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Uncommon card · Nature
Ichthyostega, an Uncommon card
Ichthyostega, from Ancient Greek ἰχθύς, meaning "fish", and στέγη, meaning "roof", is an extinct genus of limbed tetrapodomorphs from the Late Devonian of what is now Greenland.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 43,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Ichthyostega quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ichthyostega card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Ichthyostega ______ lungs and limbs that helped it navigate through shallow water in swamps.
Answer
possessed. Ichthyostega possessed lungs and limbs that helped it navigate through shallow water in swamps. From the Ichthyostega article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bifidobacterium. Bifidobacterium 69 · Ichthyostega 63 · Atlantic canary 59 · Beaucarnea recurvata 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.
- It was among the earliest four-limbed vertebrates ever in the fossil record and was one of the first with weight-bearing adaptations for terrestrial locomotion.
- Ichthyostega possessed lungs and limbs that helped it navigate through shallow water in swamps.
- Although Ichthyostega is often labelled a 'tetrapod' because of its limbs and fingers, it evolved long before true crown group tetrapods and could more accurately be referred to as a stegocephalian or stem tetrapod.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ichthyostega article was read about 43,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Ichthyostega
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, Ichthyostega (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : OlegTarabanov, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
