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Uncommon card · Science
Corvus, an Uncommon card
Corvus is a small constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 60,000
Power 171 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Corvus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Corvus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The four brightest stars, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, and Beta Corvi, form a ______ quadrilateral or cross-shape in the night sky.
Answer
distinctive. The four brightest stars, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, and Beta Corvi, form a distinctive quadrilateral or cross-shape in the night sky. From the Corvus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Induced pluripotent stem cell. Induced pluripotent stem cell 85 · Diels–Alder reaction 81 · Corvus 77 · Fukuzawa Yukichi 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Induced pluripotent stem cell. Induced pluripotent stem cell 84,000 · Corvus 60,000 · Miss Universe Philippines 2024 45,000 · Computational chemistry 32,000 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.
- Its name means "raven" in Latin.
- One of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, it depicts a raven, a bird associated with stories about the god Apollo, perched on the back of Hydra the water snake.
- The four brightest stars, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, and Beta Corvi, form a distinctive quadrilateral or cross-shape in the night sky.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Corvus article was read about 60,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Corvus
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.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Corvus in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Fukuzawa YukichiUncommon · Science · ATK 74 DEF 97
- Richard GasquetUncommon · History · ATK 86 DEF 85
- Václav KlausUncommon · History · ATK 82 DEF 89
- Ecological nicheUncommon · Nature · ATK 81 DEF 90
- Jacques PlanteUncommon · Society · ATK 75 DEF 96
- History of SerbiaUncommon · History · ATK 86 DEF 85
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Corvus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
