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Maybe blue-red can be an evasive+combat trick archetype? Fateful Leap can make such an archetype scarily efficient. Assuming you don't want a typical instant/sorcery matters thing, that is.
Edited (as of 11/19) Limited Archetypes:
: Tempo, Lore Subtheme
: Control, Dread Subtheme
: Aggro, Bloodthirst Subtheme
: Midrange/Beatdown
: Steadfast
: Control, Lifegain Subtheme
: Graveyard Midrange
: Ramp
: Evasion, Combat Tricks
: Aggro, Soldiers Subtheme
I suspect lifegain is better in a black color combination because black has life drain, but
would have things like trample, tokenmaking and stuff like "Sorcery 
; Creatures you control get +1/+2 UEOT. If you gained life this turn, they gain Vigilance UEOT." Or maybe Steadfast effects can be Rally effects that trigger on lifegain instead (allowing a little crossover effect in 
tokens).
does not need to be a sacrifice archetype specifically. In return to ravnica, it was a self-mill deck powering Scavenge effects. In Theros it was a self-mill deck powering return effects and Nemesis of Mortals/Graverobber Spider. In Tarkir block it was thoughness matters or mill-into-Delve fatties and in Battle for Zendikar it's token sacrifice (often with a dose of lifegain), so you can have a lot of variation on what a "graveyard matter" archetype is.
I personally really like Townsfolk, and I use it, as well as Merchant and Noble, fairly often in my sets. I like the flavor it creates rather than simply having a race. I think Lore is a good ability for
, especially since it represents the Council of the Wise, and will dabble in 
at higher rarities with Elvish flavor. The limited archetype could be more of a tempo build, though. Steadfast could be a 
archetype, do you think there's enough design space? Legends matter could also be an archetype, but I'm not sure what colors. Graveyard could be split between 
Discard and a sacrifice theme in 
. Do you think a 
sacrifice theme is a good idea?
Come to think of it, Disentomb actually works well here.
Personally I'm not hot at all on lore and discard control. A deck that draws a bunch of extra cards for lore control is already burying the opponent in card advantage and probably isn't in need of lore effects in the first place.
If anything, Lore might be a better fit for UB or UR. Steadfast might make for an interesting basis for a lifegain archetype. There is almost always a graveyard-centric build in limited (though sometimes it's concentrated on death triggers), and that seems to be missing. You also probably want a "legends matter" archetype somewhere in there. Whether or not that is also a Fellowship-centric archetype I'll leave it to you, but it seems to me that people would want to assemble the fellowship and be rewarded for it.
On a completely unrelated issue, do you absolutely need the Townsfolk type? It has been obsoleted and not using a second type sounds like a fine option to me.
This effect is almost always done as a characteristic-defining ability (this card's essentially a variant of Crusader of Odric/Veteran Warleader). When they do a "gets +1/+1 for each creature", it's because it's an aura or it counts creatures with something: Timberpack Wolf, High Sentinels of Arashin, Radiant, Archangel, Sigil of the Nayan Gods, Pride of the Clouds...
Pull from Death sounds a little too white for this card. Maybe you should consider coming up with a new card for your Disentomb effect if only so you can have Return to Battle in a later set?
How 'bout sorcery +4/+0 haste, scry 2 if that creature's legendary? It still is more likely to be grabbed by whoever is trying for legendary draft,
By the way, for those of you who didn't know, the set has a Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/comments/3s793u/lord_of_the_rings_set/
and an MTGSalvation thread:
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/creativity/custom-card-creation/custom-set-creation-and/646869-lord-of-the-rings-set-commons-complete
I now have a common cycle of Elevate creatures and one "care about legends" card at common in each color, so I think I'll stick with the keyword. Any better ideas for names though? Also, I'm struggling to come up with a
draft archetype. This is what I have for the other colors:
: Lore Control (or Tempo?)
: Discard Control, Graveyard Matters Subtheme
: Bloodthirst Aggro
: Beatdown
: Midrange/Weenies (or Steadfast?)
: Control with an enchantment subtheme
: Sacrifice Control?
: Ramp into Fatties and Big Spells
: ?
: Soldiers
?: Legends Matter
Better now?