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Epic card · Science
Flat Earth, an Epic card
Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 850,000
Ranked #1,197 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Flat Earth quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Flat Earth card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Many ancient societies subscribed to a flat-Earth ______.
Answer
cosmography. Many ancient societies subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography. From the Flat Earth article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Aggression. Aggression 88 · Penicillin 85 · Flat Earth 82 · Printing press 79 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Black Death. Black Death 2,100,000 · Flat Earth 850,000 · Aggression 62,000 · Equality 38,000 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.
- Many ancient societies subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography.
- The model has undergone a recent resurgence as a conspiracy theory in the 21st century.
- The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in ancient Greek philosophy with Pythagoras.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Flat Earth article was read about 850,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Flat Earth
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 Flat Earth in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Ainu peopleEpic · Society · ATK 94 DEF 81
- AirbusEpic · Society · ATK 84 DEF 91
- Caspian SeaEpic · Nature · ATK 84 DEF 92
- XinjiangEpic · Society · ATK 98 DEF 77
- 2010 FIFA World Cup finalEpic · Society · ATK 83 DEF 92
- KangarooEpic · Nature · ATK 81 DEF 94
Card lists
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Flat Earth (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Orlando Ferguson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
