It also had the advantage of being more elegant than its mirror card Undermine, as it was a simple combination of Healing Salve and Counterspell for the combined price of both of them, and while the strength of the colors meant the ranking here goes the other way, Absorb shows how it's more important to get what you need rather than what is technically more valuable
You just need to lock the game down until your opponent is out of cards in their hand, and then slowly chip away at them
The Citys Blessing shouldnt be hard to achieve in a dedicated go-wide deck, and honestly these days with all of the incidental token production in many decks, its not difficult in the slightest
So this silly card is going to be winning a lot of Commander games
The majority of vendors who open packs for singles tend towards Set Booster packs as well
The MH2 Draft experience is top notch, with draft-able archetypes like reanimator, storm, and discard matters/madness, which are usually fun and interactive with lots of overlap between color pairs