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Common card · Science
Suctoria, a Common card
Suctoria are ciliates that become sessile in their developed stage and then lose their redundant cilia.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 40
- DEF
- 21
- Power
- 61
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 2,700
Power 61 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 5 % of WikiCards cards.
Suctoria quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Suctoria card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They feed by ______ digestion.
Answer
extracellular. They feed by extracellular digestion. From the Suctoria article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
3,4-Dihydroxybenzaldehyde. 3,4-Dihydroxybenzaldehyde 43 · Suctoria 40 · Human Factors Analysis and Classification System 34 · Truth window 31 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Black Powder-class support vessel. Black Powder-class support vessel 4,300 · Suctoria 2,700 · Hexachloroacetone 2,000 · Long Knoll 1,600 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.
- They feed by extracellular digestion.
- They were originally thought to feed by suction – hence their name.
- In fact, they use specialized microtubules to ensnare and manipulate their prey.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Suctoria article was read about 2,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 40 and blocks with 21: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Suctoria
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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The cards just above and just below Suctoria in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Charles R. BrownCommon · History · ATK 42 DEF 19
- Gunflint RangeCommon · Nature · ATK 38 DEF 23
- Paul PauCommon · History · ATK 44 DEF 17
- WeißkugelCommon · Nature · ATK 40 DEF 21
- Basgo MonasteryCommon · Society · ATK 36 DEF 25
- KiminCommon · Society · ATK 42 DEF 19
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Suctoria (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Damián H. Zanette, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
