I can't help but think a little of Watchwolf when I look at this card, which raises the question, "Should this card be an uncommon?". That's rather weird. I've been trying to make the CHHD cards good p/t with relavent and easy to understand abilities, but that doesn't mean they couldn't do a better job of that in the uncommon slot. It also gives me an excuse to make a cycle of CHD instants and sorceries in the common slot as well, I suppose.

It's effectively a 5/5 for cd2. Aggressively costed for common certainly. But it is vanilla, so maybe. As you say, watchwolf suggests that you have to push the rarity to be allowed to push the cost.

I like it, but... This might be a stupid question, but what's white about the card? White's a "creature colour" hence Watchwolf, but does it get 4-drop 5/5s more than any other colour?

[Shrug] I don't know. I suppose the same could be asked of Woolly Thoctar. What makes that card White? I assume the Alara team said to themselves "Red, Green and White are the best creature colors. Let's make the best vanilla creature we can using RGW." That's kind of what happened here, except instead the two best creature colors got together, and White is forcing the card to have box stats, I guess.

I could probably pull up a bunch of silly arguments that I'd argue just for the sake of arguing, because that's the guy I am, but, really, this guy just looks good to me. I guess if we critiqued every card for not staying strictly within color boundaries, then Dominaria would be a boring place.