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Uncommon card · Society
Animal sacrifice, an Uncommon card
Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of animals, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 49,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Animal sacrifice quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Animal sacrifice card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Human sacrifice, where it ______, was always much rarer.
Answer
existed. Human sacrifice, where it existed, was always much rarer. From the Animal sacrifice article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Dog fighting. Dog fighting 86,000 · Jordyn Wieber 66,000 · Animal sacrifice 49,000 · Economy of Costa Rica 39,000 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.
- Animal sacrifices were common throughout Europe and the Ancient Near East until the spread of Christianity in Late Antiquity, and continue in some cultures or religions today.
- Human sacrifice, where it existed, was always much rarer.
- All or only part of a sacrificial animal may be offered, some cultures, like the Ancient Greeks ate most of the edible parts of the sacrifice in a feast, and burnt the rest as an offering.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Animal sacrifice article was read about 49,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Animal sacrifice
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Animal sacrifice (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Epidromos Painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
