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Rare card · Arts
Castor and Pollux, a Rare card
Castor and Pollux are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 350,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Castor and Pollux quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Castor and Pollux card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The pair are thus an example of ______ superfecundation.
Answer
heteropaternal. The pair are thus an example of heteropaternal superfecundation. From the Castor and Pollux article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Chartres Cathedral. Chartres Cathedral 84 · Buckethead 80 · The Communist Manifesto 77 · Castor and Pollux 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Antonio Vivaldi. Antonio Vivaldi 520,000 · Castor and Pollux 350,000 · Gustave Courbet 170,000 · John Banville 120,000 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.
- Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers, Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan.
- The pair are thus an example of heteropaternal superfecundation.
- Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their sister Helen of Troy.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Castor and Pollux article was read about 350,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Castor and Pollux
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, Castor and Pollux (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
