Ranking the Top 9 Limited Bombs of 2026

Last updated on November 12, 2026

Ajani Unrelenting | Illustration by Tyler Jacobson

We’ve had seven Draft sets released in 2026 (technically eight with Mystery Booster Commander Edition), so what better way to commemorate the time we spent playing than looking at the most busted, frustratingly unbeatable Limited bombs from each set. Spoiler alert: There were a lot of insane bombs released this year.

9. Together as One

Secrets of Strixhaven was our first return to the plane of Strixhaven, and it featured a lot of interesting gameplay with a healthy amount of aggressive white decks pitted against a plethora of 5-color soup. Nothing felt better in a 5-color deck than playing your Together as One with all your different colors of mana, dealing 5 damage, gaining 5 life, and drawing five cards. You could even make your opponent draw the cards to deck them, which happened often enough in this format for it to be notable. Overall, this was one of the more fun bombs to play with.

8. Kinbinding

Lorwyn Eclipsed feels like it came out so long ago, and yet it was still released this year. If you remember anything about the format, it’s that elves were good, and that Kinbinding was a brutal card to play against. Maybe it doesn’t have the absolute highest win rate in the set, but it’s up there and it certainly can feel the most crushing. Creating creatures every turn and pumping the whole board means if you want to have a chance against it, you have to either remove it which is difficult to do, or end the game immediately.

7. Fíli the Pathfinder

The second of this year’s small sets, The Hobbit was a disappointment all around. The format was blazing fast and had poor color balance, and to top it all off, a handful of busted bombs that were very difficult to overcome if you ever faltered against them. Chief among them was Fíli the Pathfinder. Much like a lot of the other white bombs on this list, it created tokens and pumped your board at an incredibly efficient rate.

6. Uldaros Theorix

Don’t worry, more cards from Reality Fracture will be on this list soon, but Uldaros Theorix needed to be mentioned first. While not the most busted card in the set, in any other set this could easily be the best card. It’s often a three-for-one on a stick, and in a set with lots of ways to recur it, it can completely take over a game.

5. Sally Pride, Lioness Leader

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the first of the small sets we saw in 2026, and despite low expectations for it across the board, it actually showed some promise. However, because it was a small set, all the mistakes were exacerbated due to having to see them so often, and the biggest of these mistakes was Sally Pride, Lioness Leader. It’s a board state in a can, and once this resolves, it’s very difficult to lose.

4. Captain Marvel, Earth’s Protector

Oh boy was Marvel Super Heroes a bomb-heavy set. So much in fact, that I included two cards from the set on this list. I put Captain Marvel, Earth's Protector slightly lower on this list than the other card, but really they could be swapped and I don’t think anyone would bat an eye. This superhero Baneslayer would come out of nowhere, stabilize your life total, and then become unremovable and end the game. What does a card have to do to be better than that?

3. The Super Hero Civil War

Well, I know one thing a card can do to be better than another busted bomb. It can steal two creatures, often giving you a free attack, and then it can remove something to give you an attack, and then it can pump your board to give you an attack. Oh wait, that’s what The Super Hero Civil War does. Must be a pretty good card then.

2. The Theorist, Jace Beleren

While I can’t sing the praises of Reality Fracture as a Limited set highly enough,I must admit that it had far more gamebreaking bombs than most sets. The Theorist, Jace Beleren is a must-kill threat that can become a win condition if you can’t destroy it, and it gets pretty hard to destroy because it can bounce your best threat or make chump blockers every turn. Eventually you can just use the -6 which is a relatively low amount of loyalty to pump your whole board and draw some more cards. Just a busted planeswalker all around.

1. Ajani Unrelenting

Could it be anyone else? Ajani Unrelenting is quite literally the best card they have printed for Limited in the past five to seven years. If you’ve played with or against this card, you know what I mean. It comes down and most of the time it clears your opponent’s board while creating a token. If you ever have another planeswalker on board, which in this format you often do, then you can use that planeswalker to make yet another token. If you untap with this, which you often will, then you can just play a creature, then use the +1 to give your whole board +1/+0 and haste, which is usually enough to instantly end the game.

Wrap Up

Pyrite Spellbomb | Illustration by Jim Nelson

Star Trek just released, so I think it would be unfair to pick a bomb from the set since it may change, although if I did have to choose, I’d pick U.S.S. Enterprise-A, Free Spirit.

Next year will have six sets, and with the way cards are designed for Limited these days, I’m sure we will have plenty of busted rares. Hopefully none of them will be as busted as Ajani Unrelenting and hopefully none of them are too unfun to play against, but I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see.