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Rare card · Nature
Fossa, a Rare card
The fossa is a slender, long-tailed, cat-like mammal that is endemic to Madagascar.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 350,000
Power 179 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Fossa quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Fossa card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is a member of the ______ family Eupleridae.
Answer
carnivoran. It is a member of the carnivoran family Eupleridae. From the Fossa article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Angolan Civil War. Angolan Civil War 93 · Sichuan 88 · Lilium 85 · Fossa 79 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- It is a member of the carnivoran family Eupleridae.
- The fossa is the largest mammalian carnivore on Madagascar and has been compared to a small cougar, as it has convergently evolved many cat-like features.
- Adults have a head-body length of 70–80 cm and weigh between 5.5 and 8.6 kg, with the males larger than the females.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fossa article was read about 350,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Fossa
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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- MashhadRare · Society · ATK 88 DEF 91
- Michael I of RomaniaRare · History · ATK 87 DEF 92
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Fossa (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ran Kirlian, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
