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Uncommon card · History
Cyrus Cylinder, an Uncommon card
The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written an Achaemenid royal inscription in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 183
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Ranked #633 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Cyrus Cylinder quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cyrus Cylinder card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is currently in the ______ of the British Museum.
Answer
possession. It is currently in the possession of the British Museum. From the Cyrus Cylinder article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon in ____.
Answer
1870s. It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon in 1879. From the Cyrus Cylinder article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
1990s. 1990s 97 · German colonial empire 91 · Cyrus Cylinder 87 · Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor 83 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.
- It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon in 1879.
- It is currently in the possession of the British Museum.
- It was created and used as a foundation deposit following the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, when the Neo-Babylonian Empire was invaded by Cyrus and incorporated into his Persian Empire.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cyrus Cylinder article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Cyrus Cylinder
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, Cyrus Cylinder (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Prioryman, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
