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Uncommon card · History
Palmares, an Uncommon card
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a quilombo, a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 28,000
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Palmares quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Palmares card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The quilombo was located in what is now the ______ of União dos Palmares.
Answer
municipality. The quilombo was located in what is now the municipality of União dos Palmares. From the Palmares article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Theodor Mommsen. Theodor Mommsen 44,000 · Palmares 28,000 · Involvement of Northeast Indian insurgents in the Myanmar conflict 21,000 · Royal Hungarian Honvéd 15,000 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 was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is today the Brazilian state of Alagoas.
- The quilombo was located in what is now the municipality of União dos Palmares.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Palmares article was read about 28,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Palmares
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, Palmares (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Frans Post, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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