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Uncommon card · History
History of calendars, an Uncommon card
The history of calendars covers practices with ancient roots as people created and used various methods to keep track of days and larger divisions of time.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 96,000
Power 162 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Calendars commonly serve both cultural and practical purposes and are often connected to astronomy and agriculture.
- Archeologists have reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go back to prehistoric times at least as old as the Neolithic.
- The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical societies are the day, the solar year and the lunation.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History of calendars article was read about 96,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get History of calendars
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, History of calendars (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : by simonwakefield, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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