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Uncommon card · Nature
Immortality, an Uncommon card
Immortality is the concept of eternal life and permanent resistance to death from natural causes.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 156
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Power 156 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Immortality quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Immortality card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Some species possess "biological immortality" due to an ______ lack of the Hayflick limit.
Answer
apparent. Some species possess "biological immortality" due to an apparent lack of the Hayflick limit. From the Immortality article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Immortality. Immortality 84 · South China Sea 80 · Jordan River 75 · Resplendent quetzal 71 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Jordan River. Jordan River 260,000 · Immortality 190,000 · 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 120,000 · Resplendent quetzal 96,000 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.
- Some species possess "biological immortality" due to an apparent lack of the Hayflick limit.
- From at least the time of the ancient Mesopotamians, there has been a conviction that gods may be physically immortal, and that this is also a state that the gods at times offer humans.
- In Christianity, the conviction that God may offer physical immortality with the resurrection of the flesh at the end of time has traditionally been at the center of its beliefs.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Immortality article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Immortality
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Immortality in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Ivan PavlovUncommon · Science · ATK 73 DEF 83
- LuoyangUncommon · Nature · ATK 77 DEF 79
- Mount PinatuboUncommon · Nature · ATK 76 DEF 80
- South China SeaUncommon · Nature · ATK 80 DEF 76
- VillageUncommon · Society · ATK 82 DEF 74
- Martin of ToursUncommon · Society · ATK 77 DEF 79
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Immortality (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Notwist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
