Star Trek: Deck Building - Upgrade Rules

Question

When a card is suppose to be upgraded do you remove the card being upgraded from your deck? Then the card gained from the upgrade, are you allowed to play that card? If you upgraded a card already on the bridge, can you play the gained card?

Answer 1

Yes, you remove an upgraded card from your deck. No, you are not allowed to play a card immediately when you gain it. Normally, when gain a card it goes to your discard unless the card specifically tells you otherwise. No, if you upgrade a card from your bridge, the gained cards normally go to your discard area, unless the card says specifically otherwise.

From the Rulebook2.0 on Bandai's website, (page 24-25 Glossary):

Gain - Move a card from Starbase to your discard area (Some effects may move it to another area).

Upgrade - This is short for “Trash the designated card and gain a card from Starbase costing up to the designated amount more than the trashed card”. So you can trash a card of cost X and gain a card with a cost less then X.

Trash - Move a card to one of the following areas depending on where the card originated from:

• If it is a starter card, remove it from the game.
• If it is a Basic Character card, move it to its pile on Starbase.
• If it is a card that started in the Starbase Deck, move it to the Starbase Discard Area.
• If it is a Borg Card, move it to the Borg Card Pile