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Rare card · History
Shah, a Rare card
Shāh is a royal title meaning 'king' in Persian.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 104
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 104 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Shah quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Shah card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
To this end, he was more emphatically known as the ______ since the Achaemenid dynasty.
Answer
Shāhanshāh. To this end, he was more emphatically known as the Shāhanshāh since the Achaemenid dynasty. From the Shah article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
1983 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election. 1983 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election 69 · Shah 64 · Sten Wåhlin 59 · American Shorthair 54 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Arthur Guinness II. Arthur Guinness II 880,000 · Shah 210,000 · Battles of the Isonzo 120,000 · 1935 Christchurch mayoral election 340 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.
- Though chiefly associated with the monarchs of Iran, it was also used to refer to the leaders of numerous Persianate societies and non-Islamic kingdoms, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Khanate of Bukhara and the Emirate of Bukhara, the Mughal Empire, the Maratha Empire, the Bengal Sultanate, and various Afghan dynasties, as well as among Gurkhas.
- With regard to Iranian history, in particular, each ruling monarch was not seen simply as the head of the concurrent dynasty and state, but as the successor to a long line of royalty beginning with the original Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great.
- To this end, he was more emphatically known as the Shāhanshāh since the Achaemenid dynasty.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Shah article was read about 210,000 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 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Shah
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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- American ShorthairUncommon · Nature · ATK 54 DEF 50
- BlimpUncommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 42
- VoltUncommon · Science · ATK 63 DEF 41
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Shah (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sotheby's, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
