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Uncommon card · History
Death squad, an Uncommon card
A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings and murders against a group of people.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 91
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Death squad quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Death squad card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Other violence, such as rape, torture, arson, or bombings may be carried out ______ murders.
Answer
alongside. Other violence, such as rape, torture, arson, or bombings may be carried out alongside murders. From the Death squad article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Death squad. Death squad 91 · Jacques Cousteau 79 · Upper Paleolithic 75 · Abolhassan Banisadr 71 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Jacques Cousteau. Jacques Cousteau 430,000 · Abolhassan Banisadr 200,000 · Death squad 150,000 · Battle of Jena–Auerstedt 120,000 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.
- They are usually deployed by governments or other entities to instill terror in targeted groups.
- Other violence, such as rape, torture, arson, or bombings may be carried out alongside murders.
- Death squads usually operate in the context of state-sanctioned violence, typically to repress dissent or otherwise lawful activity.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Death squad 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 91 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Death squad
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, Death squad (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
