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Uncommon card · Nature
Buttonquail, an Uncommon card
Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of ground birds, Turnicidae, in the order Charadriiformes.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 40,000
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Buttonquail quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Buttonquail card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They inhabit warm, tropical ______ of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and New Guinea.
Answer
grasslands. They inhabit warm, tropical grasslands of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and New Guinea. From the Buttonquail article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Chadic languages. Chadic languages 63 · Kangaroo Island emu 59 · Buttonquail 56 · Bornean bearded pig 53 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Decapod. Decapod 94,000 · Javan rusa 67,000 · Argiope bruennichi 51,000 · Buttonquail 40,000 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.
- Despite their name and resemblance, they bear no taxonomic relationship to Old World quail of the tribe Coturnicini under the order Galliformes, including the species often called "button quail".
- There are 18 species in two genera, with most species placed in the genus Turnix and a single species in the genus Ortyxelos.
- They inhabit warm, tropical grasslands of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and New Guinea.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Buttonquail article was read about 40,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Buttonquail
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, Buttonquail (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Aviceda, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
