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Rare card · History
Brahmi script, a Rare card
Brahmi is a writing system from ancient India that appeared as a fully developed script in the 3rd century BCE.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 92
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Ranked #403 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Brahmi script quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Brahmi script card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Its ______, the Brahmic scripts, continue to be used today across South and Southeastern Asia.
Answer
descendants. Its descendants, the Brahmic scripts, continue to be used today across South and Southeastern Asia. From the Brahmi script article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ayutthaya Kingdom. Ayutthaya Kingdom 96 · Brahmi script 92 · Mahmud of Ghazni 89 · Porfirio Díaz 86 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.
- Its descendants, the Brahmic scripts, continue to be used today across South and Southeastern Asia.
- Brahmi is an abugida and uses a system of diacritical marks to associate vowels with consonant symbols.
- The writing system only went through relatively minor evolutionary changes from the Mauryan period down to the early Gupta period, and it is thought that as late as the 4th century CE, a literate person could still read and understand Mauryan inscriptions.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Brahmi script 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 92 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Brahmi script
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Brahmi script (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Symphonicallyu, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
