Ship

Ship is an atypical, and now obsolete, blue creature type used for cards picturing ships and zeppelins. Pirate Ship 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 Talas Air Ship.

In the Grand Creature Type Update the subtype Ship was eliminated, mostly replaced by the race of the shipscrew.

Changes

Former ships

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

Never been ship-type

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

Exception to the rule

• Toy Boat 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:

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

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