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Epic card · Arts
El, an Epic card
El is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 520,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
El quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the El card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The word is ______ from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil-.
Answer
derived. The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil-. From the El article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
John Rhys-Davies. John Rhys-Davies 1,000,000 · Joséphine de Beauharnais 730,000 · El 520,000 · Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 400,000 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.
- A rarer form, 'ila, represents the predicate form in the Old Akkadian and Amorite languages.
- The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil-.
- Originally a Canaanite deity known as 'El, 'Al or 'Il was the supreme god of the ancient Canaanite religion.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The El article was read about 520,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get El
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below El in the power ranking, all domains together.
- John DiMaggioEpic · Arts · ATK 80 DEF 79
- HiroshimaEpic · Society · ATK 80 DEF 79
- PresbyterianismEpic · Science · ATK 84 DEF 75
- Billy WilderEpic · Arts · ATK 79 DEF 80
- RhineRare · Nature · ATK 86 DEF 73
- PretoriaRare · Society · ATK 86 DEF 73
Card lists
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, El (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kantaro, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
