Humble Budoka

Shroud on an aggressive green two-drop reads as protection, but the keyword is double-edged in a way its defensive flavor hides: a 2/2 that can't be targeted is immune to opposing removal, but equally walled off from your own toolbox. The pump spells, the auras, the equipment that wants to attach: all of it has to point at the body, and shroud forbids every one of those plays. That is the Monk's real balancing mechanism, not a downside line of text but the keyword amputating most of what green wants to do to a small creature. So the body is built for strategies that act on the board without selecting it: anthem effects, untargeted overruns, mass pumps that buff the whole team at once. This is the older, blunter cut of creature protection, from before design split shroud and hexproof into distinct keywords. The distinction matters here, because hexproof keeps the door open for your own auras while closing it to the opponent, which is exactly why the later go-wide bogle archetype was built on hexproof bodies rather than shroud ones. A shrouded beater asks you to win through it sideways, leaving it unselectable to both sides; a hexproof beater lets you stack it with your own enchantments and swing. This card sits on the wrong side of that trade for an aura-based build, which is why the era that printed it learned to keep shroud and hexproof apart.