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Uncommon card · History
Eight Banners, an Uncommon card
The Eight Banners were administrative and military divisions under the Later Jin and Qing dynasties of China into which all Manchu households were placed.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Ranked #1,721 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Eight Banners quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Eight Banners card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In war, the Eight Banners functioned as armies, but the banner system was also the basic ______ framework of all of Manchu society.
Answer
organizational. In war, the Eight Banners functioned as armies, but the banner system was also the basic organizational framework of all of Manchu society. From the Eight Banners article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Álvaro Uribe. Álvaro Uribe 88 · Durand Line 82 · Eight Banners 77 · Anglo-Zanzibar War 73 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Anglo-Zanzibar War. Anglo-Zanzibar War 250,000 · Salvatore Riina 190,000 · Eight Banners 130,000 · USS Akron 95,000 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.
- In war, the Eight Banners functioned as armies, but the banner system was also the basic organizational framework of all of Manchu society.
- Created in the early 17th century by Nurhaci, the banner armies played an instrumental role in his unification of the fragmented Jurchen people and in the Qing dynasty's conquest of the Ming dynasty.
- As Mongol and Han forces were incorporated into the growing Qing military establishment, the Mongol Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners were created alongside the original Manchu banners.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Eight Banners article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Eight Banners
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, Eight Banners (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Giuseppe Castiglione, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
