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Matryoshka doll, a Rare card
A matryoshka doll or matryoshka, also known as a Russian stacking doll, nesting doll, or simply a Russian doll, is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 290,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Matryoshka doll quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Matryoshka doll card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Matryoshka is a diminutive form of Matryosha, in turn an ______ form of the Russian female first name Matryona.
Answer
affectionate. Matryoshka is a diminutive form of Matryosha, in turn an affectionate form of the Russian female first name Matryona. From the Matryoshka doll article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The first Russian nested doll set was made during the ____s by woodturning craftsman and wood carver Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter at Abramtsevo.
Answer
1890s. The first Russian nested doll set was made during the 1890s by woodturning craftsman and wood carver Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter at Abramtsevo. From the Matryoshka doll article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Soling European Championship results. Soling European Championship results 86 · Philosophy of language 79 · Exponential distribution 76 · Matryoshka doll 65 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.
- Matryoshka is a diminutive form of Matryosha, in turn an affectionate form of the Russian female first name Matryona.
- A set of matryoshkas consists of a wooden figure, which separates at the middle, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on.
- The first Russian nested doll set was made during the 1890s by woodturning craftsman and wood carver Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter at Abramtsevo.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Matryoshka doll article was read about 290,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Matryoshka doll
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Matryoshka doll (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : No machine-readable author provided. Fanghong assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
