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Algol, an Uncommon card
Algol, designated Beta Persei, known colloquially as the Demon Star, is a bright multiple star in the constellation of Perseus and one of the first non-nova variable stars to be discovered.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 55,000
Ranked #1,815 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Algol is a three-star system, consisting of Beta Persei Aa1, Aa2, and Ab – in which the hot luminous primary β Persei Aa1 and the larger, but cooler and fainter, β Persei Aa2 regularly pass in front of each other, causing eclipses.
- Thus Algol's magnitude is usually near-constant at 2.1, but regularly dips to 3.4 every 2.86 days during the roughly 10-hour-long partial eclipses.
- The secondary eclipse when the brighter primary star occults the fainter secondary is very shallow and can only be detected photoelectrically.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Algol article was read about 55,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Algol
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Algol (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Perseus_constellation_map.png : Torsten Bronger derivative work: Kxx ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.




