Warp's Edge
141 questions players ask about Warp's Edge. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-06.
Setup and Components
- Where does the warp marker start, and how many warps do you get against The Dread?
- Where do the hull and shield markers go at setup?
- Is species used when building the enemy deck (for example only Viren enemies against The Dread)?
- How many energy tokens of each value come in the box?
- Do expansion enemy cards make the enemy deck bigger?
- Which power tokens go into the token tray, and what happens to the rest?
- Do the white-bordered starting tokens work differently from other tokens?
Pilot Actions, Tokens and Stunning
- Can I put more than one token on the same enemy or mothership section in a turn?
- Do I have to resolve my Pilot Actions left to right, or one at a time?
- When do tokens go to the discard during a turn?
- How long does a stun last, and do tokens stay on a target after stunning it?
- When an enemy is stunned, do its abilities switch off right away?
- Do Shade's and Juggernaut's abilities still work while they are stunned?
- Do I have to defeat an enemy I stun?
- Can an energy token stun or damage an enemy?
- Can I put laser tokens on an enemy that cannot be stunned by lasers?
- Can an enemy stunned by a maneuver be destroyed later with lasers alone?
Buying, Repairing and the Supply
- What do tokens cost when I buy them?
- Can I spend one energy token on several purchases, and do I get change?
- Can I buy energy tokens with energy?
- Can I trade several low-value tokens for one higher-value token?
- Where do bought or gained tokens go?
- Can I repair shields repeatedly, after hull damage, or repair my hull?
- What happens when the supply runs out of a token I would gain or buy?
Enemy Row and Enemy Cards
- How is the enemy row refilled, and what if there are more than four enemies?
- Is there a maximum number of enemies in the row?
- Are two enemies adjacent if the slot between them is empty?
- What does the yellow star on Vengeance, Glaive and Siphon mean?
- What happens when Vengeance is stunned?
- How does the Siphon's attack hit shields and hull, and can it be stunned?
- Is Juggernaut immune to Split Laser, and can value-1 lasers stun it?
- Do Bug Spray or Outmaneuver stun an enemy that cannot be stunned, like Thunder?
- Does Reaver still discard laser tokens at end of turn if it is stunned?
- Can mothership and ship effects that add to enemy requirements stack?
Damage, Shields and Hull
- Which tokens do I lose when my shields take damage?
- Do shields absorb damage before the hull, and does extra damage carry over?
- Do I still lose a token when I damage my own shields, such as with Exposed Blast or Pulse?
- Is damage still resolved after I defeat the last mothership section or my hull hits zero?
Skill Cards
- How often can I use a skill card, and what are ongoing skills?
- Can I pay a skill's cost over several turns?
- If I activate a skill but don't use it, does it stay activated into the next warp?
- When I use a skill, are the tokens discarded before or after the effect?
- When I gain a skill card from an effect, do I draw two and keep one?
- How many skill cards will I end up with?
- How does Fateful Lasers work with power tokens, other stacking effects and later turns?
- How does Split Laser work, and does it reach targets that appear later in the turn?
- Does Split Laser stun, or leave damage on enemies after the turn?
- How does Retrofit work with a skill card?
Power Tokens
- Do Photon Blast and Overdrive stun the two enemies they sit between?
- If an enemy cannot be stunned by lasers, can a power token that counts as lasers stun it?
- Is Photon Blast a laser token, for effects like Fateful Lasers or Reaver's discard?
- Where can I place Photon Blast or Overdrive, and can they go next to an empty slot?
- What happens to Photon Blast or Overdrive when one of its two targets is defeated?
- Can Photon Blast or Overdrive affect two adjacent mothership sections?
- Can Warhammer destroy or affect a mothership section?
- Does Warhammer stop lasers I already placed from stunning other enemies?
- Which reward do I get when Warhammer destroys an enemy?
- How does Reflect work, and can it target a mothership?
Rewards
- Are rewards mandatory when I defeat an enemy?
- When do I gain a reward, and can I use the tokens that same turn?
- What if a Draw 3 reward finds fewer than three tokens in the bag?
- Can I get both the destroy and the evade reward from one enemy?
- In what order do I take rewards when one effect defeats several enemies?
- Does a gain-any-token reward include power tokens?
- Can a shield reward raise my shields above the maximum?
- Where do tokens I gain from a reward go?
- Which reward applies when an enemy is destroyed with lasers?
Motherships
- When can I attack a Protected mothership like The Dread?
- When the last enemy falls, can I attack the mothership that turn, and does it attack me?
- How does Protected work on The Duo, and what happens after I defeat one half?
- Do The Duo's two decks and rows stay separate?
- Does The Duo's stun resistance end when I stun the mothership?
- Does the mothership marker reset at the start of a new warp?
- Does The Array's marker skip defeated sections?
- Do tokens on a mothership section stay between turns and between warps?
- Do defeated mothership sections stay defeated when I warp?
- Can lasers and maneuvers stun a mothership section even if it can't be defeated with them?
Starfighters
End of the Warp and End of the Game
Warp's Edge: Viren InvasionExpansion
- How do I stun and defeat the Larva, Pupa and Adult?
- How does The Hive's row work, with Worker, Drone and Queen?
- What happens if a Viren enemy adds an enemy but the deck is empty, or Stinging goes to an empty deck?
- How do the three decks of The Endless work?
- How does Overwhelm work?
- Does Energy Reserve make one-energy costs free?
- When does Achilles Model AR draw its sixth token?
- How do Achilles Model AR's lasers and maneuvers count for rewards?
- Are the Viren Invasion Achilles and Titan the same as the base ships?
- How many tokens does the Titan gain in Step 3?
Warp's Edge: AnomalyExpansion
- How many enemy cards does Anomaly add?
- Which Anomaly components are required?
- When do I get an anomaly's A side and when its B side?
- What if an anomaly effect can't be done fully, such as no laser to discard?
- Do anomalies gained in the final warp avoid their B side?
- Can I remove an anomaly token from my discard to absorb shield damage?
- When does Relic MX's optional extra draw happen?
- How do the Hourglass and its time tokens work?
- Does Pulse's damage make me discard a token?
- Does Isolate let me add fewer enemies than normal?