Greeks were the inspiration for the societal structure of the Romans, so White's influence on Blue is strong even amongst those that oppose it. They get some symmetrical effects while opposing a lot of the restrictions (blockers) that White puts out via evasive creatures. This tries to loosely mirror the Grecian politics during the Macedonian Wars.

The Not-Greeks in this set will primarily be Aven and Vedalken. For simplicity's sake, there will only be two not-Greek City States represented in .

Just a side note on the card for those who might come to view this: it's basically a mix of Eager Construct and something like the classic Welkin Tern design which has numerous functional reprints (with different creature types).

As for 's influence, has its own long history in symmetrical effects related to drawing (which is heavily related to library manipulation) - the original influence (ancestor) probably dates back to alpha with Timetwister.
­Lore Broker, Fascination, Prosperity, Dakra Mystic ?, Vision Skeins, and Words of Wisdom to name a random few in no particular order - not to mention all the Timetwister variants. So what I'm saying is that this looks like a natural progression in this blue theme regardless of any outside influence.

You are correct in that instance - however, personally I always felt that symmetrical card draw felt a little white-influenced (despite always being blue - Skyscribing being Azorius-flavored definitely didn't hurt that perception), so the "white influence" is mostly a philosophical thing more than anything. Alternatively, you can consider the "white influence" as weakening the card draw into a scry, otherwise this might be a Runed Servitor + Welkin Tern variant.