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Hallucigenia, an Uncommon card
Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian-aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada and China, and from isolated spines around the world.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Hallucigenia quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hallucigenia card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Lobopodians are a grade of ______ panarthropods from which the velvet worms, water bears, and arthropods arose.
Answer
Paleozoic. Lobopodians are a grade of Paleozoic panarthropods from which the velvet worms, water bears, and arthropods arose. From the Hallucigenia article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Juan Manuel Márquez. Juan Manuel Márquez 80 · Darwin's finches 75 · Gulf Stream 71 · Hallucigenia 67 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.
- The generic name reflects the type species' unusual appearance and eccentric history of study, when it was erected as a genus, H. sparsa was reconstructed as an enigmatic animal upside down and back to front.
- Lobopodians are a grade of Paleozoic panarthropods from which the velvet worms, water bears, and arthropods arose.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hallucigenia article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Hallucigenia
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hallucigenia (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Han Zeng, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.


