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So in summary: power, synergy, flexibility, and reliability

The mana gain is awesome, only in a five-color deck, you will likely have to use that extra mana as colorless mana and will still need mana in other colors

The cards have a "1999-2000" copyright and slightly glossier stock, though importantly, the holos in those packs reused 1999-dated foils, so a 1999-2000 copyright on a Fossil non-holo is the only way to identify the third print directly

Absorb would not be likely to revolutionize the Modern format or anything, but it would provide another fringe option, like Counterflux, for tweaking ones deck for a particular metagame

If that creature is a legal target but the creature you don't control isn't, the creature you control still gets +2/+2

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