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Uncommon card · Nature
Hipparion, an Uncommon card
Hipparion is an extinct genus of three-toed, medium-sized equine belonging to the extinct tribe Hipparionini, which lived about 10-5 million years ago.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 118
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Hipparion quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hipparion card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Hipparion was a mixed-feeder who ate mostly grass, and lived in the ______ biome.
Answer
savannah. Hipparion was a mixed-feeder who ate mostly grass, and lived in the savannah biome. From the Hipparion article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Phormium tenax. Phormium tenax 28,000 · Hipparion 16,000 · Ausable Chasm 12,000 · Brown diamond 9,600 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.
- While the genus formerly included most hipparionines, the genus is now more narrowly defined as hipparionines from Eurasia spanning the Late Miocene.
- Hipparion was a mixed-feeder who ate mostly grass, and lived in the savannah biome.
- Hipparion evolved from Cormohipparion, and went extinct due to environmental changes like cooling climates and decreasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hipparion article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Hipparion
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hipparion (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jonathan Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
