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Uncommon card · History
Calais, an Uncommon card
Calais is a French major port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 182
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Ranked #698 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Calais quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Calais card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ of the city proper is 67,585, that of the urban area is 144,488.
Answer
population. The population of the city proper is 67,585, that of the urban area is 144,488. From the Calais article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cannon. Cannon 91 · Prince Eugene of Savoy 88 · Calais 85 · Louis Riel 82 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.
- Calais is the largest city in Pas-de-Calais.
- The population of the city proper is 67,585, that of the urban area is 144,488.
- Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, which is only 34 km wide here, and is the closest French town to England.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Calais article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Calais
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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- ClarinetUncommon · Arts · ATK 82 DEF 100
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Calais (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jiel Beaumadier, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
