Then when a foe casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card
Time Vault + Voltaic Key Anyone who plays Vintage frequently has probably come across this combo at least once
A one-mana commander is hard to hate, and maybe you can make this into some 'live fast, die fast' kind of deck, that wants to burn through its life total as quickly as possible - very on theme
There are a multitude of different artifact decks that can make excellent use of its abilities, particularly that third one, and it may well allow for some truly nauseating combos
On the other hand, it got dinged hard for havingby farthe worst partner commanders and for having uninspired new cards in general
Absorb is not a powerful card, it is just a wonderfully appropriate one and still gets a lot of play as a result