Since a nice and round lore for my own creations was always important to me, at the beginning there was the idea of how I could implement a Land-destruction and Sacrificedeck
In terms of design it is a wonderful card, highly fair like Chrome Mox yet far less able to make games dull and over before they really start than the Mox
Of course, red has lost a huge part of its artifact repertoire with the banning of Dockside Extortionist
Rowan's activated ability can't reduce the amount of colored mana you pay for a spell
However, by paying two generic mana , it transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian creature token
Clearly billed as a troublesome prankster, Oko, Thief of Crowns , in fact, proved far more apocalyptic than that