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Saturnian, a Common card
Saturnian meter or verse is an old Latin and Italic poetic form, of which the principles of versification have become obscure.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,700
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Saturnian quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Saturnian card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Only 132 complete ______ verses survive.
Answer
uncontroversial. Only 132 complete uncontroversial verses survive. From the Saturnian article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Saturnian. Saturnian 64 · Masaaki Suzuki 61 · Thunderbolt 58 · St. Mary's Church 54 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.
- Only 132 complete uncontroversial verses survive.
- 95 literary verses and partial fragments have been preserved as quotations in later grammatical writings, as well as 37 verses in funerary or dedicatory inscriptions.
- The majority of literary Saturnians come from the Odysseia, a translation/paraphrase of Homer's Odyssey by Livius Andronicus, and the Bellum Poenicum, an epic on the First Punic War by Gnaeus Naevius.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Saturnian article was read about 7,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Saturnian
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, Saturnian (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
