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Uncommon card · Nature
Gray whale, an Uncommon card
The gray whale, also known as the grey whale, is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 187
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 187 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Gray whale quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gray whale card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ name of the whale comes from the gray patches and white mottling on its dark skin.
Answer
common. The common name of the whale comes from the gray patches and white mottling on its dark skin. From the Gray whale article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Galápagos tortoise. Galápagos tortoise 210,000 · Gray whale 120,000 · Greenland ice sheet 89,000 · History of Yemen 48,000 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.
- It reaches a length of 14.9–15.2 m, a weight of up to 41 to 45 tonnes and lives between 55 and 70 years, although one female was estimated to be 75–80 years of age.
- One of the longest-living gray whales currently is a female, first sighted in 1977, and estimated to be 53–55 years old as of 2024.
- The common name of the whale comes from the gray patches and white mottling on its dark skin.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gray whale article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Gray whale
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, Gray whale (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : José Eugenio Gómez Rodríguez, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
