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Uncommon card · Nature
Common swift, an Uncommon card
The common swift is a medium-sized bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin but somewhat larger, though not stemming from those passerine species, being in the order Apodiformes.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Power 128 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Common swift quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Common swift card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The swifts' nearest relatives are the New World hummingbirds and the ______ Asian treeswifts.
Answer
Southeast. The swifts' nearest relatives are the New World hummingbirds and the Southeast Asian treeswifts. From the Common swift article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Civil law. Civil law 76 · Binary search tree 70 · Common swift 66 · Chanterelle 63 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Hornet. Hornet 340,000 · Leek 220,000 · Common swift 160,000 · Chanterelle 100,000 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.
- The resemblances between the groups are due to convergent evolution, reflecting similar contextual development.
- The swifts' nearest relatives are the New World hummingbirds and the Southeast Asian treeswifts.
- Its scientific name Apus is Latin for a swift, thought by the ancients to be a type of swallow with no feet.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Common swift article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Common swift
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Common swift (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Alexis Lours, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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