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Epic card · Science
Orion, an Epic card
Orion is a prominent set of stars visible during winter in the northern celestial hemisphere.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 840,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Orion quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Orion card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is named after a ______ in Greek mythology.
Answer
hunter. It is named after a hunter in Greek mythology. From the Orion article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of United States cities by population. List of United States cities by population 90 · Ice hockey 87 · Day of the Dead 83 · Orion 77 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
List of United States cities by population. List of United States cities by population 3,800,000 · Day of the Dead 1,400,000 · Orion 840,000 · Asian Games 630,000 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.
- It is one of the 88 modern constellations, it was among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century AD astronomer Ptolemy.
- It is named after a hunter in Greek mythology.
- Orion is most prominent during winter evenings in the Northern Hemisphere, as are five other constellations that have stars in the Winter Hexagon asterism.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Orion article was read about 840,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Orion
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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The cards just above and just below Orion in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Iron lungEpic · Science · ATK 76 DEF 85
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Orion (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
