I prefer Remember the Fallen, Reviving Melody and the black equivalents since you get more of a reward (card advantage) by using the listed card type

Yeah they're pretty weak. It's supposed to be more that they're a mirrored pair but Melody and Fortuitous Find fill that brief already.

This isn't really relevant but Remember the Fallen is weird to me because white doesn't normally get unconditional Disentombs? But it does get graveyard play generally so it's not much of a stretch I suppose.

Goblin Engineer
Creature-Goblin
When Goblin Engineer enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact
2/2

This is what Goblin Engineer SHOULD be, not that crud that's coming out in Modern Horizons. It would fit right in with stuff like Goblin Gardener.

hot take: white shouldn't get artifact destruction

I think MaRo said recently on Tumblr that they plan to start giving black some forms of enchantment destruction so that artifacts and enchantments can each be destroyed by three different colors (Naya and Abzan, respectively). I wouldn't expect white artifact destruction to go away anytime soon, although it is secondary in white.

Edit: Here's the Tumblr link: https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/1 ... nchantment

The original rationale for more colors being able to destroy artifacts than enchantments is that artifacts are colorless and can go in more decks

Flavor wise it is weird for the civilised color to be smashing things, but can work if we assume they are unholy relics or something

Water to Wine -
Instant
You gain life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Thief-Taker's Trophy
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature you control
When Thief-Taker's Trophy enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Thief-Taker's Trophy leaves the battlefield.
"Wotchu mean, 'what did I do?' I 'aven't told you yet."

White is also the color of swords to plowshares (which doesn't actually do artifact destruction, but still), so destroying weapons is not at all outside their slice the pie.

Someone please tell me we posted that here before they did it.

I don't think there are a whole lot of hybrid submissions in here
I would say I searched the thread, but I mostly just ended up looking through my own submissions and frowning at how none of them got a cotw nomination.

Come Out Ahead -
Sorcery
You draw two cards, then each player discards two cards.

Daunting -
Sorcery
This turn, creatures you control can’t be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Agreed. White wants to make people less dangerous without killing anyone (unless they really deserve it). It feels no remorse about breaking objects to achieve that.

Ivy Bear
Creature - Bear
: Add .
Some animals are so well-adapted to their environment you can hardly tell where one ends and the other begins.
2/2

This one I wouldn't have expected to exist necessarily but it's cute so I'm posting it anyway:

Flock Together
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
When Flock Together enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Could also be blue of course

Squire's Devotion is a pretty similar idea.

Also Knightly Valor, but I’m not sure if that’s the first example of this pattern

Expedition Lookout
Creature - Human Scout Ally (C)
Flash
1/1