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Uncommon card · Science
Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Uncommon card
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 25,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Schiaparelli established the Martian system of nomenclature still in use today, before him, features of the planet bore the names of contemporary astronomers, similar to the lunar map of van Langren that preceded that of Hevelius.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Giovanni Schiaparelli article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 59: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Giovanni Schiaparelli
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, Giovanni Schiaparelli (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
