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Uncommon card · Science
Cytisine, an Uncommon card
Cytisine, also known as baptitoxine, cytisinicline, or sophorine, is an alkaloid that occurs naturally in several plant genera, such as Laburnum and Cytisus of the family Fabaceae.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 102
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 45,000
Power 102 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Cytisine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cytisine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It has been used medically to help with smoking ______.
Answer
cessation. It has been used medically to help with smoking cessation. From the Cytisine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Mountain pass. Mountain pass 68,000 · Cytisine 45,000 · Abies nordmanniana 28,000 · Leptospermum 19,000 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.
- It has been used medically to help with smoking cessation.
- It has been found effective in several randomized clinical trials, including in the United States and New Zealand, and is being investigated in additional trials in the United States and a non-inferiority trial in Australia in which it is being compared head-to-head with the smoking cessation aid varenicline.
- It has also been used entheogenically via mescalbeans by some Native American groups, historically in the Rio Grande Valley predating even peyote.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cytisine article was read about 45,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Cytisine
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cytisine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Yikrazuul, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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