It commonly goes with commanders like Krark, the Thumbless or Vial Smasher the Fierce that have strong triggered abilities to double, but most decks are happy to have access to blue
It pairs well with recursive legendary tokens, like the Darkstar token created by Rufus Shinra
Core sets always had the issue that they werent as popular with players as other Standard sets, often lacking a creative theme for players to get excited about, or just not having many new cards
The card is also really flexible on its surface, it obviously just looks like its graveyard hate, but in actual gameplay its a well-sized body against creature decks and the flash ability makes it good against control decks as you can play around counterspells or flash it in at their end-step and pressure their planeswalkers
Splitting the costs of cards like Sarulf's Packmate and Augury Raven make for a Limited environment where mana curves tend to be polarized, rewarding extreme slow value decks and also hyper-aggressive strategies