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Uncommon card · Nature
Gorgonops, an Uncommon card
Gorgonops is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsid, of which it is the type genus.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Gorgonops quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gorgonops card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They were the first group of ______ to evolve saber-like canines.
Answer
therapsids. They were the first group of therapsids to evolve saber-like canines. From the Gorgonops article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gorgonops. Gorgonops 66 · Ripple Rock 59 · Lesser roadrunner 56 · Rubus allegheniensis 53 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.
- Gorgonops lived during the Late Permian, about 260–254 Ma in what is now South Africa and Tanzania.
- Gorgonopsians were an extinct clade of carnivorous therapsids that first appeared either during the Middle or Permian.
- They were the first group of therapsids to evolve saber-like canines.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gorgonops article was read about 17,000 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 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Gorgonops
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, Gorgonops (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Robert Broom, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
