If you're doing well, your opponents will all probably have less life than you, in which case you get a bunch of tokens every turn
Then, when at least one creature with counters on it deals damage to a player, you draw a card and proliferate, meaning that all your creatures with at least one token receive an additional token
In Modern, the closest you can get is the referential kicker on Tourach, Dread Cantor
Hello awesome folks and welcome to my newest article that looks at the Top Ten from a brand-new set, in this case Tales of Middle Earth
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
Destroy-based removal stops mattering , and sweepers lose their ability to reset the game