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Mantra, an Uncommon card
A mantra or mantram is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words that practitioners believe to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Power 180 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Mantra quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mantra card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is an ______ of a seed syllable mantra.
Answer
example. It is an example of a seed syllable mantra. From the Mantra article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent. Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent 93 · Poznań 90 · Mantra 85 · Armani 80 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Poznań. Poznań 250,000 · Mantra 170,000 · Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent 110,000 · Kupala Night 81,000 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.
- Etymologically derived from Sanskrit, the word "mantra" combines the roots "man-" and "-tra", consequently, a mantra can be understood as a mental tool designed to focus and control thought.
- Some mantras have a syntactic structure and literal meaning, while others do not. ꣽ, ॐ serves as a mantra in various Indian religions.
- It is an example of a seed syllable mantra.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mantra article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Mantra
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, Mantra (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The Unicode Consortium, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
