The Discraft Terminator is an overstable distance driver rated 12/5/-1/3, built for power throwers who need a disc to hold its line through torque and wind and then finish. It is one of Discraft’s newest molds, PDGA approved in February 2026, with a First Run in Z plastic released on 28 August.
Discraft’s design rests on two choices. The dome is built into the mold rather than left to the cooling process, which is meant to keep runs consistent and add a little glide. And the rim is nose-weighted, so the disc keeps driving forward before it fades instead of dropping out early. On the numbers, the -1 is a slight high-speed flip only a big arm will see, and the 3 is a firm finish, left for a right-handed backhand. Below distance-driver arm speed it fades early and hard, which Discraft pitches as the other use: a forehand, skip and flex disc for developing arms.
Its numbers match the Zeus and the Innova Destroyer exactly, so its slot is the overstable bomber above a more neutral distance driver. Out of Bounds Disc Golf‘s review puts it closest to the Force, with similar headwind stability but less tendency to crash out, and finds it slower than the Nuke but a better wind-fighter than the Zeus. It is too new for reviewer averages to confirm the rating. It is not a turnover or anhyzer disc, and it gives little distance to anyone who can’t get it past its fade.
Discraft hasn’t explained the name. Instead it gave the mold a character: the First Run stamp carries artwork Discraft says will not appear on later runs, meant to stand for “commanding flight” and “relentlessness” and to start an ongoing story for the disc. Nothing more about the character has been published.
So far the Terminator exists only in Z. Discraft also sold numbered Test Flight versions through its factory store, reaching at least Batch #6, and says the disc was with Team Discraft from the start of 2026 and changed on the team’s feedback. No player is attached to it as a signature thrower.
How much the Terminator turns and fades depends on how hard it is thrown. These three shapes are drawn from the manufacturer’s numbers, not from measured throws.
Measured by the PDGA when the Terminator was certified. Each card names discs that share the number, so you can feel it in the hand.


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