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Uncommon card · History
Colchis, an Uncommon card
In classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geography, Colchis was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia also including the region of Abkhazia.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 98
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Ranked #1,189 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Colchis quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Colchis card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Colchis is known in Greek mythology as the ______ of the Argonauts, as well as the home to Medea and the Golden Fleece.
Answer
destination. Colchis is known in Greek mythology as the destination of the Argonauts, as well as the home to Medea and the Golden Fleece. From the Colchis article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Philippine Revolution. Philippine Revolution 89 · Arthur Balfour 84 · Carolingian dynasty 81 · Colchis 78 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.
- Its population, the Colchians, are generally believed to have been primarily early Zan-speaking tribes, ancestral to the modern Laz and Mingrelian peoples.
- According to David Marshall Lang: "one of the most important elements in the modern Georgian nation, the Colchians were probably established in the Caucasus by the Middle Bronze Age." It has been described in modern scholarship as "the earliest Georgian formation", which, along with the Kingdom of Iberia, would later contribute significantly to the development of the Kingdom of Georgia and the…
- Colchis is known in Greek mythology as the destination of the Argonauts, as well as the home to Medea and the Golden Fleece.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Colchis 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 78 and blocks with 98: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Colchis
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Colchis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Deu , basiert auf Andrew Anderson's File:Earlycaucasus655.jpg und Don-Kun's File:Caucasus , CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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