This has passable base stats, and on most attacks it will be able to threaten becoming a 4/3, so your opponent will have to take that into account
Maybe the underrated Ariel Adventurous Collector could be part of a cant touch this play style
Audacious SwapAudacious Swap is a more expensive, worse Chaos WarpChaos Warp that you can do twice if you sacrifice a creature, but does say "cast" instead of "put onto the battlefield", and therefore allows you to try and get a couple bites at the apple
Past Modern Horizons examples include Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Crashing Footfalls, Urza's Saga and Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Absorb is not a powerful card, it is just a wonderfully appropriate one and still gets a lot of play as a result
With top-end cards like Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, and Emrakul, the Promised End, youll almost always be putting counters on it