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Epic card · Society
Go, an Epic card
Go, weiqi, or baduk is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off more territory than the opponent.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 800,000
Power 175 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Go quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Go card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ pieces are called stones.
Answer
playing. The playing pieces are called stones. From the Go article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Toyota. Toyota 95 · Go 90 · Airbus 84 · Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 78 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.
- The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.
- A 2016 survey by the International Go Federation's 75 member nations found that there are over 46 million people worldwide who know how to play Go, and over 20 million current players, the majority of whom live in East Asia.
- The playing pieces are called stones.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Go article was read about 800,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 90 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Go
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.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Go in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AirbusEpic · Society · ATK 84 DEF 91
- Easter IslandEpic · Nature · ATK 92 DEF 83
- Flat EarthEpic · Science · ATK 82 DEF 93
- XinjiangEpic · Society · ATK 98 DEF 77
- 2010 FIFA World Cup finalEpic · Society · ATK 83 DEF 92
- KangarooEpic · Nature · ATK 81 DEF 94
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Society cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Go (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Goban1, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
