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Rare card · Nature
Shrew, a Rare card
Shrews are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 43
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 320,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Shrew quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Shrew card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Although its ______ appearance is generally same as a long-nosed mouse, a shrew is not a rodent, as mice are.
Answer
external. Although its external appearance is generally same as a long-nosed mouse, a shrew is not a rodent, as mice are. From the Shrew article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Shrew. Shrew 63 · Spion Kop 60 · Cantaloupe 57 · Hydnoroideae 54 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Shrew. Shrew 320,000 · Hydnoroideae 1,900 · Spion Kop 1,100 · Chaenotheca ferruginea 390 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.
- True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, West Indies shrews, or marsupial shrews and shrew opossums, which belong to different families or orders.
- Although its external appearance is generally same as a long-nosed mouse, a shrew is not a rodent, as mice are.
- It is, in fact, a much closer relative of hedgehogs and moles, shrews are related to rodents only in that both belong to the Boreoeutheria magnorder.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Shrew article was read about 320,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 43: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Shrew
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, Shrew (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sorex-araneus.jpg : Soricida Suncus_etruscus.jpg : Trebol-a Crocidura_russula_(Huisspitsmu, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
