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Uncommon card · Science
Aldebaran, an Uncommon card
Aldebaran is a red giant star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 174
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Ranked #1,263 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Aldebaran quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Aldebaran card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is at a ______ of approximately 67 light-years.
Answer
distance. It is at a distance of approximately 67 light-years. From the Aldebaran article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy 91 · Rocket 87 · Extraversion and introversion 84 · Aldebaran 79 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy 180,000 · Aldebaran 140,000 · Brain injury 51,000 · COVID-19 vaccination in the United States 40,000 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.
- It has the Bayer designation α Tauri, which is Latinized to Alpha Tauri and abbreviated Alpha Tau or α Tau.
- Aldebaran varies in brightness from an apparent visual magnitude of 0.75 down to 0.95, making it the brightest star in the constellation, as well as the fourteenth-brightest star in the night sky.
- It is at a distance of approximately 67 light-years.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Aldebaran article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Aldebaran
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Aldebaran in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Extraversion and introversionUncommon · Science · ATK 84 DEF 90
- List of prime ministers of ItalyUncommon · History · ATK 90 DEF 84
- Edmund HusserlUncommon · Science · ATK 86 DEF 88
- Lake ConstanceUncommon · Nature · ATK 85 DEF 89
- Alexander DubčekUncommon · History · ATK 85 DEF 89
- AngerUncommon · History · ATK 88 DEF 86
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Aldebaran (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Taurus_constellation_map.png : Torsten Bronger derivative work: Kxx ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
