Wind · Blast
Tornado
A large wind explosion. Touch the desired center point to activate.
Spell scene
Choose the units and replay the cast with the cartridge’s sprites and sounds.
Press Replay or Resume to activate sound.
Spell drawing
Tornado
This unit uses its idle pose for chanting or casting.
Uses this in battle: Seneka.
Illustrative reconstruction: frames, palettes and effect timings come from the ROM. Part placement and drawing speed are choices of this viewer.
Outcome and status application are selected for the demonstration; they are not a battle roll.
In the game, each effect family decides when it is removed. This spell’s family is not decoded yet: the scene removes it 2 s after the impact.
How to cast it
Draw these runes in order, each in one stroke, while holding L.
MP cost
It goes down as Isaac’s level in each rune’s element rises.
| Element level | 1–10 | 11–20 | 21–30 | 31–40 | 41–50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MP | 60 | 56 | 53 | 49 | 46 |
Aim
Tap a point. Touch a point inside the range; the area has a fixed size.
Affects: Enemies
What it does
- Power
- 769
- Cast range
- 150 px
- Radius
- 65 px
- Hits after
- 0.48 s · 29 ticks
Against creatures
It heals wind creatures a little instead of hurting them (1/16 of its power) and does ×1.5 to earth ones. Against the rest, normal damage.
Wind creatures: Silfeed, Runefeed, Green Shog, Harpia, Elpia, Gale Hound, Acrobat, Gale Dragon, Wind Mage, Trista
Earth creatures (×1.5): Gnome, Rune Gnome, Mush-Mushy, Brown Shog, Mud Golem, Stone Golem, Earth Hound, Earth Dragon, Earth Mage, Geh Olg
Power at cast
Before the target’s element and defenses. Each value is the game’s own formula.
Power:
Similar spells
The 5 spells that run on the same game code as this one. Only what changes between them is shown.
| Spells | Traits | MP (level 1–10) | Cast range | Duration | Hits after | Radius | Power | Runes | Aim |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind Shards | — | 20 | 140 px | 0 s | 0.48 s | 45 px | 414 | 1 | Draw a circle |
| Typhoon | — | 40 | 120 px | 0 s | 0.48 s | 55 px | 720 | 2 | Tap a point |
| Tornado | — | 60 | 150 px | 0 s | 0.48 s | 65 px | 769 | 2 | Tap a point |
| Hurricane | — | 75 | 190 px | 1 s | 1.53 s | 80 px | 891 | 2 | Tap a point |
| Final Storm | Knocks down | 100 | 180 px | 0.1 s | 1.82 s | 85 px | 1,130 | 3 | Tap a point |