Topan: Ormas Leader

Topan: Ormas Leader

Identity: Natural
Deck size: 45 • Influence: 15 • Link: 0

Once per turn → [click]: Install 1 card from your grip, paying 2[credit] less. When you install that card, suffer 1 meat damage.

Whatever it takes for us to survive.
Illustrated by Zefanya Langkan Maega
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  • Updated 2025-06-30

    The Runner has a copy of Masterwork (v37) installed and uses Topan's ability to install a piece of hardware. Does the Runner suffer 1 meat damage before or after drawing a card with Masterwork (v37)?

    Both abilities meet their trigger condition at the same time, when the installation is completed, so the Runner chooses which order they resolve in.

Reviews

Topan is “Patchwork as an ID”!

They can repeatedly convert 1 card to 2 credits. Although (unlike Patchwork), the discard is random, and events (or instant-speed installations) can't be subsidized.

With Moshing banned (and Patchwork rotating), most Steelskin Scarring/Strike Fund triggers will be random, like Lago Paranoá Shelter (topdeck) and Bankhar (damage).


BTW, I like the new Once per turn → … keyword-flag. IMO, it's clearer than the newer templating (… Use this ability only once per turn.), being the first thing you read, and cleaner than the older one (Once per turn, …), the extra comma being messy. Some card games keyword all common conditions (like Once per turn: …, Enters: …, and so on).


(Rebellion Without Rehearsal era)