Rucka's more trickster-y version seems like the sort who would come up with something like this.
Not really. That was actually a complaint I heard a lot about Rucka's take on Ares - that he was too clever, too much a trickster - and I just don't see it. He may have switched his portfolio, but he was still very much dumb, no-forethought Ares. He says himself that when he went to Io's forge, his sole purpose was "stirring the pot" - he had no real ambition there, no idea of what would result, he just knew that something would. There wasn't a plan, just an impulse. Getting Eros to shoot Zeus was the same - he himself is every bit as shocked by the outcome (though he's a pleased, impressed shocked) as the other Olympians. All he knew or considered going in was "Hera is jealous, so I'll provoke that jealousy, that's always entertaining." Kicking Themyscira out of the sky was not something he expected. Even his gambit against Hades was explicitly Athena's plan, him playing a part she offered because he liked the reward.
There's no sense of consequences, no planning, no scheming there - just a knowledge of what will cause conflict and a desire to watch that conflict unfold.