Slot filling commons by combining traditional blue and white common animals. This time, I jammed Siege Mastodon and Giant Crab together.

Oh, also, this card leads me to believe that Shroud is going the way of Islandhome. Obviously, I'm not going to use a keyword that few people will recognize...

Probably reasonable to spell it out on a common anyway.

Probably not reasonable to have on a common creature powerful enough that I want to kill it :) (Though I guess it's no less unreasonable than :Regenerate ... which makes me think maybe the activation needs to go up by one?)

Mm. Glimmering Angel at least asked for two different colours. Other creatures with activated-shroud at a single mana have been uncommon or higher, as far as I recall.

Really? I find this conversation funny. I assumed people would balk at this card for 'just' being a 3/5 shroud for 6 (or not-white. Though the idea seems white enough for me to bleed it). I think the trepidation comes from the fact that we haven't seen a 'big' creature with shroud in blue. But this looks considerably worse than Primal Huntbeast to me (or Rubbleback Rhino for that matter).

I was tossing the idea of making this card a creature, but I didn't want to nerf it too much and/or make it that difficult to not play allied colors in draft. Do you guys think it really needs it, though?

@Vitenka: I'd rather not increase the activation. I want the card to look as much like a Giant Crab as I can get away with. That said... I could make the activation cost instead of hybrid... I don't know if I like that...

Switched for reasons above. I'm not really concerned about power level, but that 'isn't really white' and 'looks more like Giant Crab' kind of get to me.

Now, even if people are uncomfortable with seeing a shroud creature this tough in common, they can perceive it as a reward for playing White-Blue.