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Brain coral, an Uncommon card
Brain coral is a common name given to various corals in the families Mussidae and Merulinidae, so called due to their generally spheroid shape and grooved surface, which resembles a brain.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 83
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 83 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Brain coral quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Brain coral card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Brain corals are found in ______ warm water coral reefs in all the world's oceans.
Answer
shallow. Brain corals are found in shallow warm water coral reefs in all the world's oceans. From the Brain coral article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Join and meet. Join and meet 59 · Preserved counties of Wales 55 · Brain coral 49 · Voiceless bilabial affricate 46 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Preserved counties of Wales. Preserved counties of Wales 38,000 · Congenital amputation 28,000 · Brain coral 20,000 · Join and meet 15,000 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.
- Each head of coral is formed by a colony of genetically identical polyps which secrete a hard skeleton of calcium carbonate, this makes them important coral reef builders like other stony corals in the order Scleractinia.
- Brain corals are found in shallow warm water coral reefs in all the world's oceans.
- They are part of the phylum Cnidaria, in a class called Anthozoa or "flower animals".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Brain coral 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 49 and blocks with 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Brain coral
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, Brain coral (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NPS - Larry Basch, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
