Finally, let's take a look at the ten draft archetypes.

Eerie Tempo (White-Blue)
The white and blue archetype is built around the eerie mechanic, encouraging you to play various enchantments, including Rooms, that can trigger eerie a second time. While white-blue is often a control deck, it leans more towards tempo in this set, meaning it uses its effects to get damage through to win the game more quickly. This deck is a fast to medium deck.

Eerie Control (Blue-Black)
The reason white-blue isn't the eerie control deck is because blue-black is. This deck uses similar tools to white-blue, those being lots of enchantments, but more as a means to lock down the opponent before gaining long-term control of the game. Since this archetype involves black, there's a bunch of creature removal and discard involved. This deck is a slow deck.

Sacrifice (Black-Red)
The black-red archetype in Duskmourn treads in familiar space for black-red. It creates a lot of resources and uses them as sacrifice fodder to strengthen its creatures and spells. The theme of sacrifice felt so at home in a modern horror set that it felt wrong not to have black-red return to its roots. This deck is a medium to slow deck.

Delirium Aggro (Red-Green)
The red-green archetype uses cheap creatures, many of which are artifact creatures and enchantment creatures, and attacks. A lot of them will die, as is the case in an aggro deck. The red-green archetype makes use of the delirium mechanic, fueled by your many dead creatures, to upgrade the next batch of attackers and overwhelm your opponent. This deck is a fast deck.

Survival (Green-White)
The green-white archetype plays into the survival mechanic. You'll activate your survival creatures by attacking, but when the board gets clogged, the deck has many other ways to tap your creatures, slowly whittling down your opponent. This deck is a medium to slow deck.

Reanimator (White-Black)
The black-white archetype is focused on reanimation. The deck stalls the opponent in the early-to-mid game as it gets giant creatures into the graveyard, which it then reanimates to win the game. This deck is a slow deck.

Room Control (Blue-Red)
The blue-red archetype leans the furthest into the Room subtype as opposed to some of the other archetypes that focus more on enchantments in general. This deck is a medium to slow deck.

Delirium Slow Grind (Black-Green)
The black-green archetype plays a lot of different card types to gum up the board, eventually reaching delirium. It then uses its graveyard as a resource to grind out a win. This deck is a slow deck.

Power 2 or Less Aggro (Red-White)
The red-white archetype, as usual, is an aggro deck. This deck plays a lot of small creatures and takes advantage of effects that specifically care about creatures with power 2 or less. This is a fast deck.

Manifest Dread (Green-Blue)
The green-blue archetype takes advantage of the manifest dread mechanic. It makes a lot of face-down 2/2 creatures, some of which grow into larger, nastier monsters. This deck is a medium deck.

As I explained last week, Vision Design created a typal mechanic called fellowship as the other glue to hold together the set. Set Design decided to pull fellowship (which I'll get into next week) and in its place give each archetype its own mechanical identity. Some archetypes would get a keyword/ability word, while others just got mechanical throughlines. Each would get a small amount (around eight) of typal rewards, skewing higher in rarity. I'll walk through each archetype in order and explain its mechanical identity.

Birds (White-Blue)
Birds are one of two animals in the set that all come with the same keyword—flying (the other being Bats, which I'll get to in a minute). To add a little flavor and keep from having two archetypes all about flying, the Set Design team decided it would be interesting to have many of the Birds mechanically care about non-fliers, creating this synergy where the deck wants a mix of fliers and non-fliers. Being white-blue, it has the normal amount of control elements to help you protect your fliers, which serve as your win condition.

Rats (Blue-Black)
Rats have access to several elements that will slow down your opponent. It has creature kill, counterspells, discard, and strong blockers that will allow you to fill up your graveyard as you're stalling out your opponent. There are then a number of Rats that care about having seven or more cards in your graveyard, upgrading them in the mid- to late game and helping you win.

Lizards (Black-Red)
Lizards are one of the more aggressive decks. Its main strategy is two-fold. First, it has a lot of cards that enhance its creatures in aggressive ways, encouraging you to attack. It then has several effects that deal damage directly to the opponent, so you can plink away at their life total from afar as you're constantly attacking them. Lizards don't have a named mechanic that runs through the archetype, but they do tend to reward you for your opponents losing life.

Raccoons (Red-Green)
Raccoons are a midrange ramp deck that wants to get out a lot of larger creatures. It has cards that grant a bonus if you control a creature with power 4 or more. It also makes use of a brand-new mechanic called expend. Here's the reminder text for expend 4:
(You expend 4 as you spend your fourth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)
Expend rewards you for playing big spells but can also reward you for choosing to play multiple small spells on the same turn.

Rabbits (White-Green)
Rabbits like making a lot of Rabbits. It's the creature that has the most cards that create tokens, and it has the most cards that make multiple tokens. You'll play a lot of Rabbits, which will allow you to create a lot of Rabbit tokens, which will let you build up a giant army that you can then swarm with to defeat your opponent. It has a lot of spells that either reward you for having many creatures or buff your creatures to allow you to attack.

Bats (White-Black)
Bats, like Birds, can fly, but we wanted to give them a different feel. We leaned into Bats caring about life, as white is top in life gain and black is best at spending life as a cost. Bats play more like a bleeder deck where you slow down your opponent with good blockers and defensive spells, using life gain to buy yourself time and life loss to dig into your opponent and finish them off with your fliers.

Otters (Blue-Red)
Otters are the wizards of Bloomburrow. They care about instants and sorceries and have a lot of cards that reward you for casting them. This archetype plays less creatures and more spells, especially ones that help you control the battlefield, and has more of a tempo-oriented play style.

Squirrels (Black-Green)
Squirrels are another creature type to get a new keyword (technically a keyword action) called forage. Here's its reminder text:
(To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food. If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
Forage combines the Squirrels' focus on two things: the graveyard and Food. Squirrels have a bunch of ways to get cards in your graveyard and ways, including forage, to use your graveyard as a resource. The archetype also is good at producing and using Food tokens. That, combined with removal and big creatures, helps lead Squirrels to victory.

Mice (White-Red)
Mice are the most aggressive archetype. They like attacking, so they skew toward low-mana value creatures. They also have a new mechanic called valiant. It is an ability word with the following text: "Whenever CARDNAME becomes the target of a spell or ability you control for the first time each turn." It's a variant on the heroic mechanic from the original Theros block, but it's triggered by spells and abilities and only triggers once per turn. Valiant works well with combat-enhancing spells and Equipment.

Frogs (Blue-Green)
Frogs like to jump, so it takes advantage of effects that either bounce it (returning it to the hand) or flickering it (putting it in exile and then bringing it back). Frogs have a lot of enters-the-battlefield effects and triggered abilities that care when creatures enter or leave the battlefield. The synergy grows as you get more permanents on the battlefield, adding extra value to strengthen your late game.

Which brings us to the ten draft archetypes (with the text borrowed from the archetype write-up):

White-Blue Energy Fliers
Play flying creatures that get stronger the more energy you have. Use them to attack your opponent or otherwise find tricky ways to get past your opponent's blockers.

Blue-Black Card Draw
This classic blue-black control archetype employs a variety of ways to draw extra cards, then leverages them for additional effects to dominate the battlefield.

Black-Red Artifacts
Start small and go big. This black-red archetype uses a variety of artifact synergies, including the infamous affinity, to summon powerhouses from Magic's past and future.

Red-Green Eldrazi Spawn
Even the smallest Eldrazi are worthy of fear. Overwhelm your opponent with your terrifying Eldrazi horde, aided by Eldrazi Spawn tokens, in this red-green archetype.

Green-White Modified Bestow
Bestow gives you the versatility to play creatures or use them as Auras to buff others. Go tall and then dare your opponent to stop you from going wide if they can weather the storm first.

White-Black Modified Dies
In this unique take on a white-black sacrifice archetype, you're going to be modifying your creatures with counters, Equipment, and Auras for long-term advantages.

Blue-Red Energy Midrange
Embrace your inner mad scientist! Blue-red energy gives you plenty of ways to manage different types of engine-like permanents to generate overwhelming advantage over your opponents.

Black-Green Modified Adapt
This black-green adapt archetype uses +1/+1 counters to great effect, giving creatures additional spell-like triggers to dominate the battlefield.

Red-White Energy Aggro
There's no point hoarding your excess energy here, so spend it and smash! This aggressive red-white archetype will do whatever it takes with energy to keep attacking turn after turn.

Green-Blue Eldrazi Ramp
In this green-blue archetype, generate Eldrazi Spawn and then use them to summon their much larger kin—and proceed to devour the Multiverse.