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Rare card · History
Mercia, a Rare card
Mercia was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon period.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 156
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 320,000
Power 156 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Mercia quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mercia card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The royal court moved around the ______ without a fixed capital city.
Answer
kingdom. The royal court moved around the kingdom without a fixed capital city. From the Mercia article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Abelardo de la Espriella. Abelardo de la Espriella 83 · Sammy Hagar 79 · Mercia 76 · Popcorn 73 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.
- It was centred on the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of England.
- The royal court moved around the kingdom without a fixed capital city.
- Early in its existence Repton seems to have been the location of an important royal estate.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mercia article was read about 320,000 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 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Mercia
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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- PopcornRare · Society · ATK 73 DEF 83
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mercia (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rushton2010 based on Hel-hama, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
