See Challenge # 112.

I loved the flavour of the Rohn, but I had to struggle to think of how to do burn spells in a culture themed around sculpting not fireblasts :) So I decided to embrace the golems even further, and imagine lesser golems as traditional face-only gargoyles.

I can't do all red common burn spells like this, but some it hopefully ok. I didn't want coloured artifacts, and felt it was cheating to have a red only activation but no red in the cost, so I gave it an alternative cost, but not a very attractive one. That's not a perfect compromise -- it's strong enough it will usually be snapped up in red decks, but hopefully it will find a useful niche somewhere.

This is actually probably too good as colourless burn. This is more damage than Moonglove Extract for only 1 more mana; see also Flamecast Wheel. I approve of the idea though. In another set I'd expect this to be part of a cycle, but presumably not here :)

Interesting! Gargoyles are a sensible creature type for Rohn. I expected this to be a creature when I first saw the name.
It's interesting that you sought to have the "common 'red' burn spell" come from Rohn. This is an interesting but potentially powerful design.

@Alex: Oops! Ok, well, I'm sure I can tweak the cost to make it even worse. I'm actually happier if it's at least slightly playable as colourless.

And yes, this is a rare exception, where there will be red-aligned artifacts only (unless I decide the rohn have another colour). I figure if it's ok for esper, it's ok for rohn :)

@Link Thank you! Yeah, I need to tweak the name a bit, it should be something that makes it obvious it's not a creature, but I also wanted to hammer home the golem/gargoyle theme on my example cards. Ideally it would be a word meaning "gargoyle face" specifically (not whole creature), but I couldn't quite get something to fit.

I immediately saw the Rohn as red, and none of the other cities as especially red, so that was my first thought. I'm interested to see other people's interpretations! I think other people would assign the colours a bit differently. I guess I could also just have a natural phenomenon like lightning, or flavour it as an attack from a plains beast (I see those as all colours and colourless).

I saw Rohn as red-and-blue, the Roamers as green-and-red, and the Pale Ones as either colourless or all colours. I imagine Roamers could have a burn spell or two as well.