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Uncommon card · Science
Altair, an Uncommon card
Altair is the brightest star in the equatorial constellation of Aquila and the twelfth-brightest star in the night sky.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Ranked #1,990 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It has the Bayer designation Alpha Aquilae, which is Latinised from α Aquilae and abbreviated Alpha Aql or α Aql.
- Altair is an A-type main-sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.77 and is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle asterism, the other two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega.
- It is located at a distance of 16.7 light-years from the Sun.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Altair article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Altair
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Altair (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Aquila_constellation_map.png : Torsten Bronger derivative work: Kxx ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
