Oh cool. Thank you for the link. I didn’t see the card anywhere. Scry is neat and plays well with the constellation mechanic of his home plane.

this set is so god damn wordy jesus

Elegance died when The Questing Beast was printed... and hundreds of times before that.

Hopefully it only relates to the spoilers so far and not the whole set

DFCs are a problem in particular when both faces are wordy

One of the neat things about multicolor faction sets is seeing the synergies between factions. GRN I remember being very good with this, and SNC's core mechanic have some fun overlaps as well.

Shields and connive work together to create a WU counters archetype.
Connive, casualty, and blitz all help you fill your graveyard for graveyard synergies.
Casualty and blitz both involve sacrificing, so sacrifice payoffs get interesting.
Blitz helps you feed alliance. Alliance might also encourage tokens which work well with sacrifice decks.

I'm struggling to predict what the GW archetype will be, since alliance and shields don't have any real synergy, but the rest of the overlap is really neat from a Mel perspective.

The synergy might be that shields make your wide decks less vulnerable to mass removal

Apparently the GW archetype is 1/1 Citizen tokens, so you're probably right.

And the RG archetype is treasure, which seems kinda unrelated to the family mechanics, but sure.

Shouldn't there be two archetypes for each ally color pair since there aren't going to be enemy color cards (like tarkir having no ally color cards)?