Aspect of Mongoose

Most Auras carry a built-in two-for-one risk: spend a card buffing a creature, eat a removal spell, and lose both at once. This one closes that hole from two directions at once. Shroud makes the enchanted creature untargetable, so point removal and bounce aimed at the host all whiff; the opponent has to reach for a board wipe, an edict that forces a sacrifice, or a creature in combat to deal with the threat at all. And when something finally does get the host into a graveyard, the Aura bounces back to hand rather than dying alongside it. The result is a reusable shield: pay the mana again, pick the next attacker, and the protection slides over to it. The cost of that resilience is the cost of shroud itself. You can't target your own creature either, so a second copy won't stick, another Aura won't layer on, and your own combat tricks bounce off the same wall. The deck that wants this is one pouring everything into a single body it cannot afford to lose, accepting that it surrenders the ability to pile further enhancements onto that body in exchange for making targeted removal slide off it. It is insurance for the one-threat plan, priced low enough that recasting the policy each turn never feels like a penalty.