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Rare card · Science
Big Dipper, a Rare card
The Big Dipper or the Plough is an asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major, six of them are of second magnitude and one, Megrez, of third magnitude.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Ranked #2,057 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Big Dipper quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Big Dipper card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is recognized as a ______ grouping in many cultures.
Answer
distinct. It is recognized as a distinct grouping in many cultures. From the Big Dipper article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Anansi. Anansi 85 · Variance 79 · Big Dipper 74 · Bridge strike 70 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Variance. Variance 430,000 · Big Dipper 230,000 · List of sweet potato cultivars 13,000 · Bridge strike 6,300 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.
- Four define a "bowl" or "body" and three define a "handle" or "head".
- It is recognized as a distinct grouping in many cultures.
- The North Star, the current northern pole star and the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper, can be located by extending an imaginary line through the front two stars of the asterism, Merak and Dubhe.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Big Dipper article was read about 230,000 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 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Big Dipper
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.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Big Dipper in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Niccolò PaganiniRare · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 70
- OuagadougouRare · Society · ATK 72 DEF 71
- Sui dynastyRare · History · ATK 71 DEF 72
- AnansiRare · Arts · ATK 85 DEF 58
- TarsierRare · Nature · ATK 72 DEF 71
- VowelRare · Society · ATK 79 DEF 64
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Big Dipper (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:B00P & me ( SAE1962 10:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
