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Rare card · Nature
Orchid, a Rare card
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 330,000
Power 175 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Orchid quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Orchid card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Many species are ______, living on trees.
Answer
epiphytes. Many species are epiphytes, living on trees. From the Orchid article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Kangaroo. Kangaroo 780,000 · Donkey 510,000 · Orchid 330,000 · Chestnut 240,000 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.
- Orchids are cosmopolitan plants, living in diverse habitats on every continent except Antarctica.
- The world's richest diversity of orchid genera and species is in the tropics.
- Many species are epiphytes, living on trees.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Orchid article was read about 330,000 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 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Orchid
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, Orchid (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rohit Naniwadekar, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
