Ship

Ship is an atypical, and now obsolete, predominantly blue creature type used for cards picturing ships and zeppelins. <c>Pirate Ship</c> established Ship as a creature type all the way back in Alpha, though it would be quite a while before the odd line “Creature — Ship” actually appeared on <c>Talas Air Ship</c>.

In the Grand Creature Type Update the subtype Ship was eliminated, mostly replaced by the race of the ship's crew. The one exception is the silver-bordered <c>Toy Boat</c> from Unhinged which remained as a Ship artifact creature.

Changes

Former ships

• <c>Pirate Ship</c> from Alpha changed to Human Pirate.
• <c>Merchant Ship</c> from Arabian Nights changed to Human.
• <c>Ghost Ship</c> from The Dark changed to Spirit.
• <c>Reef Pirates</c> from Homelands changed to Zombie Pirate.
• <c>Talas Air Ship</c> from Portal Second Age changed to Human Pirate.
• <c>Steam Frigate</c> from Portal Second Age changed to Human Pirate.
• <c>Armored Galleon</c> from Portal Second Age changed to Human Pirate.
• <c>Wu Warship</c> from Portal Three Kingdoms changed into Human Soldier.
• <c>Red Cliffs Armada</c> from Portal Three Kingdoms changed into Human Soldier.
• <c>Saprazzan Outrigger</c> from Mercadian Masques changed into Merfolk.
• <c>Battle Squadron</c> from Mercadian Masques, the only red Ship, changed to Goblin.
• <c>Stronghold Zeppelin</c> from Nemesis, changed to Human.
• <c>Windscouter</c> from Prophecy, changed to Human Scout.
• <c>Metathran Transport</c> from Invasion, changed to Metathran.
• <c>Metathran Aerostat</c> from Invasion, changed to Metathran.
• <c>Living Airship</c> from Apocalypse, changed to Metathran (but could have been a Plant).

Never been ship-type

• <c>Skeleton Ship</c> from Ice Age never was a Ship, it changed from Legend to Skeleton.
• <c>Rishadan Airship</c> from Mercadian Masques never was a Ship, it changed from Pirate to Human Pirate.

Exception to the rule

• <c>Toy Boat</c> from Unhinged never has changed from being an Artifact Creature — Ship.

Artifacts

Because non-creature artifacts never have creature types these Ships never were named as such in the type line:

• <c>Predator, Flagship</c> from Nemesis
• <c>Skyship Weatherlight</c> from Apocalypse
• <c>Skysovereign, Consul Flagship</c> from Kaladesh (and other vehicles).

After the introduction of the artifact subtype Vehicle, Ships were heavily featured as such in the Ixalan block.