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Uncommon card · Society
Altar, an Uncommon card
An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 66,000
Power 142 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Altar quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Altar card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Altars are found at shrines, temples, churches, and other places of ______.
Answer
worship. Altars are found at shrines, temples, churches, and other places of worship. From the Altar article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Altar. Altar 79 · Dennis Man 75 · Special Region of Yogyakarta 71 · Addax 67 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Altars are found at shrines, temples, churches, and other places of worship.
- They are used particularly in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and modern paganism.
- Many historical-medieval faiths also made use of them, including the Roman, Greek, and Norse religions.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Altar article was read about 66,000 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 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Altar
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 Altar in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Constantine P. CavafyUncommon · Arts · ATK 71 DEF 71
- Court of Arbitration for SportUncommon · Society · ATK 75 DEF 67
- AddaxUncommon · Nature · ATK 67 DEF 75
- GoriziaUncommon · Society · ATK 75 DEF 67
- Sergei DiaghilevUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 70
- Along the River During the Qingming FestivalUncommon · Arts · ATK 71 DEF 71
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Altar (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nico / Nils Jepsen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
