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
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It taps to gain life with nothing else needed equal to the Elf count
Even better, instead of just putting two +1/+1 counters on one of your creatures, she puts two of those counters on all of your creatures
Serpentine Curve Serpentine Curve can be noted down as another Limited card though if you want to get really cute, you could mill your library then use this and a Fling to cheese a player out