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Uncommon card · Nature
Halobates, an Uncommon card
Halobates, colloquially the sea skaters or ocean striders, are an insect genus with over 40 species of water striders.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Halobates quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Halobates card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
These are the only known truly oceanic, ______ insects.
Answer
offshore. These are the only known truly oceanic, offshore insects. From the Halobates article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei. Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei 70 · Hampton Wick 62 · Halobates 59 · Coreopsis lanceolata 55 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.
- Most Halobates species are coastal and typically found in sheltered, coastal marine habitats, but five live on the surface of the open ocean and only occur near the coast when storms blow them ashore.
- These are the only known truly oceanic, offshore insects.
- They are found in tropical and subtropical marine habitats around the world, with a single species recorded in rivers a few kilometers upstream from the ocean.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Halobates article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Halobates
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.
More Nature cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Halobates in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Constant LambertCommon · Arts · ATK 64 DEF 48
- Dante CunninghamUncommon · History · ATK 61 DEF 51
- Emperor Xiaowen of Northern WeiUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 42
- Henry ChadwickCommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 47
- Jacob PerkinsCommon · Science · ATK 63 DEF 49
- Jiří TrnkaCommon · Arts · ATK 66 DEF 46
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Halobates (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Y. Nozoe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
