A cool niche ability with a weird setup cost but it doubles as surgical grave hate?

For EDH play I don’t think I personally see enough activated abilities but that’s the only threshold that needs crossing for me.

Hmm, currently I run [[Unlicensed Hearse]] as my grave hate in Locust God. This hits one less thing, but +1/+1 counters are probably more useful than a slowly growing vanilla body, and occasionally it will have upside with the activated abilities thing. Tough choice