 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 white-black multicolor legendary creature, gold bars and integrated legendary crown, no Nyx. P/T badge 2/3.
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: Charon extends an open hand for a single coin beside the dark edge of his narrow boat. No queue of souls or elaborate river landscape.
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: Charon
Mana cost: {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 Creature — Spirit Pilot
Rules, preserving paragraphs and exact wording:
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create two Treasure tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn.

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a Treasure: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Power/toughness: 2/3
Rarity: rare; small gold lightning-bolt mark at right end of type bar.
Footer: CLASH • CUSTOM • PLAYTEST
Collector identifier: H05
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.
For exact rarity consistency, the rare set lightning mark is muted metallic GOLD, not orange, amber, red or copper. Frame surface is plain subtle metal/paper texture: absolutely no star-shaped sparkles, glitter, constellations or Nyx star field in crown or side rails.
```

## Observed visual QA

Passed exact WB, name, full Legendary Creature — Spirit Pilot, 2/3. Nontoken death/two Treasures/once each turn paragraph exact. Activated ability has generic 1 and curved tap glyph, Sacrifice a Treasure, target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Legendary crown and plain non-Nyx frame. Clear coin payment focal scene.

Output dimensions: 1060 × 1484 pixels.

Image SHA-256: `dce519e21f1e96b9552b64d39f58c1e17fe95723ad242b1cc4f433c6752adecf`