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Uncommon card · Nature
Grus, an Uncommon card
Grus is a constellation in the southern sky.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Grus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Grus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is one of twelve constellations conceived by Petrus Plancius from the ______ of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.
Answer
observations. It is one of twelve constellations conceived by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman. From the Grus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Demersal fish. Demersal fish 73,000 · Large igneous province 50,000 · Bottom trawling 27,000 · Grus 18,000 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.
- Its name is Latin for the crane, a type of bird.
- It is one of twelve constellations conceived by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.
- Grus first appeared on a 35-centimetre-diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Grus article was read about 18,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Grus
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, Grus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
