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Uncommon card · Nature
Spruce, an Uncommon card
A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of some 37 species of coniferous trees in the pine family, Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Ranked #1,528 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Spruce quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Spruce card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The needles are shed when 4–10 years old, leaving the twigs rough with the ______ pegs.
Answer
retained. The needles are shed when 4–10 years old, leaving the twigs rough with the retained pegs. From the Spruce article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
East Jerusalem. East Jerusalem 90 · Carnivorous plant 86 · Learning 82 · Spruce 77 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Amoeba. Amoeba 260,000 · Spruce 190,000 · Learning 150,000 · Cave bear 110,000 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.
- Picea is treated either in the subfamily Pinoideae, or the sole genus in its own subfamily Piceoideae.
- Spruces can be distinguished from other genera of the family Pinaceae by their needles, which are four-sided and attached singly to small persistent peg-like structures on the twigs.
- The needles are shed when 4–10 years old, leaving the twigs rough with the retained pegs.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Spruce article was read about 190,000 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 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Spruce
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Spruce in the power ranking, all domains together.
- East JerusalemUncommon · Society · ATK 90 DEF 79
- GnomeUncommon · Arts · ATK 84 DEF 85
- Nouri al-MalikiUncommon · History · ATK 79 DEF 90
- Basilica of Saint-DenisUncommon · Arts · ATK 82 DEF 87
- Carnivorous plantUncommon · Nature · ATK 86 DEF 83
- Cossack HetmanateUncommon · History · ATK 89 DEF 80
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Spruce (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was MPF at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
