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Crotalum, a Common card
In classical antiquity, a crotalum, plural crotala, was a kind of clapper or castanet used in religious dances by groups in ancient Greece and elsewhere, including the Korybantes.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 47
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 95
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,900
Power 95 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Crotalum quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Crotalum card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term has been erroneously supposed by some writers to be the same as the ______.
Answer
sistrum. The term has been erroneously supposed by some writers to be the same as the sistrum. From the Crotalum article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Fernando Chui. Fernando Chui 64 · HMS Investigator 58 · Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence 55 · Crotalum 47 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.
- The term has been erroneously supposed by some writers to be the same as the sistrum.
- These mistakes are refuted at length by Friedrich Adolph Lampe in De cymbalis veterum.
- From the Suda and the Scholiast on Aristophanes, it appears to have been a split reed or cane, which clattered when shaken with the hand.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Crotalum article was read about 6,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 47 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Crotalum
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, Crotalum (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mark Landon, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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