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Rare card · Nature
Kraken, a Rare card
The kraken is a legendary cryptid of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod, said to appear in the Norwegian Sea off the coast of Norway.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 188
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 490,000
Power 188 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is believed that the legend of the Kraken may have originated from sightings of giant squid, which may grow to 10.5 metres in length.
- The kraken, as a subject of sailors' superstitions and mythos, was first described in a Norwegian glossary by Christen Jensøn in 1646.
- Later this creature appears in a travelogue by Francesco Negri in 1700, followed in 1734 by an account from Dano-Norwegian missionary and explorer Hans Egede, who described the kraken in detail and equated it with the hafgufa of medieval lore.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kraken article was read about 490,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Kraken
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, Kraken (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) / Étienne Claude Voysard (1746–1812.), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
