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Epic card · Nature
Anglerfish, an Epic card
The anglerfish are ray-finned fish in the order Lophiiformes.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 540,000
Power 168 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Anglerfish quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Anglerfish card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Anglerfish occur in marine waters worldwide and occupy both bottom ______ and open water habitats.
Answer
associated. Anglerfish occur in marine waters worldwide and occupy both bottom associated and open water habitats. From the Anglerfish article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Opium. Opium 89 · Anglerfish 80 · Alpine lake 77 · Honey badger 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Honey badger. Honey badger 1,000,000 · Anglerfish 540,000 · Alpine lake 32,000 · 1914 Spanish general election 2,900 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.
- Both the order's common and scientific name come from the characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified dorsal fin ray acts as a lure for prey.
- The modified fin ray, with the very tip being the esca and the length of the structure the illicium, is adapted to attract specific prey items across the families of anglerfish by using different luring methods, one method is a bioluminescent lure.
- Anglerfish occur in marine waters worldwide and occupy both bottom associated and open water habitats.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Anglerfish article was read about 540,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Anglerfish
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 Anglerfish in the power ranking, all domains together.
- NefertitiEpic · History · ATK 78 DEF 90
- Sagittarius A*Epic · Science · ATK 82 DEF 86
- OpiumEpic · Nature · ATK 89 DEF 79
- Catalan languageEpic · Society · ATK 92 DEF 76
- BarnacleEpic · Nature · ATK 77 DEF 91
- CentipedeRare · Nature · ATK 77 DEF 91
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Anglerfish (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Anthropophoca, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
