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Basking shark, a Rare card
The basking shark is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 160
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 160 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark.
- Typically, basking sharks reach 7.9 m in length, but large individuals have been known to grow more than 10 m long.
- It is usually greyish-brown, with mottled skin, with the inside of the mouth being white in colour.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Basking shark article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Basking shark
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Basking shark (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Greg Skomal / NOAA Fisheries Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.




