Last updated on October 5, 2026

Ajani Unrelenting | Illustration by Tyler Jacobson

As long as there is Magic, there will always be bombs in Limited. Cards that are powerful, game warping, cards that require an answer lest they completely take over the game and win it for the person who played it. However, not all bombs are created equal.

Sometimes, bombs are a bit less scary in a given set, and sometimes, we get an outlier. A bomb amongst bombs, a card that stands so high above the rest that you can safely say that itโ€™s one of the best cards in Limited thatโ€™s ever been printed. Well, we just got a card like that in Reality Fracture, and his name is Ajani Unrelenting.

Ajani Unrelenting

Ajani Unrelenting is a card that simply makes it hard to ever be behind. When you play it, if youโ€™re behind on board, you simply use the -3 ability to deal 4 damage to all creatures. Oh but wait, it doesnโ€™t deal damage to all creatures, it deals damage to all creatures except tokens you control.

Oh and whatโ€™s that? Ajani has a passive ability that gives you a 2/2 token whenever you activate a loyalty ability, so that means you get a 2/2 first that doesnโ€™t die to the board wipe. Donโ€™t worry, your opponentโ€™s tokens will still be destroyed. So right off the bat, we have an asymmetrical boardwipe that gives you a creature and Ajani Unrelenting still gets to stick around, which is pretty absurd.

If the board is stalled out and both players are top decking, which is a board state youโ€™ll find yourself in enough in this format, then you can just use Ajaniโ€™s -2 ability to discard your hand and draw a card for each creature you control, including the 2/2 token you just made by activating him. Getting a full grip of cards while adding to the board is pretty hard to beat and will likely put you ahead of your opponent.

If youโ€™re already ahead or your opponent doesnโ€™t have many creatures on board, you can instead just use his +1 ability to give your creatures +1/+0 and haste until end of turn, which of course will include the 2/2 creature token you make.

Oh, and did I mention that the passive ability on Ajani Unrelenting will also make a token when you activate a loyalty ability of other planeswalkers, including your Jace tokens you get when you Empower Jace? Overall, itโ€™s not hard to see why this card is so good, and the numbers only confirm this.

Absurd Win Rate

Wrath of the Bloodmane | Illustration by Manuel Castaรฑรณn

Ajani Unrelenting is currently sitting at a 73.5% win rate on 17lands, a website used to analyze data on Limited Magic. Now that may seem pretty impressive, but if youโ€™re at all familiar with the kind of win rates we usually see at the top of formats, this number seems quite insane.

For context, the next best card in the set, The Theorist, Jace Beleren, has a win rate of 69.3%. Going back to previous sets, the best card in Marvel Super Heroes was the infamous The Super Hero Civil War which also had a win rate of 69.3%. Most other formats donโ€™t have a card that even approaches the bench mark set by these cards, with their biggest bombs having win rates around 66%. To even find a card that gets to the 70% mark, we have to go all the way back to Edge of Eternities which came out a whole year ago, with Ouroboroid sitting at exactly 70%.

Wrap Up

Way of the Warlord | Illustration by Danny Schwartz

All of this is just to say that Ajani Unrelenting is a true outlier among outliers. We simply donโ€™t get cards that are this good at seemingly everything. Itโ€™s a good play from behind, from parity, and from ahead. It adds to the board every turn, and demands an answer from your opponent, but even that might not save them if youโ€™ve already wiped their board away. Donโ€™t feel too bad if you lose against this card. It probably just wasnโ€™t meant to be. And if youโ€™re the one who plays it, congratulations, you likely just won the game.

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