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Chinese zodiac, an Epic card
The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 950,000
Ranked #2,088 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Chinese zodiac quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chinese zodiac card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Chinese folkways held that one's personality is related to the ______ of their zodiac animal.
Answer
attributes. Chinese folkways held that one's personality is related to the attributes of their zodiac animal. From the Chinese zodiac article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Chinese zodiac. Chinese zodiac 80 · Biological dispersal 75 · Berlengas 69 · Silver-studded blue 65 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Chinese zodiac. Chinese zodiac 950,000 · Berlengas 14,000 · Pacific swift 9,500 · Silver-studded blue 7,200 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.
- The zodiac is very important in Chinese culture as a reflection of traditional Chinese philosophy.
- Chinese folkways held that one's personality is related to the attributes of their zodiac animal.
- Originating from China, the zodiac and its variations remain popular in many East Asian, Central Asian and Southeast Asian countries, such as Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Turkey, and Singapore, and among immigrants from these countries.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chinese zodiac article was read about 950,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Chinese zodiac
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Chinese zodiac in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Nasdaq-100Legendary · Society · ATK 59 DEF 83
- Artemis IIILegendary · Science · ATK 70 DEF 73
- List of Tim Curry performancesLegendary · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 68
- Udhayanidhi StalinEpic · History · ATK 76 DEF 66
- Ehud BarakEpic · History · ATK 75 DEF 67
- De'Aaron FoxEpic · Society · ATK 74 DEF 68
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Chinese zodiac (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
