The purpose of Ponder is not to net cards, but to find the correct card at the proper moment
Despite being a mini-set that only features 100 cards, Assassin's Creed: Universes Beyond introduces a handful of new Modern playables that may yet find their niche in the Magic: The Gathering Modern metagame
In fact, opponents can still kill you with life-draining effects, like Blood Artist, so youre definitely not untouchable
After all, they are mostly (slightly) overcosted spells on one side along with a land (which often comes into play tapped and always only taps for a single color of mana) on the other
The same thing is also true of the opponent being able to play around these effects by forcing you to have to activate them
Though Genesis Ultimatum is not good at casting Shatterskull Smashing for free, it does cost seven