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Abbey, an Uncommon card
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 98,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Abbey quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Abbey card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Religious life in an abbey may be ______.
Answer
monastic. Religious life in an abbey may be monastic. From the Abbey article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Blacksmith. Blacksmith 130,000 · Abbey 98,000 · Courland 75,000 · Ragamuffin War 60,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian or Buddhist monks and nuns.
- The concept of the abbey has developed over many centuries from the early monastic ways of religious men and women where they would live isolated from the lay community about them.
- Religious life in an abbey may be monastic.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Abbey article was read about 98,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Abbey
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Abbey (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jjshapiro at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
