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Rare card · Nature
Great auk, a Rare card
The great auk, also known as the penguin or garefowl, is an extinct species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and was driven to extinction by human exploitation in the mid-19th century.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Great auk quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Great auk card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was the only modern species in the genus ______.
Answer
Pinguinus. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. From the Great auk article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kashmir conflict. Kashmir conflict 100 · Rabat 85 · Great auk 82 · Electric eel 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.
- It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus.
- It was not closely related to the penguins of the Southern Hemisphere, which were named for their resemblance to this species.
- It bred on rocky, remote islands with easy access to the ocean and a plentiful food supply, a rarity in nature that provided only a few breeding sites for the great auks.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Great auk article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Great auk
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, Great auk (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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