Reiterating what fryaneggs said, a lot of these three-colour designs are 'mix and match'.
Take Nimble Larcenist. The blue bit is the flying. "But, wait, don't white and black creatures fly?" Of course they do. But the black bit of the card is the discard and the white bit is making the discard to exile instead of the graveyard - see Castigate vs. Distress. If you compare with Sin Collector, you can see how they've taken 90% of that design and added flying to make it blue.
That doesn't mean flying is always blue. For Raffine, Scheming Seer, the flying comes from the white because the ward must be the blue bit - it's not really used in the other colours.
For Obscura Interceptor, like TheOnlyOne says, the black bit is the lifelink. It's the same mix and match principle - the spell bounce must be blue because it's the only colour that does that, and black doesn't really do flash so that must be the white bit, so that means the lifelink is black.
And, yeah, some of these could be two-colour designs at different (probably higher) costs, but SNC is a three-colour set, so they aren't.
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Take Nimble Larcenist. The blue bit is the flying. "But, wait, don't white and black creatures fly?" Of course they do. But the black bit of the card is the discard and the white bit is making the discard to exile instead of the graveyard - see Castigate vs. Distress. If you compare with Sin Collector, you can see how they've taken 90% of that design and added flying to make it blue.
That doesn't mean flying is always blue. For Raffine, Scheming Seer, the flying comes from the white because the ward must be the blue bit - it's not really used in the other colours.
For Obscura Interceptor, like TheOnlyOne says, the black bit is the lifelink. It's the same mix and match principle - the spell bounce must be blue because it's the only colour that does that, and black doesn't really do flash so that must be the white bit, so that means the lifelink is black.
And, yeah, some of these could be two-colour designs at different (probably higher) costs, but SNC is a three-colour set, so they aren't.