Once you hit that five-counter threshold, all your creatures get +5/+5
Originally, shroud was an evergreen ability
JACKDAW Not really much to look at here, BUT if you have a number of treasure, clues, food, etc lying around then you are going to bank a TON of cards hitting someone with this ship
Cards like Teferis Moat, Raking Canopy, Elephant Grass, Ghostly Prison, Arcane Denial, Mindclaw Shaman, Syphon Mind, Relic of Progenitus, and Nevermore can play different roles in stopping a certain type of plan or play from coming to fruition
After all, there have been multiple Standard formats in the time period that Pioneer covers where Mono-Red has been the best deck, and suddenly all those toys get to play together
We may end up slightly downgrading the vehicles stats (the base power and toughness set by the animating effect takes precedence, even if you then crew the creature-vehicle afterwards), but rare vehicles with additional keywords and abilities retain all those characteristics, meaning this is often a good deal