It plays into a longstanding and unfortunate trope of Western European and related attitudes called orientalism.* The recipe is fairly simple: take an Asian (anywhere from Turkey to Vietnam will do) culture thats not yours, appropriate** some stuff that seems outlandish, make some more stuff up, and sell it all back to your own culture as exotic. The persistent redefinition of a culture seen as the other is how a harem, originally the decidedly unsexy womens quarters in a household, became in the broader Western imagination a private bordello
If red decks are on the rise in some way or aggro decks begin to dominate the format, Oketras Last Mercy is a solid card to equip sideboards with
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This should give you a hint as to the power this card holds
Other confirmed Enchanted prints outside the three debut and one redesign franchise include Rapunzel & Flynn, Merida, Wisp Conjurer, and Scar, Created by the Vine (part of the set's villain-corruption Vineling theme)
