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Rare card · History
Marduk, a Rare card
Marduk was a god from ancient Mesopotamia, patron deity of Babylon.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 160
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 310,000
Power 160 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Marduk quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Marduk card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In Babylon, Marduk was worshipped in the ______ temple.
Answer
Esagila. In Babylon, Marduk was worshipped in the Esagila temple. From the Marduk article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of countries by tax rates. List of countries by tax rates 91 · Coptic language 85 · Sébastien Lecornu 81 · Marduk 76 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.
- First sparsely attested in the 3rd millennium BC, Marduk slowly rose to prominence before being enshrined as leader of the Mesopotamian pantheon under Nebuchadnezzar I in the 2nd millennium BC.
- In Babylon, Marduk was worshipped in the Esagila temple.
- Believed to have originated as an underworld god, a storm god or an agriculture deity, Marduk came to be worshipped as a god of creation, justice, water, agriculture, magic and medicine.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Marduk article was read about 310,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Marduk
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The cards just above and just below Marduk in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Beauty and the BeastRare · Nature · ATK 83 DEF 77
- Coptic languageRare · Society · ATK 85 DEF 75
- List of countries by tax ratesRare · Society · ATK 91 DEF 69
- Rainer Maria RilkeRare · History · ATK 75 DEF 85
- SahelRare · Society · ATK 77 DEF 83
- BerkshireRare · Society · ATK 79 DEF 81
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Marduk (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : editor Austen Henry Layard , drawing by L. Gruner, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
