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Epic card · Nature
Dire wolf, an Epic card
The dire wolf is an extinct species of canine which was native to the Americas during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 189
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 510,000
Power 189 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Dire wolf quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dire wolf card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen had been found.
Answer
species. The species was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen had been found. From the Dire wolf article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Lion. Lion 1,300,000 · Oceania 990,000 · Dire wolf 510,000 · 2010 Haiti earthquake 350,000 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.
- The species was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen had been found.
- Two subspecies are proposed, Aenocyon dirus guildayi and Aenocyon dirus dirus, but this assignment has been recently considered questionable.
- The largest collection of its fossils has been obtained from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dire wolf article was read about 510,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Dire wolf
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dire wolf (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : James St. John, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
