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Common card · Nature
Courser, a Common card
The coursers are a subfamily Cursoriinae of birds which, together with the pratincoles, make up the family Glareolidae in the order Charadriiformes.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 41
- DEF
- 19
- Power
- 60
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,200
Power 60 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 5 % of WikiCards cards.
Courser quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Courser card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Like the ______, the coursers are found in warmer parts of the Old World.
Answer
pratincoles. Like the pratincoles, the coursers are found in warmer parts of the Old World. From the Courser article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Matanikau River. Matanikau River 49 · Courser 41 · Falzarego Pass 38 · Mount Atago 34 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.
- They have, compared to pratincoles, longer legs, shorter wings and longer pointed bills which curve downwards.
- They inhabit deserts and similar arid regions, and have cryptic plumage and crouch down when alarmed to avoid detection by predators.
- Like the pratincoles, the coursers are found in warmer parts of the Old World.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Courser article was read about 4,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 41 and blocks with 19: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Courser
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, Courser (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dibyendu Ash, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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