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Canopic jar, an Uncommon card
Canopic jars are funerary vessels that were used by the ancient Egyptians to house embalmed organs that were removed during the mummification process.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 71,000
Power 132 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Canopic jar quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Canopic jar card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They also served to store and preserve the viscera for the ______.
Answer
afterlife. They also served to store and preserve the viscera for the afterlife. From the Canopic jar article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cuenca, Ecuador. Cuenca, Ecuador 76 · Cumberland 72 · Joseph Bazalgette 67 · Canopic jar 64 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Cumberland. Cumberland 110,000 · Canopic jar 71,000 · Nizam al-Mulk 50,000 · Marcel Mauss 32,000 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.
- They also served to store and preserve the viscera for the afterlife.
- Use of the jars dates back to the Old Kingdom and continued until the Late Period and the Ptolemaic Period, after which time the viscera were simply wrapped and placed with the body.
- Over the course of ancient Egyptian history, various changes occurred in the design and style of canopic jars.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Canopic jar article was read about 71,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Canopic jar
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Canopic jar (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Daderot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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