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Gelsemium, a Common card
Gelsemium is an Asian and North American genus of flowering plants belonging to family Gelsemiaceae.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Gelsemium quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gelsemium card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The genus contains three species of ______ to straggling or twining climbers.
Answer
shrubs. The genus contains three species of shrubs to straggling or twining climbers. From the Gelsemium article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of Accipitriformes species. List of Accipitriformes species 72 · Gelsemium 56 · Bahrain Island 51 · Republic Plaza 46 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bahrain Island. Bahrain Island 21,000 · Avulsion 14,000 · Gelsemium 11,000 · Palouse River 8,000 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 genus contains three species of shrubs to straggling or twining climbers.
- Two species are native to North America, and one to China and Southeast Asia.
- Carl Linnaeus first classified G. sempervirens as Bignonia sempervirens in 1753, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu created a new genus for this species in 1789.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gelsemium article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Gelsemium
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 Gelsemium in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Clara LemlichCommon · History · ATK 63 DEF 33
- Francesco FoscariCommon · History · ATK 55 DEF 41
- Quade GreenCommon · Society · ATK 58 DEF 38
- Prince Frederick of WürttembergCommon · History · ATK 56 DEF 40
- The Man in Seat Sixty-OneCommon · Society · ATK 57 DEF 39
- Barry FarberCommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 35
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gelsemium (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
