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Alma mater, a Rare card
Alma mater is an allegorical Latin phrase meaning 'nourishing mother'.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 380,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Alma mater quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alma mater card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It personifies a ______ that a person has attended or graduated from.
Answer
school. It personifies a school that a person has attended or graduated from. From the Alma mater article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Helmstedt – Wolfsburg. Helmstedt – Wolfsburg 71 · Portugal at the FIFA World Cup 64 · Marina Hyde 61 · Alma mater 58 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Vanessa Trump. Vanessa Trump 3,100,000 · Alma mater 380,000 · George Stanley Gordon 590 · Cincinnati Kelly's Killers all-time roster 280 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 personifies a school that a person has attended or graduated from.
- The term is related to alumnus, meaning 'nursling', which describes a school graduate.
- In its earliest usage, alma mater was an honorific title for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alma mater article was read about 380,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Alma mater
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 Alma mater in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Sheryl UnderwoodLegendary · Arts · ATK 61 DEF 45
- Victor WillisEpic · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 41
- Nance O'NeilRare · Arts · ATK 62 DEF 44
- Portugal at the FIFA World CupRare · Society · ATK 64 DEF 42
- Low Earth orbitRare · Science · ATK 65 DEF 41
- March 1933 German federal electionRare · History · ATK 63 DEF 43
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alma mater (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Another Believer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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