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Its first ability is a first-spell matters trigger, but it only counts on your opponents turns

The replacement effect states that if a card would go to the graveyard, exile it instead

You just want to balance them with the rest of your deck

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Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead