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Add Legendary Moses card and production guidance

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Each Legendary artwork variant may have its own frame, backing shapes, panel positions, ornament, and illustrated overlaps. These components need not match other Legendaries or follow the Common–Extraordinary tier templates. Begin with one governing visual idea and let the layout support its subject, space, and emotional impression. Legendary presence may come from exceptional beauty, light, intimacy, or scale; ornament and overlaps are optional.
Selected illustrated elements may cross the frame or backing to integrate the subject with the card. Author them separately above the border/backing system and below the lettering. Adapt their shape, folds, silhouette, or placement when this improves the impression; a foreground version need not reproduce the artwork concealed beneath the backing exactly. Preserve visible continuity into the scene, coherent glass construction and lighting, and believable anatomy or material behavior. Do not make a backing notch or narrow revealed strip stand in for a convincing complete form.
### Depth and Card Hierarchy
Plan panel coverage and foreground clearance together. Use a provisional composed preview with real shared P052 lettering before investing in finished ornament. Inspect the whole card, the element's join and hem/edge, and delivery-size text clearance. Keep all lettering on a legible field and free of foreground intersections. Legendary palette exceptions remain documented template decisions; the shared font roles still apply.
Define the intended depth before authoring the template: **base environment → card frame/backing → selected illustrated foreground → deterministic lettering**. Identify which parts of the scene are background, which form the focal subject, and which complete element—if any—may cross above the card structure. The frame and backing remain the primary product layer; an illustrated overlap is a controlled exception.
An environmental element that sits behind or beside the subject in the illustration must not be moved above the backing when that reversal makes it appear to pass in front of the subject. Smoother extraction cannot repair contradictory depth. Redesign the backing placement or choose an element that is genuinely in the foreground. A title plaque and supporting-text backing may use different shapes and interaction strengths when the scene benefits from it.
### Backing Placement and Restraint
Use the illustration's negative space instead of assuming a full-width title or footer. A Legendary backing may be vertical, asymmetric, pitched, suspended, or otherwise scene-specific, provided it keeps the focal face and gesture readable and retains a coherent card silhouette. Plan the backing region with the illustration rather than treating it as a late overlay.
Size the backing to its content and measured breathing room. When unused backing area feels accidental, first shorten, reshape, or reposition the backing. Add symbolism or ornament only when it supports the governing idea and remains subordinate at card size. Legendary distinction does not require filling every quiet area.
### Illustrated Foregrounds
Selected illustrated elements may cross the frame or backing when they strengthen depth, silhouette, or the governing idea. Author them separately above the frame/backing and below the lettering. Adapt their folds, silhouette, or placement when needed; a foreground version need not reproduce artwork concealed by the backing pixel for pixel.
Select a complete logical object or material form rather than a convenient color patch. A folded garment may include its differently colored lining, cuff, or connected return; detached robe panels and unrelated shards remain behind the backing. Preserve visible continuity into the source scene, coherent glass construction and lighting, believable anatomy or material behavior, and a smooth intentional edge. A backing notch, narrow revealed strip, connected pixel corridor, or technically valid alpha mask does not establish a convincing form by itself.
### Typography and Review
Use real shared P052 lettering in the first composed preview. Choose line breaks by natural phrase and sentence structure before reducing font size; avoid breaks that create false pauses or separate dependent phrases. Measure the combined visible ink rather than centering nominal text boxes. For an asymmetric backing, define the usable field after foreground obstructions and center the verse within that field while retaining the fixed reference region and collision clearance.
Inspect the whole card, the foreground join, complete silhouette, backing proportions, and text rhythm at enlarged, standard, and thumbnail sizes. Keep all lettering on a legible field and free of foreground intersections. Legendary palette exceptions remain documented template decisions; the shared font roles still apply.
Prototype and approve the **Normal composition first**. Do not derive Borderless, Textless, Boundless, finish masks, or harness fixtures until the Normal frame, backing, foreground selection, and typography are accepted. This prevents discarded experiments from producing misleading or stale derivatives.
For backing-specific overlaps, Normal and Borderless use the selected adapted foreground. Textless and Boundless reveal the selected full-bleed illustration without adding that foreground a second time. If an adaptation should appear in every printing, incorporate it into an explicitly revised artwork variant. Record the chosen components for each printing.