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Rare card · Arts
Manticore, a Rare card
The manticore or mantichore is a legendary creature from ancient Persian mythology, similar to the Egyptian sphinx that also proliferated in Western European medieval art.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 220,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Manticore quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Manticore card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
There are some accounts that the ______ can be launched like arrows.
Answer
spines. There are some accounts that the spines can be launched like arrows. From the Manticore article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Fred VanVleet. Fred VanVleet 89 · John Cage 86 · Arts and Crafts movement 83 · Manticore 77 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 has the face of a human, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion or a tail covered in venomous spines similar to porcupine quills.
- There are some accounts that the spines can be launched like arrows.
- It eats its victims whole, using its three rows of teeth, and leaves no bones behind.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Manticore article was read about 220,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Manticore
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 Manticore in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Fred VanVleetRare · Society · ATK 89 DEF 88
- Greenlandic languageRare · Society · ATK 83 DEF 94
- Lim YoonaRare · Arts · ATK 85 DEF 92
- Rachel CarsonRare · Arts · ATK 84 DEF 93
- Rafael van der VaartRare · Society · ATK 83 DEF 94
- Santiago PeñaRare · History · ATK 89 DEF 88
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Manticore (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jan Jonston, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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