Its also not lost on me that a blue artifact looking to yoink spells from your opponent probably doesnt want to target the other blue player - for the risk of running into a counterspell which will be a pointless hit to get unless youre activating Synthesis Pod in response to an already ongoing stack war
variants include Twinflame, Rite of Replication, and Heat Shimmer
If you can spend some extra money, youll want to replace those with better fetch lands
Being able to ramp the best land out of the top four cards of your deck at instant speed is already very useful, but the fact that you can still draw one of them into your hand as a fall back means that you wont have a major downside (see Growth Spiral for a similar effect)
This is deceptively powerful as it allows you to apply pressure quickly
This gave me a few ideas of where to start, but then they threw a ballpark at me in terms of cost: $1,500