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Uncommon card · Science
Apus, an Uncommon card
Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise, and its name means "without feet" in Greek because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 137
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Ranked #2,166 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Apus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Apus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The five ______ stars are all reddish in hue.
Answer
brightest. The five brightest stars are all reddish in hue. From the Apus article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted and gave the brighter stars their Bayer designations in ____.
Answer
1750s. The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted and gave the brighter stars their Bayer designations in 1756. From the Apus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Monhegan, Maine. Monhegan, Maine 29,000 · Apus 20,000 · Staurikosaurus 16,000 · Muiredach's High Cross 10,000 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.
- First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius in 1598, it was charted on a star atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria.
- The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted and gave the brighter stars their Bayer designations in 1756.
- The five brightest stars are all reddish in hue.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Apus article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Apus
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, Apus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
