Personally I feel you don't need to use a wildshape to "show it off" when all you did was rp this. Other than that, I feel a much more dramatic revealk of new powers would be a combat since most of these powers are linked to fighting. :)

But a clearer picture of the creeping trailblazer would be this one: https://static2.mtgarena.pro/mtg/pic...--art-mtga.png

Though technically this card is called Wildfire Elemental: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/21/c9...65af7473b1.png