These cards fall into four categories
Enter Ponder, a one mana spell that lets you look at three cards, rearrange them in any order, then draw one
This should mean you can grab this one a bit later, and take advantage of all that ramping youve been doing
Couple that with the likelihood that your opponent has a full grip of seven, because all of his permanents are tapped to Stasis, and Balance becomes a powerful discard spell
This last mode, as originally worded, kept your opponents from tapping their lands, which basically meant you could just cast Absorb during your opponent's upkeep step, and it would essentially force them to skip their entire turn for two mana
This artifact relies on Energy, allowing it to synergize well with many older cards from Kaladesh