Taken at face value this guy is playable but almost unbelievably weak for a 5 XP card. He's got good soak, +1 to a stat, and an ability that pays back his own play cost, if you have expensive insight events to play. But every color but green now has level 0 allies with +1 book, and some of them even generate resources. Compared to a Dr. Milan Christopher or Lawrence Carlisle, he gives a little more soak and a faster pay-back but little else for 5 XP.

But maybe we can make him worthwhile by really leaning in to that burst economy function. This guy is a good candidate for Calling in Favors, since you can spend all his money and then bounce him to hand to get another ally out and then bring him back in with a fresh set of secrets.

Speaking of secrets, the new Enraptured can generate crazy numbers of secrets as a free action, and this guy can turn that into resources.

I won't be surprised if there turns out to be some kind of weird infinite that involves cycling your deck to replay insights over and over that you pay for by enrapturing Archibald here repeatedly.

Still don't like him much if I'm playing fair, though.