This creature offers three spells in one and grants all of your creatures Haste
It provides mana early in your curve so you can ramp up to creatures like Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma quickly
There's a lot of countermagic at casual nights sometimes, and Surrak is a nice foil against your, well, Foil
It is the memory that spurs me on to check out the gorgeously illustrated Bloomburrow set, buy a starter deck here and there that remains perpetually unopened, and, every so often, flirt with the idea of really committing myself to it
Particularly notable were Edgar Magalhaes (same Domain list as me) and Theo Jung (one of our Izzet players), who were both playing win-and-in matches for top 8 deep in the tournament
Not sure how its going to live long enough to despoil anyones soul though