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Uncommon card · Nature
Gomphothere, an Uncommon card
Gomphotheres are an extinct group of proboscideans related to modern elephants.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 139
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 73,000
Power 139 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Gomphothere quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gomphothere card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Gomphotheres are a ______ group ancestral to Elephantidae, which contains modern elephants, as well as Stegodontidae.
Answer
paraphyletic. Gomphotheres are a paraphyletic group ancestral to Elephantidae, which contains modern elephants, as well as Stegodontidae. From the Gomphothere article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Identity theft. Identity theft 81 · Gomphothere 72 · African civet 69 · Dike 65 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.
- First appearing in Africa during the Oligocene, they dispersed into Eurasia and North America during the Miocene and arrived in South America during the Pleistocene as part of the Great American Interchange.
- Gomphotheres are a paraphyletic group ancestral to Elephantidae, which contains modern elephants, as well as Stegodontidae.
- While the most well-known forms like Gomphotherium had long lower jaws with tusks, the ancestral condition for the group, some later members developed shortened lower jaws with either vestigial or no lower tusks, which survived considerably later than the long-jawed gomphotheres.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gomphothere article was read about 73,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Gomphothere
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- Identity theftUncommon · Society · ATK 81 DEF 58
- InstinctUncommon · Nature · ATK 71 DEF 68
- Nihal SarinUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 66
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gomphothere (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ryan Schwark, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
