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Maria Sibylla Merian, an Uncommon card
Maria Sibylla Merian was a German-Dutch entomologist, naturalist, and scientific illustrator.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 65,000
Power 171 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Maria Sibylla Merian quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Maria Sibylla Merian card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Merian was a ______ of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family.
Answer
descendant. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. From the Maria Sibylla Merian article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
PC game. PC game 100,000 · Maria Sibylla Merian 65,000 · Maria Edgeworth 52,000 · Đorđe Balašević 37,000 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.
- She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly, her work established that insects have a life cycle and do not appear by spontaneous generation.
- Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family.
- Merian received her artistic training from her stepfather, Jacob Marrel, a student of the still life painter Georg Flegel.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Maria Sibylla Merian article was read about 65,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Maria Sibylla Merian
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, Maria Sibylla Merian (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jacob Marrel, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
