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Amethyst, a Rare card
Amethyst is a violet variety of natural quartz. Ancient Greeks wore amethyst and carved drinking vessels from it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 400,000
Ranked #1,911 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Amethyst quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Amethyst card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Amethyst, a ______ stone, is often used in jewelry.
Answer
semiprecious. Amethyst, a semiprecious stone, is often used in jewelry. From the Amethyst article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Amethyst. Amethyst 400,000 · Cucumber 320,000 · Bottom trawling 27,000 · Glossina morsitans 2,400 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.
- Amethyst, a semiprecious stone, is often used in jewelry.
- It occurs mostly in association with calcite, quartz, smoky quartz, hematite, pyrite, fluorite, goethite, agate, and chalcedony.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Amethyst article was read about 400,000 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 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Amethyst
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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The cards just above and just below Amethyst in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Jacques CousteauRare · History · ATK 79 DEF 72
- ExcaliburRare · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 79
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- Bartholomew the ApostleRare · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 78
- Arthur RinderknechRare · Society · ATK 80 DEF 71
- The IdiotRare · Arts · ATK 82 DEF 69
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Amethyst (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gonzalo Devia, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
