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Common card · Nature
Cuckoo-roller, a Common card
The cuckoo-roller or courol is the only bird in the family Leptosomidae, which was previously often placed in the order Coraciiformes but is now placed in its own order Leptosomiformes.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Cuckoo-roller quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cuckoo-roller card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is a medium-large bird, inhabiting forests and woodlands in Madagascar and the ______ Islands.
Answer
Comoro. It is a medium-large bird, inhabiting forests and woodlands in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. From the Cuckoo-roller article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Euglenozoa. Euglenozoa 68 · Basement 63 · Ahaetulla 60 · Cuckoo-roller 52 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 cuckoo-roller is at the root of a group that contains the Trogoniformes, Bucerotiformes, Piciformes, and Coraciiformes.
- Despite its name, the cuckoo-roller does not share close evolutionary origins with cuckoos or rollers, although for long it was counted among the closer relatives of the latter.
- It is a medium-large bird, inhabiting forests and woodlands in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cuckoo-roller article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 52 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Cuckoo-roller
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, Cuckoo-roller (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Brian Ralphs from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
