Magic: The Gathering® | Star Trek™ Update Bulletin

The arrival of the Star Trek crossover brings several formal updates to the Comprehensive Rules. Sections 700.17, 701.72, and 702.196 have been added to standard definitions to officially govern three newly introduced mechanics: face a dilemma, assimilate, and beam me up.

Additionally, the game's engine now formally accounts for unique replacement effects like the one found on Kira Nerys, Firebrand. This tweak ensures that creatures can properly enter the battlefield already tapped and attacking under specified game conditions.

A minor adjustment clarifies how power and toughness work on noncreature objects outside the battlefield zone. Unless those stats are tied directly to an ability, the object only possesses power and toughness values if they are explicitly printed on the card face.

The set also introduces a massive influx of new creature types to the game, expanding the list of character traits far beyond recent expansions.

The sole major text change in this update fixes a long-standing rules headache involving Werewolf Pack Leader. Previously, its activated ability stated that it lost the Human type, which created bizarre and mathematically burdensome interactions when combined with effect-modifying cards like Stalactite Dagger or text-changing spells like Artificial Evolution. Calculating creature types in those corner cases was needlessly complex, especially when evaluating mana-generating cards like Starfleet Academy.

To simplify game state tracking, the activated ability of Werewolf Pack Leader has been errata'd. Instead of removing the Human type, activating the ability now turns the card directly into a Werewolf, causing it to lose all other creature types. This preserves how the card plays in standard scenarios while protecting players from obscure computational nightmares.