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Uncommon card · Nature
Baltimore oriole, an Uncommon card
The Baltimore oriole is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Baltimore oriole quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Baltimore oriole card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It received its common name from the ______ of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore.
Answer
resemblance. It received its common name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore. From the Baltimore oriole article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Montreal Protocol. Montreal Protocol 82 · Baltimore oriole 72 · Colubridae 69 · Great Bear Lake 60 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.
- It received its common name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore.
- Observations of interbreeding between the Baltimore oriole and the western Bullock's oriole Icterus bullockii, led to both being classified as a single species, called the northern oriole, from 1973 to 1995.
- Research by James Rising, a professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, and others showed that the two birds actually did not interbreed significantly.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Baltimore oriole article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Baltimore oriole
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, Baltimore oriole (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : TonyCastro, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
