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Mark Catesby, a Common card
Mark Catesby was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 97
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,600
Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Mark Catesby quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mark Catesby card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It included 220 plates of birds, reptiles, ______, fish, insects, mammals and plants.
Answer
amphibians. It included 220 plates of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, mammals and plants. From the Mark Catesby article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Dmitry Likhachev. Dmitry Likhachev 65 · Mark Catesby 62 · David Warren 59 · Lilith 55 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.
- Between 1729 and 1747, Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America.
- It included 220 plates of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, mammals and plants.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mark Catesby article was read about 7,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Mark Catesby
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mark Catesby (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mark Catesby, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
