5 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant Bring All Your Friends Into Play The definition of a win-more card, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant floods the board with creatures and gives you control of the battlefield
While Go-Shintai decks can be busted too (Entombing Omniscience, anyone?), I chose to keep this deck as on-theme as possible, with only cards with art or setting that could be linked to going on a Shrine pilgrimage
Sadly the more expensive convoke spells are really only playable in token themed decks and so despite there being a lot of convoke cards on offer fairly few of them are relevant for cube for being too narrow
It does also make it more valuable to remove for those players and with not assuring a card unless you have two mana spare when it is removed it seems a little risky
Once the mechanic was well-defined, the creative team introduced the concept of horsemen leveraging their tactical advantage over foot soldiers to tie the idea together