I thought it was going to be good: at first testing, I think I underestimated the card a fair bit (better than just good, in other words). It's excellent.

Anyone else give it a shot in a serious deck yet?

I plan on messing with it in a Golgari -1/-1 shell, but sadly the game hasn't given me a single one of them yet.

I thought Bone Pickers ability was basically Revolt. I must be wrong. Is it more like Surge?

#sodamnlazy

I works when you kill an opponent's creature too, so it feels more like surge (albeit a bit less versatile). It just ends up being a very efficient conditional 1 drop, with an extremely easy condition to meet. Highly recommended to the builders on the site. It combos with killing opponent creatures, and it's not even bad against control decks that don't run creatures, because then you don't care too much about playing it for 4 - since your removal is dead anyway, it's just as efficient in terms of mana.

It's been great in testing, but it does need the right deck around it. By that I don't mean "a **** ton of removal", it needs some self sacing helpers like Neonate to be reliable in my experience so far.

It's a very groan inducing card, a lot of the time when i've made what i thought was a decent trade and my opponent drops one of these I curse, but i'm not entirely sure what deck wants it - in crats it's not exactly a juicy sac target or as powerful as out other payouts, and in an all in aggro deck black really doesn't have much else at 1 worth playing, meaning you have to pair it up with something else (red being the most likely choice but then it doesn't really work with vehicle/vamp/madness synergies either)