This card will essentially only be played in mono-red decks or red decks with a very small splash (white for Warleaders Helix seems like the most likely)
Not only can you get a big discount on your sorcery spells during your combat step, but you can also keep mana open to cast powerful sorcery spells on your opponents turns, allowing you to cast counterspells or other interaction if necessary
The Creeping Tar Pit and Grove of the Burnwillows are definitely UB and RG cards, and the Eldrazi Temple has the familiar Hedrons weve come to associate with the Eldrazi
The 3/1 body also shines against Smugglers Copter
A Khans of Tarkir Temur prerelease kit was my first experience of Magic Limited, so Ill be diving in pretty deep to this one
As blue is also the color most associated with card draw, even if the top card of your library isn't a Merfolk, you can reliably ensure castable spells are atop your library through the use of card drawing effects and scrying