Kaya and Kaito attacked him to interrupt the blast, but Jace evaded them with illusions
Again, cheaper cmc options are usually better because our mid-to-high cmc options are already filled with planeswalkers
If a target of Rowan's second ability is a legal target but an effect prevents the damage that would be dealt to it, that creature still can't block this turn
It was the one that proved that an entire block could be built around a theme that was at the time just something Timmy (and a few Johnnies) did
This is true of almost all creatures, including apes and monkeys
Oftentimes your opponent can only remove one attacking creature, and that creature is likely to be the one with the Plating equipped, so having two black mana lying around via Glimmervoid, Mox Opal, or Springleaf Drum to move the Plating to another unblocked creature helps you keep the pressure on