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Rare card · Nature
Cordyceps, a Rare card
Cordyceps is a genus of ascomycete fungi that includes over 260 species worldwide, many of which are parasitic.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 121
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 270,000
Power 121 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Cordyceps quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cordyceps card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Diverse ______ of cordyceps have had more than 1,500 years of use in Chinese medicine.
Answer
variants. Diverse variants of cordyceps have had more than 1,500 years of use in Chinese medicine. From the Cordyceps article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Victoria Forest Park. Victoria Forest Park 67 · Pegasus 64 · Cordyceps 60 · Wahoo 57 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Mahi-mahi. Mahi-mahi 380,000 · Cordyceps 270,000 · Northern Idaho ground squirrel 2,900 · Victoria Forest Park 840 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.
- Diverse variants of cordyceps have had more than 1,500 years of use in Chinese medicine.
- Most Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods, a few are parasitic on other fungi.
- The generic name Cordyceps is derived from the ancient Greek κορδύλη kordýlē, meaning "club", and the Latin -ceps, derived from Latin caput, meaning "head".
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cordyceps article was read about 270,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Cordyceps
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, Cordyceps (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Andreas Kunze, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
